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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ 

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These are the main women of my family.  Many, MANY cousins, a niece, and close Tias are missing (Hey, shout out to my Tia Alde!!!), but my sisters, sister-in-law, mom are here.  Pretty ladies getting together for a very special day.  My sister's little boy isn't so little anymore.  At a whopping 6'2",  he is now 18.  We celebrated his big day with an all American Bar-b-Que, close family, and a cake that was perhaps his favorite thing of the whole afternoon... ...a coke on his chocolate lover's cake!

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It was a date! And any date with my honey makes me HAPPPPPYYYY :+) {Funny}

It doesn't matter how old we get; there is something special about visiting a pumpkin patch.  When The Lineman took the photo from above we totally laughed at the way Lucy looks. It looks like we pasted her onto this shot.  She totally dominates the tractor and the other kids, oh man so fun!  My MIL and I shared in the photo opportunities, but I don't think we were as funny as the kids.  

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This past week our parish held their 4th Annual Dream Cuisine fundraiser.  Victor and I bought tickets and we had ourselves a date.  Yep! A Date! It was a Polynesian themed night of delicious gourmet food, drinks, wine from the local vineyards, scrumptious desserts, great entertainment; best of all it was all for a great cause!  The Wounded Warrior Project.  The folks at Wounded Warrior Project have been providing services for veteran soldiers injured while out projecting our liberties.  Starting back in 2002, they are there from the start of an injury and never leave.  WWP is a support system that stays with the solider.  From what we heard that night the men and women behind WWP are some of the coolest, thoughtful, and dedicated people; just the kind of folks our soldiers need.
This year St. Rose honored Norberto Lara, SFC , U.S. Army (ret).  You can see this hero's story here.  Our pastor proudly presented a nice check to this solider and we were all quite moved by his story and being a part of this evening.