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What do you get for the woman who has everything?

Or more importantly, what do I get for my wife? She certainly doesn't have everything, but I can't afford a winter house in Hawaii, and the whole hiding a horse in our garage thing didn't work out well at all.


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Willa turned one, and I turned a camera (phone) on her. See what I did, there?The big question, of course, was whether she would like her cake.


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Who's a proud grandpa? I'm a proud grandpa!

We were down with the flu all week, so I'm just now getting a chance to post some photos from Lilli's 5th birthday party. Also, I didn't take all that many photos--I was busy eating pizza. But it was great, because all four of my grand-kids were there in the same place, and I don't get to see that very ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to my youngest daughter, Jill! I tortured her a couple of years ago with these photos, so why not again?


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Happy birthday to Emily, who was born on what’s usually the first day of winter-which I prefer to think of as the time when the days start getting longer. So--she's the harbinger of better days ahead. See what I did, there?


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 It's been a few weeks now since we got together for my father's birthday, but Emily and I have been sick most of the time since then and I've just now gotten around to putting up the pictures.


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 Emily often doesn't like to have her picture taken, so sometimes I have to sneak in a photo while her attention is elsewhere. Here's one of my favorite that I've taken of her:

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Happy birthday, Jill Mapes!


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So, it's been a really awful December.

This possibly relates to the fact that it was a really awful November, but December just went right into the sewer, sometimes literally. Illnesses, scheduling problems, weather, blood pressure--which I guess goes with illnesses--and I'm currently in pain because of the previously mentioned sewer (long story).

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