August 2003 Pictures
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Won't be long now and we'll be able to take home our puppy! Caitlin and Devin play in a wading pool fashioned into a holding pen for the pups. I don't think it's a coincidence that the owners selected yellow for the color of the pool. Probably best to hide unsightly stains. |
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As a last treat for the kids before heading off to another year of school, we went to Braums. Devin shows us how to really enjoy ice cream! |
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We went to see Blue Man Group in concert. If you ever have a chance to see these guys, don't miss it! It was awesome, very enjoyable, fun for the whole family. |
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Devin just gets smarter every day. Here's a new invention of his, skate-mopping. |
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Devin and Caitlin all dressed up for the first day back to school...yeah! |
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Angela and I take a quick quiet opportunity to fly a kite we bought at NASA's Johnson Space Center last month. I always wanted to fly the space shuttle. |
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Because of Devin's highly developed coordination (for a 5 year old), our neighbor, Mr. (Coach) Camacho, has asked him to join his 2nd and 3rd grade soccer team for their practices. Of course he's too young to play in the games, but the practice is great for him and he loves it. |
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For Labor Day, Brian Mayfield got the whole
Sycamore gang back
together. We had a blast talking over old times and catching up on news.
Sycamore's last concert in El Paso gave the guys some time to hop over into Mexico where Todd bought this awesome wrestling mask which Devin models here in his best "Grrr..." attitude. |
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At the new house, I found this Mud-Dauber nest which when I pulled down found to have two interesting inhabitants, both dead. This single level dwelling contains the bodies of one wasp and one spider. So the perplexing question becomes, did the spider kill the wasp and then take him into the nest to eat, or did the momma wasp kill the spider and deposit him at the bottom of the nest for the larvae to eat. After a quick web search, I found the case to be the latter as is explained here. |
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Kristen Lewis gets taken off-guard when about 30 of her closest friends scream "Surprise!" at her birthday party. |
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Dennis and Judith (my sister) and Rachel came into town to see everyone before Rachel goes up to the Pentagon for a year of duty as an undercover agent (no I'm not making that up or exaggerating). We got together at Debbie's (my other sister) house where I spotted this old 45 RPM record holder that looks like a fuzzy wuzzy creature. I remembered playing with it when I was small. We pulled it out and Judith immediately remembered it as actually belonging to her. The sisters had a fun time going through all of the 45's that were inside, immediately remembering whose was whose. Then they put the records on an old record player and started dancing all of the "old" dances to the hits of yester-year. It was quite a scene. |
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Someone say "amen!" If everything goes right we should be
closing on the house at the end of September. Here are the kitchen cabinets, finally in.
Here's a cool design-thingy that Angela saw somewhere, so we added it to our dining room ceiling.
Here's the front of the house. Not much has changed here from last month. Most of the work is on the inside. |
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We try to visit the puppies once a week. Here four of them
rip at my shoelaces.
And Caitlin picks the one we want to keep out of the litter. We bought a collar to put on it so we could remember which ones is ours. |
