Road to the 2020 Olympics July 15, 2007
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Summer is upon us, and tis the season of non-stop summer camps. Stacey and I have searched high and low for a local track club for Mallory, but with no luck. This past week Mallory got her first taste of track & field at Soka, which holds a one week childrens track camp every summer. She immediately loved it! The camp included kids ages 7 to 15 and taught the essentials of most events, including sprints, 400 meter, hurdles, long jump, shot, and javelin. It was no surprise that Mallory loved the hurdles the most given how much she relates to horse jumping. On the final day of the camp, the kids held a “track meet” - complete with starter gun and times - and Mallory cleaned up. We think we have a future Olympian in our midst. She’s excited to join a track club next year….if we can only find one. (more…)
The Little Dancer June 21, 2007
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Ballet is to Nathalie what horses are to Mallory….everything. At almost every turn, we find Nathalie doing ballet throughout the house, oftentimes getting up from the dinner table to rip off a quick arabesque or plie. This video was taken last week at Nathalie’s ballet practice.
Barb, are you 30 yet? June 15, 2007
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Happy b-day greetings to little sister Barb….officially known as Barbara Boodle Barnes Bloink! We hope your enjoying baby Kit, and we cannot wait to get back East to see our little niece in August.
Candles and Wedding Rings June 13, 2007
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Pray tell, what’s with the title? Well….today my little bro has a birthday….Happy Birthday Aaron! But even more exciting is the news of his engagement to Jess. Welcome to the family! We’ve been calling her “Aunt Jess” for years, so it will be nice not having to explain to Mallory and Nathalie the technicalities between an aunt that’s a relative versus an aunt that’s a girlfriend.
AP News Photo Credit: Aaron Barnes and Jessica Fraley (future Mrs. Aaron Barnes) following their devastating loss in the first annual Barnes Burger Competition. The couple lost to a bunch of unknowns from California.
Catalina 2007: The New Chief Gets Painted May 25, 2007
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Last weekend Mallory and I journeyed over to Catalina Island for our annual, end-of-year campout for Indian Princesses. We were a little worried because due to recent fires which ravaged the island, electricity was questionable right up to the day we arrived, but the camp was back online. On Friday night all the Sunshine Nation tribes gathered by the beach for the traditional “Joke Night”, where some 100 little girls each got up on stage to tell a joke. Last year, Mallory’s joke was used by another girl just two spots in front of her, so when it came time to deliver on stage she could do nothing but say “I don’t have one”. This year we came prepared with some 10 ringers. “What do you get when you pamper a cow?….. Spoiled milk!”. On Saturday, following a day at the beach kayaking and soaking up sun, I was inaugurated by our tribe girls as next year’s Chief with a head to toe body painting. For a moment, I felt like Nightcrawler from the X-Men.
Happy B-Day Pam! May 24, 2007
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Hope you have a wonderful and peaceful day! We’ll see you later in the summer!
Emily Dickenson on Birthdays:
“We turn not older with years but newer every day. “
Welcome Katherine Saxon Bloink May 9, 2007
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Hip Hip Hooray…we have a new baby in our midst! Yesterday at 9:43 PM EST, May 8, 2007, my little sister gave birth to Katherine Saxon Bloink. She weighed in a whopping 8 lbs 8.8 oz, although that’s nothing compared to my 10+ lb birth. Only an hour before, I was enjoying dinner at TGI Friday’s with my girls and we all made a guess at whether the new baby was girl or boy. Only Nathalie, with strong conviction I might add, stated it would be a girl. That marks 3 girls for big bro, 2 girls for me, and now 1 girl for Barb. Congrats Barb and Jimmie.
Yahoo for Tahoe and Yosemite April 16, 2007
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We just got back from our 10 day trip with big bro Jerry and family to Lake Tahoe. The trip was one to remember…we did it all!! Snowboarding, skiing, swimming, hot-tubbing, casino gambling (could have done without that one), and big family sit down dinners in the suite. Upon the end of our Tahoe trip, we decided to tag along with Jerry and Pam down to Yosemite, where we stole one more day in what is truly the most spectacular valley on earth. We felt cheated only having one day for Yosemite, but the visit left an indelible mark that surely draw us back for a longer stay.
