PDX Happenings

The other night we were giving Hadley her bath (which she decided she loves again by the way) and she counted from one to ten in Spanish, totally unprompted.  She’s counted from one to ten before in Spanish, but we usually have to ask her what number is next.  Well, I grabbed the camera to [...]

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John and I have never been really big on celebrating holidays with elaborate gifts.  We prefer to spend time together and cook something nice and perhaps watch a movie.  After all, families that cook together, stay together.  This saying was to be challenged on Valentine’s Day 2006.
John and I were both working downtown at that [...]

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I realize I’ve been seriously lagging behind on my posts.  There are always other things to do it seems, besides writing blog posts.  So I apologize for that.  If you are reading this now, I appreciate you checking back to see if there is anything new.
Well, we have a two year old on our hands!  [...]

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You will see what I mean by the title of this post once you watch the video.  I took this video a couple of weeks ago when we started working on counting.  She did pretty well, and it’s fun to watch her learn.  She can almost count to 10 by herself now, although she usually [...]

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We had plans to see Santa Claus this morning with our friends Jeff, Sofia and their daughter Ana.  We had been preparing for it quite a bit because although Hadley thoroughly enjoyed meeting the fat man last year, we didn’t know how this year would go.  Toddlers are a whole different story and Hadley definitely [...]

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First you buy the tree (notice the Clark Griswold pose)
And you need to clean

And then you decorate the tree

Christmas is here!

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I always thought I hated pork chops because the ones we have made have always turned out dry, and rubbery.  Well, we were making two mistakes…wrong recipe and wrong cut.  I learned that the thin cut pork chops will ALWAYS be rubbery, so buy at least a 3/4″ inch cut, but in my opinion the [...]

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We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, we have an amazing daycare and are so lucky that Hadley gets to spend her days there.  They do an annual “lantern walk” at Halloween time and we were able to attend this year.  We didn’t go last year because Hadley was so young, but this [...]

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This post should have been written days ago, but this house has been a hotbed of sick to say the least.  It all started with John, Hadley and I all coming down with the flu 2 weeks ago.  We survived, barely.  Between the three of us, we barely held it together, but hopefully that means [...]

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me:  “I live in Oregon, and it is often rainy here in the winter.  I’ve noticed that my service gets interrupted with the slightest bit of rain or wind.  Is this normal or do I need to have a technician come look at it?”
Customer Cervice Guru:  “That’s normal.  If I lived where you do, I [...]

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