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  • Welcome to my blog!

    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

    I've created a map that shows links to our camping/hiking/general family fun review posts that you can find here. It's pretty much the coolest thing on this site. Thanks, Google!

    I great big puffy heart *love* comments, so please let me know you visited! I try to always reply!

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Old Blog Posts: November 2009

sometimes he freaks me out a little The other night Heather and I were going over cookbooks, making our plan for Thanksgiving dinner and all the other goodies we are baking/cooking up this week.  Nic was doing his best to feign interest when we mentioned our fruitcake plans.  (We decided we wanted to try one.  […]

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Old Blog Posts: October 2009

halloween It’s Halloween, and it’s one of our favorite holidays.  Mainly because Will loves pumpkins SO MUCH and costumes SO MUCH and we all love Papa Murphey’s jack-o-lantern pizza SO MUCH. Last year Will said “Happy Ween!” and “Trick Treat” and “Pums” and this year it’s all “Happy Halloween” “Trick or Treat!” and “Pumpkins” (or […]

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Old Blog Posts: September 2009

my belly Totally popped out last week.  I went from being without waist to having quite the little round belly!  It’s funny how it happens so suddenly.  (I know this invites a whole ton of “we wanna see pictures” comments, but I’m just going to say this:  we’re in the middle of wedding season, trying […]

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Old Blog Posts: August 2009

seriously looking forward to being three months post partum… …so I can sneeze without seriously considering trading in my stash of hanky panky thongs for a trusty pack o’ depends. POSTED BY turchinfamily ON 08.31.09 @ 7:36 pm | 1 Comment and the belly has arrived Nic hugged me yesterday and said “Ahhhh–your belly sticks […]

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Old Blog Posts: July 2009

true story We went to Costco tonight to look at a kitchen table and right across from it was a twin over full bunkbed.  “That’s what we’re going to get” I told Nic.  Thus began a debate about whether or not I can make a boy and a girl share a room.  I say yes.  […]

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Old Blog Posts: June 2009

excited We got a surprise ultrasound at my dr’s appointment today!  I was so glad that Joan was here to see the latest ultrasound of the baby.  It is looking much more like a baby–even moving its little arms and legs.  When we told Willie that we were seeing pictures of the baby he said […]

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