Sterling & Cheri Allan Family

April 2005

From our family to yours

Aubrie

Emilee, posing without prompt

Christian says "Cheese."

Aubrie, Christian, Emily, practicing for April Fool's day.
Aubrie is doing sign language for, "I don't see one of my siblings here."

We don't have a name for this one yet.
We estimate the first birthday party to be some time around Nov. 23, 2005.

Updated Family Photo

Cheri and Sterling, the proud parents

Christian's Training Camp
Click here for video (836 kb mpg) (not miles per gallon)

From February

Moved From Ephraim home, Feb. 4, 2005
Completely filled one 26-foot U-Haul plus three van loads.
Where did all this junk come from?

Sunday Morning in the New home. Feb. 6, 2005

New Digs

A little note

Life is never boring with the Allans. In the adult portion of our home, most of our adventuring is in the mind, as we expand our understanding of the world and the way things tick on this planet.

As you can see from the above photos, Cheri has her hands (and belly) full of child-rearing challenges. She is great to bone up on home schooling curriculum and approaches. This will be our first year in earnest for Christian, who is approaching "kindergarten" age. But home schooling begins in the womb when Cheri is the mom, reading to the kid, etc.

At 1½, 3½, and 5½ years of age, the children are plenty busy with the adventures of imagination, facilitated by card board boxes, blankets, chairs. Those get more wear than most of the toys that clutter our basement.

I'm heavily involved in the world of alternative energy coverage, having built a reputation over the past few years as having perhaps the best repository for cutting edge daily news regarding all things that move us closer to more clean, renewable, reliable, affordable energy solutions. Our directory and open source projects are also receiving a lot of attention and appreciation. The thing that has me most exited right now is preparations for a merger with Open Source Energy Network, which will really up the quality of our offerings. Click here (1.1 Mb wmv) for a sample introduction video directed to inventors.

I enjoy working from home, being around to see each little milestone of my children as they grow, and to help around the house to help relieve the load for Cheri.

In misc. news, Christian is starting into soccer. In his first game and experience with the sport Saturday, he came over to the sideline and asked Cheri if he could use one of the other balls because he just can't seem to get to the ball that they are kicking around on the field.

Cheri is a volunteer doing crafts for the weekly library story hour. She is also involved in a literary club. This month they read and will be discussing Mark Twain's Joan of Arc documentary book, which he considered his best work.

Cheri put me onto a book that I've been thoroughly been enjoying: Mary, Called Magdalene, a historic fiction by Margaret George, and a New York Times bestseller. Cheri is always reading at least one great book, going through them by the dozen.

We are grateful to the many people in our life who have supported our efforts to help us move forward in our goals and the development of our talents to help the world be a better place in which to live.

Sterling D. Allan

Sterling & Cheri Allan Family

From February

A little note

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