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Just a photo update.

April 25, 2011 in Family, Miscellaneous, Photography by MAD | No comments

It’s been a while but Easter always brings forth a photo opportunity. Some photos from before Easter.

Most are here, along with other misc photos.

Here are the highlights.

Matthew, always a HAM, I’m fairly certain he didn’t realize he was playing with the “spoon of Justice”.

The Easter Bunny brought him a red Cowboy hat:

and we did some posing in his new outfit:

You talkin to me?

And the Easter egg hunt is on!

Molly and Robin, nope, no resemblance what-so-ever

Maria

Mother and Daughter

It actually stopped raining long enough to have an egg hunt

Evaluating the score:

Tags: Easter 2011, Family, kids

Vermont / NH 2009 (Part 1)

September 7, 2009 in Family by MAD | No comments

This year we as a family, took a long weekend trip to Vermont & New Hampshire. Every year my wife’s extended family has a get together up there. Called appropriately the Belden Pig-Out.

I haven’t seen some of these folks since we made the trip in 1993 to photograph a wedding. Then my father and I stopped in to see some of them in 2006 when we rode up to the BMW rally in Vermont.

Each year Claudine tries to go and generally takes one kid with her. It’s just too expensive to fly everyone, plus a hotel to fit us all, and a rental car capable of hauling us all around.

So this year I agreed we’d just Iron Butt it up there. It’s just a tick under 1000 miles from our door to the hotel we were staying at.

We bugged out of here around 7pm on Wednesday. Driving at night has lots of advantages. The kids sleep, or mostly sleep, which keeps them off my last nerve and traffic is significantly reduced.

We loaded up the family (everyone except Michael who didn’t want to ride with us all and decided to stay at home to house sit. He did a mighty fine job).

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Tags: Belden Pig Out, Family, Mine, New Hampshire, Quechee, Vacation, Vermont

Baby Update

January 3, 2008 in Family by MAD | No comments

Little Matthew is doing just fine.

We had a slight scare in the beginning. We were seriously concerned about his hearing. The dogs would bark and he wouldn’t flinch or acknowledge any loud sounds. Though at times we clearly felt like he heard us or something. It was never consistant. Of course the Internet scares the hell out of you when you read that parents of children who did turn out to be deaf when through very similar experiences.

At our first opportunity we took him to Childrens for a hearing test. The tests did confirm that his hearing was in fact impaired but also that it was, or appeared fluid based. The mechanics of his hearing were fine.

We were told to follow up with our ENT Dr. and return in 6-8 weeks and repeat the tests.

We’ve been to our Family Dr. and since then things must have opened up for him.

We’re very blessed.

There are more photos in the gallery, though they are lumped in with the previous photos.

Enjoy