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The summer flew, taking me and my camera along with it. It was a busy one - a visit from our oldest daughter and our grandspawn, much pool time with any variation of 4+2 kids (four kids of my own, plus 2 "adopted" kids who spent a lot of time at our house over the summer), and certainly not least, the long-anticipated trip to the home of our hearts in August.

Now school has started and we are all in a flurry of activity of homework, volleyball practices, clinical preps, exams, etc. I am in my last semester of nursing school for my associate's and anticipate being a (FINALLY) licensed RN sometime in late December/ early January. I won't know what to do with myself.

Oh, wait - I do, too. Finally edit the pictures from our trip and other ventures and POST THEM TO MY BLOG!

See what you have to look forward to? :D
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