Last weekend we went down to one of our local do-it-yourself pottery places, Brush-Fire, and made a tile with Evan’s hand and foot print on it. We’re calling it his 3-month tile even though it’s a couple weeks early, and we plan to do a couple more, one at 6 months and one at [...]

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Take a look at the gorgeous produce coming from our garden right now! We’ve been enjoying handfuls of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes for 2-3 weeks, but now the Early Girl tomatoes are ripening up quickly. Of course, the zucchini continue unabated. Want some? (Hahaha!) I found another 20-incher hidden under some leaves! I decided [...]

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We’ve posted a small collection of photos of Evan taken so far during the month of August. (Ok, so there’s one from the last day of July, too.) There are a couple pretty funny photos in the album.
In our ongoing effort to limit the number of completely publicly available photos, this set has [...]

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As most of you know, I have not been diving since last September. Now that Evan has been born, I’m ready to get back into the water and decided to start with a refresher dive in the pool.
Last night, Steve and Evan went with me to the local pool where a Eugene Skin Diver’s [...]

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In the weeks following Evan’s birth, we had several visits from family. Steve’s parents saw Evan while he was in the hospital in Portland. Then, after we had been home for a couple weeks, Jen’s dad and step-mom visited right after the 4th of July. This was followed by a visit from Jen’s brother [...]

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Joel Spolsky has written an entertaining article called Hitting the High Notes in which he ponders whether it makes sense to talk about a company having the “best” programmers. In this day and age of cost reductions and outsourcing, Joel bucks the conventional wisdom and makes a case for quality. Here’s an excerpt:
Essentially, design adds [...]

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Yesterday was our 6th wedding anniversary. It’s kind of hard to believe we’ve been married that long (and even harder to believe that we’ve been together over twice that long!). Time sure does fly when you’re having fun! Last night was very nice. Jen went to great lengths to make the evening special for [...]

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