How much is that Momma-Deem in the Windoooo

Our little Helena is not so little anymore. She is fast approaching 2 1/2 years old and turning into quite the little comedian and songstress. One of her favorite songs is how much is that doggie in the window which she enjoys on YouTube. But I think she enjoys making new words to that song…

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What Happened to the Summer

It’s been a truly amazing summer. I honestly don’t know how to recap all of it and I know I don’t have the time to do so either. So I’ll just focus on the last couple weeks. Last weekend we took Helena to the New York Aquarium while we were visiting Auntie Bunny. I’m not…

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2 Years and Counting

Helena and Doug at the Beach

It is almost impossible to believe that Helena is 2 years old already.  I look back on the old photos that we have of her and I can’t believe how much she’s changed. Last year on her birthday she had no idea what was going on and had much more fun playing with the wrapping…

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Fantastic Fourth

Me and my girls had a fantastic Fourth of July weekend! We started off with Helena’s first swimming lessons at the YMCA.  I have to say that we were a little nervous about how she would do in the pool, but she showed us that our worries were unfounded. She got right in and had…

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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…

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May 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…

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March 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”]

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Hello 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…

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Goodbye 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…

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Farm 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…

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