The hightlight of my day? Standing on Main Street with the fireworks going off over Sleeping Beauty’s castle and the snow begining to fall. Well we’ve made it through day 1 at Over-stimulation land, and despite all the whining, moaning and complaining from the kids, we ended the day with smiles on our faces, and landed hard on the hotel sheets. The hightlight of my day? Standing on Main Street with the

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The Killer girls, and by that I mean the ladies that go by the name of Killer, have been branded by a new vanity license plate. Dad and husband Dave took the Killer approach to labeling his wife and daughters. Much harder to take in is the name on the ultrasound photos of then unborn kid Carson: Baby Killer…

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The McClelland name is expanding its web presence lately, and I’m pretty sure the McClelland School didn’t have a web site the last time I googled our monicker. This school in Pueblo, Colorado was created in 1905 as a home for

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I heard about a new search engine called Ms. Dewey which puts forth an impatient, witty, rather good-looking gal to answer your search inquiries. Ms. Dewey is, at first, cute, funny and whimsical. But soon I felt rushed while

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Patrick had his hernia repair surgery early this morning. He went in seeming a bit nervous and then took a sip of zarsed (?) and proceeded to get loopy drunk. No problem there.

The roughly 1-hour surgery wasn’t too trying, at least for me. I put my head against the wall in the waiting room and slept. Lisa on the other hand…

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I got an encouraging letter from fraternity brother Vernon Perry who lives in MA. He read the book and wants to send it to his son at Portland newspaper:

TOM:
Just completed your dad’s memoirs. To me, a strking story of a young, American man during a crisis in America. There is no pumped up hero here, just a man who

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In 2005 when Todd Foster, Mark Foster, and Kirk Syme bought Royal Gorge, the largest cross-country ski area on the North American continent at 4000 acres, their plans to develop the area around our Serene Lakes cabin met with extreme anger from the community. Patrick and Emily took the over-development to heart and did their part to raise money to aid the fight against Foster and Syme.

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Easter weekend can be a long weekend when you pack the kids into the car for a trip to the cabin. Any weekend seems too short when we make the 2 hour drive to Soda Springs on Friday afternoon, unpack, take care of cabin repairs and get the kids settled in for bed. By the time

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If you think you’ve seen a lot of snow, check out these albums. I’ve posted a few photos from Easter and from Memorial Day when we had 6 feet and 6 feet, 6 inches respectively. Aren’t you supposed to have picnics on Memorial Day? Last year Emily made $24 selling lemonade. This year she spent the weekend sledding with her brother and cousins. You can see albums on the McClellandfamily.com Photo Albums page.

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Lisa and I hopped into the car last Friday afternoon and headed out of town for our 12th anniversary. As we drove out of the neighborhood, we had no idea where we were going or what we were going to do. We threw some clothes in a bag. I figured Lisa would bring some toothpaste and a hairbrush. She figured

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