Mar 31

Baby Chicks for Easter

My parents went all out this year. They even brought in baby chicks. Here is a video of the girls admiring the chicks before everyone else arrives and the festivities begin.

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Mar 30

Twelve Year Anniversary

This year our wedding anniversary coincides with Easter. Friday night we celebrated by getting a babysitter and hitting the town. While dining over flank steak and a glass of the restaurant’s finest Bordeaux blend, we remembered out loud some of our favorite moments over the past twelve years.

Starting with when our eyes met down the aisle of St. Mary’s Church twelve years ago.

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Mar 24

Stanford Executive Education

Upon arrival to the Bay Area, I took a shuttle to Standford University and checked into their Graduate School of Business for a full week of intense education to further myself as an innovative technology leader. Along with 50 or so other colleagues from across our business and around the globe, we stayed in the GSB dorms for the week discussing case studies, learning, reading, studying, debating, theorizing, listening, networking, eating amazing food, drinking and experiencing what it might be like to be a Stanford graduate student (with some additional wining and dining.)

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Mar 14

The Weezy Cackle and Riding By Herself

Here are two videos to make you smile on this fine finale to the week.

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Mar 11

Learning to Ride a Bike

On the first nice Saturday of the year, you would have found all four of us outside, watching Belén try out her new bike, her second Specialized, with the help of Andy or I stabilizing the bike from behind.

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Mar 08

My Path to Motherhood

Writer, mother, traveler, small-town girl, big-life enthusiast and cool chick extraordinaire, Meagan Francis, has a new series at The Happiest Mom called My Path to Motherhood. The series will feature essays from women who have followed all different roads to becoming a mother.

I am thrilled to announce that my essay on my own path to motherhood kicks off the series today. Check it out at The Happiest Mom. I bet you will learn something about me. :)

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Mar 04

Manners, Gymnastics and Her Mother’s Daughter

The nice thing about not taking Eloise through the class is that I was able to sit back and watch Belén. I know I am biased as her mother but I have to say, I was very impressed with what I saw. Sure she can do all of the gymnastics moves she was asked to, but that wasn’t why I was impressed.

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Mar 03

Maintenance and Updated 2013 Resolutions

My plan is to improve the WIP problem slowly but surely throughout the year and leave 2013 as an agile person/family ready for anything. There is a lot of work between now and then to get to that point, but I think it is going to be worth it. The hardest part is going to be not taking on new things before the WIP is fixed. I’m going to need you all to keep me honest…and actually even since I started writing this post a couple of weeks ago, I have already taken something new on…but it is an opportunity I cannot pass up, otherwise I wouldn’t increase the WIP.

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Feb 28

Tell Me About Your Day

One of the things I find most amazing as a parent is when you see your children emulating something you do. All at once you realize that your every gesture, every word, every reaction is serving as a model for one of the most important people in your life.

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Feb 25

Learning to Ski

Now that Bogus Basin has its 2014 Season Passes on sale for $229, three of us in the family now have season passes.  The past two weekends we have made the 16-mile journey to our local ski resort to test our luck with snow and gravity. Last weekend didn’t turn out so well.  On our [...]

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