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It’s been a little more than a week since Stuart joined our family for the summer.  He’s from Northern Ireland, and came to visit us through the Children’s Program of Northern Ireland.  This is his first time in America, and it would seem that he’s having a good time so far.  Other than the fact […]

It’s been a while since we’ve had some family portraits posted on the page, so I thought I’d recycle some recent photos.  Check them out below:

From Monterey

From Monterey

From Monterey

Jessi just completed the 6 days of course work for Boy Scouts of America’s Wood Badge.  Despite it being a spring class, she spent her first weekend at the Stearns Boy Scout Camp in cold and snow.  Below is a picture of her class.

It’s fairly often that I make breakfast for the kids on the weekends.  One of their favorite meals is over easy eggs.  Usually, Jessi makes over easy eggs since I can’t seem to make them without breaking the yoke.  When that happens, Jessi coined the term, “over dead eggs.”
This morning, Adya got and came over […]

Otylia was doing her homework when she came across a math problem that was essentially, “What is 45 - 5?”
She looked at Jessi and said, “I need 45 fingers.”

Over the years, our kids have had their own version of English it seems.  Most of it has been because of their inability to pronounce some of the words.  Amazingly, they still use a few of the words even though they are all more than capable of pronouncing the real words.

Kid Word
Real Word

Goke
Coke

Hangabur
Hamburger

Cadda Pat Kid
Cabbage […]

We received around 8 inches of snow today.  Just when we thought Spring was finally here, Winter is back.  I was outside with our Greyhound, Willie, while he was relieving his bladder.  As a reminder to the kids, I smiled and said, “Now don’t eat the yellow snow.”  Otylia turned to look at me and […]