We spent our 4th of July afternoon on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake at Sampson State Park. It was our first time visiting there even though it is only 20 minutes from our front porch.
Our first stop inside the park was the memorial museums remembering the men and women that served our Navy and [...]
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We celebrated Easter in Saratoga Springs in 2009.
Here are the boys all cleaned up and ready for church.
Stephanie’s Mom and Dad treated the family to an Easter brunch in Lake George.
Thanks Mom and Dad.
“Is that a chocolate fondu fountain?”
“Yes, it is a chocolate fondu fountain!”
On the way out of town, Sean was very excited to get [...]
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Our last excursion for the holiday season was a holiday gathering with all of the relatives(Stephanie’s Mom’s family) that live down in New Jersey. We gave Nathan the task of capturing the experience in pictures for us. He took all of the pictures that follow.
This was a great picture of Aunt Susan. If you look closer, [...]
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Posted in Holidays on January 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, we took our show on the road to ring in 2009. This year our destination was Steve’s Mom and Dad’s.
As is family tradition, the New Years Eve evening started out with a tribute to the birthday boy in the family.
In all honesty, our “Rockin’ New Years Eve” party started out a little bit slow. Our [...]
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Posted in Christmas, Family, Holidays on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Christmas Holiday started for our family on Saturday the 20th when we traveled east to visit with Steve’s Mom and Dad. We had a nice lunch and exchanged gifts.
After our visit we rendezvous”ed” with Aunt Susan. The boys were off from school for the week and were spending the extra time with Aunt Susan [...]
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We felt inspired to have our own blessing of our Christmas tree after a Christmas tree blessing was incorporated into our Sunday liturgy today. We appointed Nathan the role of officiating our family ceremony as he genuinely enjoys filling this role for our family. Above he guides us in prayer.
After reading the prayer he had the honor [...]
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Posted in Family, Holidays, Nathan, Sean on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This Past Sunday we made our way to the local pumpkin patch to get into the spirit of the Halloween Season.
The first step in the pumpkin carving process is Steve going to the internet for a little inspiration.
After the patterns are printed it is the painstaking process of tracing the pattern onto the pumpkin. Here [...]
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Our Memorial Day observance began today with the customary community parade in which Nathan proudly donned his Pack 5 Cub Scout uniform and made the march for the first time to the city war memorial.
From there we went down to Seneca Lake State Park where the traveling Vietnam Wall Memorial Exhibit was displayed for the holiday weekend.
Nathan seemed [...]
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Posted in Family, Holidays on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We hope that you and your family had a wonderful Easter Sunday! We made a trip to Saratoga Springs and spent the holiday weekend with Stephanie’s Mom and Dad and Sister. We arrived in the waning hours of Good Friday.
Getting there Friday night gave us plenty of time on Saturday to get ready for the Easter bunny’s visit. [...]
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