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{ Monthly Archives } November 2008

Floors in the Attic

I spent the weekend with my Dad adding floor decking in our attic.  Katie and I have been using (what will be) the Baby’s room and closet for storage and whatever.  Since the baby is coming and we have been told that we will soon own more crap than we can imagine, we needed to [...]

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it was the Wurst of times

Almost every year since we met in college, my friend Anna and I have made a yearly trek to New Braunfels, TX for Wurstfest (the annual salute to sausage, beer, polka dancing, schnitzel, struedel, fried pickles, fried Oreos, fried arteries… you get the idea).  Wurstfest is much like any regular county fair, except that it has a [...]

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Belly Bliss

Okay … so I’m uber-late at writing this post.  When Ben’s family was visiting from California, we had a unique experience concerning our pregnancy.  Because Dallas (a.k.a. Granddaddy) is an OB Doctor, he just so happened to have his portable ultrasound at the lake house.  What a coincidence, right??  Lucky us!  Of course, the family couldn’t [...]

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Coate Family Vacation Pictures

So it’s picture time.  Here are a bunch of photos we took when Rick and Amanda brought the kids to visit here in Texas.

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Tackled by a tot, Clobbered by a kid, Whiplash from a whippersnapper

“Hey Lola!  I bet you can’t catch me!”
This is an unwise thing to say to a 4-year-old who ate a good breakfast, has residual energy, and is wearing body armor (life jacket).

  
  

Notice my shadow in the lower left corner.  This is neither staged, posed, nor edited.  I was kneeling with the camera to my eye, [...]

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