My loyal readership obviously knows by now, but the casual visitor to this blog may not realize that I have been on vacation.
My family and I enjoy tent camping, eating outside from a Coleman stove, and sitting around a campfire while eating S’mores. The drawbacks that we have experienced while camping include our boys not [...]

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Here are some photos of the beautiful winter scene we woke up to this morning.

Looks like we got a good inch!

The play set behind our house

Jesse’s Basketball hoop

A scene from the front entrance

The Welcome House

The entrance sign

The Office Building

A snowball I made. It was very hard and compact!!

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Lat Saturday, (Jan 27), Jesse and I went to see the circus that came to town!
It was great. Jesse liked the elephants and horses the best. When I asked him about it the next day, he remembered the final act: The Globe of Death, starting with four and increasing to a total of seven guys [...]

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Both boys enjoy riding the “bike.” It has been an object of contention, but this photo shows that it’s fun the play “together!” —good job, guys.

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Here’s some blackmail material.
Jesse and Troy really do get along most of the time. Both boys are quick to show their affection for Mommy and me with big hugs and kisses. We encourage the same toward each other. Here, Jesse is lovin’ on his little brother. Hopefully this “Kodak Moment” won’t be used against him.

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I really need one of these t-shirts. I’ll buy one for Michael, Michael buys one for Darrell, and Darrell buys one for me! Darrell, you go first. Hurry they’re a limited edition!
Due to a mistake in our original t-shirt order, we have a LIMITED QUANTITY of men’s logo shirts available in Black instead of Navy. [...]

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I’m a few days late, but it’s still news. Nikon announced the D40 last Thursday. It’s a consumer targeted digital SLR camera. Ken Rockwell has a hands-on evaluation that covers all the features and specs. Digital Photography Review also gives their two cents.
I really don’t have a personal opinion. That’s why I read and refer [...]

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I thought I was good with PhotoShop. See more cool photos here. 

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A couple of days ago I took my family on an outting to Walden Farm, our local pumkin patch. Walden Farm is more than pumkins, however. There are real live animals like sheep, pigs, goats, cows, chickens, and more! We went through a corn maze and a hay maze. The boys rode around on toy tractors and, over all, [...]

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This is a test. I am creating this with Google Docs. I will attempt to use the Publish utility to post this to my blog.

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