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Town Council

Margaret and the Mayor

Margaret was nominated from her school to lead the pledge of allegiance at a Town Council meeting. She did splendidly.
Here is the message from her principal informing us of the event:

The Town asked us to nominate outstanding students to open a Town Council meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. Margaret has been nominated as an outstanding student from Van Meter School.

Comments listed about Margaret: As a fifth grader at Van Meter School, Margaret is a role model for other students. She is helpful, kind and gets along with everyone. She is not only outstanding academically, but she demonstrates outstanding character and compassion. Margaret was also part of the Lego Robotics Team that investigated and worked to problem solve local traffic conditions. Margaret also does a great job as a noon time P.E. monitor.

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Bar Mitzvah

Bar Mitzvah

We all went to something that only Elizabeth had done before, a bar mitzvah. It was David Cooper’s 13th birthday. I remember when Viv was in the hospital having him, I was at Cooper’s house painting his bathroom that he didn’t have time to finish. It was a very modern ceremony that was interesting. Afterwards, there was the reception. All of the kids really loved the party. Katy has decided she wants a sweet 16 party now. We wish her luck with that.

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Margaret’s Birthday

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Can you believe Margaret is 11? As seems to always be, Margaret’s birthday fell during ski week. We were in Tahoe, so we went ice skating in the afternoon then had a nice dinner with the Walden’s that night. (We also had a dinner with Elizabeth’s family the next Friday). A low key birthday. Now we need to start planning parties with the kids friends.

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Play

wolf

Another school play. This time Margaret was actually in it. (She did crew last year). I don’t quite understand why they have to copy things, this was a copy of Gilligan’s Island merged with Jungle Book. They like to take classic rock songs as well and change the words. This was one of the better plays, but 5th graders in Los Gatos are not like Fame.

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Pinewood Derby

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Sam is just loving cub scouts. I don’t know if it is the uniform, running around with a bunch of wild kids, or what, but he is always excited about it. The latest escapade was building and racing of the Pinewood Derby cars. His buddy Simon came over to build/paint with him. The cars turned out great. The exciting day is race day.

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Pokie trip

Snow

silly string

Just a few pictures of the kids playing in the snow.

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New Years

silly string

We had New Years again in Tahoe. We had about 20 people at the house. Bruce forgot to bring the fireworks, so we didn’t have pyrotechnics to entertain us, but we did have poppers as well as silly string to make a mess with in the street.

For the first time in years we all watched the ball drop in Time’s Square. We had to watch on CNN because the network feeds are delayed for us on the left coast.

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Rockin’ Out

Rockin' Out

Another great Christmas. Santa brought the kids Band Hero. I think the adults may be enjoying it more. We have already ordered another guitar so someone can play the bass. Other than that, Christmas was great as always. Everyone got lots of fun things and so far having a good time.

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Tree Trimming

Katy puts on the star.

We trimmed the tree tonight. The kids all knew who was supposed to put the star on top of the tree, I had to look it up. I think that this is the first time I didn’t have to hoist someone up on my shoulders to put the star on top of the tree.

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Christmas Parade

TR250

The Christmas Parade happened again. We all rode in the TR250 and walked the dogs. Sam actually was in the parade twice. He rode with us then ran back and walked with his Cub Scout Pack. They are always the last thing to go before Santa.