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Saturday Steel First Annual Juniors Match

Today was the first annual Junior match at Saturday Steel.

Of course our kids rocked the house.  Both Molly and Maria shot very, very well.

It was a good turn out, about 22 kids.

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Dave Reichle explained the rules and how the match would go.

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Then it was game on!.

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A bunch of more photos at the link below:

Saturday Steel Jr. Match 07/14/2012

Vids below:

 

Molly smokin Rimfire

 

Molly smokin Stock Auto

 

Maria had a great Day! Here’s stage 1 Rimfire
Maria Stage 2 String 1
Maria Stage 2 String 2
Molly Stage 2

Molly swept her age group, and Maria came in 2nd in Rimfire for her age group.

Afterward the whole family shot the regular Saturday Steel Match.

IT was way to close to be comfortable in Rimfire…

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Michael *almost* had Molly, *almost* Winking smile

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Just a photo update.

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.

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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:

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and we did some posing in his new outfit:

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You talkin to me?

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And the Easter egg hunt is on!

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

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Maria

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Mother and Daughter

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It actually stopped raining long enough to have an egg hunt

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Evaluating the score:

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Vermont / NH 2009 (Part 1)

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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Continue reading “Vermont / NH 2009 (Part 1)”

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Baby Update

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

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Announcement

Matthew Alexander Disher was born at 11:58pm 12/07/2007

Weighing in at a modest 9 lbs 13 oz

Longer than the measure on the scale, with a full head of hair, and I’m not sure but I think he might be able to walk too 🙂

According to the Dr. he looked to be right at around 42 weeks and not overdone at all.

He arrived right when he meant too.

Claudine and Baby Matthew are doing just fine. We should be home in a few hours.