On father’s day, I could think of nothing better to do than to spend the day at Folsom Lake with my two kids and 5 other father’s, all family and close friends. We had a blast and the day went by way too fast. Here’s a minute and 22 second video to prove it:

Remember when McClellandFamily.com looked like this?

I had several different versions of this header and the photo would change based on where your mouse was on the page. I thought I was pretty slick. In retrospect, it was a clean interface that tied in well with the [Read more →]

Adding a guestbook to my site and then hiding the link to it so deep that you’d quit from carpal tunnel syndrome before you ever found it was not such a good idea. So I’ve preserved the comments of the guests that signed and move on…

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Patrick’s never been one to be short on words–short on forethought before the words come out, perhaps. Fortunately we’ve managed to gather several of his more amusing musings and put them all in one place to save forever. [Read more →]

Kids say the darndest things, and Emily is the darndest kid. It’s remembering the things that they say that is the hard part. We’ve managed to keep most of the true gems here on McClellandfamily.com and we’ve finally gathered them all into one post for your enjoyment… [Read more →]

On April 15, Tax Day, a 108-page booklet arrived from Norma’s travel agent. They don’t want us to miss a thing. They tease us with descriptive Madison Avenue copy on several packaged itineraries for each and every [Read more →]

Gretchen and I are healthy, all things considered. I await knee replacement but prefer to play with pain as long as I can. Gretchen, the smoker, walks the dog every monrning before work. In my eyes she still looks good.

Her annual evaluation at CitiBank was outstanding. She is in fraud detection, on the phone all the time. For the year she has had only two missed fraud cases. She handles about 180 calls a day, never misses work in 47 weeks of toiling. Do the math. It is an outstanding record. She got [Read more →]

The Killers made it up to our cabin for a fun-filled weekend of skiing and sledding. All of the kids took a lesson for a few hours and then joined us on the slopes at Donner Summit for the rest of the sunny day of skiing. Sunday was spent sledding just down the street from our cabin. We had a great hill with some super-fast runs all to ourselves. See the rest of the photos here.
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I don’t claim to be a fantastic photo guy, but I was quite pleased with my efforts recently to capture this moonset over the lake at our cabin. I used a 2-minute exposure and the timer mode while taking the 20 or so snapshots in 20-degree weather at 4:30 in the morning.

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