Riley:
Favorite Far-Off Places:
Mount Rushmore, Grand Canyon, Crawford
TX, Kentucky, Capitola beach,
Space Mountain and Big Thunder
Mountain, Bonfonte Gardens.
Favorite Movies / TV:
America’s Funniest Home Videos (Riley’s clip was shown again
this year), SpongeBob Squarepants, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Jimmy Neutron, Star Wars, Robots, Chicken Little, Kicking & Screaming.
Favorite Music:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, No Doubt, Madagascar soundtrack.
Favorite Hobbies:
Tony Hawk and Star Wars computer games, Legos, reading books, collecting
flags and souvenirs from other states and countries, Chess Club, Disney
theme parks, T-Ball, Soccer,
Cub Scouts.
Cool Gadgets:
iPod Shuffle (second hand from Dad), Digital Camera, flashlights.
Highlights:
Traveling with Grandma and Grandpa Hargrove to Kentucky and Texas and
places in between. Learned to tie shoes and lost front teeth. Performed
in a school play, Academic Excellence Award, summer marine camp. Talking
to animated Crush the Turtle at Disneyland. |
Quinn:
Favorite Far-Off Places:
Kentucky Farms, Santa Cruz surf (okay, not a favorite), San
Francisco and Oakland Zoos, Disneyland, It’s
a Small World, and the Matterhorn, seeing the great white shark at
the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Favorite Movies / TV:
Madagascar, “Wiki Wonka” and the Chocolate Factory, Dora the
Explorer, The Wiggles, Caliou, Teletubbies.
Favorite Music:
The Wiggles, singing “Let’s Get it Started,” “It’s
a Small World” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” playing
with various guitars and keyboards.
Favorite Hobbies: Drawing and coloring, singing, playing with Max the
kitten, swimming lessons, playing with Brio trains, playing
on his computer. Looking for Christmas lights and shopping at Target.
Playing with friends at daycare. Pressing Riley’s buttons.
Cool Gadgets:
iMac G3, electric guitars, “driving” the family car and pressing
the buttons.
Highlights:
Winning the Survivor pool one week, dressing up as a rock star for Halloween,
meeting Murray Wiggle
at a Wiggles concert. Eating peanut butter and jelly, chicken nuggets,
and fruit and nothing else! |
Julie:
Favorite Far-Off Places:
Tower of
London, Downtown London, London
Eye, Moulin Rouge show, traditional Parisian dinner (many courses,
took a LONG time), Eiffel
Tower, Disneyland Paris,
and Disneyland (of course), and all of the shopping I got to do along
the way!
Favorite Movies / TV:
Wedding Crashers, Amazing Race (not the family edition), Nanny 911, HGTV
shows, Survivor, Lost.
Favorite Music: U2, new Depeche Mode, Gwen Stefani
Favorite Hobbies:
Scrapbooking, stamping (still with Stampin’ Up-hanging on), various
other crafts, reading, and bunco
Cool Gadgets:
??? I guess my very old iPod (because I don’t have the one with
video), my cell phone-love it!
Highlights:
Seeing U2 on both legs of their tour through the Bay Area, also saw Gwen
Stefani, Duran Duran and Depeche Mode. Having my summer off (but not the
part when I had to be up and dressed by 7:30 a.m. to let contractors and
workers in), spending time with my boys, getting my kitchen back, anniversary
trip to Europe. Won the Survivor Palau office pool. Trips to Disneyland.
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Kevin:
Favorite Far-Off Places:
Tower of London and Tower
Bridge; being the only people wandering around downtown
London on a Sunday (neutron bomb style), Adventure Isle at Disneyland
Paris, Moulin
Rouge Show, Getting lost within 15 minutes of arriving in Paris (okay,
not a favorite). Disneyland (as always)
Favorite Movies / TV:
Wedding
Crashers, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Star Wars, Lost, Survivor, The Office,
My Name is Earl, King Kong
Favorite Music:
Audioslave, Gwen Stefani, The Caesars “Jerk it Out,” various
podsafe artists, lots of “mashups”
Favorite Hobbies:
Running a Survivor office pool, website and podcast devoted to The
Frat Pack comedy actors, listening to podcasts.
Cool Gadgets:
iPod nano, Samson C01U condenser microphone, various digital cameras (had
two stolen or lost this year),
Highlights:
Celebrating 10 year wedding anniversary with trip to London
and Paris. Losing the
annual Oscar bet, going to Ontario for the Podcasting
Conference, interesting and challenging projects at work (Robert Half
International). Celebrating ten years of Lip
Balm Anonymous by once again not updating the site.
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