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san francisco (day five): stanford and an early thanksgiving

November 27, 2011 – 1:51 am

we paid a visit to stanford university, which was only a short drive away in palo alto. rodin sculpture garden beautiful facade of the stanford memorial church back at home, rebecca spent time with her cousins… since we would be travelling the next day, derek and jennifer cooked a delicious early thanksgiving dinner! it was read more »

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san francisco (day four): san fran hot spots

November 24, 2011 – 8:15 am

with joe finished with his conference, we had one day to do some sightseeing as a family. first we stopped by alamo square for a view of the famous “pink ladies”, a row of victorian houses, with the city in the background. architecture was generally very interesting, especially when virtually everything is built on a read more »

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san francisco (day three): tea garden, embarcadero and more

November 23, 2011 – 9:30 pm

day three. while joe was still busy at the conference, rebecca and i were able to spend the day with our family. first we went to the beautiful japanese tea garden in golden gate park. jadon checking out the coy fish. i loved the beautiful trees. then we went to the embarcadero where we enjoyed read more »

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san francisco (day two): shopping

November 23, 2011 – 3:00 am

day two. it was a rainy day in san fran, which was the perfect opportunity to go shopping. again, after a heroic effort getting on and off the bus with baby, stroller and stuff, i made it to the shopping district on market street. i would have liked to walk around a bit more, but read more »

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san francisco (day one): a city of murals

November 19, 2011 – 10:52 pm

we’ve been looking forward to this trip for a long time now. joe is attending the Society of Biblical Literature conference and since his brother and family live in the area, we’ve made it a family trip to San Francisco! the flight from north carolina was painfully long, but we all survived, eventhough we arrived read more »

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scenes from unc

November 6, 2011 – 8:00 am

here are a few pics from around the university of north carolina. the school is really old… students traditionally earn good luck when they drink from The Old Well on the first day of classes.

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we heart trader joe’s

November 4, 2011 – 9:00 am

ah yes, trader joe’s. back in chicago, i never had the good fortune of having one convenient enough to use regularly, but now i’ve quickly come to love our local trader joe’s. it is quite literally a two minute drive and we certainly go there a lot. more pumpkins. they even hosted a little halloween read more »

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little pumpkin

October 30, 2011 – 10:00 pm

grandma L knit a really cute pumpkin hat for Rebecca. we love it… except it’s bit tricky getting her to wear it and sit still for longer than 2 seconds. oh well. our little pumpkin!

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roadtrip to the outer banks: wright brothers (day three)

October 16, 2011 – 8:02 am

our hotel room had a view of the ocean and was only a few steps from the beach.

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roadtrip to the outer banks: cape hatteras seashore (day two)

October 15, 2011 – 12:45 am

in the week leading up to our trip, we kept getting forecasts for rain and thunderstorms. so we were really happy when we woke up and saw some blue sky peaking through. we decided to take full advantage of it and drive south along the cape hatteras national seashore. first, we visited the bodie island read more »

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