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Camping with Lisa’s family

July 25th, 2018 · 4 Comments

Lisa’s family has made a tradition lately of camping for a week each year. This year’s adventure was to Westport Bearch near Fort Bragg, California. With us were the Rusts, Normans and Wassermanns. We took our Vistabule teardrop, Green Bean.

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Filed Under: Emily · Family · Lisa · Patrick · Steve · ~Extended Family

No-show limo? No problem

December 6th, 2015 · Leave a Comment

This is what happens when Lisa’s entire family gets together to go see Christmas lights and the Limo company FAILS! Instead we all go shopping at the mall and visit Santa.

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New Year’s retake

March 13th, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Patrick and Kaitlyn relived a moment on New Year’s Eve from 11 years earlier.

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Great fondue on New Year’s eve at the cabin, Jody! Thanks!

December 31st, 2014 · Leave a Comment

John Poremba added just the right amount of

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More from Steve’s Facebook…

July 9th, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Today we laid Les Mielcasz to rest. After? It was only appropriate to have lunch at Scott’s Seafood, where he took all his dates. Now we just need a martini.

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Oceanside Vacation Day 5: Easter and an aircraft carrier

June 1st, 2014 · Leave a Comment

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

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Oceanside Vacation Day 4: Animals in the ocean

June 1st, 2014 · Leave a Comment

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

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1,5,10: What we were up to 1, 5, and 10 years ago…or at least close

May 29th, 2014 · Leave a Comment

One year ago: At the cabin in Serene Lakes for Independence day with Les, the Petterles and Wassermanns, July 4, 2013.
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A picture is worth at least a dozen words here

June 18th, 2013 · 1 Comment

I’ve been having a blast lately going back and reading old posts (for some reason I’ve been focused on 2005 and 2006) and adding pictures to them.

Take a look at crazy cruise pictures from “Hot and Weary in Acapulco”, or look for a great shot of Les getting snockered in

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Filed Under: Emily · Family · Lisa · Patrick · Photo Albums · Steve

Memorial weekend at Serene Lakes brings family, kids, friends, kids’ friends

May 29th, 2013 · Leave a Comment

IMG_8349While memorial weekend at our cabin in Serene Lakes admittedly didn’t bring a lot of tearful memorializing of our men and women serving our Country, it was celebrated the way so many American’s celebrate: with family, barbecues and food. A few of the kids brought friends up which brought our numbers to

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Filed Under: Emily · Family · Lisa · Patrick · Self Actualization · Steve