Okie and Nema were with us on last year's Christmas card, but they'll face some competition this year: we are going to have a baby in October! We don't yet know the gender, although we will find out in a few weeks. Katie has passed the first trimester with a few days of discomfort, but the first doctor's appointment indicated the baby is healthy. We listened to the heartbeat and saw pictures of the (then) 1-inch-long "peanut." By now it has more than tripled in size!
Katie's brother Jason and his family visited us in February, and we went to Disneyland for two days.
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| Me dominating Katie at Astro Blasters |
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| Garrett's favorite ride |
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Prior to that, Katie's parents visited. We toured a local windmill farm being built.
Nema is growing up! And chewing many unapproved items.
We flew to Santa Barbara for lunch in March.
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| Coastline east of Santa Barbara |
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| Final approach |
Last Saturday we went to a fly-in at Mojave Airport with a demonstration by Richard Branson's commercial space travel company, Scaled Composites.
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| White Knight 1 |
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| White Knight 2 |
I am still progressing through training at the center and Katie is looking forward to the end of the school year. We have travel plans for the summer and things to look forward to in the fall as well!
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| Snow on the hills |
