Category: Holidays
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Christmas 2010
Though the card is a little late this year, here it is nevertheless, wishing you had an enjoyable Christmas and all the best for the coming year. A rare, recent photo of us altogether, slouching it at Bryce Canyon in Utah.
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Christmas 2009
I know it is a little late but here is a short photo essay from Christmas 2009. Since we were able to head to Utah to celebrate wit Stacie and Martin, Donovan kindly offered to let us come down to his place at Newport Beach and cook him a fabulous meal. He graciously provided the…
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Christmas Plans 2009
The original idea had been to go to Utah to spend it with Martin, Stacie and offspring but a heavy schedule at work means that it really isn’t do-able in the current situation 🙁 We invited them to come spend it with us but Martin is more or less in the same situation. 🙁 Lousy…
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Father’s Day 2009
Father’s Day is quite the event in the US and the third date on which we have celebrated it. It’s almost as big as Mother’s Day and very similar in many ways — breakfast in bed, children shower you with presents and adoration and generally have a bit of a bludge. Ariana is usually the…
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Easter 2009
While Good Friday is currently sacrosanct as a holiday in Australia and Germany — indeed in many other countries that we’ve never experienced it in — that’s not the case in the U.S. At least, not in California. I’m told some other states do have it as a holiday but, well we don’t live there.…
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Christmas 2008
Since we went last year to Utah, it seemed only fair this year to invite the chosen frozen down for some slightly warmer Californian weather. Martin, Stacie, their three lovely girls and my youngest brother Donovan have all found time to join us. So for those who could not — because they had a better…
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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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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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Christmas Plans 2006
Heading for our second Christmas north of the equator and it still has a movie-like feel about it. Having grown up with Christmas during the summer time — and all the wonderful things that means — a northern hemisphere Christmas seems a bit like living in a movie. You know, you’ve seen many things in…
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New Year Greetings
Though the blog has been a little silent lately we have not. Christmas and New Year’s kept us quite busy and a good time was had by all. If you did not receive an email with our digital Christmas card this year firstly, please accept my sincere apologies (I tried to get everyone!) and secondly,…