Morgan

Good Times Over the Break

December 29, 2011

The last couple of weeks have been full of down time and family time, Christmas, and another birthday for yours truly.  Here’s a couple of the highlights: Fossilized Dinosaur Dung – Apparently It Still Stinks My Littlest One Getting Her 1st Jeep Ride Hit the Star Wars Exhibit at the Discovery Science Center My son’s [...]

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Haiku Winning Tebow Style

December 16, 2011

It’s been a while since I won anything so I figured any win is worth a post.   I’m proud to announce that my Haiku was voted as the winner of my friend Stephanie’s Christmas Haiku contest over at infinitequeso.com Thanks to anyone who actually voted for me.  I’ve prepared a Tebow-esque victory speech for this [...]

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Daughters and Post-It Grieving

December 4, 2011

My daughter as many of you know is in first grade and learning the basics of reading and spelling and all that good stuff.  But it’s opened up a whole new arena to our relationship. I was working in the garage one day and came home to find the note below…. And we all handled [...]

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Power, Siblings, and Identity

November 9, 2011

Here’s a 30 second video illustrating power dynamics and identify formation from the sibling perspective.  Good reminder that some are in a position to get comfortable exercising power and others develop in situations where they are used to adapting to power. I took this video at a park about a year ago of my two [...]

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Is Pain the Key to Empowerment?

November 2, 2011

It’s timely to re-post today one of the most popular posts ever on my blog, or top 10 at least.  Morgan’s got another jog-a-thon in the morning (Thursday) and it brings back a lot of memories documented here.  She’s still nervous about it, because like one of her parents she takes everything super seriously   [...]

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Virtue Halloween – Lions and Star Wars OH MY!

October 31, 2011

It’s that time of year!   And I wouldn’t want to ignore our little lion.  Kaelyn kept warm and played the part!   And it’s hysterical we got the below picture captured.  Lion outfit was true to form.    

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Daughter Date at Independence Hall – Kind of

September 10, 2011

I got some time with my daughter over the weekend.  We’ve been wanting to check out Independence Hall together (the slightly less famous Buena Park version). But I think I’ve finally found the person in my family I can nerd out with over American History. She wanted pictures with all the significant displays and items [...]

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What’s a Record?

August 23, 2011

Every once in a while you witness a moment that’s priceless and even more rare is capturing it with a picture.  Here’s my dad trying to explain vinyl records to my daughter Morgan after Morgan saw a record and wondered what it was. She looked it for several minutes just confused.  

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A Couple Family Moments

April 10, 2011

I’ve been insanely busy the last few weeks.  I’ve been hindered from posting, but the ideas have been piling up and I’m going to try to get some posts out over the next couple of weeks. But I’ll share today a couple of family moments. First – I had a moment where I unconsciously starting [...]

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