Skating and Fondue
Skating night for Addison Elementary, plus the kids’ introduction to fondue.
Christmas
It was a quiet Christmas this year, relatively speaking: just the four of us, with an occasional cameo by Hana. The kids insisted…
Angel Island
We took the kids camping on Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay. There are three enormously popular campsites on the island that overlook…
Thanksgiving
Some victories (and defeats) over Thanksgiving this year. Sierra learned how to ride her bike without training wheels. We all went to the…
Class Pictures
This gallery contains scanned versions of Kade and Sierra’s class pictures- there are four years worth for Sierra (two years of elementary and…
Camping and Halloween
Pictures and a video from this fall. We took Sierra and Kade bicycle campling along Waddell Creek in Big Basin State Park, just…
Santa Cruz County Fair
We took Sierra and Kade down to the County Fair in Watsonville (where else would they ever see pigs, goats, and cows up…
Legoland California
Legoland in Denmark was Sierra’s favorite country during our 2007 trip to Europe – this time we saved the time and expense of…
Summer
Two galleries of pictures from the summer of 2009, including Stanford Sierra Camp and the Santa Cruz Boardwalk
Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta is a 14,179 foot tall stratovolcano in Northern California. This was our second attempt at climbing it; last year’s trip (linked here) was…
April Birthdays
hree children in two days: Kade (4 on April 25th), Sierra (6 on April 25th), and Hana (20 on April 27th). We’ve run…
April Skiing
We took the kids up to the Warmke’s house in Truckee to go skiing. Conditions were gorgeous – sunny and clear, with still…