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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It’s not Christmas yet, so I’m not going to feel too bad about my delinquency on Thanksgiving posts. We went to Julie’s dad’s farm for Thanksgiving and both of her brothers and their families came out as well. For one evening, we had 14 humans and 4 dogs! Julie, Benton, Carson, and I slept up […]

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I asked my bride to go for a walk yesterday. By the time we left the house, I was walking with Julie, two dogs, and Alana. Alana heard we were going on a walk and asked, “Can I come?!” She was on her scooter inside of two minutes (read: faster than Julie was able to […]

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My parents stopped in Dublin for a few days en route back to Texas, and Alana kept them busy! She is very proud of her reading and will take any opportunity to work her way through her latest book(s). Grandparents are easy targets:

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Dublin aggressively avoids trick or treating on Halloween and, instead, designates a non-weekend evening near Halloween as Beggars’ Night. This year, it was Thursday, October 28th. As we’ve done over the past couple of years, the ‘hood (and various other friends who are not in trick-or-treat-friendly neighborhoods) have gathered at our house for pizza to […]

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A week or so ago, the weather was gorgeous, and there was a small group from the ‘hood hanging out on our back patio. Alana and the Yapp girls were doing some coloring at the picnic table…and it started to get dark. Julie hooked them up with headlamps so that the fun wouldn’t have to […]

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“What?” you say. “You’re already a one dog family. Aren’t you?” Well…we were. And then Julie’s Uncle Ray called from West Virginia this morning to report that a lab mix had been hanging out on Bob’s farm all weekend, she had a collar (but no tags), and she was exceedingly pleasant. Seeing as how his […]

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