August 2014

Okay, this is my favorite picture of Lydia during the last year or so and definitely a favorite even over her lifetime. Heather took this picture last spring and everything about it is perfect.  Heather is intuitive and understated, and talented. And this little girl is going to school in two weeks.  Grade 9 begins,

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tim’s twelve

 He is, so we had a party last night.   It was a beautiful, hot day, just like the day he was born.  We were mostly outside because it was just too stuffy inside the house.  The new bike:  The big, fat chocolate cake:  I thought about buying a cake, skip running the oven, but it

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safari

 These are the elephants swimming in the water.  They blew water out their trunks and splashed around.  It looked pretty inviting. Here’s a cute picture of all the kids. Those are Renee’s three on the left.  The rest are mine.  So we drove around through the safari in the van.  Kids were real excited.  

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cricket crisis

Here are some random pictures of this gecko who eats crickets as his main source of nutrition. His name is Philippe, if you’ve forgotten. The turtle is Bernie.  Anyway, Petco consistently has only crickets that are too big. Too big of crickets intimidate this beautiful little guy. The touch him with their feelers and freak

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