Photos of Camille, Daniel (and family and friends)

I am a fool.  Camille and her many (and I really mean many) friends were planning a party to carve pumpkins.  Lila wanted to host, but couldn’t.  So, fool that I am, wanting to facilitate my daughter’s rich social life, offered to host the party.  It exhausted me.  Here are the results.

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Lucy, Camille and Daniel have a time with froofy hats, partially at the Pacific Science Center.

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Camille and Kasey made a lemon meringue pie on their own.

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Camille and Kasey made some outfits modeled after Robin Hood and his merry men.  I suppose they are really merry girls.

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We owed our friends a better boat trip.  They came with us last New Year’s Day on a harrowing adventure in 20+ knot winds and short, choppy 3-4 foot seas to retrieve our forlorn crab pots which, according to law, needed to be out of the water.  In retrospect, I think WDFW would have given [...]

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We had two days to kill after the Raser family reunion before heading home.  We debated whether to extend the family visit by going to Colorado City as we did six years ago, or do something else.  I told Molly that I really wanted to see Boulder.  She quickly acquiesced and said that Camille and Daniel’s [...]

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So, my son has re-energized himself into Pokémon cards, mainly because his friends showed him how to love and appreciate them.  After school was out, all of two days, we held a Pokémon party with three friends.

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We just got back from a trip to see our friends Dave and Melissa in Walla Walla.  Molly has known Melissa for about 20 years – they met in Santa Barbara and roomed together in Portland where I met the two in 1993.  Subsequently, Melissa moved to Seattle and we moved there a few years [...]

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Wow!  I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a rainy Memorial Day weekend.  We went south to rendezvous with our friends in Gig Harbor.  We spent the first night at Point Defiance, touring the zoo the next day.  Then we swapped kids, Simon spending the night with us and Camille with Hazel.  On Monday, we [...]

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The day I arrive in SoCal, we went to visit with Molly’s old friend Tami.  Tami’s husband Jess is a professor at CalTech.  CalTech is one of my alma maters, so I requested a nostalgia tour.  Jess obliged me while the kids played on the beautiful grounds.

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