Story Behind The Picture (New Feature on our Website): August 2001. Spokane, Washington. This is the first photo we took together. Laura and I met on July 30, 2001 at her cousin Missy’s wedding in Burns, Oregon (where I was living at the time). We talked, danced, and at the end of the night we exchanged […]
I lived for this stuff throughout my junior high and early high school years. I collected the magazines, videos, trading cards, action figures, and more. I watched the Saturday morning WWF shows and Saturday Night’s Main Event religiously. All the money earned from my newspaper route in junior high went straight to Hulk Hogan, British […]
OHHHHHHHHHH YEAH! We have come full circle and Ethan and Autumn’s playhouse is finished (well…almost). This past week, we (mostly Laura while I was at work) finished painting it to the delight of Ethan. He was a bit antsy all week when he couldn’t play in it. We’re very excited about what we designed and […]
Ice cream, boats, killer weather, and beautiful views of Seattle? Sounds like an opportunity we didn’t want to pass on. About two months ago, we read in the Seattle Times about Captain Larry Kezner and his Sunday Ice Cream Cruise on Lake Union. We kept thinking about it but never acted on it. With the […]
Over the past couple months, we’ve found joy in the iTunes radio feature. This is a feature that has been on iTunes since, I think, the first version of iTunes. We don’t know of anyone else who uses this feature, but it’s definitely an underrated feature that should at least be explored. First, the best […]
Last weekend, we hosted a Vardavar celebration at our home with fellow Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Armenia. Our gathering included Laura and myself along with our future Peace Corps volunteers Ethan and Autumn, and RPCVs David and Eloise Barshes, and Dominic and Sarah Monley. While we didn’t all serve at the same […]
Ethan’s 3rd birthday has come and gone. It was a wonderful weekend, yet alone month, of activities for him to enjoy. I think his 3rd birthday is more of a rite of passage. It’s similar to when a boy becomes a teenager on his 13th birthday. Ethan went from toddler to little boy this year. […]
My class at EMI finished today, but I won’t catch my flight until tomorrow morning. With my free time this evening I took a drive up to see Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The last time I was here was in 1976 when my family took a USA road trip. Needless to say, I […]
