by Steve | Feb 16, 2018 | Blogging, Feature Holidays, Holidays, Real Life
We love being home together on Valentine’s Day. Typically, we spend the evening cooking together while listening 80’s love songs and then enjoy a nice dinner by candlelight. This year, our Valentine’s Day celebration started a bit earlier in the day,...
by Ann | Nov 13, 2017 | Family, Feature Family, Real Life
On a cold day in November of 2000, exactly five months to the day after he was diagnosed, my dad, Robert Forrest Shrewsbury, lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51. While my dad had a fulfilling life, it makes me sad to think that he never got to see or do...
by Ann | Nov 8, 2017 | Blogging, Feature Blogging, Real Life
Let me just tell you about our weekend. After a busy Halloween week filled with college ministry, cooking, trick-or-treaters, doctor’s appointments, and blogging, we finished a loooooooong post about 70+ things to do in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on Thursday, posted...
by Ann | Oct 21, 2017 | Experiences, Feature Experiences, Real Life, USA
Did we ever tell you about the time we met Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood? We had gone to a TeamMates mentoring program silent auction in November of 2012, and about half way through the evening, we noticed that no one had bid on a package that included tickets to...
by Ann | Oct 19, 2017 | Food and Drink, Fun Stuff, Real Life, The Midwest, USA
With more than 500 million candid traveler reviews, TripAdvisor has quickly become a go-to online resource for many travelers, including us. We often roll into a new city with cell-phones in hand, searching for a top-10ish restaurant to stop for dinner. We typically...
by Ann | Sep 29, 2017 | Blogging, Food and Drink, Real Life
Between the two of us, we’ve got some interesting titles on our resumes. Sports writer, lifeguard, vice president of public relations, athletic director, lobbyist, middle school principal, travel writers, and bloggers. And now, we get to add … wait for it...