One of the reasons I like football

NY Jets Quarterback, Mark Sanchez.  Seriously, do I need to explain this?

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When a 4 year old decides the play…

Gary, my mom and I had breakfast with Max, Lucy and Hadley so we could let Shanna, Jay and Ollie sleep in. After a lovely breakfast I asked Max and Lucy what they wanted to do.  “Have a band!” replied Max.  “Sure,” I said “hand out the instruments”.  Max gave Gary some bells, mom was [...]

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Beating the heat

The temperture on Tuesday reached 106 degrees, on Wednesday it was another 106 degree day and today we had a “cool down” and it only reached 96.  This is virtually unheard of for Portland.  In fact the all time record high–ever–for Portland is 107.  The 7 day outlook is more promising in the fact that [...]

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Xtreme Social Networking

Yeah, you read that right, XTREME!  I updated about this on Facebook a while ago but since I email everyone that reads this blog, I think you all need a longer explanation. John being the Social Networking guru that he is suggested that I set up a profile on Linkedin.  In case you aren’t familiar, [...]

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Camera+Rain=Broken

We had a gorgeous weekend in the mid-80′s here in Portland.  We got a used Little Tykes cottage for Hadley that I cleaned up and put in the yard and we also decided to get her a little baby pool.  It was so fun to see her running around the yard and playing in her [...]

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REI Used Gear Sale

A couple of times each year REI holds a used gear sale for its members. This sale contains a huge number of items ranging from small items, like bike headlights or tiny pieces to your Yakima car rack, to large items, like tents, bikes and everything you need to head to Mt. Hood for a [...]

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Supporting the Economy by Text Message

Today I got an email at work from John, and this is what it read: Heather Rae McPhee!!!! We just got our AT&T bill. We each have 200 texts in our plan. YOU, my dear, texted 683 times over this last billing cycle!!!! I went over too, only by 83 texts. Needless to say our [...]

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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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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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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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