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Monkey Man
It’s so apropos that Ty’s favorite character is Curious George on so many levels. This is one of them. Clearly he’s not biologically related to us. He’s the only one in our family with any upper body strength.
Thunder Snow
If the 4 or so inches of snow we got yesterday morning wasn’t enough, at around 6PM last night, we got a snow thunderstorm complete with lightening. This is the snowman the kids made when they got up yesterday morning. This is the snowman Patrick made at dusk last night in the middle of some...
First Snow
Yesterday we got our first real* snow. *As in schools were closed, shovel and scrapers were used, and we drove somewhere to go sledding. It turns out that the older two may have snowboarding in their future. I was pretty impressed at their ability to snowboard down a decent hill on a 15-year-old, blue, plastic,...
Unadulterated Applesauce
We were blessed with an abundance of apples this fall. Along with receiving a couple bushels from a family member, the kids also wanted to go out to pick apples. Although apples have a fairly long refrigerator life, we still ended up with over a half bushel that didn’t get eaten before they were beyond...
Merry Christmas! {2010 Christmas Letter}
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Dec. 15th
Fourth birthdays don’t get any better than this! Besides a snuggly “Baby George” blanket, Ty also scored his “tractor truck,” a Cars hat and mitten set, Legos, and a day with PJ’s class and Grandma and Grandpa to Sight and Sound. Oh, and don’t forget the sock puppet. That was from Mia, of course.
Lessons learned in tree hunting
Power isn’t always better. (Also could be…make sure you have enough spare batteries for your chain saw). Ok. We really only learned that lesson this year.