Monthly Archive: May 2007

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The Graduate: Finally!

  After months of preparation, the night of the graduation ceremony finally came. Not without a few tears, that’s for sure. The whole day seemed a mad rush, but as the evening approached it all seemed to come together. Miquel had his favorite dish, “Fideus a la Casola” and as...

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Memorial Day 2007

As each year, we went to Kinder Park for our church’s annual Picnic, help on our celebrate day of Memorial Day. Very hot and humid, but great food, a family atmosphere and lots of games to play for the young and young at heart. It started with a devotional message...

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Chocolate Brownies

This is what happens when I let my daughter Laura and her friend Erin make brownies for today’s church picnic. (they will be scrubbed up for the picnic)

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Jr – Sr

JR-SR ? One evening, some weeks ago, this young, lovely and usually shy & demure Elise came into our home, went down the steps into Miquel’s room, woke him up out of a sound sleep, and asked him to her Jr-Sr. Of course he agreed. A Jr-Sr is like the...

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Irony

“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”  ~Mark Twain Recently, (and I wish I could re-locate the page), I found a site that said that if I answered a questionnaire, that it would point me to the presidential candidate closest to my...

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More, The Graduate

Miquel, The Graduate Seems like there are certain occasions that just take more than one day around here. Miquel’s high school graduation seems to be just such an occasion. Yesterday at church during the morning service, all the graduates were recognized by Pastor Caleb, and given gifts. Later, in the...

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New Project: Boz & Oz

It’s been awhile since I have had a new project in the works, and it sure does get the juices flowing when I do get involved with something new. This time even more so, as I have a partner! I can’t take credit for the concept, as I found the...

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The Graduate

  Soon Miquel will graduate. He has elected to graduate with his class at Covenant. For weeks now, we have been in preparations, plannings, meetings getting ready for the big day. One of the items that was required of us was to put together a few photos and music to...

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Barb’s Birthday

I’ve been celebrating my 28th (thanks BruB) birthday this weekend, and as with each year, it’s always very special. I received a lovely gold chain plucked right off my amazon wish list from John (or who we very affectionately call Mr. Dolphin around here), to get the birthday started early,...

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Win!

After two sudden death overtimes the game at Granite today went to penalty kicks to decide their win over Perry Hall! It was a very exciting game to say the least! Â The team has two more games now to go in tournament play.

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Samuel Adams

My son is nearly finished his civics lessons for the year. Nearing the end of the book, there is attention paid to certain patriots in our history. One of the first mentioned, is Samuel Adams. In his book, it says of Adams, “He stands as a prime example of how...