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Our Modern Family

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Our Modern Family · 37m ago

731 Days of Happiness

http://youtu.be/Jr7axAUoq-4 It is hard to imagine how much has happened since I received a call around 10am on May 21, 2010 to let us know that you were ready to make your grand entrance.  Since that day we have had 731 days (we got an extra one this year with leap year) of happiness. Nolin, [...]
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Our Modern Family · 3d ago

The Last Great Adventure (pt. 2)

From the get go, the Austin trip was great.  Nolin had his own seat on the plane and he was quite content to sit there and read his books and watch Super Why. When we arrived we caught a cab to the hotel, with a very interesting driver. He told us about his career in [...]
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Our Modern Family · 4d ago

The Last Great Adventure (pt.1)

It’s hard to fathom that in 5 days Nolin will be turning two years old. As exciting as this milestone is, it is going to throw a severe wrench into our travel habits. Since children under two are able to fly for free as a lap baby, it has made picking up and going somewhere [...]
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Our Modern Family · 1W ago

The Window Over Costa Rica

We got on the road early because we had about a two-hour drive to our third and final destination. The Paos Lodge was closer to the airport which would be nice for our trip to the airport the next morning, but it was also close to the Paos Volcano. The cool thing about the Paos [...]
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Our Modern Family · 1W ago

Looks Like A Carlos To Me

I am almost embarrassed to still be writing about our trip to Costa Rica.  Since then I have been to Atlanta and I am now in Norfolk.  It has been that crazy, and I still have a trip to Austin Texas all before Nolin turns 2 in less than two weeks. To pick up from [...]
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Our Modern Family · 3W ago

Raising Boys

So much like parenting, work has been crazy.  I am preparing for the busiest time of the year for me which will also put me at home for I believe 2 nights in the next 18 days. I am still trying to catch up on our Costa Rica trip, but I figured that I would [...]
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Our Modern Family · 3W ago

Adiós a las chicas

The trip from Grande Playa to the Arenal Volcanos seemed much shorter (4 hours instead of 5) which was further helped because it was actually daylight this time. Once again Nolin sat patiently in the back seat singing songs and commenting on just about anything as we drove along. You couldn’t ...
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Our Modern Family · 4W ago

Here Comes the Power Package

What do you do with a 22 month old who has either been in a plane or a car seat for 17 hours?  Open the door and unleash him on an unsuspecting friendly German couple operating the first hotel of our Costa Rican adventure of course! Nolin was a trooper on the trip and I [...]
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Our Modern Family · 1M ago

Welcome to Costa Rico!

No this isn’t a typo in the header, but I think we have now officially confused Nolin (and maybe ourselves). It was just a few weeks ago that he and Jenn were in Puerto Rico and now he just got back from Costa Rica, so every time we asked him where he was, he excitedly [...]
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Our Modern Family · 1M ago

Pass The Mic

Pap Pap has been out-of-town for a few weeks, and Pop is in Virginia Beach which has officially inaugurated me as the coolest man in Nolin’s life.  Lately he has been slightly obsessed with wanting me to read to him, fix things, play with him, etc., and I have to say that I am eating it up. [....
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