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Entries Tagged as 'Family'

Kids movie

February 6th, 2010 · Comments Off

The kids came up with the idea for this movie. They developed the concept together, rehearsed it twice, and we got it on our first take. My role was strictly as the cameraman, and you can see I didn’t do such a great job with the focus (the camera is new and I’m not used [...]

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Tags: Daughter · Son

Band concert

February 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Daughter played in a school band concert tonight. She played an awesome solo. More photos in the gallery.

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Dance, dance, dance

January 30th, 2010 · Comments Off

Daughter performs two numbers in her recital last night; the first one is a group dance to “I want candy”; the second is her solo “We used to be friends”. Click for the whole gallery.

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Eiffel Tower is finished!

January 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off

Son finished the Eiffel Tower, with some help from his sister.

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Tags: Lego · Son

Eiffel Tower in the basement

January 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off

Son works on his Xmas gift, the Lego Eiffel Tower set.

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A walk in the snow

December 20th, 2009 · Comments Off

Today we had our first big snowfall of the year. Daughter took the dog for a walk.

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Tags: Abby · Daughter · Outdoors

Daughter plays the flute

December 18th, 2009 · Comments Off

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Musical evening

December 18th, 2009 · Comments Off

Daughter has been taking up the flute. She practices regularly, and she’s getting pretty good. She knows some good Xmas tunes, and tonight we sat together and sang and played. Son has taken guitar and drum lessons in the past, but he hasn’t stuck with it. However, here he picked up the mandolin and pretended [...]

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Tags: Daughter · Music · Son

Fun plane

December 5th, 2009 · Comments Off

My dad had bought this lightweight plane, and I took the kids outside on a mild day to fly it.

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Tags: Son

Thanksgiving

November 29th, 2009 · Comments Off

This Thanksgiving my sister and her husband came to visit, and we moved dad’s stuff out of his apartment in his assisted living center, in preparation for his move to a nursing home. We took the kids over to his new place to say hi.

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Tags: Daughter · Dear old dad · Family · Holidays · Son