Category: Family

  • 2017 Philmont Experience

      Since Summer 2016, troop 73 has known that we would have an opportunity to go to the Philmont Ranch in New Mexico.  We had won the lottery, and had 24 spots available to our troop.  This means that we had the potential to take 20 kids and 4 adults in two crews out to…

  • Moving to Ohio

    If you haven’t heard by now, I’m leaving Oregon State University.  After 13 years at the Oregon State University Libraries, my family and I are pulling up stakes and heading to Columbus, Ohio to take the position of Head, Digital Initiatives at The Ohio State University Libraries.  It has been a fantastic 13 years, filled…

  • Building your own reminder system

    One of the hats I wear is as a member of the Independence Library Board.  I love it because I don’t work with public libraries as often as I’d like to in my real job, and honestly, the Independence Public Library is the center of the community.  The Library is a center for adults looking…

  • 2011 Pumpkin #2–Toothless the Dragon

    For those of you that don’t have kids dragging you to most cartoons released in the theatre, this is a picture of Toothless, from the movie How to train your dragon.  Toothless is what they call, a NightFury.  Anyway — here’s a picture of the dragon from the movie:   And here is our recreation…

  • 2011 Jack-o-lantern #1

    Around Halloween, the pumpkin carving usually begins in earnest.  Today, I completed the first of our 5 pumpkins.  This one is mine — and I decided to go with the OSU Beaver in honor of the whooping the football team put on Washington State this last weekend.  Hopefully it will display proudly through next weekend…

  • Civil War hair

    While my team didn’t win the civil war, I’ve had a good time this year dyeing my hair various shades of orange.  For the civil war, I decided to go with more of an ‘80’s style.  This was after the game with the family.

  • 2010 Reese Family Pumpkins

    As usual, I set aside 4-5 hours to work on the family pumpkins.  This year, I think that we came up with a good crop.  Nathan and Kenny decided they wanted Mario characters, I decided to take Puss from Shrek 2 and Alyce picked David Tennant, our favorite Dr. from the new Dr. Who series. …

  • What I did this week

    So, with the summer winding down, I decided to take the family for a bit of a vacation — and then took a vacation day on my own with my dad.  Here’s a few pictures of the adventures. Travelling with the family Because of my injury this summer, my wife and I have been taking…

  • Jack-o-lanterns 2009

    As the habit here at my house, the boys and I finally got our jack-o-lanterns finished for this year.  Well, mostly finished.  I still need to make one for work — but I got the important ones finished.  The boys really look forward to our pumpkin carving nights.  We spend a good deal of time…

  • Kenny’s 8th Birthday

    On Aug. 1st, 2001 at 11:29 pm, my wife and I welcomed Kenneth Terry Reese to the world, and from that day forward, he’s added nothing but joy to our lives.  And from the moment I saw him, I fell in love with him.  The funny thing about kids, especially your first child, is that…