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Week 19, 2008
Sorry, no catchy title for this post — it is simply an update on recent goings on. Remember, you can always check out our published calendar of activities with the “comings and Goings” link on the left hand side of this (and every) page. Firstly, Gaynor is hanging in there with the pregnancy. She has…
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More Room to Travel
Since we are expecting a new family member our current conveyance — a Honda Odyssey — will not be sufficient to fit us all in. So rather than try and find an 8 seater vehicle (seemingly somewhat rare) we thought we’d go the whole hog and have bought an older 10-seater, and as the Americans…
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Expecting the Sixth
We are pleased to announce the expected arrival in mid-July of our sixth child. We are all quite excited, the children especially. Bryna, in particular, is thrilled to become a ‘big sister’ Gaynor traditionally has relatively easy pregnancies and this one is about as well as could be expected for the sixth. It has been…
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Thanks Giving
Ok… I know Thanksgiving was a while ago, but it was fun so I’m going to write about it. So as you might or might not know we went to San Jose for Thanksgiving which is not far from San Fransisco (about 50 miles or 1 hr). So there is a reason we went there…
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Disneymania
It’s me again, Joshua. Now I’m here to tell you about a piece of plastic that will give us annual entry to one of California’s most famous landmarks and theme parks Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure. We were always hoping that Dad actually meant it when he said “We will probably get Disneyland passes because…
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Happy 60th Margaret
Unfortunately, Gaynor was unable to make the big shindig of her mother’s 60th birthday. In lieu of her personal appearance we made a video to be shown at the party. Since it features us prominently, I thought it might be nice to make it available to all. So congratulations again Margaret and all our love.…
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Persistent Goods Track Down Owners
After failing to take the previous hint, our household goods have finally tracked us down all the way from Germany. In our initial plans they were to have joined us only a few weeks after we ourselves had arrived. However, famed German customer service, a missed boat and US Customs and importing procedures conspired to…
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Christmas Plans 2007
Since the weather has been so good to us in southern California, we’ve decided to remind ourselves what a northern hemisphere winter should be and enjoy Christmas in Utah. Coincidentally, I have two brothers living there as well as and so it’s a win-win situation — though, not for them obviously. One minor drawback to…
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Commutin’ Scooter
Having decided to rent a house a bit further away from my place of work than we’d ideally like, a second vehicle was on the cards. Given the high price of petrol (*snigger*) — actually I mostly just believe in having sufficient for my needs — I thought a scooter would be the ticket. Since…
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Book Explosion
Since we shifted to the new house which until very recently contained no television set, there has been a veritable explosion of reading by the children. Part of this has been the discovery of a very decent town library and not so much to distract them. Our children really do love to read, though sometimes…