A Winter Statistic

My cousin Nick from MN sent this to me, though the shout out really needs to be directed to my Aunt Linda as she was the one who gave this little stat “legs” by passing it around via the Interwebs. Coming from MN and being in a few of these situations myself, I just had [...]

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Happy Birthday Hadley!

Instead of writing about what an amazing year it has been, I think I’ll just post pictures in chronological order.  Enjoy! There are more pictures here, that I uploaded to my Facebook page.  If you don’t have a Facebook page, you should get one (Mom!), but I have made the gallery public, so you can [...]

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Quick trip to Seattle

This past weekend we had a little whirlwind vacation to Seattle to visit my older sister Erin who was attending a conference.  Jennifer’s parents hooked us up with studio apartments to stay in through their timeshare, and they happened to be only about 4 blocks from Erin’s hotel. We left Portland once Jennifer made the [...]

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We should have named her Peter

Peter the Eater that is.  Hadley gets a daily report from her daycare that notes all her diaper changes, and what she ate among other things.  Every day we are getting notes like “LOTS of pot pie today”.  “TONS of quiche”, “LOADS of breakfast burrito”.  Her teachers report to us that Hadley is among the [...]

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Mediterranean Vegetable Soup

John and I have really been trying to eat healthier in ’09.  I keep reading about how you should start each meal with either a cup of vegetable soup or some salad to help fill your stomach up a little with something healthy before you eat your main meal. Dr. Barbara Rolls, a weight control [...]

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We’ve got a walker!

Between 9 and 10 months of age Hadley began letting go of her support when standing and would just stand all alone.  We thought it was adorable and knew walking wouldn’t be too far behind. Hadley has been bravely taking steps for a couple of weeks now.  First one, then two, then three.  Then came [...]

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Hadley in Black and White

I was on a shooting spree on Friday (camera, not guns) and took a bunch of pictures of Hadley in sepia and black and white.  Some of them turned out pretty darned cute if I do say so myself.

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Top 10 things we’ll miss about George Bush

as told by Mr. David Letterman.

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Sick New Years Party at the McCallum’s

Taken from urbandictionary.com Definition: SICK:  If it is sick, it is toatally (sic–would I make this up?) awesome Used in a sentence:  “Dude, check out my new quad” “Buddy she’s sick” Synonyms:  Awesome, Cool, Sweet Apparently this is the word the college kids are using these days in order to express how awesome something is.  [...]

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My new toy

I’m writing this blog post from my shiny new toy, an iPhone. This baby is as powerful as a laptop, but the size of a deck of cards. I’ve been playing with it nonstop. I decided to finally pull the trigger after talking about it for a year. I even bought one for my boo [...]

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