You can take the boy out of the country…

… but you can’t take the country out of the boy.
You may or may not remember seeing Sean in a previous post when he prepared the soil for his pototoes in the spring. As it turns out this was the fruits of one of his three potato plants that he started. It’s not surprising that he has a [...]

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Back To School

“It’s the most…wonderful time…of the year….”

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Snowshoeing at the Audubon Center: 1/18/09

Stephanie spotted and planned a wonderful outing for the family this past Sunday. We went snowshoeing at the Montezuma Audubon Center in Savannah, NY. The program was called stories in the Snow and included a brief presentation by a staff person about tracking wildlife, and a guided tour around the area by snowshoe.

Just having had several inches [...]

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Nathan’s Lacrosse Career

Nathan started a lacrosse clinic at the YMCA this morning. I think we may have unlocked some latent Native American heritage-related desire to play lacrosse. We think it just might be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. We can’t recall seeing him so excited about a sport as he has been this morning.

Don’t let the dimples [...]

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Wells, Maine or Bust!

We had a wonderful opportunity to spend much of the Columbus Day Weekend soaking up the sun on the Coast of Maine with Grandma, Aunt Susan and Dave. Our destination was Wells, Maine.

Our first pit stop was for lunch on Friday as we enjoyed the beautiful foliage along I-90 in the Berkshire mountains.

The traffic was [...]

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Snakes and Snails

Well it has been a pretty busy few weeks in our household as we have gotten into the full routine of school and started a fall soccer program at the Y.

Here Sean diligently completes his homework after school. We had a chance to visit their classrooms this past week and it sounds like they are [...]

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Makeover Complete

Before…

After…. pretty incredible, it really only took them one week.
If you know of anybody that feels left out because they didn’t get to volunteer for the makeover or volunteers that are having withdrawl because the project is complete, let us know because we still have work to do on the front porch and painting to get finished around [...]

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Oh my, it’s …

 When Stephanie walked over to “the house” as we now call it around town, the demolition was complete and most of the spectators had already left.  This allowed the opportunity to be directly across the street from the site and get a close up view.  To her surprise, Ty was doing a post demolition “bit” for [...]

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Make Over In Town!

Well, all of the rumors that have been spinning around town have finally come to fruition. The popular program has set up shop just a few short blocks away from our house.

Here is the celebrity host after the bus pulled up to inform the family them that they were selected.

This is the lucky family. The [...]

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St. Francis St. Stephens Family Fun Festival

This past weekend was the official kick-off of summer for the city of Geneva with the St. Francis St. Stephens Family Fun Festival. Mother nature sure did come through with great festival weather. The festival is the biggest fund raising event of the year for Sean and Nathan’s school. We have been actively involved with the planning [...]

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