For Thanksgiving in 2004, the Hanlons invited us, or at least those of us old enough to be interested and young enough to be interested in spending a long weekend with the parents, to accompany…
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Pools II (2004)
We start this second look at our family in pools with Alban diving. The end of this particular dive is in the next photo. Whatever it is, if it’s done in the…
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Alexander and Charles are Baptized
On August 12, 2004, l’abbé Texier, until his retirement a catholic priest in Bordeaux for over 20 years, baptized Alex and Charles in the Church of Sainte Anne de Tréal. L’abbé had retired to…
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Road Trip to Colorado in June 2004
In June 2004, after years of constant overwork, I finally had a little free time. Ah, the joys of being laid off! At the same time, Tom was on vacation with nothing…
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Albion’s Hobby
One of the later hobbies to make an appearance, and not a long one at that, was Albion‘s alone. During the spring of 2004, he graduated from soccer and skateboarding to mountain biking. Well, he…
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Trains
My grandfather, great grandfather, great-uncle, great great-uncles and great great grandfather all worked for the Great Western Railway, or GWR, in England, as did the widow of one of them, for a total of…
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TV, Video Game and Computer Screens
The most difficult activities to regulate in our house were watching TV or movies and playing video games. What we can all do with our various screens nowadays is a wonder, but they are simply…
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2003: maximum youth soccer!
By the fall of 2003, we had five out of our six children playing soccer every week. That is all of the boys! For the parents, that meant at least one match per…
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Vacations
Like most families, we loved our vacations, and our camera tended to see the light of day most often during vacations . . . . Where? Well, you may know Yosemite National Park…
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Courtney and Antony tie the knot!!
On November 15, 2003, Antony Nash and Courtney Bolin FINALLY got married! Our interest in this noteworthy event is simple: the groom before the wedding, and the bride after, are family! Antony is my…
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Home in 2003
Marie-Hélène chose May 2003 to put together a library of photos of our home. My guess is that her doing so indicates that she was satisfied with where it was by then…
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Vancouver in 2003
My English friend David Sandles (who also appears on my friends page) turned 50 in April 2003, and we decided to surprise him by showing up unannounced at his birthday party in Vancouver, BC.…
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Through no fault of his own . . .
It’s a big number, 50, and in honor of Ian’s getting there pretty much intact (give or take a few brain cells!), Marie-Hélène decided to throw him a party. Thank you very much…
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Children have a habit of Fooling Around!
The children fooled around effortlessly, like puppies, making adventures out of nothing and drama out of less. For many years, roughhousing was key, a simple joy to be shared. But they had…
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Xmas 1994-2001: it’s Christmas!
It’s Christmas!! The expectation would build in our house like an impending storm in a film. The preparations started early, and the excitement built. In the Stock Brun Berhaut household, Christmas was…
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New York City
The first step on our emigration from France to Santa Cruz in June 1997 was a British Airways flight from Paris to London Heathrow and another on to JFK in New York. That…
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Halloween
Halloween is one of the USA’s more recent and successful exports to Western Europe, but to really get into the spirit of the thing it helped us to live in the US. Beginning…
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Homework
Okay, so homework was never really a hobby, not like soccer, swimming pools, Disney, Halloween or other real childhood pleasures. It was an institutionally required activity. As such, it was unlikely to…
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Swimming Pools
Here’s Alban at Disneyland. Is this boy happy, or what!! By the way, Alban does not want to convey the impression that he cannot swim. He can now. When this photo was taken, in…
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The short, sweet life of Edgar . . .
Marie-Hélène and I disagreed on pretty much everything, when you think about it. She is the soul of discretion: I have a big mouth. I rarely worry about what others might think:…
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12 days in Florida . . .
This summer vacation in 2000 started with a flight from San Francisco to Memphis, and on to Orlando. It was no ordinary flight . . . . We all want to thank Northwest Airlines, and…
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Disney Rides
It’s true. We realize that four Disney pages is a lot in a family photo album. But nothing that you can buy gave this family more pleasure during our early years together than The…
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Residents of Disneyland . . .
Check out the sweater! When our older children were regular visitors at the Paris Disneyland, they each had Disney sweaters, and wore them if we could arrange that. I had one too,…
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Photo Albums: the genesis of Ian’s memoirs
This website started out of my hobby of putting together themed photograph albums every two or three years. The hobby started in 1979: I graduated from UC Berkeley that year, and the first…
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“Everybody’s going surfin’, Surfin’ USA ..”
And if you don’t recognize that Beach Boys tune, you clicked here by mistake! Everybody went surfing except the parents, that is, and except Alex who was only a year old. Charlie,…