Half Dome
Allen Roberts and I climbed Half Dome on May 21st. Starting from Curry Village at 5:15am, we topped out at 9:15. The early…
April Birthdays
We got away with a single birthday party for Kade and Sierra again this year. Laura had spent several months steering Sierra away…
Easter
A number of different events in this collection: Giants vs. A’s Baseball: Sierra and Don went up to AT&T Park to see the penultimate…
March
Here are a number of images and a short movie from this spring. The Monterey ones are from the preview of the new…
Golden Gate Park
Our business trips to Tokyo have piqued Sierra’s interest in Japan. We took her and Kade to Miyake (our local disco sushi restaurant),…
Kona
We took Kade and Sierra to Hawaii, his first trip and her second, to meet up with their grandparents and favorite aunt Barb….
Pets
Living in a household with two small children presents challenges for everyone, not least of all for the furred contingent. During infancy, babies…
Davenport
Northern California Weather in the winter is hit or miss, but sometimes it clears and the results are spectacular. It was beautiful at…
Skiing and Sledding in Tahoe
We try to get to the mountains at least once per winter (snow being scarce in Palo Alto). Sierra always looks forward to…
Couch Potatoes
It’s always amusing when kids start to imitate us, whether in figures of speech or body language. We’re not quite sure how Kade…
Christmas
Surprisingly for us Californians, weather was the big theme of Christmas this year. At the beginning of her holiday break, Hana went to…
Sierra Paints
One advantage of having a mostly empty house is that there is plenty of room for kid paraphernalia (of which they have plenty)….