Alana lost her first tooth last week!

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Yesterday was the start of soccer season for Alana and Benton. Today was Carson’s first flag football game. He’s never played organized football (not counting the organized soccer he played, if you want to get all non-American on me). He has now dubbed the sport his favorite. Alana had a good time, too:

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Somehow, we managed to have each of our three kids playing two sports apiece this spring — 2 soccers, 3 baseballs, 1 flag football. Today was the start of the soccer season. What a difference a season makes. Alana largely just “chased the action” in the fall, but she actually got in and played in [...]

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The last leg of our trip was to Niagara Falls — the Canada side. Julie, who manages to plan these sorts of things perfectly, landed us a room at the Embassy Suites with quite a view: I couldn’t resist seeing if I could get decent pictures at night… …and as the sun came up: Not [...]

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Thanks to a Christmas gift of weekly skiing passes at a couple of mounds near to Columbus, all three of our kids have become pretty competent skiers. Benton quickly got hooked on snowboarding and hasn’t looked back. Carson bounces back and forth between skiing and snowboarding, but looks like he’s leaning towards the latter. We [...]

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Abruptly and unexpectedly, we sorta’ stopped posting since, er, January. That was driven by a mix of things, all of which come down to, “Not enough hours in the day…” I have been keeping up with my professional blog, which is good for what it does, but not of interest to most people reading this [...]

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Hmmm… weekly passes means there’s a risk that there will be a weekly post on this subject. Maybe not. We’ll see. The thermometer read “7 degrees” this morning when we got up, but the temperature was supposed to get up into the high 20s. As it turned out, it was a cloudless, windless day, so [...]

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Alana was up until ~1:00 AM on New Year’s Day, and she didn’t exactly sleep in to make up for it. By the time she’d uttered her second sentence of the day, she’d already whined about 3 or 4 things. Julie calmly explained to her that she was sleep-deprived and should recognize that when things [...]

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One of the big Christmas gifts we got this year was “once a week” passes to the local ski slopes, as well as some lessons. Benton, Carson, and Julie skied once last year, but Alana had never skied, and I hadn’t skied since the early 1990s (and that was a one-week ski trip in Vermont — [...]

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So, I started to post pictures using a new toy (software) that I got for Christmas, but I figured I should post the standard, hum-drum pictures first. Alana Tackling Presents from Santa Carson not Actually Sitting on a Pile of Presents (although it looks like he is) Benton Opening Presents (the Longhorn hat was in [...]

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