Friday, January 30, 2009

Allison Turns 100!

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Today was the 100th day of school and 1st grade was ready to celebrate. I wished Allison a Happy 100th Birthday when she woke up this morni...

Our Very Own Star!

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Taylor was so excited to learn that her All-Star team was in the local paper yesterday. One of the team Dads brought a copy for each of us. ...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Historic Day

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On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. He is the 1st African-American to ever hold the p...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Palm Desert, Here We Come!

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What a weekend of soccer. Taylor's All-Star team has been practicing for 2 months to get ready for this weekend's President's Cu...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Dad Makes Science Fun

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The 1st grade class is learning about solids, liquids and gases in their science unit. As class let out yesterday, Allison ran out asking to...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Surprise Visitors

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On Monday, I got a call from Brandi saying that Mike surprised her with a trip to Southern California as a Christmas present. We have been f...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

Memorial for Pop

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Today we said goodbye to Pop (William Dodson) at a memorial in his honor. Pop lived across the street with his family, Chip and Teresa, who ...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Fun, Food and Football

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Michael and Lisa had all of us up to watch the Rose Bowl. We had enough appetizers to feed an army which kept our bellies full until pizza t...

Ringing in 2009

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We headed to Paul and Laura's for what has become a New Year's Eve tradition. Rosa's seemed like the perfect dinner take-out opt...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Break with Gigi

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Gigi has been here since December 21st and is here for the entire break. We have had a lot of fun playing board games, watching movies and l...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas!

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The kids think they heard Santa on the roof and Santa eating cookies, but they were too scared to investigate. At about 6:45, they jumped i...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve

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After a quiet morning of baking banana bread, watching tv and playing games, the day got very exciting at about 3:00. Santa called our house...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Team Bonding

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Tonight the All-Star team got together for a little bonding off the field with a cookie and ornament exchange. We have girls from several d...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

I Guess I'll Look for a Condo...

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Well, I got another great Allie-ism while sitting with her in the hot tub tonight. She asked me if I had ever been divorced. I told her th...

All-Stars Round Robin

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Today was an exhausting trial run for Taylor's U10 All-Star Team. They played their 1st games together as a team and had a lot of fun. T...