Christmas & Snow have arrived at Our House!
Throughout the year you could find some sort of holiday music being played in our house. Why celebrate the most wonderful time of year only once a year when you can set the mood early and often. In that spirit, we headed out yesterday and selected our Christmas tree. Usually we head out the week […]
Uncle Mark visits and Ethan takes him on an Aardvark hunt
“We’re going on an Aardvark hunt, we’re going to catch a big one” and the two fearless adventurers, protected by their firefighter hats and carrying shopping baskets and snakes, set off through the house to find the fearsome Aardvarks that lurked in the back halls. Nephew Ethan, along with his sidekick Uncle Mark, stormed the […]
“The Last Season” and “Three Cups of Tea” need to be on your reading list!
[Repost from May 28, 2008] I just finished reading the book The Last Season by Eric Blehm and what a great read it is.The story is about Randy Morgenson, a backcountry ranger for twenty-eight seasons at Kings Canyon National Park, who goes missing in July 1996. The book details the search and events surrounding his […]
Story Behind The Picture #3: Yosemite National Park Search and Rescue
Summer 1996 (Yosemite National Park): Lacerated pupil. On the evening of June 12, my roommate Greg and friend Melissa were in Oakhurst doing our weekly shopping. At about 10pm, we received a page to return to Yosemite Valley to assist in an ongoing rescue operation on North Dome gully. A climber had slipped down […]
Ethan and Autumn’s Top Five Favorite Children’s Songs
Music. We love it. A lot! Our radio constantly pours music throughout every corner of our house. As a result we have two children who truly love to listen, watch, and dance to music. Whereas Autumn is just learning how to interact with it, Ethan loves to listen and dance around the house to his […]
October in Review: The Month of the Heffalump
Heffalump! What the? Okay if you don’t have kids you probably don’t have any idea what a Heffalump is. I didn’t either until earlier in October I randomly selected for Ethan Pooh’s Heffalump Movie from Netflix. That’s all it took. He watched it, laughed a lot, smiled, never ate his popcorn because he was glued […]