Welcome to our web site. We host this site to show friends and family our latest pictures and to share our latest news and stories. The photo above was taken at the Kaweah Cottage near Three Rivers, CA in August, 2011.

Our web site now includes pictures through December 31, 2011; Check out the photos using the PHOTOS link above. (Site last updated Feb. 3, 2012) We had a photo shoot in August, 2011 for our holiday cards and we're happy to say that we're finally getting the photos (January, 2012). While we missed our chance to use them for a holiday card and newsletter in 2011, at least they're not lost!

Posted September, 2011:

Roark is now in first grade at the same school with Rio, who is now in third grade.

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  • Mother and Grandmother NINA J. LACEY passed away from colon cancer on March 22, 2007. The tribute site can be found here.
  • Our Uncle CLETE THOMPSON passed away in August, 2009. The tribute site can be found here.

Older news and posts:

Posted December, 2009:

Rio is racing through first grade, after a busy kindergarten year of tremendous learning: reading, writing sentences, drawing, addition, subtraction, telling time, and counting money! We find post-its all over the house with "I Love Mommy", "I love Daddy", "Rio loves horses" and drawings of cats, flowers and butterflies. Every morning before school, she participates in "running club" around a track for 15 minutes. She totalled 120 miles for her kindergarten year!! Rio is also a Daisy Scout and is all about the friends she has made in school. She has retained her imaginative fairytale side and still enjoys dress-up and princesses.

Photo above taken during a trip to Princeton, May 2009.

Posted November, 2008:

Rio was on the radio at 8:30am on November 7th, 2008, appearing on a morning show for 93.3FM here in San Diego. It was part of a show called AJ's playhouse and was part of a section called "kidSmarts". Click here to hear the radio broadcast. It's a big file in MP3 format, so be patient.

Posted September, 2008:

We're so proud of Rio, who randomly taught herself to ride her bike without training wheels! WOW!

Roark has been swept away by the Magic School Bus, loving both the books and TV series. Mommy reads with Ms. Frizzle's voice, and Roark loves to quote Arnold's "I shoulda stayed home today," and has a crush on Phoebe ("at my old school..."). The science topics of the show have sparked huge interests: the human body (Roark requests to see your "uvula" and loves the digestive system, especially the esophagus) and currently the solar system/planets (calling Jupiter the wiggly planet). Roark seeks out big words (we should have seen this coming, with his insistence on "excavators" rather than the common term "diggers"). Roark's got a cute developing sense of humor. While walking by some flowers, he fake sneezed ("Ahchoo!") and then scolded the plants "hey pollen!" Daddy has introduced Roark to Alan Parsons and Roark walks around singing "eye in the sky, looking at you, I can read your mind." Before that, it was the BeeGees and "too much heaven." Currently Roark's favorite songs are "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles and "Thank you for the Music" by ABBA, not to mention the theme song from Diggerland, the heavy equipment adventure park just outside of London. Roark is finally swimming by himself, and we are excited for more summer pool days!

We encourage our friends to come and visit and/or stay with us. Summer is here, and it's a great time to swim in our pool.

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Rio and Roark Chatter

Rio and Roark have finally been split up and they each have their own bedroom. This new independence has been fun for them, but there is something that hasn't changed. Since they could walk, we've had a motion sensor in the hall to let us know that they're up and about during the night. Well, now they've decided that they can play a new game - sneak out without waking up the "big bellies." Well, I think it's fun that they're trying to outsmart the house, but really - "big bellies"? Apparently that is what we are!