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First Day of school

O. — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:36:31 +0000

I have posted the pictures of the kids First Day of school.

As Always,McKelvey & Arden gathered with Liam in the front of our house. they were excited for school to begin. And this past Tuesday Liam had his first day of preschool.

I can’t remember being excited for the first day of school, and maybe my parents can chime in and remind me. But I am glad they are, and I am thankful they don’t fight to wake up and get them ready in the morning.

I also can’t remember having homework in the 4th grade, let alone the 3rd or 2nd. Any hoo, I hope you liked this glimpse into the kids lives.

New pictures of Bacon-y goodness

O. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:16:47 +0000

I have finally gotten around to posting the pictures from Arden’s birthday. As you can see there was a lot of bacon going on.

We had pin the bacon on the plate of eggs, a bacon piniata, and a bacon looking( but not tasting) cake.

Also McKelvey has had her birthday, and one of her presents was:

Yes Princess Leia hair buns.
Don’t worry we all tried them on, go see the pix.

Halloween Pictures are up!

O. — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:06:33 +0000

Well, I finally have pictures up from Halloween.

You can see all of them here.

I also have some pictures from my birthday, the girls dance performance at the Theater at Lime Kiln(at which Liam wore a tux), Carving pumpkins, and more.

Recent pictures are up

O. — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:57:26 +0000

Well a lot has happened the last couple of weeks. and now the pictures are up to prove it. They are here by the way. We have a trip to New york city, in which the girls saw their first Broadway show and afterwards walked out on Times Square. They got to visit some of Ann’s friends and we all went to the American Girls store as well.

This past weekend we wetn to a Fall Harvest festival. They did a big puppet show (no really they were big puppets). Most notably McKelvey finally wore pants.

Liam’s 1st Haircut

O. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:31:39 +0000

More pictures are up

O. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:55:12 +0000

I Have posted the last of the summer fun pictures. I guess I could be wrong since there is more to the summer but anyway. The pictures are here. These are images I got from some friends over the course summer, so they will cover 4th of july to the beginning of August. I thought there were some really cute ones here. Enjoy.

New pictures are up

O. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:45:45 +0000

I have posted some new pictures from the past couple of weeks. In June we went on our annual trip to Natural bridge, during Rockbridge resident week(when we get a discounted price). We went up to Harrisonburg for their old timey ‘Courthouse days’. Fun old games and stuff. We went up to Ann’s parents for a couple of days, and then to ETC. Where I am spending all my time on running a theatre program for high school students. And there is a lot of drama, which should be expected for teenagers that do theatre and all live in the same house for 5 weeks.

There is some good pix of Fourth of July here.

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more pictures up

O. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:22:48 +0000

I have posted some more pictures of the family. McKelvey had her Magic Tree House birthday party. We had a great time. We turned the kids into:

Mummies.

they also had wheelbarrow races:
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McKelvey enjoyed her cake.

2007 in Pictures

O. — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:13:46 +0000

We have made our (soon to be) annual New Year’s card. and to go along with that here is our family’s 2007 in pictures.

Rockets, Rockets and Brownies

O. — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:43:49 +0000

Two weekends ago the weather was nice and we went out with the kids’ new stomp rocket. A stomp rocket is a little tube for the rocket with a bit of foam at the end(example here), and you jump on a this sort of a bladder. The air being pushed out of the bladder pushes the rocket up in the air. The explanation loses some of the fun of it. The kids had a blast shooting it up into the air. They would jump on or have us lift them up to jump down on it. WE got in on as well. IT was great running and chasing after them. Liam enjoyed the spectacle as well. He is very inquisitive now, sitting up and looking at everything.

Last Friday I got to go with McKelvey on her class trip to the Virginia Safari Park. As always it was great. This trip was different, since we had a guide talking to us about the animals and we rode on the wagon. We got to feed the bison, camels, kangaroos, as well as the potbellied pigs. Click here for McKelvey’s imitation of feeding the bison.

Then this past saturday, we went to The Udvar-Hazy Air and Space center. It is part of the Smithsonian. It’s in a old aircraft hangar and it houses a ton(or many tons) of historic aircraft and spacecraft. They had planes from the beginning of flight, as well as an SR71 Blackbird and a Concorde. Some of the cooler stuff is a retired Spaceshuttle (another pic here) and the Enola Gay (which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima). Another plane that brought up fond memories of youth was the Corsair which just made me think of the Black Sheep squadron TV show.

Also last week, McKelvey officially became a Brownie, She is tickled pink and is having fun with it. Since this is pseudo Girls Scouts, we might be hitting you up with sales of cookies and things.

I’ll have more next week.