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Halloween Costumes

What a difference a year makes! Last year the girls couldn’t even sit up for their Halloween pictures (we had to prop them up on the sofa). This year they’re toddling all over the place and won’t stay still long enough to get a picture of them together. We met their cousins at the Pumpkin […]

Pumpkins!

We took the girls to Joan’s Farm and Pumpkin Patch yesterday. Now that the girls have passed their first birthday and we’re doing things the second time around, it’s interesting to reflect back and marvel at how much things have changed in the past year. If you’re interested, you can find pictures from last year’s […]

Family Vacation

Last week we joined my parents and my sister and her family for our annual Family Vacation. Over the past several years we’ve spent wonderful weeks in places like Bend, Lake Tahoe, Lake Almanor, etc. (My first geocache was found with my Dad’s GPS while on a family vacation in Idaho!) This year I wanted […]

Love

Fifteen years ago, Janet and I made vows to each other that were both solemn and joyous. We wrote these vows ourselves — or rather, we cobbled together elements we liked from several samples we looked at. We also memorized them, so that during the ceremony we could just speak them directly to each other […]

The Twelve Angry Men Experience

In January I was invited to be part of my church‘s production of Twelve Angry Men. We have a drama ministry known as The King’s Players, and over the last 20+ years we’ve done dozens of productions, including Ben Hur, Steel Magnolias, and It’s A Wonderful Life. In recent years I’ve had small parts in […]