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Grammy made it up for some skiing this weekend... The kids were very excited!

From 2013-03-09

Finally remembered to take the camera along skiing last Friday...

From 2013-03-03

Sorry... not many pictures... We've been enjoying the winter, skiing on the weekends, and the usual stuff during the week. Hope everyone else is having fun as well!

2013-02-27

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2013-01-17

Happy New Year!

We rang in 2013 with some skiing ...it was kind of nice, because it seems nobody else did. No crowds or lines anywhere, but it was COLD, so kind of cut the day short. Back to work for me tomorrow, it's been a nice vacation. Tyler is back to school on Thursday, and Anna on Friday. Darn reality, always comes back.

2013-01-01

Christmas present...

2012-12-27

We had a great day and I hope you all did too.
Merry Christmas!

Christmas Past

10 years ago I got my first digital camera for Christmas. Boy does the time fly. A quick check of "My Pictures" folder says I have accumulated over 55 thousand photos since then! Absurd, I know. I will spare you the trip down memory lane of my favorites over the past 10 years, but I did find it interesting to look back at the FIRST pictures I took with the 2 megapixel Kodak.

Here is picture "000_0001" of 55,367 :-)

(Sorry Mom...the last picture of me isn't exactly flattering either)

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2012-12-23

Well we're back from New York City. It was a great time...amazing in fact. We all had fun. The kids were awesome, and did great with flying and walking and braving the city crowds. We crammed a LOT in to our four days there, as you'll see in the pictures...

2012-12-13

And here are som pictures from before we left around the house and getting the Christmas tree...

2012-12-10

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did, and now it's on to Christmas! The kids don't have much for lists this year for Santa... at least not much that he is actually going to bring them (iPads and puppy's !?). We're going to New York City in a couple weeks to see the holiday sights, so they're excited for that, as are Katie and I. First time flying for the kids, so it should be fun! I'll let you know...

2012-11-22

  Christmas Past...
In the mean time, I was looking back at some old Christmas pictures and videos, man do I feel old, but I couldn't help but post the link to this video from 3 years ago...time sure flies, and these kids grow up fast! Knowing Tyler now, this video just cracks me up: (ironically, a radio control monster truck is still on his list this year)....

Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Here's a couple of pictures from the past few weeks...haven't been taking many...

2012-11-20

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2012-10-13

Ahhh, Fall... Football, Foliage, Field trips ...so much to do, so little time!

2012-09-22

2012-09-10

Wow! Summer is over. I can't believe it. Tyler started first grade today, and Anna's first day back at Shelburne Nursery School is Friday. Time sure flies by. We've been busy has heck these past few weeks around the house and getting ready for school and working and all that good stuff. I haven't been able to update this lately because our computer has been under a drop cloth in a heap for a few weeks. We did a fairly major renovation of our downstairs over the past few weeks...Since we bought the house we wanted to put wood floor down in the living room, and we never cared much for the tile (style, or amount of it)...so we finally bit the bullet...new floor, baseboards, hearth, door casings, window casings, counter top and appliances. I took a few days off, and worked a handful of half days, and Katie was a machine all the while. We included the kids where safety permitted, but a lot of it was too noisy for their liking. Fortunately, they get along good and had fun together while we did a lot. They were awesome actually. We also had some help from friends and relatives, which was invaluable. I can not thank Al, Jacob, Paul and Greg enough for their time, help and tools I borrowed :-) The demolition took one week to get the old tile/oak/carpet out of the downstairs, and then a week to get the wood floor down, then another week for the trim and hooking up new appliances and whatnot. Having no kitchen for nearly three weeks was tough, but we're really happy with how it all came out.

2012-08-29

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2012-07-12

This is a big post... we've been super busy the past month, wrapping up school, t-ball, and kicking off summer with some great adventures. The weather has been awesome, and work is getting back to "normal" for me, so things are starting to settle down for a nice summer "break". Enjoy the pictures and a few videos thrown in here to see what we've been up to with the kids. I hope everyone is well! We are. -Chris

2012-07-01

Cousin William Has Arrived!

2012-06-04

Congratulations Beth and Jacob!

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2012-02-07

Christmas, Birthday, Skiing

Merry Christmas! It's been a fun season so far...

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2011_09_20

I accidentally added new photos to the previous album... there's new one's here, but also the last batch in the beginning...so if you feel like you've seen them before... you have!

It's hard to believe Summer is over, time definitely flies when you're busy! The kids are still enjoying school, although Tyler no longer loves the bus (thanks to some punk-a$$ fourth grader squirting juice boxes in kids faces...not Tyler's but he wants nothing to do with the bus anymore) so we're not pushing him to take it, but trying to encourage him to get back on. I know he will eventually. He is playing recreation soccer and really loves that... he played goalie the first game and scored a goal from his own net, and last week he was out there and scored 3 more goals. I know I'm bragging, but hey, that's what this is for right? :-)
Anna is also having fun at school, but has the separation anxiety when Katie first leaves her. She will get in the groove in no time I'm sure...it's only been three days so far. She goes M-T-Th for the morning, so she's not quite used to the routine yet. She also started ballet classes on Monday afternoons. LOVES that.
We don't tend to take many pictures these days, but I have a couple here...

2011_09_20

2011_09_08

Well today was Tyler's first day of kindergarten. Full day, 5 days a week. He was super excited to ride the bus, and he had a great day. The phone rang at lunch and was Tyler's teacher, Mrs. Read. This was of course our worst fear with his nut allergy, but she just wanted to know if he could buy a "hot lunch". Apparently he ate his entire lunch during morning snack, and wanted to buy himself lunch! We're proud of him for taking care of himself and not just sitting there with no food. It was great to hear that he was AT school period, since we had been worrying about him all morning (hey, it's hard to send a 5 year old off to a full day of school on a bus at 7:30 for the first time). He likes his teacher, talked about new friends, and had fun. So far, so good!
Anna starts preschool on Thursday (she has "open house" on Tuesday, again, to meet the teachers and stuff, who she already knows because it's where Tyler went for two years). She is very anxious to get started, and SO excited.

In other news, we are totally unscathed by "tropical storm Irene"...we had some flooding in the backyard, but it was gone in 24 hours. Didn't reach the fish pond. The power went out for a few hours, but came back on before morning. Vermont got it pretty bad down south of us, but we basically just got some heavy rain. Hope you all are doing well also!

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2011_07_10

Here's a random assortment of pictures from the past few weeks. T-ball is over, and ended with the last few games of the kids hitting over-hand pitching, so that was pretty neat, and then last Sunday, Katie's sister got married! The wedding was perfect, and the rain held off...There's a lot of pictures from that (sorry to those of you who don't even know Beth and Jacob, but some of their family couldn't make it up (the wedding was at Gail and Paul's house in Peacham, VT) so I wanted to share a few more than just the kids :-)

2011_06_29

The kids at the driving range:


Tyler getting a hit:

2011_06_01

Anna had a little dance recital today at Essex High School up on the stage (I say little because the full shin-dig was all ages/levels, and lasted three hours...Anna's class was second, and lasted about 4 minutes :-) She did great!!... I don't think I could go out on a stage in front of a full house...it was totally packed! People were turned away at the door by the fire marshal it got so crowded... Fortunately, we were there early and got seats in the front row. We had our doubts that she would go through with it when she realized how many people were there, but she proved us wrong, and we are SO proud of her.

Here's a couple of clips... I grabbed with the camera. If you don't know the song (I'd be shocked if if you did), it's from Pinnochio and it's called "I've Got No Strings"... hence the suspenders with the tutu.

I've got a ton of pictures to go through from the past few weeks and a trip to Story Land, but wanted to share Anna's dance tonight.

2011_06_12

2011_05_30

Recognize anyone on this page?

http://shelburnemuseum.org/learn/families-and-kids/

2011_05_07

2011_05_10

Happy Easter!

So it's been a long time since the last update, I know. I've been busy working on finishing the basement almost every night after the kids go to bed and just haven't taken the time otherwise to download the pictures from the camera and put some up. I don't have many pictures to prove it, but it's coming along well. Framing, electric, lighting, and half the sheetrock is done.
The pictures go from most recent to oldest... you could probably figure that out by the snow in the last few pictures and the Easter eggs in the first few :-)

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