Maxine is 15

September 1st, 2009

Maxine is funny, smart, talented, sociable, and very much a teenager.

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This is Maxine

Maxine likes her penguin costume.

Maxine likes her penguin costume.

"Yes, you've reached a penguin."

"Maxine's recurring theme: glasses, phone, merry go 'round."

Arthur turns 11

November 25th, 2008

Today is Arthur’s 11th birthday. In celebration, we will spend this next week staying at home and cooking turkeys. Unfortunately for him, he still had to go in to school today.

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Below is a gallery of pictures from the past year, many of them taken by Arthur himself while fooling around with his Dad’s laptop.

Maxine making friends

August 1st, 2008

Maxine around camp with her new friends.

Marina and Friends at Carowinds

August 1st, 2008

Marina and her new camp friends spent a day at Carowinds amusement park.

“Depressingly Cheery”

July 22nd, 2008

The girls are still at camp, and I am still scouring the camp website for pictorial evidence that they are healthy and well. I found several pictures with Marina, but only one with Maxine. We did get letters from both now, which is nice, although Maxy wrote about how “depressingly cheery” everyone is. That seems pretty clear in her picture.

Making Friends

July 21st, 2008

It has been a week since I’ve seen either of my girls, and it’s strange to troll the camp website, looking for evidence that they are healthy and well. We got our first letter from Marina over the weekend, and she writes that she is having a great time, and it seems from these pictures that they are making friends.

Bowling Girls

July 18th, 2008

The girls are away to summer camp for three whole weeks, and the house is eerily silent. It is strange to not be able to even talk to them. We’ve written a couple of letters, but have yet to receive anything back. (To be fair, it’s only been four days). Therefore, it was very nice to find these two pictures of them on the camp website, bowling with friends and having a good time. And alive!

Family Photos

July 3rd, 2008

Sharon and the kids surprised me for Father’s Day with this gallery of pictures taken by a local photographer Jen Fariello

Click on any thumbnail to go to the full gallery. The gallery shows three at a time. Click on the smaller ones to go to the next page, or click on the larger one for a full view.

Christmas of 1964

February 24th, 2008

Jumping ahead to the next Christmas, 1964.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1358821086018670103

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1964 Spring Carnival

February 23rd, 2008

An outdoor carnival, somewhere in the Bay Area, sometime in Spring.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=500423440445502368

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