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      • Family Reunion, Day 3
        05/29/10








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      • Family Reunion, Day 2
        05/28/10

        [Above: Kellen, Grant, and Lennox before bathtime]


        [Above: Mimi and Matia]


        [Above: I just love this one of K and G because they sat, jumped, and talked on the trampoline for hours. Sometimes alone, sometimes with cousins, and sometimes they got kicked o

      • Family Reunion, Day 1
        05/27/10
        We made it to Denver for our family reunion (yes, the airport finally opened again so that the pilot could land our plane!), and it goes without saying that the highlight was seeing the family!

        My favorite, of course, is seeing all the kid cousins together because it reminds me of my c

      • 8 Hours on a Plane
        05/26/10
        When your two-hour plane ride turns into eight, and you just don't know what to do,
        Pull out your camera; click like mad; you'll have fun AND find something to pass the time, too!

        During our flight to Denver today, storms forced an airport closure after we circled and

      • Bath Boys
        05/25/10
      • Preschooler Musings
        05/24/10
        I've been trying to capture short videos lately just so that I can have a record of the boys' voices and the way they articulate their words and stories. This one is mainly about preschool and the art project they made today---elephant straw sippers. ---SM

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      • Show-and-Tell
        05/24/10
        Testing out his dinosaur that Jared's family gave him a few Christmas' ago, Grant prepares it for preschool show and tell.

        Grant: "These dinosaurs are cool. Everybody will love these. (Passes Lennox who is sitting on my bed) But you, little buddy, are getting a check-up t

      • After Church
        05/23/10
      • Bike ridin'
        05/15/10
        It's getting to be the time for big boy bikes. Today we practiced outside on the front court. The boys did so well that we celebrated with a bus ride over to Baskin Robbins afterward. Lennox really liked that idea because there was no pedaling involved. ---SM


        [Above: The bik

      • Fathers and Sons
        05/15/10
        This year marks the second annual Fathers and Sons camp out for our family. On Friday afternoon, while the boys headed to the Gilroy hills, the girls (and one baby boy) headed to the Gilroy Outlets (no pictures of that, unfortunately!).

        Grant tented with Justin and Kellen tented with my

      • Ardenwood Historic Farm
        05/13/10
        We met up with some friends at Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont today. The boys weren't the only twins there (they usually aren't)---a pair of baby goats was born the day before and the boys got to pet them.

        There was plenty to do, despite all those blasted school kids who

      • Goodbye Gnome
        05/11/10
        Breakfast time, mid-morning. Grant is bouncing a giant plastic ball while I am making toast.

        G: "Bouncey, bouncey, bouncey, bouncey, bouncey . . . "

        CRASH!

        I look up and see the ball has "bouncey-d" right onto my kitchen sink, cracking the

      • Two
        05/09/10
        My parents and Auntie Staci put on Lennox's two-year-old birthday party today. When we walked in to their home, we saw party hats set out on the front table and balloons hung from the ceiling and the boys gasped! This was going to be a real party. Uncle Steven bbq'd and Gramps was there, t

      • Birthday in the Back
        05/07/10
        Maggie and Lennox turned two this week, and we had an unofficial birthday bash at Happy Hollow today. The little partiers opened their presents in the back of my car after a full afternoon of petting and feeding horses and goats (who licked, and licked, and licked their hands!), digging in the sand,

      • Free at Last
        05/03/10
        While I was away, the frogs jumped out to play!

        Justin said some of our polywogs sprouted legs and began hopping right out of their container in the last few days. I was just glad they had shallow enough water that they could avoid drowning.

        So today the boys, Auntie Staci

      • Emily's Wedding
        05/01/10
        This weekend was my cousin Emily's wedding. I remember the day when my aunt told us that she was pregnant with Emily, her fifth child, while we stood under my grandma's carport. My aunt said she would be 60 by the time Emily was in college, and boy how time flies. It's hard to believe

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