English and Spanish
Bilingual fluency at the boys’ respective grade levels, used across school, family, culture, travel, and community.
Shared identity · individual roles
Family
Family continuity is built in ordinary weeks: swim meets, soccer games, bikes, runs, school, travel, camping, radio, and the recurring miracle of locating every required piece of gear.
Randall and Krista
Randall is a soccer dad and swim dad, as well as a runner, cyclist, open-water swimmer, backcountry skier, snow camper, tent camper, and kayaker. The boys’ sports and the family’s outdoor life are not sidebars to preparedness. They are where the system is used every week.
Randall is orange. Krista is willing to accept purple when a color assignment is useful, which is a meaningful concession from a person who does not particularly want a color.
Krista is K6KEG and the Board Secretary for Shalom Free Medical Clinic, Chico AquaJets, Chico Junior High Drama Boosters, and Rosas de María. Randall is K6RCS, President of Shalom, Treasurer of Rosas de María, and the primary author of Team Stone’s radio and travel systems.
The boys
Both boys are bilingual and fluent for their grade levels in English and Spanish. They swim competitively, bike for transportation, skate, run, play soccer and baseball, participate in Virtues and Ballet Folklórico, and use GMRS.
Rhys also participates in Scouts, performs in drama, and has learned small-boat sailing. Rhys uses blue as his family identifier. Karden uses green.
Privacy
Public pages can show the family and the systems without publishing school schedules, live travel, home patterns, private radio details, or information that creates a future burden for the boys.
From the archive
The Stone family
Original photograph queued for caption, crop, and rights review.
Water
Competitive swimming, family swimming, open water, whitewater kayaking, and small-boat sailing.
Land
Bikes, Class IV lanes, running, soccer, baseball, skating, EUCs, hiking, skiing, and snowshoeing.
Signal
GMRS family roles, amateur-radio awareness, APRS, clear speech, listening, rendezvous, and fallback plans.
Family systems in practice
Preparedness is mostly ordinary movement together.
Travel, hiking, coast days, baseball trips, extended family, and getting everyone through the door with the necessary equipment are where Team Stone habits become real.
