Archive for the 'Memories' Category

The Passing of a Giant

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

I’m going to process this more later, but I feel like I need to get this down while I’m thinking about it.
An hour ago at 2:30am Anchorage Time, Saturday August 16, my father passed away.
This has been an amazing week reconnecting with my family, visiting with dad, and mentally preparing. I can honestly say that [...]

Crazy Weekend

Monday, July 28th, 2008

It was a crazy weekend. We picked blueberries Saturday morning, and then took Maren to The Bite of Salem. The Bite needs to start competing with the Salem Art Fair and the Worldbeat Festival. It’s basically a cheap carnival, fair food (as in hotdogs, elephant ears) and not really great bands on a stage on [...]

Making Memories

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Dinners have been simple as of late, vegetables and meat. I like simple, especially after a day of work. I made breakfast for the staff today. Oh, and we took Maren swimming for the first time today with the ‘rents. Been a long time since I’d been swimming. Not a big fan of the public [...]

Some Christmas Love

Monday, January 14th, 2008

So much for a vacation! I intended to just relax all 2 weeks of my vacation, but I actually ended up doing alot of work. Fun work, but I didn’t really get anything done that I wanted to. Bummer. It’s all good though, and we had an awesome Christmas. As usual, I’m completely behind on [...]

It’s a Jolly Holiday with Maren

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

So, I recently picked up Mary Poppins for Maren. It’s now her new obsession. She knows all the songs, and is constantly singing them around the house, which is fantastic. I’m actually surprised at how well she can pronounce Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. She actually picks up on words and melodies really fast, and her relative pitch is [...]