It was time… time to make another major life change. For Christmas we brought home a new addition to the family. Introducing Ferris, the Boston Terrier.

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Now there’s an easy way to add a post to McClellandfamily.com: Sara and Wes hand out the birth announcements for their new baby boy, Hunter, and I scan it and slap it up. Hunter William Norman tipped the scales at 8 lbs, 8 oz. and 21 inches. He was born on February 8th, 2011 making Lisa and I great aunts and uncles for the second time and making Les a great-grandparent also for the second time. At his little brothers baptism on March 6th, Wyatt, 2, loved showing off his new bro and never missed a chance to cuddle him or kiss him.

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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.

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What an incredible day we had today! Two last-minute dives were an unexpected treat. Last night at dinner I realized that our flight was more than 24 hours away and I could dive again today. As for Lisa, she was dived out. Too bad: she missed a doozy.

As Lisa and the kids slept, Jojo the dolphin, a local regular, paid a surprise visit to

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I thought it was going to be simple to sum up our second day here: breakfast, beach, scuba class, dinner, sleep. And in fact the beginning of the day started out just like my summary. By dinnertime though, the action heated up with a tear-filled dinner, a father-daughter moment of a lifetime and some high-tech shenanigans that turned Emily into a ghost.

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Acapulco is beautiful! Pulling into the bay with the high cliffs on both sides of the ship was breathtaking. If you have the means, I highly recommend it (Buehler.) Our stay here was brief, but fun-filled. We disembarked (I’m learning nautical terms) at about 1:30 p.m. After making the mistake of walking to the Royal Plaza Hotel (We were told it was about a mile and a half, but it turned out to be about 3 and a half,) we spent the afternoon relaxing on a padded beach “couch” (for lack of a better word) on a crowded but beautiful beach.

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Emily wants to goof off with the video camera? Fine. Here’s what we got one afternoon at Mike and Jody’s and a few late nights later. This one’s 9MB, so have patience while it loads.

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