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I was on facebook and I came across a link to the Madsen Bike company. They have some sweet rides. If you want a chance to win one during the month of July check out this link.

MADSEN Cargo Bikes

Thought I would update the look of the ekfamily.net website. I like the colors other than the fact that there is a little too much pink… looks a tad girly. Oh well… next time I will go with something more manly.

I came across a web page that has the Swedish pronunciation of our last name today.  As most of our family and close friends know “ek” means “oak” in Swedish.  From the best of my memory, our family has always said “Ek” with a really short e, but apparently the Swedes don’t agree.  Sounds like the e is a long e, almost a ee-a, or ee-e sound.  

Check it out: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Sv-ek.ogg.  (When you get to the page click on the Play button… the one with the triangle on it).

I finally bought a new desktop computer. After much debate about whether I should build or buy my next PC, I just decided yesterday that I would buy a normal pre-built computer from newegg.com. It is a Gateway computer and it looks pretty descent.  I also got a 21.6″ LCD monitor as well.  I haven’t told Meredith yet, but I am 100% positive that she will be extremely relieved that the decision was made.

Gateway DX4200-09 Phenom X4 9100e(1.8GHz) 4GB DDR2 ATI Radeon HD 3200ASUS VK221D Black 21.6" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor

ASUS VK221D Black 21.6" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor

Well, I haven’t updated this site since last summer so I thought that I would make another post, just so that when people come to the site they don’t see a 6 month old post first thing. (absolutely pitiful, não é?)

August has been a pretty good month and I thought that I would just throw out a few family highlights…

• Gabriella turned 1 year this month
• Gabriella supposedly took her first steps a few days ago when I wasn’t around. Since then she has been trying off and on.  She is still the fastest crawler in the house.
• Maryke and Joshua got registered at the Treehouse school for home-schooled kids.  I had no idea such things existed.  Classes once a week and real, certified teachers will be teaching the classes.  I don’t remember the full list of what we signed Maryke up for, but it included Spanish, “family” math, a science class about nature, a reading class, an art class, and one more class.  I think it was taekwondo or cooking, I can’t remember.  Joshua isn’t even kindergarden age, so his class is more like pre-school stuff where the learning is activity and play-based.  If you are interested in checking out the organization’s website you can click here.  Meredith will still be homeschooling Maryke (and Joshua), but it certainly will be good for them to have one day a week where they sit down in a formal classroom and they can have other “school” friends, etc.
• We got Maryke and Joshua registered for their next round of Swimming lessons.

Pictures to come!