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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We’re (blissfully) in a period where only one child is actively playing a sport. Carson is playing basketball, which he seems to be enjoying. A Momentary Lapse on Defense In Position to Take a Pass Fighting for the Ball Movin’ Those Feet!

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We spent the long weekend in West Virginia, which was Fia’s first trip back to the farm since she mysteriously showed up there back in September. For a day-and-a-half, there were actually four dogs present. Fia was far and away the youngest and most active. She chased balls: She chased her boy (Benton): She goaded […]

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Carson has been shooting a lot of video of late. He’s actually pretty impressive when it comes to being in front of the camera and communicating an idea extemporaneously. Now, the subject matter in the video below is <ahem> a bit off from what we’d like to think we’re instilling in him as values. But, […]

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Carson has befriended a neighbor, Judy, who has several dozen birds. He vists her house 1-2 times a week to help out and has become both attached to the birds and quite knowledgeable about them! For school, he had to take pictures of five of his favorite places in town, and one of those places […]

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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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Carson’s birthday is in late November, which is second only to being within 3 days of Christmas when it comes to ugly timing for a kid’s birthday party. For the past few years, his birthday party has been small (although last year was an overnight trip to an indoor water park with two of his […]

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Alana Carson Carson actually got to go solo on the 4-wheeler (with an adult following and with strict rules), which made the weekend all on its own for him. He loved driving over to The High Point (which he’s making the final ascent to below): We don’t actually require that he wear a helmet while […]

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