What’s going on here? Steve shows what he’d look like with long blonde hair with Kianna Blake at the cabin on Memorial Day weekend. This is a teaser of the upcoming video The Shave 2 the sequel to the much acclaimed home movie of Emily and Patrick shaving daddy’s beard. Emily did the dirty work this time and we took over 200 photos along the way.

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Rio Strada teammate Derek Novaes snapped some great pic’s at this weekend’s races in El Dorado Hills. (I thought I saw his camera jammed into the hay bails.) See the rest of the set at his SmugMug Site. Now I’m going out shopping for a gut filter to give Derek as a gift.

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Something’s up… It’s April Fools Day and the day is nearly over and no one has even made a feeble attempt to pass off a gag or practical joke. I don’t trust my family. Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not planning something.

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Okay, really, why don’t the kids get up this easily on school days? For most of us it was the excitement of hitting Universal Studios for the day, but for Patrick it seemed it was the pancake machine in the hotel lobby.

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On any other day, you can’t get the kids up and moving to save your life, but this morning at 3:30 am, Patrick sprang out of bed and even the normally slow-to-rise Emily was up with a minimal amount of cajoling. They were excited beyond belief.

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I raced for more than a decade in the 80’s and 90’s and never got a photo as good as this one in my first race back in more than 21 years.  And yes, that’s a Rio Strada jersey, the club that I helped found 30 years ago.

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Do you remember the first time you learned how to ride a bike? I know I do, and I’m pretty sure it felt something like this kid.

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Patrick takes some last-minute tips from coach and dad, Steve before his first roller race at Hot Italian.

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Now there’s an easy way to add a post to McClellandfamily.com: Sara and Wes hand out the birth announcements for their new baby boy, Hunter, and I scan it and slap it up. Hunter William Norman tipped the scales at 8 lbs, 8 oz. and 21 inches. He was born on February 8th, 2011 making Lisa and I great aunts and uncles for the second time and making Les a great-grandparent also for the second time. At his little brothers baptism on March 6th, Wyatt, 2, loved showing off his new bro and never missed a chance to cuddle him or kiss him.

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