New Year’s eve 2012 at the cabin was a full house, possibly setting a new record for visitors, but certainly the most family member’s we’ve had at once. Along with the usual McClellands and Wassermanns, Beth and Robert Rust were up to bring in the new year with Matt home from Turkey with his newish wife, Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn’s family joined us too, bringing the number to

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The kids and I recently took advantage of an empty day on the calendar to make a day-trip to Yosemite. The trip was almost a non-starter though when I realized we were half way to Yosemite, almost out of gas, and I had forgotten my wallet at home. An emergency credit card I had hidden in my car got us the needed petrol, and after driving home and back again we decided to make the most of the remainder of our day head back toward the park. Among other reasons, we wanted to try out our new camera and some new-to-us photo techniques. Off to Yosemite we went, and am I ever glad we did.

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Tom used his 80th birthday party to bring his Theta Chi brothers together to sing the Dream Girl Song to fraternity brother, Eppie Johnson. I have no idea why, but it’s worth chuckling at.

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I thought that on my dad’s 80th birthday it would be appropriate to talk about the greatest dad in the world.
Then I thought, “No I should write about the best public relations guy in Sacramento.
I thought briefly that I’d spend some time discussing one of the shrewdest businessmen I know.

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Here’s the video I put together for my dad’s 80th birthday.  I put a lot of work into it, so I’m guessing I’ll be playing it at his funeral some day.  He guesses the same thing.  He said so. 

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We’ve been haunting our driveway and front and back yards on and off since 1995, but 2012 was the second year that all the neighbors and a bunch of friends chipped in to help. It’s also the second time we charged an entry donation of two cans of food for the Elk Grove Food Bank. Though we thought (and have said) that 2011 was the peak of this event, (“How could we possibly top that?”) I believe we topped it this year. We raised more than a ton of…

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Patrick: “Daddy, is Scandinavia a real place?” Me: “Yes it is.” Patrick: “What kind of stuff comes from Scandinavia?” Me: “The most beautiful women in the world.” Patrick two minutes later: “Daddy, did mommy come from Scandinavia?” Me: “Yes she did son. Yes she did.”

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What’s going on here? Steve shows what he’d look like with long blonde hair with Kianna Blake at the cabin on Memorial Day weekend. This is a teaser of the upcoming video The Shave 2 the sequel to the much acclaimed home movie of Emily and Patrick shaving daddy’s beard. Emily did the dirty work this time and we took over 200 photos along the way.

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