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Arizona State Fair
Took a trip to downtown Phoenix today for the State Fair. My first rock concert when I was about 14 was in the Memorial Colliseum in the background. Lesa and Shaw on a superman type ride where you...
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Thanksgiving 2011
We did something a bit out of the ordinary this year. Not that we haven't ever done anything like it in our 18 year history, but we went and had a Thanksgiving buffet at one of the local high-end...
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Christmas season adventures
Paid a visit to the Phoenix Temple site after Brady's Missionary Homecoming address in Cindy's ward. It's still hard to detect what the footprint of the building proper will be. I'm aware that local...
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Lego Mania!
Please welcome special guest blogger Mr Shaw Whipple!These look like small legos containers, but there are actually more than you think. It's an optical illusion. Let's go look at some of the...
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Christmas Day
Clan Whipple took a Sabbath Day/Christmas Day stroll along the Lehi Trail out to the banks of the Salt River on the north end of Mesa. I'm a great lover of the desert and all of it's beauty and...
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10 lbs of stuff in a 5 lb bag!
More fun stuff during the time off from school. Hit the desert for a bit. This photo has a certain "American Gothic" quality to it... Shaw got inside of a hurricane simulator- 36 MPH......
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Behind the scenes
Shaw went to work on a big event with me this week at a really cool concert venue in Scottsdale. Those two road cases that he's sitting next to- he wheeled those up the ramp in the loading dock and up...
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We love the desert
It's nice to be out hiking in February in shorts and t-shirts. The weather right now is a gift from God called "October through May" and we accept it graciously. Shaw is standing in front of an...
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New glasses, new haircut, new man!
This posting is only partly about a great haircut... look at what's on Shaw's face in the mirror! The nurse at Shaw's school sent a note home last month that she detected something seriously wrong...
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He once was lost, but now is...
FOUND! We found him! He was at the Arizona Sea Life Aquarium all along. (Nemo) He was a lot smaller in person or... err.. in fishness than I thought he would be. Just as colorful though. I don't...
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Getting closer!
Paid another visit to the Gilbert Temple site today after church meetings. As we were nearing the site and the construction cranes and the steeple came in to view from a distance, I almost thought I...
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He's getting growed up ril gud!
Shaw earned several Cub Scout awards and they were presented at the Blue and Gold Banquet a couple of weeks ago. Although I didn't get a picture of them, we got a visit from Gramma and Grampa Ross who...
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Shaw is 11 years old!
We hired a mobile video arcade to come to our house for Shaw's 11th birthday. If you have one of these pull up at your house, you are the coolest kid in the neighborhood. The only thing that could...
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Springtime in the desert
Between Facebook updates, writing magazine articles regularly, and updating two blogs- one of DJ adventures and the other of family adventures, I sometimes feel a bit talked out and I don't want this...
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Spring break activities
There was a great music and art festival in Mesa over Spring break that we paid a visit to. This thing is called the Mirazoso. It's an inflatable sculpture that you go inside of. It's a bit...
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Air and Space Museum
We discovered an underutilized treasure in Southern Arizona. The Pima Air and Space Museum. My buddy Scott was in town from LA to help me with a big DJ job so he was on camera duty. It was kinda...
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Two spring break activities in one day
If I didn't have pictures to prove it, you'd never believe how much fun we crammed in to one day. We started the day at Jambo's Indoor Amusement Park. Lesa and Shaw being chased by a giant elephant....
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Here's the pictures to prove it.
Lots of stuff going on in the Whipple Family lately- each too small for a blog posting of their own but combining all of them sure makes a huge report. Enjoy the pics and commentary-- I (Curtis)...
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Service project
Shaw and I took care of a Priesthood assignment last Saturday morning. We got up at 420AM, hit the road at 430AM, drove one hour south to Coolidge AZ for a 530AM start time. The sun was just coming...
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Missed it by that much...
These pictures are actually a couple of weeks old. Too busy to post them. You know we have visited the temple construction site regularly but guess what we missed? Several Facebook friends posted...
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Solar eclipse- May 20, 2012
I've loved astronomy and NASA since I was a kid. I learned about the Space Shuttle when I was in 3rd grade in 1973 and was hooked. Our school in Winslow Arizona- amazingly- had a really cool model of...
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A couple more photos of the eclipse...
If you haven't read the next post, read that one first and then come back to this one. Here are a couple of professional photos of the eclipse last week. This one was taken right here at the...
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Follow me boys!
It's almost like a Fred MacMurray movie. Shaw went off on his first Boy Scout overnighter last week. He seems to have survived. We bought him the smallest Cub Scout shirt available and he wore it for 3...
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Room remodel
Shaw is getting all growed up ril gud and it was time to remodel his room from a boys room to a young man's room. Baby blue is gone. Shaw picked out the candy apple red with black accents. When he...
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Wrapping up the summer
Last summer, we went on several road trips to try to visit all of the National Parks, Monuments and Historical Sites in Arizona. There are 20 and we only got to 14 of them plus some other places of...
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