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I’m only doing one league this year. It’s a severe drop from years past but my life is to crazy (in a good way) to do much else. I’ve got a love-hate relationship with my draft. I like who I got in terms of where I got him…but there are some players [...]

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We normally don’t make a big deal about the first day of school…but this was a new school, our 3rd school this year, new friends, new teachers. It was also the first time this year that our schedule is somewhat normal. Summer was great fun. Then the bus dropped the kids home [...]

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I cried over the phone today.
Then again at dinner.
But let me back up and tell you why first. I get a phone call today, 3pm.
“This is Grant.”
“Hi. My name is Sue (not real name), I’m with 501 USD (school district that kids are in) and are the father of a 5th grade [...]

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We skied Keystone today and I have a brand new respect for Amy and ski poles. But I’ll get to that in a minute. Here we are at the top of Keystone – River Run Gondola. There is Breckenridge in the background. Not crowded but very, very warm. And we’d [...]

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Had a friend call me today and give me two tickets to the KU-Texas game. It was senior day at the Phog and I took Cooper with me.
I’ve been to 3 games at the Fieldhouse. My first game was a Texas game, back in ‘97. Amy and I went. Cooper [...]

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I got to go with Cooper this week on a field trip!! I love field trips. And this one would rank in the top 5 of all time.
There was a brother that worked for his dad at the family owned HVAC company. At one particular service call, he learned that [...]

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Cooper seems to be doing very well at his new school.
First, he won the school spelling bee and is now his school’s rep in the county spelling bee.
Second, his piece of art was hanging in the hall this morning when I dropped him off.
Pretty humbled to have the kids we have.

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Last week I felt like I was running from one even to the other – didn’t even have time to blog like I normally do. I covered some of our activities…here’s the rest of the week…
Gymnastics
Camber loves this and Nana got to go with her and see her strut her stuff.

Opening Up [...]

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I had 3 Rockies tickets from a game that was rained out earlier this year. Last night, we decided to use them.
At the ticket office, the guy said – “Hey, can you wait a minute? I want to go talk to my manager.”
A few minutes later we were holding tickets 13 [...]

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I thought the fall was supposed to be slower than the summer?
Saturday was Cooper’s 2nd flag football game of the season. He played quarterback last year and this year he still playing a lot at quarterback but he’s actually getting much better at safety. I’m sure part of that is he [...]

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