Author: Jess
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New Photo Subjects
I decided to try to take some photos that I normally don’t attempt. I like sticking with the outdoors rather than objects inside. Tonight, I thought, why not. I hope you enjoy my experiment. I think I have some work to do, but a person has to start somewhere. [slideshow]
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Baking with our “girls”
It was one of the girls birthdays yesterday, so one of her sisters and I spent time Friday night baking. She wanted to make a cheesecake which turned into me making it. Not a big deal as I love to bake. Plus it was fun to do a something a little special for “our”…
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No Lottery – What to do?
This last weekend I ran the Nike+ Women’s Half Marathon. Although they called it a half marathon, you only had to run at least 13.1 so I was able to run my scheduled 15 miler. It was fun to run although I was all by myself. I knew I was running for cancer. I…
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Parents for a Week
Well today Brent and I start taking care of 4 teenage girls until next Wednesday. Please pray that we are able to do what we need to to get them going in the mornings and in the evenings. It will be a good adventure for us. We are excited to be doing this as it…
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Creamy Potato Soup
After a day of single digit temperatures, there was nothing more desirable than soup for dinner. Homemade soup it was! This would be great served with Zopf bread or biscuits. Feel free to add other vegetables as I only used what I had on hand. Enjoy! 1 medium onion diced 2 tsp minced garlic 1/2 cup…
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Sprints
This past week I finally decided to start doing some sprints for my marathon training. It has been several months since I have done them and I forgot how much I really do not like them. I am not a very good short distance runner, actually, I am not good at all. I set out…
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Where did 1,050 miles take me in 2011?
At the beginning of 2011, I decided to start keeping a log of my running miles. I thought it would be fun to show where the 1,050 miles took me over the last year from running at 9,000 feet to running a marathon. It was quite a second year in running. My pace increased almost…
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Cheesy Breadsticks
Tonight was pizza night in the Powell house. We made a homemade chicken pizza with Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce. I decided that I would try to make some breadsticks to go along with them. Another new creation and a keeper it is! For the Bread: 2 cups flour 1 tsp. yeast 3/4 cup warm…
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Quick ND Trip
This past weekend, I had an extra day off work because of the holidays, so on Friday morning we woke up early and headed out to North Dakota. What is in North Dakota? My entire extended family. My sister tagged along and we set out for the 8 hour journey. We made it safe and…
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Last Day of the Year
What to do on the last day of the year? We decided to go up to the beautiful freshly snow covered mountains that we are lucky to live so close to. We invited my sister along for another wonderful snowshoe outing. We enjoyed a beautiful hike up along side the reservoir that led us back towards a…
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During the Holidays
There is nothing better during the holidays than seeing family! As it is always a joy throughout the year, around the holidays it is extra special. It is the time of year that you realize just how important and wonderful family is in your life. As the holidays rolled in for Brent and I, we were…
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Our first snowshoe outing of the season…
As Brent wrote earlier in his blog post about History Rock, we were able to enjoy our first outing of the season with our snowshoes. The snow has been fairly light around here for this winter season. A great thing when it comes to my running, but not so good for the snow activities that we would…