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    • Our Current Home (The Victorian)
    • Our First Home (The Bungalow)
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  • Oscar and Lily

    Meet Lily! (Plus Oscar’s Doggy DNA Results)

    We've added another puppy to our family! Meet Lily. We adopted Oscar in March, and several of his littermates were…
    August 10, 2018
  • The Balch Family!

    Back from Wisconsin

    I'm back from Wisconsin! (I kind of wish I wasn't! I have a whole lot of tiling and repair work…
    June 27, 2018
  • Oscar Danger Balch!

    Meet Our Puppy, Oscar Danger Balch

    We adopted a puppy! (That deserves all the exclamation marks!!!!!) He is supposedly a Bernese Mountain Dog mix — mixed…
    March 23, 2018
  • Oscar and Lily

    Meet Lily! (Plus Oscar’s Doggy DNA Results)

    We’ve added another puppy to our family! Meet Lily. We adopted Oscar in March, and several of his littermates were available alongside him. I was…

    August 10, 201810 commentsMy Life, Pets
  • The Balch Family!

    Back from Wisconsin

    I’m back from Wisconsin! (I kind of wish I wasn’t! I have a whole lot of tiling and repair work ahead of me, and it…

    June 27, 20183 commentsMy Life, Parenting, Pets
  • Oscar Danger Balch!

    Meet Our Puppy, Oscar Danger Balch

    We adopted a puppy! (That deserves all the exclamation marks!!!!!) He is supposedly a Bernese Mountain Dog mix — mixed with what, we don’t know.…

    March 23, 201824 commentsMy Life, Pets
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