If you think you’ve seen a lot of snow, check out these albums. I’ve posted a few photos from Easter and from Memorial Day when we had 6 feet and 6 feet, 6 inches respectively. Aren’t you supposed to have picnics on Memorial Day? Last year Emily made $24 selling lemonade. This year she spent the weekend sledding with her brother and cousins. You can see albums on the McClellandfamily.com Photo Albums page.

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If you’ve never played with Apple’s new Photo Booth software I highly recommend it. It’s guaranteed to bring a smile to your face as you distort your own image in live video. It’s hard not to crack up laughing. I put together a quick photo album of the fun we had while visiting the Apple store and while playing on Dad’s new iMac.

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I promised myself that this blog wouldn’t be a parent bragging site, but anyone who saw my daughter Emily get up and speak at the family wake

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I never fought with the desire to do my very best on this, I only embraced it. The result was a video–shown in front of a few hundred people–that elicited sobs, laughter and, from a lot of people, praise and thanks. It was a moment of pure pride to honor the life of a friend.

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We made it back tanned and tired from our Mexican cruise aboard the Carnival Spirit. I just wanted to share the photos on the blog.

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Acapulco is beautiful! Pulling into the bay with the high cliffs on both sides of the ship was breathtaking. If you have the means, I highly recommend it (Buehler.) Our stay here was brief, but fun-filled. We disembarked (I’m learning nautical terms) at about 1:30 p.m. After making the mistake of walking to the Royal Plaza Hotel (We were told it was about a mile and a half, but it turned out to be about 3 and a half,) we spent the afternoon relaxing on a padded beach “couch” (for lack of a better word) on a crowded but beautiful beach.

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Our second full day at sea today, and you’d think we’d be bored. That’s not the case. The kids are enthralled with the pools and the waves in it that the ship makes when it rolls from side to side.

But Emily and Patrick’s favorite parts of this vacation so far were before we even got on the cruise ship. Patrick most enjoyed the airplane flight to San Diego. Emily’s favorite? Going to

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I do my best not to watch too much television, but I do have my favorites that I try not to miss. Included among them are this season’s My Name Is Earl and The Office in the comedy department, and of course

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It wasn’t Emily‘s first tooth she lost tonight. (If I’m not mistaken, it was her 4th. Okay, maybe 5th, and I haven’t been there for any of them. Fine, I’m a bad father.) But it was the first tooth I was there to witness coming out. It was one of her top incisors, and for her it was a rite of passage of sorts.

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Here’s cousin Matt getting set up by Emily at the McClelland reunion. He’s not too happy at the end of this, but he was a great sport. This is the first of the McClelland family reunion videos that we’ll post (simply because it was the funniest.)

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