This from Steve’s Facebook: Post ride/soccer meal, then off to the Davis farmer’s market. Sister, Amy had come down to Davis to watch Emily play in a local soccer tournament while Steve competed in a training ride. After a quick trip to refuel at Burgers and Brew, we hit up the local farmer’s market.

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Patrick has always excelled at puzzles, so when we found this old video from 2009 we were quick to show off how bright our boy is. Or is it how dim you are? Watch the video below to find out which it is.

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Celebrating Lisa and Karen’s birthdays kid-free at P. F. Changs downtown: Les, Karen, Lisa, Steve, Amy and Steve

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Independence day was celebrated at the cabin with the Wassermanns and Petterle’s. Also Les, Dan, the Killers (Honestly, Amy when all three of us are together in one place at one time, can’t we manage to get a photo together?) Eva and Roger joined us with the kids for a couple of days too. It was a full house, but we had a fun week. We entered the usual float pulled by Mike’s jeep in the parade. Steve road the unicycle in the parade for the first time.

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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.

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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.

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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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We spent the Thanksgiving holiday at Dad and Gretchen’s place in Roseville, and I had much for which to be thankful. I was thankful that I got to play 9 holes of golf with the boys for about 3 hours even though Lisa threatens that next year she and the girls will

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No, it’s not some supermarket tabloid headline…Kate Elisabeth Killer was born to Amy and Dave Killer on June 26th, a little over a week early. “We figured she wanted to be here to watch the fireworks for the 4th of July,” said Amy, “In true Killer fashion our little girl arrived early.”

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