May has been surprisingly cold and wet this year. We have still been able to get out it and keep busy this month! We celebrated Mother’s day and took a trip to Tucson for Tim’s birthday. Our garden has really been enjoying the cold wet weather with lots of lettuce, spinach, chard and peas growing.…

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Spring time is here in San Diego. Lots of flowers blooming, comfortable weather, and longer days are making the outdoors more attractive. We have a lot of vegetables growing in our raised beds. It’s a fun evening activity to go out and see how much things have grown. Not a lot of big events this…

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Finally getting some warmer weather this month and less rain. We were able to get outside a lot more this month for a family hike around the neighborhood plus gardening and playing in the backyard. It must be spring! In preparation of hot summer months we  had air conditioning installed. And we finally got a new…

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It has been a very rainy February in San Diego. It rained about half the month in varying degrees from light rain to hail. We also had several days that went below freezing at night, resulting in ice scraping off the car windshield before driving to work. We did have some fun days. We visited…

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We started this new year by welcoming our Au Pair into our family. Our sickness from December continued and overshadowed her first week with everyone having some form of illness.  Fortunately we recovered enough by the middle of the month to celebrated Anthony’s third birthday. We also got a nice amount of rain during the middle…

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Happy New Year to all! The word for December was sickness. For basically the whole month one or more of our family was sick. For most of the month we stayed around the house doing yard work and various housekeeping.  Then we went to Tucson for the Russin clan Christmas. It was great to see everyone…

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A happy belated Thanksgiving to all! We had another fun month with lots of activities. We visited Grandparents, went for a hike with a friend, had a visit from Mimi and Papa, celebrated Thanksgiving with the Powers clan, and so much more. Tim also went back to work the last week of the month, so…

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Lots of changes and excitement this month.  We started off the month with a birthday celebration for the Powers Cousins.  Alicia went back to work and Tim started his six weeks of paternity leave. Lydia continues to progress in her growth and development. In the middle of the month we all passed around a cold. Tim had…

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Overall September has been a fun month full of activities and visits. The weather has been cooler this month making things more pleasant. While there have still been some warm/hot days (high 80s, low 90s) overall things are cooling down and we even had a few quotgloomyquot days for a nice change. We started off…

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Well, it’s been a pretty crazy month for us. We’ve been getting adjusted to our new family of five, plus dog. We have been blessed this month to have had Aunt Kelly and Grandparents helping us out with the kids and making the adjustment a bit smoother. We also took several trips to visit Grandpa…

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