Category Archives: Holidays

Cleveland for the Fourth

By admin | Published: 27 Jun ’11

Load the car and write the note Grab your bag and grab your coat Tell the ones that need to know We are headed north.

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Florida – Day 2

By admin | Published: 8 Jan ’10

Day two of the Florida vacation, consisted (partly) of a walk to the park. A brand new, beautiful park, within walking distance of my father’s house. The day first began with Mason waking up WAY too early. Dad was nice enough to sit with him for a bit. On the way there: On the way [...]

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Florida Trip – Part 1

By admin | Published: 6 Jan ’10

We took a LONG road trip to Florida last week. What was supposed to be 12 hours on the way down turned in to, at least, 16 hours. Horrible accident on the way down shut down the interstate for two hours, we were stuck in traffic, moving about 5 miles an hour, for about four [...]

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Happy Christmas Eve!

By admin | Published: 24 Dec ’09
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Annual Gingerbread House Decorating

By admin | Published: 20 Dec ’09
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Autumn in North Carolina

By admin | Published: 1 Nov ’09

It’s autumn in North Carolina. We know by several different reasons: the constant shotgun shots that we can hear from our entirely closed up house signifying the slaughter of those obnoxious deer that like to run into the side of my car, the turning of the leaves (supposedly rather beautiful in the “mountains” of North [...]

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Happy Halloween!

By admin | Published: 1 Nov ’09
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Birthdays and stuff

By admin | Published: 16 May ’09

Well, since we’ve last talked… Violet turned four. Here she is seen with her BEST friend, Emily: Our neighbors had a tree fall in their driveway, what you don’t see is the Audi that was underneath when the tree fell: There was field day at preschool. Sadly, next week is the last week of preschool [...]

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Jesus Shaves

By admin | Published: 13 Apr ’09

Every year at this time I am reminded of one of my favorite stories by David Sedaris. He tells the story of being in France, being with a very diverse group of foreigners, and learning the French language. They discuss Easter. It’s funny, you should read the story. Mason is a junkie. His drug of [...]

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Cleveland

By admin | Published: 1 Feb ’09

A few more of my favorite shots from Cleveland… West Side Market: Snow: Snow Angels: Mason’s Birthday: We lit the candles a few times he liked blowing them out sooo much:

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Trip to Cleveland (Day 3)

By admin | Published: 10 Jan ’09

Friday, Colleen and I got a date night, and what a nice night it was. We saw Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. It was the best movie we saw in the theaters this year (it was the only movie we remember seeing in the theaters, thank you Violet and Mason). Sean Penn was great. Then, [...]

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Trip to Cleveland (Day 2)

By admin | Published: 10 Jan ’09

There aren’t many pictures of Violet’s face anymore. She has tired of my constant picture taking. I’m going to get her tomorrow, though. I want to take some good, quality portraits of them and I swear she will cave. Here’s a couple, token, pictures of the kids opening presents, nothing too exciting. Taking pictures in [...]

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