Durand Family Year-End Update 2011
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The Orange Durands 2011
Enjoying the festivities of the season in Old Towne Orange, California.             Photo by Ronan Murray.

We'd love to hear from you: Ross - rdurand@socal.rr.com
Kristen - kdurand@socal.rr.com
Sydney - sydkyd@zoobuh.com
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Thanks for visiting our little webpage. We'll give you our big news from the year and a few pictures to look at.


Our year in Brief for more photos follow the links on our photo page

First of all, we are all grateful to be healthy and happy and employed in a time of so much hardship.

This year was quite straightforward for the Orange Durands, our biggest "group news" would be our short summer train trip to Santa Barbara and the decks we added on to our house. Hopefully some of you will get to come enjoy them with us sometime!

beach
The Girls loved the Santa Barbara beach.
 mission
Mission Santa Barbara
 hotel
Our Wonderful Hotel
Front Deck
The Front Deck!
 sydcoaster
First ever "real" rollercoaster ride!
 sierra coaster
First ever "real" rollercoaster ride!


Sydney feeds a giraffe Sydney - Sydney loves giraffes! She was so excited to get to feed this one at the Santa Barbara Zoo during our vacation. She continues to do well in school, and according to her, her teacher regularly tells her how awesome she is!a frog Sydney drew

Sydney turned 11 this year and still loves gymnastics. She also started art lessons this year, a passion she has had for as long as we can remember.
This summer Sydney returned as a camper to Arrowbear Music Camp where she built on her percussion skills by playing claves on "And I Love Her" and crash cymbals on "The Thunderer" march by John Phillip Sousa!

Sierra at 8 years old

Sierra
Sierra turned 8 this year and is having a great time in third grade! She loves to read books from the "Dear Dumb Diary"series. She also loves that silly Pigeon that wants to drive a bus.

Sierra loves to make up dances with her friends and can often be found in the living room with music on twirling in circles. She has also been aggressively growing her Barbie collection.

Sierra CatSierra was in a dance recital again last June but has since decided that ballet may not be for her and has her eye on taking karate in the new year.

Sierra enjoyed a week at camp with Dad while Sydney was a camper. She can often be heard saying "meow" and we wonder which side of the family she gets her "cat" from.

 





KristenKristen works hard and plays hard. This probably explains why she received a Rock Band video game drum set for her 16th anniversary! She enjoys Friday nights when we get together with neighbors and friends to play rock band and enjoy food and refreshment.

Kristen loves reading, snuggling with her family, the new decks, and her iPad :-) She continues to  direct marketing for the office properties division of The Irvine Company.





Ross and WhaleRoss continues to do his part teaching science at Rancho Alamitos High School and still spends several weeks of the summer at Arrowbear Music Camp. On an average day he loves spending time with his family doing homework or playing games or watching tv.

This year saw the release of "American Genius" at the Riverside International Film Festival. Ross was the lead actor in the film, which won the audience choice award for best comedy. We are amused that this has garnered him an imdb.com listing as actor.

Ross continues to write and record music for fun. He currently tops the songfight.org list with the most all-time submissions under a single artist name. Most of the latest can usually be found at his website.





CopernicusCopper, at 15, is old and tired, but happy.

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