Tag Archives: Oliver

Sadness at the loss of our family dog

[caption id="attachment_2215" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Baxter after an escape attempt - April 2010"][/caption] Our 10 1/2 yr old dog, Baxter, passed away suddenly last night after getting quite sick.   John rushed him to the emergency pet hospital where he passed away about 30 minutes later. In the past...
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Getting into the holiday spirit!

Every Christmas season we like to take a family trip to downtown Seattle to get into the holiday spirit.  This year we took that trip kind of late in the season. We started out by visiting with Aunt Kathy and Uncle Seong Yoon briefly at their...
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Ollie's 4th Birthday Party

Ollie will be turning 4 next week and we decided to have a party for him this year at Chuck E Cheese.  Every kid's dream, every parent's headache!  That place is like a casino for kids.  Insane volume and lights.  Total sensory overload. We were hoping...
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Kingergarten Graduation 2010

Today was the last day of school and the day that Orion graduated from Kindergarten.  We are so proud of our little guy. Oliver and I headed to the school to join in on the celebration armed with chocolate covered strawberries.  When we arrived they were...
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Father's Day 2010

Today was Father's Day and originally we thought we might go see the air show in Tumwater.  But the weather turned out to be grey and rainy so we changed plans. We let Daddy sleep in and made him a special breakfast.  Then, in the afternoon,...
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Orion's art show

Tonight was Orion's art showing at school.  For the past couple of months he's been taking art classes after school in a program called Art Pioneers.  He loves it. We baked cookies, invited our friends Carol...
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Silver Falls State Park cabin retreat

We were so excited to head out for our first cabin retreat of the year at Silver Falls State Park in Oregon.  It's much like camping  since you have to cook your food by a campfire...
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Thanksgiving 2009

It was a typical rainy Thanksgiving . The bonus was that this year, unlike last, Oliver did not come down with a double...
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Halloween 2009

Another Halloween in the South Capital Campus neighborhood, and as usual we had a large crowd of trick-or-treaters.  Although, this year, it didn't rain so we expected much bigger crowd. I think the count was...
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