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sweet little stella joy arrived this morning.
photos

we spent a couple of fun nights camping with friends at el capitan state beach.
kim is due in 19 days…

photos: potato gun, sand castles, smores, pancakes, hammock, scotch, boogie boarding and more…

date night tonight. we attended the opening for paul myers “unsettled” photography exhibit in ventura
and then headed back to santa barbara for a double date with heather and trevor, aka heath and kevin

we spent a great weekend in vista with sophia and jordana.
- photos from legoland
- photos from hanging out
- photo of sean seconds after the “wallet incident” and seconds before he had to climb over the barrier into the water…

mike robinson and “walnut plug” rocked dargan’s last night!
it was a fun show. they shredded despite having formed the band just a couple of weeks earlier…

photos here…

folks gathered yesterday at brooks’ ventura campus where gerg used to work to dedicate a bench in his memory.
photos…

there is a fire in the hills a couple of blocks from our house…
here are some [updated] photos from the blaze.

14 kids and a handful of dads in the desert adds up to one grand adventure!
3 sunscreen applications per day, a hat, lots of water and s’mores kept all the kids happily frenetic
photos:
joshua tree part 1 - lizard catching, rock climbing and an archaeological dig.
joshua tree part 2 - spelunking down abandoned gold mines and close encounters with a rattle snake.
joshua tree part 3 - kid portraits.

brooks is hosting a silent auction to help bryan watt (a brooks alum working with dri) to raise $20K to build a school for kids in laos.
silent auction poster pdf.
Read more about Bryan and his work.
i donated two diana prints to the cause…

i created a game called “flinch” for the company picnic…
the game relied on the high tensile strength of 1/8″ polycarbonate (which looks like plexiglass but is much stronger.)
we started out with tennis balls but soon moved on to golf balls, a baseball, blocks of 2×4, a screwdriver and then finally, my 32 oz estwing framing hammer…
there were some fun “flinches” and reactions
photos here…

macey turned six this week.
she got a new bike without training wheels!

the hordes descended on el capitan state beach for the annual birthday campout.
Here are some photos:
Part I - friday night at the rogers’ and saturday at the beach
Part II - camp fire and chilling at el cap

the tubbs spent a long weekend in SB which was a blast!

the next weekend i headed down to their place and shaun and i built a teak memorial bench for gerg that will be installed at our ventura campus.

we recently purchased a car and inadvertently discovered a very powerful negotiating tool: small kids.
small kids have the attention span of 37 seconds which results in a lot of bouncing off the walls, running around the sales floor and asking for balloons.
there is also the crying, this is particulary effective.
crying occured when: balloon was released into the ozone, head collided with sales office door, paper airplane went under showroom car and it was “taking a long tiiiiiiime”
the net result of this activity is that the sales staff lost their nerve and were frazzled. they were literally sweating buckets by the time we left the lot.
we got a great price

i had my camera and took a few photos of the fun

dave gilbert, greg’s dad, has set up “the gerg foundation” to give scholarships to westmont (where greg attended college) computer science students.
you can find out more by visiting the gergfoundation.org website.
the foundation website is also where all future info and updates will be posted re: our friend.