Twenty years ago, our closest friends and relatives braved the June heat at the Elk Grove Community Center to take our cherished wedding group photo. Twenty years later, I’ve been trying to scan it with little or no success. The original, it seems, is just

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The CDI girls at Jenette and Duncan’s wedding ceremony: Gina Hernandez, Lisa, the bride, Jenette and Monica Chaney.

I feel like we don’t get too many opportunities to go to weddings any more, so it was nice to take part. Jenette has worked with Lisa at CDI for many years and was the program director at Robert Fite Elementary where Emily attended Kindergarten and first grade. It was difficult to tell if Jenette was happy during the ceremony because she ALWAYS has that smile on her face!

Patrick made it through a whole ride without crashing yesterday (after laying it down in the dirt on Friday) and Lisa took her new road bike out with us and achieved her personal goal of 20 miles on her first ride! Proud of both of you!

I usually plan ahead — way ahead — to gas up my car, but sometimes you get caught behind the eight ball. I’m 10th in line for gas at Costco right now. Sigh…

No one wants to wake up at 7 am on vacation, but the kids were up in anticipation of the Easter egg hunt and the adults were up by default. The Easter Bunny brought sand toys, kites and other vacation-related toys for the kids. So by 8 am the kids took off in search of [Read more →]

Ed’s note: Note: I just found the text to this post on a long-missing thumb drive, so I’m publishing it here more than 2 years later. Make sure to check out the rest of the vacation posts by searching for “Oceanside”. Day 5 is coming… Who the hell is Ed anyway?

Today was all about the ocean. We barely left the house except to walk to the fishing pier and back, and chose instead to spend our time on the beach. The surf that had been extraordinarily high for the last few days-even prompting a weather warning of 6-12 foot waves-had subsided. The waves had previously banged against the rocks just off our deck. Now they were 50 feet [Read more →]

This was my first foray into GoPro videos. It took half a day and many, many tries to get even a few shots.

Boy and His Dog from Steve McClelland on Vimeo.

One year ago: At the cabin in Serene Lakes for Independence day with Les, the Petterles and Wassermanns, July 4, 2013.