... Thoughts on our adventures ...

... Thoughts on our adventures ...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Tour de House (chez moi)


Forgive my attempt at French. Aunt Ginny wasn't around to ask, and Mommy can't remember much from her one year of high school french except that they got to make cool collages about French culture and eat crepes!
Mmm...
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But anyway, this post begins a new series that I like to call "Tour de House" which is not quite as famous as the "Tour de France" but will also not require you to bicycle for a million zillion miles. So, for most of you this will be more fun. With the possible exception of Uncle Michael of course who would probably love to do the real Tour de France!

Ok, so let's begin with das Buro or the office.
Are you impressed with my linguistic aptitude yet?
Especially considering that I can only say about 14 words in English so far:

Mommy
Daddy
Baby
Ball/Book (These currently sound the same.)
Puppy
Cat
Turtle (Tur-el)
Cookie
Poopy
Shoes
Grammie
Alise "Ayise"
Sleep (Accompanied by one finger over my mouth and a puff of air)
Patrick "Pat"
Uh-oh (When something is dropped!)

But, while I'm learning to speak Enlish, Daddy is studying to become fluent in computer code. And now he can do it in his new office...
Ta-da! (Not sure what language that is!)


Here is one side of the Japanese inspired background Daddy painted on the wall.

And here he is modeling his new desk and chair -- very spiffy!


And here you get the whole picture a bit better!
Daddy loves his office and has been hard at work in there all week working on stuff for church.
Well, sometimes maybe he is playing games on the computer, it is tough to tell!
Ok, that's all for now!
Next time I will show you the master bedroom!
Sayounara!

Family Vacation Cook Out


Here are a few more pictures from our awesome family vacation!
Here we are enjoying beautiful weather!




Daddy has developed a love of grilling!
So Aunt Ginny, Aunt Allene, and Uncle Carey went in together to buy him a grill for our new house! He is very excited!


Mommy made a cake to celebrate all three of the July birthdays while we were all together!

Daddy had asked for a dragon cake.


And they all liked it!

D.C. Weekend -- One Word Captions

Zoo

Activities

Curious

Aunt

Uncle

Smithsonian

friends

Good Memories -- okay that's two words!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Silver Dollar City

Silver Dollar City had fun rides... like Leap Frog!

Yipee!

Hi Everyone!

I loved Silver Dollar City, and I especially loved the kid's farm!

There were bunnies, goats, and ponies!
This Mama goat had twin babies.

This isn't part of the farm, but this is Cookie, Patrick's dog.
She loves giving me kisses on my face!
... and I decided that I love her too!

Family Vacation

Hey Everybody!

I just got back from the best vacation of my life!

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We celebrated Oompa's 90th birthday!

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I even got to taste the ice cream cake!

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We went to an amusement park which was a big hit with everyone!
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And we went to the pool -- my favorite part!
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And it was Daddy's favorite part too!
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We even got old Gramps in the water!

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I got really good at the doggy paddle!

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Daddy and I had a lot of fun together!

I got really good at putting my head underwater.
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Overall, it was absolutely fantastic!