Category Archives: kids

Visions of Sugar-Plums

The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads. And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

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The Grimes Family

The Grimes Family. Certainly one of the coolest families in all of Boone, NC.  Your kids would want to play with the Grimes kids…or at least with Wade and his stormtrooper helmet.   Complete Grimes Family gallery

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Oh Christmas Tree!

Cue the Burl Ives and step into a North Carolina Christmas tradition. We are fortunate to live in the “Christmas tree capital of the world.” Our farmers don’t grow corn. They grow Fraser Fir Christmas trees and export them all over the country. Boone is bustling with vacationers who have come to cut their own...

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The Last Soccer Game

With the High Country’s first heavy frost came the last of Clement’s soccer games. The boys bundled in cotton layers and took to the soccer field in their modified swarm, always hovering near the ball. The sun finally warmed things up and our boys finished with a strong win. Trophies all around.

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Greta Mast

This little sweetie was waddling around my house all weekend.

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