This Day In History: March 20, 2005

Deacon and Maren, March 20, 2005

Watching the Skies

Well, with Mommy and Daddy busily rearranging furniture in the house and Deacon (and by association Maren) banned from TV for the evening due to an incident at school (playing tag in the restroom), the kids surreptitiously moved blankets and various animals and pillows out to the front lawn to watch shooting stars. No meteor shower... no problem!! Pretending to see meteors was more fun than actually seeing one or two an hour.
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Deacon enjoys the "show"

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Joined by some raggedy friends

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Neatly tucked-in by Maren to watch the skies

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Sustenance

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Top o' the mornin'! Er, afternoon! We went to the St. Patrick's Day event at the Disney Channel building in Burbank, and Maren enjoyed eating a cupcake, having her picture taken, and getting a shamrock tattoo. Here's the "official" picture and some cell phone pics.

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Sing Out Hosanna!

The St. Paul's Cherub, Canticle, Crusader and Chancel Choirs sang together this morning at the Palm Sunday service. What a treat to hear such a range of voices!

Here are some pictures and a movie!
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This Day In History: March 15, 2004

Maren, ready for her ultrasound close-up, March 15, 2004

This Day In History: March 12, 2003

Deacon, somewhere over California, March 12, 2003

Sunday Afternoon Tea

Deacon and Maren decided to have a tea party this afternoon in the front yard...
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Maren politely wipes her mouth (and the rest of her face) with a napkin

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Deacon's friend Terrible Lizard joins the fun...

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Enjoying their tea and crackers

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Maren decided she needed to read the Bible during the tea party...

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Deacon and Maren

This Day In History: March 8, 2005

Maren, from March 8, 2005

Funny Things Kids Say

Last night, Maren was jumping up and down in anticipation of her pizza dinner when she bumped into a chair and bit into her lip a little bit. Then today, she bumped her head on the gate latch out back, sustaining a little scratch by her eye.

So today when she came home from preschool with a couple more scrapes, I commented that she had a lot of owies. Walking away, she said, "Yeah, I'm in Owie Town."

This Day In History: March 5, 2006

Maren and Deacon head to an Oscar party on March 5, 2006

Happy Birthday Jessica!

We celebrated the big Number 9 with Jessica today at Chuck E. Cheese's in Sun Valley!
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Maren and Deacon had their picture drawn by Mr. Cheese himself!

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Ready for Spongebob cake... baked by Jessica herself!
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Mmmm...

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Eating cake...

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Opening presents...

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An iPod nano! I hear it can store up to 2000 Hannah Montana songs!

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Nano, nano... there has to be a Mork and Mindy reference in here somewhere...
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Mork and Mindy

Dance Fever

We went to the St. Paul's Family Dance tonight and stayed out until... drumroll... after 9 PM!

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The theme was "Surfin' 60s", and Deacon and Maren partied like it was 1999. They didn't miss a beat, doing the Conga, Limbo, and Cha Cha Slide like old pros.

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Derek and Terri were especially impressed that the older kids seemed to know every word of the songs off the Grease soundtrack!!

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Deacon and Nicholas

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Maren

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Maren and preschool pal Marianna, hardly wallflowers, take a short break

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Conga!

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Dancin' with Daddy

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The DJ is a St. Paul's alum!

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Like son, like father.

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Maren and Marianna take another short break to adjust light sticks.

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Maren loved the doorway decor...

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Limbo!

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Dancing the night away!

Elementary School Musical

The Kindergarteners are ready for tonight's Family Dance at St. Paul's!

Sunday Morning

We braved the rainy San Fernando Valley streets this morning to attend both Calvary Chapel Burbank and St. Paul's, where Deacon was recognized for his art show award!
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Deacon with two of the other award winners.

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Deacon's painting and "Grand Champion" ribbon.