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A Week Without My Girls
My girls are back from a 1 week tour of Ohio and I couldn’t be happier. Since I wasn’t there I can’t speak too much about what they did, but they did seem to have fun. Helena is getting to be an excellent traveller apparently and she loved the zoo too. I myself learned that…
Read MoreMay 2011
This has once again been another crazy whirlwind of a month. Not sure how it got to be June already, but here we are. We got back from Texas the first week of May and after not seeing Helena for an entire week she looked and sounded like a totally different person. Her voice had…
Read MoreMarch 2011
In case you missed it, these were the pictures from March. Just trying to catch up on my blogging, so I’ll wait until the next couple posts to write some more. Direct link to SmugMug [smugmug url=”feed://dougandchristine.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=16441122_qhR4h&format=rss200″ title=”SmugMug%20March%202011″ imagecount=”50″ start=”1″ num=”100″ thumbsize=”Th” link=”lightbox” captions=”true” sort=”true” window=”false” smugmug=”false” size=”L”]
Read MoreHello Guadalupe and Carlsbad Caverns
After saying goodbye to Big Bend National Park and a long drive (about 300 miles or so) we said hello to our next national park, Guadalupe Mountain NP. It’s definitely small by National Park standards but very pretty. We decided to hike into McKittrick Canyon despite being road weary and a little hiked out after…
Read MoreGoodbye Big Bend
We left BigBend this afternoon and had an amazing time there. Only real downside was the smog from Mexico, which was obscuring some views depending on which way the wind was blowing. Yesterday we let the smog dictate a different hike mid way through. We started up Emory peak, but opted for the South Rim…
Read MoreFarm to Market Road
Below are a few highlights of our drive from Marfa (along the Rio Grande) to Big Bend National Park. We seemed to stop every 5 min because it was so beautiful and you know how we love our pictures. We did a couple short hikes and had a wonderful picnic overlooking some enormous plateaus/mesas. We…
Read MoreTexas Sunset
We flew Manchester to Orlando, then to Houston and finally to El Paso yesterday and were only delayed about 20 min total. We followed that up with about a 4 hour drive to Marfa, TX to set us up for this morning. It’s worth noting that we also found a slightly seedy Mexican restaurant for…
Read MoreApril 2011
This has been an extremely busy month or so, which accounts for my lack of blog posts in that timeframe. I don’t even think I have time to do this one, but there have been so many fun and crazy moments with Helena and of course Christine that I feel like I need to write…
Read MoreFirst Date
Today is Helena’s 20 month birthday, which is exciting enough in and of itself. But even more exiting is that I went on my first date with another girl since getting married just the other day. I took her to five guys burgers and Fries and she had the grilled cheese and loved it! She…
Read MoreFebruary 2011
It’s been a great month with our little Lena. We discovered pig tails (to die for cute!!!), we learned to sleep past 4:30am (Hooray!!) and, graduated from a high chair to a booster seat. She actually told us “No, No Chair!” referring to the high chair and pretty much forced our hand. But she is…
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