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Cora was really excited about her party…really.
In what is truly an act of bravery, mom and dad took my entire family down to Houston to wish my niece a happy birthday today. I say it was an act of bravery as we had all the kids (Kayla, Emma and Erik) and a car full [...]

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I’ve been getting a pretty steady stream of hits on the site ever since I switched to Wordpress and started writing more frequently (go figure).
It occurred to me that many of you might want to get an email notification when something new gets posted so you wouldn’t waste your day visiting Guentzel.org when there’s nothing [...]

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The title of this post is not intended to be facetious.
Kayla and I always have cool conversations. Ever since she was about 5 years old, we’ve talked about all sorts of things in our travels together.
Per the instructions of the little agreement that Kayla’s mom and I have, I get to see Kayla on [...]

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When the LaRondes descended on our happy home on Saturday, Scott invited a long-time friend Dave Thomas to the party. Apparently Dave and Scott go way back, and Dave’s one of the more civil Aggie fans I’ve met (I hope I’m not insulting you, Dave). He and Shannon were great fun and I’ve [...]

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Another fun and crazy weekend has come to an end, and the LaRondes will be on their way back to the great Midwest sometime this afternoon.
In spite of the Aggies losing and the Longhorns losing, we still managed to have a pretty good time on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, Scott & family ventured [...]

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Happy Veterans Day.
While driving home from work on Friday, I heard a story on NPR about the World War I Living History Project.  The story was about an interviewer going out and meeting with the last known survivors of World War I.  It was incredible.  These 14 men were in their 100s (the youngest was [...]

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Good News! As many of you know, Susan’s brother Scott is in the military and recently came back from a long assignment in the Middle East. Fortunately, he made it back in one piece and he and his family came down to visit. Emma and Erik met up with their cousins and [...]

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