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Wow 6!

6 Years Old!

Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

Just a quick family entry today…

Jesse Dale turned 6 today – we’re now all back to even ages, 6, 8, and 10 for the brood.

These buggers sure grow up fast!

It is fun to reflect back to the day six years ago when Jesse arrived. Joie was hanging out with the boys in her Dad’s shop when her water broke. Ruined the chair I think. Her Mom drove her to the hospital. Joie had her Dad’s sweatpants on and a towel between her legs.

I arrived, probably by Noon. Jesse was born at 12:20 pm. Kiddo #3 was born end-to-end in about 1 hour.

(I’m sure I’ve got this all wrong – so ask Joie the next time you see us).

I wasn’t yet blogging when AJ or even Max was born, but for a trip down memory lane, here is the Jesse Arrives photo album.

Otherwise, this post was just six days away from the big event – but who knew at the time? My next posts in April didn’t start until the 17th, so that kind of tells it all – we were busy those two weeks!

Anyway, Jesse, here is your Spell With Flickr (again, courtesy Erik Kastner) homage:

Happy 6th Birthday Scooter!

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3rd Annual Vegas NASCAR Venture

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Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

We are now official NASCAR junkies (rednecks?) I believe. This was our fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race for us (though Neil and Dale have been to many more than us), and eight or more counting ARCA, Craftsman Truck, and Busch and now Nationwide Series races.

Three of the Sprint Cup races (formerly Nextel Cup, formerly Winston Cup) for us have been in Vegas.

It’s a great place to see a race – great enough that NASCAR is already working to put a second race in Vegas on the annual Sprint Cup schedule – sometime in the fall – probably to start as early as next year.

This is our third consecutive trip to Vegas for these races and we definitely have a blast. And I of course have many photos. This set are all from the Saturday Nationwide Series race. I actually thought the finish on this race was more exciting than the Cup race the next day.

Also, AJ has taken to the camera and took a bunch of photos too – of both races. Those will be the next set I post – his and mine and we’ll cover the Sprint Cup race. Stay tuned.

For now, it’s only Nationwide Series, but still, plenty of pics to enjoy… so, enjoy!

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Woo Hoo!

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Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

I worked from home today.

I PROMISE that I did.

My co-workers have the evidence all over their email inboxes.

The nice thing about working from home, on Leap Year is that for some reason your kids don’t have school AND the nicest day in weeks (or longer) appears.

So, we broke out the go-karts for Max and his buddy Josh (sorry, no photos).

Then later, AJ and I busted out the dirt bikes (thanks Buster).

No one took a picture of me though – but enjoy these of AJ – he can fly!

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Jesse’s Tooth

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Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

This is as good a test as any for posting here from Flickr.

I’m still really happy with Flickr – though not an avid user.

I just paid for a Premium membership though, so expect more photo streams!

On this stream, Jesse finally bucked up (with coaxing from her older brother AJ of course) and yanked that tooth. I’m sure it was dead and barely hanging on. Didn’t even bleed.

Fun stuff, but kinda sad – that’s the last of the “first” lost teeth we’ll have here in the Bartel household.

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