Sat 27 Jan 2007
Family
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Thu 18 Jan 2007
We came across this picture of Sheryl. She always says that she doesn’t think our kids look like her, but I think this picture looks just like Davis.
Tue 28 Nov 2006
What happens when a two-year old skips his nap and then you give him a lollipop for dessert? Watch and find out.
Tue 10 Oct 2006
I’m a little late in posting this, but I just wanted to congratulate my sister Becca and her husband Tono on getting married. We had a really fun time at their wedding and it was great to get to know Tono a little better and find out what a great guy he is.
Sheryl captured a lot of great pictures of the event here.
Thu 14 Sep 2006
Both Evan and Davis started school in the last few weeks. Evan at grade school and Davis one day a week at preschool. Evan really likes his new teacher and has a great group of kids in his class, including his best friend. Although Davis has only been to one class, we can already tell he loves it. I think the guitar-playing teacher helped. He has been really into guitars lately. Between, back-to-school, the start of football and the return of rainy weather, summer definitely feels behind us.
Fri 25 Aug 2006
We got back from our summer road-trip vacation to San Diego last week. We had a great time and the kids did great despite all the time stuck in the car. Sheryl just posted all our pictures. Check them out here.
Before we left we made a big list of random things to take a picture of. The results of our photo scavenger are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/sgedwatson/ScavengerHunt.
Mon 31 Jul 2006
We’ve been busy with visitors over the last month. My sister Becca came for a week, followed by my friend Ben and his wife Melinda. Then my brother Christer and his wife Katie. Last weekend two of Sheryl’s cousins were here. As always it’s been really fun catching up and hanging out. Plus we’ve gotten a lot of use from our BBQ.
Here are some pictures from a fun day out with Christer and Katie.
Thu 27 Jul 2006
famcation (fam-kay-shun) n.: A vacation taken without one’s family.
Last month I got a chance to visit my good friend Ben for his wedding. I got to see Ed, Kirsti, Ben, Bryn and Dan — all good friends from college. After the wedding we went camping for a few days (except Ben, who wisely opted to spend his honeymoon with his bride instead of us). It really felt great to be with my good friends again, and very relaxing not having young kids to be responsible for.
Although the break from parenting was refreshing after almost a week it felt even better to be back home. There are lots of people I go weeks, months or years between seeing. Somehow just being gone a week was enough for me to see Sheryl and the kids with entirely fresh eyes, though.
Wed 26 Jul 2006
I eventually got the trap open without getting sprayed by the skunk and then reset the trap in a different part of the yard. One night while watching TV I heard a “clap” in the backyard and posted a mental sticky note to check it before going to bed. I remember sometime the next afternoon and found this ugly critter hanging out in our cage. I had a hard time getting him to leave. You’d think after nearly 24 hours in captivity he’d be eager to get someplace, but I had to leave the trap open and still hadn’t left an hour after I opened it.
Oh yeah. Eventually the raccoon family just moved out on their own and we returned the trap before we got to find out what other animals visit out back yard.
Wed 26 Jul 2006
Back in May we set a cage to try and catch the raccoons under our deck. I came home on afternoon and found — not a raccoon — but this!
