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Prompted by the snowfall about 3 weeks ago, I’ve put up several sets of recent photos. I haven’t seen snow like this since I was about 10 years old and living in Wichita Falls. And, frankly, I’m not sure how much of that is exaggerated by the span of time. Needless to say, the kids were excited and had a great time playing in the rare Texas snow.

This set also includes all of the photo sets from the holidays until now.  As always, it has been several months since my last update, so there are many new photos.  And, since I’ve acquired the DSLR, I tend to take too many photos anyway.  If I were paying to develop film, I’d have to hold down a second job to support my habit.  Instead, you are subjected to an endless stream of pictures.  And, most of those are ones of a gushing parent no less!

If you are feeling particularly adventurous and want to take it to the next level of family video, you can find a link at the bottom of the photo gallery section on the main page.  As part of a rewards program, I just received a free bloggie. Since that will make transfer even easier, I’m sure you will be able to subject yourself to new sleep-inducing family videos more often. Aren’t you lucky?

Photo Updates:
• Thanksgiving 2009
• Trip to the Fort Worth Zoo with the kids
• Skip’s Birthday Party
• Jason’s 40th Birthday
• Supply Chain Systems Holiday Party
• Hanukkah 2009
• Christmas 2009
• The kids are involved in preschool gymnastics as their daycare. They held a “Mini-Olympics” toward the end of January.
• Playing in the snow during the record breaking snow on February 11th. This set also includes a few photos from following morning showing the final result.

I took a vacation day today in order to get caught up on things around the house that needed to get done. One of the things I need to check off the list was getting our latest set of photos updated.
They are in the list below from oldest to most recent. The sets run from June of this year through just a few weeks ago. The big events included are my trip to China (more photos than those on Facebook), Ben’s third birthday, and our recent vacation to Durango, Colorado. There are a few other sets of various events peppered in between. I don’t think you’ll run out of things to view. I apologize for not spending any time on captions either. I wimped out by they time I’d culled through and resized them all for the web.
If you like the colors of autumn, I recommend the pictures from our vacation. Durango and the surrounding area were beautiful and ablaze with the fall. The kids also enjoyed their first quarter-size snowflakes in Silverton. It was a great time! It was made even better by getting to see my family that lives in Durango. It had been much too long!

Enjoy the photos!

Photo Updates:
• Ben and Rachel at a local park
• Farewell Party for Kent
• The kids faces were painted at school during one of their summer activity days.
• Becky, Rachel, and Ben attended their first circus. Several other families from their school attended as well.
• My second trip to China in August
• Ben turned 3 in early October.
• One of our first outings on our Colorado vacation was a visit to Silverton.
• We had a great hike in the San Juan National Forest on the Hermosa Creek Trail.
• Animas Overlook was beautiful, too!
• Our final hike on the Raider Ridge Trails overlooking Durango

Just wanted to give everyone the links to the pictures taken at work for my birthday and Bosses’ Day surprises. My team at work is the best, and they really treat me (or is it tease me?) too well!

• Photos with my birthday decoration surprise
• Bosses Day Surprise