WEIRD

So my parents were reading through USA Today the other day and came across an advertisement.  It's for a hotel and has a picture of a kid jumping into a pool.  My mom was convinced that it was Caleb - in fact it looks exactly like him.  Everyone has a twin and this is Caleb's!  Anyway - the kid in this picture is probably a 37 year old hobo by now...

Also, we forgot it was picture day this year - when you forget that it's picture day -here is what the pictures end up looking like....

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WOW - IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME

Seriously, like 3 months.  Usually I'm being a little tongue in cheek when I talk about a quarterly update- but this time it's really true.  Anyway - as usual I'll let some pics do the talking.  There have been some cool events since I last posted... like Christmas.  that was good.  then Chase and I took a trip to Pittsburgh.  I decided when Caleb was 5 that I would do a little one on one trip with each of my kids at certain intervals in their lives.  Just as a chance to connect and make some memories.  Caleb and I went to Chicago when he was 5 and Chase and I went to Pittsburgh.  It was really cool.  Here are a few pics so you can check out the fam and my cute kids!

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We had a trip to NYC that was pretty cool - it seems like forever ago because we came right back to Dave and Danielle's wedding and it seems like it's been a blur since then.  It was great to connect with Matt and Kristin Donovan again too - they stayed at our place during the weekend of the wedding.  Matt took some great pics of the fam at our place which I've posted.  This will be a good but crazy week - I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff done before my very long vacation after Christmas.  I'll actually be out of the office for like 16 days in a row.  I've accumulated a ton of unused vacation time this year because it's been so busy and now I have to use it all up at once.  It will be the longest break from work in the last 13 years.  That's really weird to think about.  Anyway - I haven't posted in a while and wanted to get some pics up from NYC and from Matt's weekend with us.  Peace out.

Fall Happenings

It's been a great fall so far.  Albeit very busy and stressful at work with the construction project underway.  Things are cool at home.  Caleb is in a basketball league (his first attempt at organized sports).  Ayden just had her second birthday last week.  And Chase is just generally cute.  Here are some pics of recent events in the Sanford home.

I'm a Pro Golfer

Yeah not really.  We got back from FLA last week and it was an amazing trip - cool time to connect with Kim first of all.  It's amazing how much you lose touch with three kids and how much you are absolutely controlled by your schedule and their schedule.  This was the first vacation I can remember in a long time when we just really didn't have anything to do except get spoiled with 5 star treatment for 5 days.  It was awesome.  We stayed at the World Golf Village (www.wgv.com) and it was amazing.  Yes and we did win the golf tournament but it did involve taking our handicaps into consideration, so as my friend Jim said, "it's like winning the special olympics of golf."  All right - it's not that bad - but it's funny how people think I'm like a world class golfer because of it  - and that's really not the case.

Anyway -here are some pics from our trip and a couple of our cute kids.  Peace out - sorry for not posting for like 7,342 months.

This was Kim and I at the World Golf Village                                                                                Jim and I (on the ends) with PGA players Jacobsen & McCarron

Us at the Awards Banquet at the Hall of Fame                                                                                     Our team standing with our make believe trophy

My beautiful wife (isn't she amazing?)                                                           Ayden with her doll (she named her Baby Joy)

The kids                                                                                                                       That crazy fall snow last Saturday -this is looking out our living room.