I bought a bike. That is it below. I justified spending the money by figuring that if I ride it to work everyday for 11 months it would be cheaper and faster than riding the bus. Plus, I can’t stand waiting for the bus. The bus that is supposed to come every 10 minutes, but [...]

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Joshua on July 29th, 2010

This last weekend we headed down to the Meadowdale Highschool track. Wesley, you see, has been wanting to try learning to ride his bike without his training wheels. Since I got a bike on Friday, he couldn’t wait any longer. The track is just a few blocks from our house and made for a nice, [...]

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Joshua on May 15th, 2010

On Friday Amber was pushing Wesley on the makeshift swing (actually a tether-ball hooked to a tree branch) in our backyard and it came apart sending him, to quote Wesley, “like a bow and arrow” onto a large rock in the flower bed. He ended up with a gash on the back of his head. [...]

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Joshua on April 18th, 2010

Today we took the kids hiking through Lund’s Gulch which is encompassed in Meadowdale Beach Park. The park entrance is only about a half mile from our house and the kids and I have actually been running alongside the park for a few weeks. The hike is on a wide gravel trail that leads down [...]

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