Sunday, October 26, 2008

Bradley Reunion

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Torrey and I attended Danielle Centeno's Bradley class before Alethia was born. We actually got started a bit late, so we missed the last couple of classes because Alethia was already born. It has been about four months now since our class was last together, so we had a reunion so that we could meet all the others' babies and enjoy the group's company once more. Here are a few pictures from the evening. Thanks to everyone for the chance to see you all again, and especially to Lan and Monica for opening up your home. Enjoy the pictures.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Alethia's First Camping Trip

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We headed back out to Joshua Tree for a camping trip a little bit ago after quite some time. We hadn't been camping since our trip to Idyllwild back in April. That may not sound too bad to you, but after nearly five years of camping on average once a month, we felt incredibly cooped up. So Alethia finally had her first chance to enjoy the pleasures of camping at the ripe old age of 3-1/2 months.

She spent a good chunk of our time out there like this:
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Preparing for the trip took much longer than we had anticipated, so we didn't actually get to the park until late Saturday and we left on Sunday. There were tons of people in the park - more than I remember ever seeing (in terms of cars driving through, at least), and it is amazing we found a campsite. Granted, it was probably the worst site in the whole park, with no flat ground for sleeping on, but it was our sloped patch of dirt, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.
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We took some a number of pictures of Alethia while we were out, and since she is so incredibly cute I will post a number of them. Here they are in no particular order:
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Of course I took some landscape shots too, and here are a few of them for your viewing pleasure.
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Death of a Joshua Tree

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The Fruit of Torrey's Labors

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Torrey put the apples from our apple picking trip to good use.
I just ate the slice of pie pictured below, and I must say that it was well worth the work. Great job, Torrey! Your pie is amazing.

Dessert Time