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Alchemy and the Root Cellar
Tonight Becky and I went on our first date night in forever. Brooklyn came over and watched the kids while we went out or drinks and dinner. Our first stop was Alchemy. It is a speak easy style bar in...
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Mother’s Day 2013
Happy Mother’s Day! Unless past years where I waited until the last minute, panicked, and then tried to cobble together a decent present for Becky, I planned ahead. Keeping her from opening the...
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Playing the Mason Rules of Baseball
Mason’s new favorite show to watch in the mornings is Quick Pitch on the MLB Network. If I am not in the room he will periodically come and find me and give me an update. “Hey dad! The Angels lost.”...
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Spring Garden Update: Week 10
The garden is growing extremely well. The tomatoes plants are touching the dogwood tree, and are toppling the cages. Three of the four varieties have tomatoes with the line exception being the Old...
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Swinging By Himself
Since we got Mason and Miss Julia their swing set for Christmas in 2010 pushing them has been my job. Usually the first words out of their mouths when I get home is “will you push us on the swings...
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Winner, Winner, Pizza Dinner
I was driving to meet a couple of friends at Waterworks listening to 97.9 ESPN Radio. Sitting at a traffic light they announced the first five people to drive to the Sport Clips on Thomasville Road...
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Backyard Camp Out
We got Mason a tent and sleeping bag for his second birthday. It may have been a little early, as our prior attempts at camping out consisted of me setting the tent up, Mason getting into the tent,...
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Shopping in Sparkly Shoes
This morning I took the kids grocery shopping in Tallahassee. Miss Julia insisted on wearing her sparkly pink birthday shoes. She is very proud of these shoes and tries to wear them with everything....
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Memorial Day 2013
I woke up this morning at 4:00 a.m. to smoke a pork butt. By 4:45 my smoker was up and running. I sat on the patio listening to our sleepy town wake up. Tractor trailers rumbled, squirrels chatted,...
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Swimming Lessons Year 3
To say last year’s attempt at swimming lessons for Mason were anything but an unmitigated disaster would be too kind. Mason despised going to the Thomasville YMCA and spent the majority of the time...
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4th of July – 2013 Edition
Happy 4th of July from a rain soaked Monticello, Florida! The yearly firework display was cancelled yesterday due to anticipated rain and when I woke up this morning Tallahassee was already getting...
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Jacksonville Zoo
This morning we planned to go to the Tallahassee Museum but the forecast called for rain (as it has the past couple of weeks). Instead, we decided to make the short drive over to the Jacksonville Zoo....
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Splash Pad at Southwood
I finally visited Grazie’s Pizza in Southwood. It has been on my list of places to check out for a couple of months, and after eating some very good pepperoni pizza we let the kids run around the...
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Jackie Robinson’s Birthplace
We watched 42 this week. It was a very good movie and told the story of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Spurred by the movie, and a recent Twitter conversation with...
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Birdsong Nature Center
After seeing Turbo we decided to drive around Thomas County and try to find Jackie Robinson’s birthplace. While searching for the marker we stumbled upon the Birdsong Nature Center. It was on the...
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Miss Julia’s First Dance Recital
Becky decided to sign Miss Julia up for dance camp at the Thomasville Cultural Center. Our little girl is spirited, and we wondered how she would adjust to being in a new structured environment. The...
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2013 Bryan(t) Family Reunion
Today we packed up the kids and headed off to White Springs, FL for the annual Bryan(t) family reunion. As usual there was a ton of delicious food including fried fish, stews, numerous kinds of...
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