b-day for daddy

Listen Up Dogs! My Dad is 44 today! Isn't that OLD????? He still acts like a kid though.

Adieu, I am off to Europe with Orchestra

I leave early morning of June 19th for the great music capitals of Europe: Salzburg, Vienna, Prague. I am really excited - I will get to see where Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms hung out. We have six concerts and lots of sight-seeing. I will have lots to share when I get home on July 2nd. Love to everybody. Mom / Grandma Joan

Joan Overseas!!!

Joan leaves in the morning for the big trip! Have fun mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday K-3!

Muddy Buddies

Trish 'n Trash ran the San Jose Muddy Buddy this weekend. Check out the website (muddybuddy.com). They have these races in several cities across the US. Two people, one bike, 7 miles, 4 obstacles and a giant mud lake. Free beer for the finishers. We ran it in in an hour and 13 minutes, finishing 31'st in our age group. Not bad for a couple of former couch potatoes!

A distinguished Scholor

Hey, everyone - Today I got two awards at school - one award is the Distinguished Scholor Award which I got for getting all "A's", and the second one was for being on Student Council for my Class.

new irons

My new irons ...




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Shelly won't let me sleep with them in the bed anymore ... so the irons and I moved into the den downstairs!

Two at last!

Here is the first picture of Auggie at his 2nd birthday party. Shelly spent weeks working out all the details for a party in the local park for twenty of Auggie's little pals. Unfortunately, it was a freezing cold, windy, foggy San Francisco afternoon, and all of the adults were nearly hypothermic before the big event was over. (the sangria was gone too soon to keep us all warm!) The kids had a great time. The hit of the party was this cupcake birthday cake, with the shape of a helicopter and dump truck on it. (Auggie's current favorite things). He even dressed up as a cow (his other favorite thing) for his big day, as you can see. All in all it was a big success, even if it proved the old Mark Twain saying about the "coldest winter being the summer in San Francisco"!

We spent the weekend here:

We forgot to take a photos our ourselves but we were in La Bocana this 3 day weekend and had a great time. Foggy but not much wind. The house is in great shape - plan to visit sometime!

Worlds largest Coffee Cup

Alpine sponsered a stree fair in Morgan Hill this weekend. Here are a couple of pics. Check out the worlds largest coffee cup!

One more from the City

For you "Mythbusters" fans, here is Sam in front of M5 Industries.....

Sam at Sam's Place

This is a picture of where all true "Sam's" should go. This is Sam's Place in San Francisco near Chinatown. We were here 3 weeks ago. Sorry we didn't get to see you Uncle Pat.

Shoot - I remember the day little August was born. Watch it PK - They get big like this real soon. Here we are in SF a couple of weeks back - awesome weather! Here is Sam and his buddy Tara at Lick Observatory this spring, too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERT!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROBERT!!! 38 IS GREAT!

If you are ever in the area

John Rodman hosts a great Memorial Day (on the Sunday before Memorial Day) which is essentially a music festival. Local bands show up and jam, everyone brings food to share, and basically a great time is had by all. Joe and I can't make it this year but here's a photo from last year:

Coffee Deals

Anyone who wants micro roasted coffee, go to the site www.greatcoffeeco.com and use the coupon code friendsfam at the checkout for a 38 % discount. I may not be an expert on coffee, but my friend Phil, the master roaster, really is. This is good stuff. Shelly and I have been drinking "Joe Dark" blend lately, but all the others are good, too. Enjoy.

Auggie turns two!

Hello everyone -

Big action around our house this week is Auggie's 2nd - this Sunday. He is all fired up about being two - and to get ready he's been practicing having the "terrible twos". Hard to believe that the little guy in this picture is the 35 lb maniac running around the house these days!

Birthdays

I've added birthdays of the grandkids - please tell me if I have the wrong day for someone and please, can someone tell me the birthday of this guy? Put it in the comments. Thanks.

"The" puppy contract

Per request, here is the contract that was negotiated before the arrival of Jango. Amanda really wanted to get another dog, but I was against the idea. She got some advice from Sheri to try to convince me by working out a deal to give me something I wanted in exchange. Page 1 of the contract is the result - its pretty funny (it is the image on the bottom). After reading and rejecting the contract, we started on the additional terms included on page 2 of the contract. The most important one was the definition of who "we" was as I needed to make sure that Sheri was in on the deal.

Anyway, this is Amanda's first contract negotiation and she did a pretty good job. I laminated the original and will have it in hand every Sunday this fall......

Meet Jango

Well now there are three - dogs that is at the Kennedy house in Escondido. The newest addition is Jango - a gold star to the first one to identify the source of the name. He is a mutt - part spaniel and part hound with a few other breeds mixed in, my guess most of which are good fence jumpers!