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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

First Cache Location

My first hidden cache located at N 33°12'49.0212" W 87°17'34.0188". You can enter this coordinates in your GPS and find the hidden cache. hangingoutinbrookwood

New to the hobby of geocaching? Well, I am very new at it! On this first hide, I didn’t put much thought to it and hid it rather quickly and I hope the coordinates is accurate as I want it to be. I think hiding the cache is more difficult than finding it, because you have to make sure that you are not too close to the next cache that a cacher hid (the rule is you have to be at least 528 feet apart). In our area there are a lot of cache everywhere, you can do a quick errand to a grocery store and on the way back you can try to find a cache or two.

Gabriela and I went out on Saturday for quick errands and we found 4 geocaches on the way there and back. Although what we found were small or micro cache which usually doesn’t take that much space to hide. Could be really hard to find or could be really easy, it all depends! But regardless of the sizes, we enjoy hunting for the cache!Geocaching with GA micro cache is hanging on the fence the size of a chap stick.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Missed The Wordless Wednesday . . .

. . . but TGIF!

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Visitors From Canada

Coby’s brother and his family came down to visit us this week for spring break and we just had a blast. They have 8 children, so as you can imagine, meals are always fun. The preparations, the conversations, the clean up . . . no chaos . . . well behave, and everyone knows what to do. Sixteen people around the table for breakfast, lunch and dinner almost everyday, we just love it!

To the Vandenbergs, thank you for the great visit and God’s willing we hope to see you this summer.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Geocaching Anyone?

geocahing_logo We got introduced to Geocaching this weekend by Coby’s family and I’m thinking . . . how come I didn’t know about this before. It involves GPS, outdoors, and internet . . . it is a high-tech treasure hunting and a lot of fun. It’s very inexpensive activity for the family . . . well other than purchasing the GPS (or an iPhone in my case), the rest are pretty cheap. Geocaching activity will get your family outdoors, and some nice weather is coming our way.

We went out several times this weekend to look for some caches (containers that have been hidden by fellow geocachers) and found them all and we log them on the website so the owners of the caches that we found will be able to see the messages that we log. You can read a simple explanation about Geocaching by clicking here.

For those of you who are familiar or a Geocacher, you can add us as a friend: 4SoeCache.

I will update this post once we have a cache of our own to hide.

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Sick, Sick, Sick . . .

First_Aid That's all we have around our house this week, we all got the stomach bug. A very powerful stomach bug that travels very fast from person to person. First it started with Coby’s Father, he got it after he got back from the cruise. Two days later, Rebecca got it, and Christiana, Coby and I got it around the same time. Is not finish yet! We have couple more girls, but hopefully they are immune to this bug.

I don’t wish this on anyone, because it is very painful and nasty. Please pray for us!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Rebecca’s Birthday Party

Rebecca's Birthday 2010 (1)_small We had such a good time with friends and family celebrating Rebecca’s 6th birthday. Thank you to everyone, family, and friends for coming to the party and spending the afternoon with us, we had such a blast and we are still talking about it.

Enjoy looking at the photos and you can check out more photos in the photo gallery by clicking here.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

Another Project

Please forgive my absence from blogging, I’ve been a little preoccupied with some wood working projects. This time I made a birdcage for the bookshelf and I have to say, it came out really nice and the Society finches and Zebra finches are very happy with their new home.

This is might be a start of a new idea which will be announced soon.

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UPDATE: I added a little ambiance to the birdcage.

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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Happy Birthday Rebecca!

Our little girl is 6 years old today . . . wow, it seemed like it was yesterday when she was born. Six years later she still makes us laugh and melt especially her daddy’s heart.

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Happy birthday Rebecca, we love you!