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We camped out for three days at the
Millpond Music Festival
in Bishop, CA. The music was great. It was hot during the day and
cold at night, but it was still a lot of fun. We enjoyed the music
and it seems like we're getting the camping stuff down, it was
pretty comfortable. |
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The girls found frogs in the toilet tank
(not the bowl) of a toilet in the girls bathroom. They decided to
return them to the pond. |
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Mia is modeling her yellow-jacket sting
here. Turns out yellow-jackets nest in the ground, who knew? There
was a nest right next to the workshop tent and as Mia walked up to
the tent, she got stung. I was already at the tent, so it was up to
Naomi to brave the yellow-jackets and rescue Mia. Naomi took a
stinger in the hand for her bravery. After that, we all paid better
attention to where we were walking. |
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We've had a run of babies this month.
Naomi's sister Sarah had identical twin girls. They're about a week
old here, at about five pounds. Their names are Faith and Maya, but
I don't really know which is which. |
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Next up, my sister Sue's new baby Jane.
She's about twelve weeks old here, I think. |
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Dave and Tiffany and the kids came out to
visit, this is their new baby Luke, who's about nine months old. |
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And finally, our own little girl, Desmond.
Naomi put a pink dress on him, which he loved, by the way, and with
that long curly blond hair, he looks like he'd make a pretty cute
girl. He just looks like a boy to me, I can't help it. |
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Everybody took a trip to Disneyland, this
is in line at the haunted mansion. Desmond is ready to go. Please
note, Amelie is still wearing the same shirt she's been wearing
since last Christmas. We have a few of them she rotates through, but
still, change it up! |
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Riding the teacups at Disneyland. |
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It's a Small World at Disneyland. I think
this is the only proper response to that ride. |
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The pets at our house have dwindled
recently. Jack, the Rexx rabbit that was brother to Snoopy here, had
to be put to sleep after getting a parasite in his brain that keeps
his legs from hopping. Whitey is still going, though. We also had to
put our rat Snowflake to sleep after she got a tumor. |
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Since it's back to school time, we had
school pictures taken of Amelie and Mia (notice, same shirt).
Stephanie Hager at Hager Photo
was kind enough to do the pictures for the home-schoolers. |
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I thought the school photos came out
great. Mia looks so mature in this one. |
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We went shopping for new school clothes
for Amelie and Mia. Amelie is finally wearing something else! The
shoes were ridiculously expensive and impossible to walk in, but try
talking Amelie out of them. |
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Mia has been asking for shoes that light
up for a while, so we finally bought her a pair. It's like a
fireworks show wherever she goes. I took this picture in the
complete dark, with both a four-second shutter speed and a flash.
The flash goes off right away and lights up the scene, and then the
shutter stays open for four more seconds while Mia moves her shoes
around to create the streaks in the dark. |
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That's it for this month. Until next time,
put some pants on! |
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