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Lots Has Happened

It has been a long while since I have posted anything. It doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening, it just means that I have been too lazy to do anything. Of course, the kids all started back to school (Katy is a junior now). Margaret has been doing cross country again. The season is almost over, just the invitational meet yet. Margaret did well enough so she will be going. First Lego League has started up again. Katy managed to wreck the minivan. She didn’t see a traffic island, so she hit it at 20+ mph, broke most of the front end and sideswiped a car that was sitting there waiting for the light. I am still not exactly sure what happened, but I write it off to a 16 year old driver (I can’t really talk, my driving record isn’t the best).

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Desolation

Desolation

We had a good hike through a small part of Desolation Wilderness. Pretty nice hike. A LOT of up and down. You can see it here.

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Family Pokie

July 4th

Another Independence day in Tahoe. The difference with this one is we got to ski. Loads of fun. We were able to ski 2 days in 70 degree weather. It was loads of fun. It was more like a party on skis than really skiing. On the fourth, the family and dog also went swimming, Elizabeth and I went on a hike and we saw the traditional (for us) Tahoe City fireworks.

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Family Katy

Hawaii


Another trip to the Napili Surf. The kids again had a great time. They spent most of their time in the water (paddle boarding, boogie boarding, body surfing, snorkeling). I spent most of the time working. However, we did all get out some. We made it to the Nakalele blowhole and the ovaline (ovaltine) pools. I did my 30 minutes of snorkeling for the next 3 years or so, Elizabeth got to see dolphins again. We had a bunch of turtles hanging out really close to the shore in our little bay for a couple of days.

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Update

I have not been posting much to the blog lately, so I figured I would do a little catch up. The big events recently have been Katy getting her driver’s license. This has been really great for us. We now have someone to run errands for us and we don’t have to take her to Palo Alto for diving 3 times a week. School is now out and everyone did well, we are getting ready for the trip to Hawaii that we have missed the last few years.

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Margaret

Tour of California

In the past years I have seen KOM points and even a start for the TOC, this year I went to see the hilltop finish at the top of Sierra Road. This turned out to be the victory for Chris Horner that allowed him to win the overall.

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Rusty trip

Track

Margaret did track this year. She chose high jump, long jump, triple jump and 60m hurdles for her events. Each meet she got better. We still haven’t figured out where the running genes she somehow got came from.

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Family Katy Pokie

Spring Break

Spring Break

Another spring break of skiing and having fun in Tahoe. The Bommaritos were up for most of the time. My mother was even there for a few days. The kids skied most every day. I did as much as I could while still trying to work as well. Katy took most of these pictures. This is one of the best, but it is not one of my kids, so it didn’t rate the top billing.

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Pokie trip

Margaret’s Face Plant

Margaret go boom

We decided it was time for our kids to do Wolverine Bowl. They did well and they liked it, however, Margaret can’t seem to make it across the flat part. She ends up at some point catching an edge and going down. She did a face plant the last time down (we all missed it).

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Katy’s Birthday

Katy's Birthday

A while back, Katy noticed the last regular season game for the Sharks would be on her birthday. She thought that we all should go. Our neighbor was nice enough to arrange tickets for us and we went. Our whole family and all of Katy’s grandparents. All in all an nice way to celebrate Katy’s birthday. Next we have to figure out what playoff games we are going to try to see. Katy is a hockey fan for some reason.