After spending a week up at Lake Erie this summer (we’ve got a serious backlog of posts to work through here — Julie took the kids up to Middlebass Island so that Alana and Carson could attend a camp there while Julie hung out with several of the ladies from the ‘hood), Julie announced that [...]

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We’re officially one week into the 2010-11 school year! Benton’s in 6th grade, so he’s now officially in middle school (although he started his day at the middle school all year last year for math class), Carson is in 3rd grade…and at a new school (a remnant of goofy school assignments when we first moved [...]

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For chuckles, I took a crack at mapping our travels between June 9th and July 4th of this year: Tallying that up: June 9-10: Julie, Tim, Benton, Carson, and Alana drive from Columbus to Dallas for the Love reunion (1,040 miles) June 13: Julie, Tim, Benton, Carson, and Alana drive from Dallas to Lake Whitney, TX (100 [...]

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We’ve logged around 60 hours in the car as a family over the past month, and that’s not counting various travels by plane, so I’ve been falling behind on the blog front. Alana’s birthday was a couple of weeks ago. And she had a party. And she had a good time. And it would be [...]

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After the Love-Eades Family Reunion and swinging by the fountains in Richardson, we headed out of Dallas to visit with my dad’s side of the family at their place on Lake Whitney. My cousin came up as well, so we also got so see her and her oldest two kids. All of the kids clicked [...]

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After the Love-Eades Family Reunion, we headed over to Richardson (Texas) to meet up with Julie’s godparents, Bruce and Cheryl Bone, at some fountains there that have become a tradition for us to visit when in town. Fountains + Kids + a Good Camera = some pretty fun shots. And, if that’s not enough, there [...]

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With two older brothers playing baseball, and one of them having played baseball consistently for several years, Alana jumped at the chance to try whiffle ball this year. So far, they’ve just had a couple of practices. The team holds real promise. I mean, they’ve got a kid who actually has baseball pants AND cleats [...]

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Two Fridays ago, we wound up with an afternoon of Cooperating Kids in our basement — Alana and Carson from our house, Alex from across the cul de sac, and Delaney from down the street. The cooperative play lasted for hours and hours and on into the night, so Julie (who had been up until [...]

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A couple of weeks ago was the multi-family neighborhood garage sale. It was a drizzly day, and, unlike the usual weekends in our ‘hood when multiple families wind up clustered at one house or another, logistics of the garage sale kept the adults tethered to their garages. The kids, though, were free to roam. Carson [...]

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It’s a crazy couple of weeks for me travel-wise, with part of that being due to a family trip down to North Carolina for the latter half of spring break. I’ve posted a handful of pictures (16) over on Flickr — it just doesn’t look like I’ll have time in the near term to get [...]

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