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Out & about

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on March 25, 2013

This layout was fun to pull together! I gathered four photos of Matt and me just out doing our thing in Austin last December. The north photo is of us waiting for our friends’ wedding to start; the east photo is when we were waiting outside the Alamo Drafthouse before seeing Les Miserables; the south [...]

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You make my heart sing

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on March 17, 2013

This is one of those photos that I can just sit and stare into. It’s quite imperfect, as far as photos go—with the bad lighting, crooked angles and muddy colors. But it’s a beautiful photo to me. It allows me a glimpse into Mom and Dad’s apartment before they bought the house I grew up [...]

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Official bday lunch

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on March 1, 2013

Matt’s dad, Tom, and his girlfriend, Wanda, visited us from Arkansas in early December 2010. We had a few really fun days together, taking in the sights of Austin. Before they left town we celebrated Matt’s 44th birthday a day or two early by having lunch at the Olive Garden. Just a nice family visit. [...]

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Gossip girls

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on February 21, 2013

I’ve met a really fun group of women just by shopping at my local Archiver’s scrapbook store. Every person in this photo, except me, works or has worked at Archiver’s. We met because of a shared hobby, but when we get together, talking about scrapbooking is not on the agenda! We all gathered on January [...]

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Mom’s favorite class ever

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on February 1, 2013

I can’t decide who was more fortunate that year—the teacher or the students. In the fall of 1972 Mom’s friends, who had children the same age as Phil and me, devised a brilliant plan: Instead of sending their children to various kindergarten programs around town, they proposed sending them all to our house! Mom was [...]

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