Adventure Gallery: Halloween 2008

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You can also watch a significantly higher-quality version of the video above in our Me.com gallery.
In addition, it turns out our neighbors were in the parade this year. So, for them I assembled a separate video of “The Peace Train” entry and Rob Handy’s campaign group. You’re welcome to watch it as well!

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9 years oldToday is Gauss’s 9th birthday! As I wrote back in January, Gauss is in great shape for a dog his age. No signs of arthritis, his teeth and gums are healthy, and he still has lots of energy (when he wants to). For his birthday, Jen and Evan made some homemade peanut butter [...]

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Anytime it snows for more than, say, three hours in Eugene, it’s considered “real” snow. But today, it snowed continuously for at least 8 hours! And that has to be some kind of record, right? Ok, perhaps not. But given that we typically only get snow in the Southern Willamette Valley just once, maybe twice [...]

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1 week old…
… on Christmas Day
Adventure Gallery: Welcome, Erin!(Registered users only)

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Tim and Kim made us a cool gingerbread house and also sent along an entertaining time-lapse movie of them assembling it. But after a week of being on display in our kitchen, it was time for it to go. We decided to respond with a video documenting its demise. At their suggestion, we posted the [...]

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Obviously, it’s been a busy holiday season for us. Once we found out the baby was coming a week before Christmas, we decided to postpone sending out a traditional Christmas card and to try to send out a photo card of some kind in the new year. (So please don’t take us off your Christmas [...]

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Our daughter, Erin Leann Hackstadt, was born at 7:39 AM this morning by planned c-section. She weighs 6 lb. 12 oz. and seems very healthy. Her initial platelet count was normal and there are no signs of problems at this point. Jen is groggy, but she is already nursing and is doing very well. We’ll [...]

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As is tradition, here are a few more photos of this year’s Christmas lights:
  

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As you may have noticed, we’ve partially updated the theme on our site and renamed our blog.

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