Orcas Island

<div style="text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;">After we got home from Medford on Sunday we unloaded the car, stood there for a couple minutes, then began taking down the Christmas stuff and rearanging our living room.  Since we took out the wood stove we decided we would move the TV over ther to save room and make the living room feel bigger.  Its hard to tell in these crappy macbook webcam pictures but it made a big difference.  The room Feels larger and when we have our bible study over at our house it will be much better for that.  </div><div style="text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZcZakQ3_7kg/SWQ7mO9UMtI/AAAAAAAABvQ/xFLAZZ1eZaY/s1600-h/Photo+1.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZcZakQ3_7kg/SWQ7mO9UMtI/AAAAAAAABvQ/xFLAZZ1eZaY/s400/Photo+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> </div><br /><div style="text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZcZakQ3_7kg/SWQ7mVnF4aI/AAAAAAAABvY/spcdde4cTCc/s1600-h/Photo+3.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZcZakQ3_7kg/SWQ7mVnF4aI/AAAAAAAABvY/spcdde4cTCc/s400/Photo+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> </div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>

I’ve been tagged in a meme by David, who seems to think that I have refined tastes in music.  Unfortunately I don’t, but the poor hapless soul that happens across this page will be subjected to my music preferences nonetheless.  At least the albums don’t automatically start playing!   Here’s the deal:  I am to rattle off [...]

The old movie ‘White Christmas’ with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye is one of my favorite Christmas movies. It is a great mix of good old music, slapstick, and good ol’ Christmas cheer. However, given the latest round of snow piling up here in Portland, I’m rethinking this movie as my favorite. Growing up having a [...]

What a busy month!  Highlights include learning to sit up, the agonizing arrival of her first two teeth, and her first (truly dramatic) performance as the baby Jesus in a live nativity at church.  She’s been really quite mobile for a while — scooting, rolling, wiggling and pulling her way around the living room, but [...]