Carson and Alana are both doing swim team this year — the first time for both of them. The first meet — an intra squad affair — was held last Wednesday. Both kids swam in four events and, overall, enjoyed themselves (we’re enjoying the forced improvement of their swimming skills). Carson Pre-swim body art (it [...]

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Over the Memorial Day weekend, Benton was busy with baseball and various friends, Carson was really busy with new friends (more on that in the next post), and Alana…was bored. We filled the time by multiple projects in the kitchen: We started by making gingerbread cookie dough (not really the season for that, but it’s [...]

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The last day of school for the kids was last Friday. I’m a week late on getting anything post on that front because Julie celebrated our 17th anniversary that weekend by leaving me with the kids and going to her mom’s. It all worked out, though, as she did ultimately come back home late Monday [...]

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Within 30 minutes of each other… Benton Alana  

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Saturday, May 21, 2011. 9:00 AM — Benton’s first soccer game of the end-of-season tournament Sanga (Benton’s team) wins…although the camera caught Benton getting burned by an opposing player right in front of the parents’ sideline (for which he received some lighthearted ribbing…and proceeded to almost get the giggles on field): 10:30 AM — Benton’s [...]

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On Saturday, Julie and I decide to go for a walk, which, by the end of it, included Julie, Carson, Alana, me, one of the boys from next door, another boy from a few houses farther down, and an entire 4-person family (our unofficial skiing companions) we managed to pick up en route from the [...]

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Three kids, all caught on (digital) film. Alana Saturday afternoon: wraps Mother’s Day presents. Saturday night: “Dad, wake me up early in the morning so we can go downstairs and make mom breakfast in bed! We’re going to make her pancakes because I know how to make them!” Saturday morning, a good 45 minutes before [...]

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Alana lost her first tooth last week!

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Yesterday was the start of soccer season for Alana and Benton. Today was Carson’s first flag football game. He’s never played organized football (not counting the organized soccer he played, if you want to get all non-American on me). He has now dubbed the sport his favorite. Alana had a good time, too:

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Somehow, we managed to have each of our three kids playing two sports apiece this spring — 2 soccers, 3 baseballs, 1 flag football. Today was the start of the soccer season. What a difference a season makes. Alana largely just “chased the action” in the fall, but she actually got in and played in [...]

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