Category: Family

  • Nathan and Kenny in the local newspaper

    Kenny and Nathan found their way into our local newspaper just before Thanksgiving.  They were down at the library playing turkey bingo (well, Kenny was playing, Nathan was playing) and got their pictures taken.  Here’s the picture with associated captioning information:  URL: http://www.itemizerobserver.com/images/4787.jpg Credit: Photo by Sarah HillmanDate Published to Web: 11/22/2006Caption:  Kenny Reese, 5, throws…

  • It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

    Well, maybe not the great pumpkin, but a pumpkin all the same.  🙂  I spent most of Sunday carving pumpkins for my boys and one for me.  Kenny’s and Nathan’s pumpkin’s turned out well.  Kenny’s pumpkin was a picture of Goldie (or dog) — Nathan’s pumpkin was of Thomas the Tank engine.  As you can see…

  • Kenny’s first day at school

    A milestone for Kenny (seems we are having a few at the house lately) — it was his first day at kindergarten.  He’s been so, so, so excited about today.  Last week we went in and met his teacher and his teacher got to see first hand how much hard work Kenny has been doing with…

  • Happy birthday Nathan!

    Two years ago, my wife and I were blessed with our second son, Nathan Wallace.  Most folks probably don’t realize it — but Nathan’s name has a special meaning.  When Kenny was born, we choose a name that would give him his own personal identity.  Most folks in our family had thought that Kenny would…

  • Growing up

    I’ve been a little delinquent at posting pictures of my boys over this last summer.  I’ve always been a terrible picture taker and even worse about developing pictures that I’ve taken (one of the great things about the digital camera — I can take them, archive them — and then pull them later when I…

  • Gone a blackberry pick’n

    I was only a matter of time — but I finally broke down and took the family down to the coast to do some blackberry picking.  You see, in riding my bike between Independence and Corvallis every day, I get to smell the blackberries along side the road.  Now, I wouldn’t eat any of the…

  • Summer of home improvement

    Seems that we have been doing a bit more home improvement jobs this summer than I’d originally thought I would.  Of course, the bigest improvement that we made this year was putting in wood floors — but we’ve been slowly upgrading a number of components in the house.  Today however, was an unplanned improvement.  I…

  • When things go ouch

    This weekend, Kyle Banerjee and I drove down to Shasta for the Shasta Super Century.  This is a 135 mile, 16,500 ft vertical gain ride the finished with a quad-burning ride up Mt. Shasta.  This was a ride that I’d been looking forward too but apparently my body wasn’t.  About 6 miles into the first…

  • A hole in my ceiling

    Ah, one of the many joys of home ownership.  I was going up the stairs on Tuesday and on my way up, noticed a small wet spot on the carpet.  Of course, my first thought was where is the dog and Nathan.  The both are in the drooly stages of life (of which, hopefully Nathan…

  • Nathan’s first real fireworks

    The City of Independence, Oregon does the 4th of July well.  They actually host two large fireworks shows that are some of the best I’ve seen put on by a city smaller than 250,000 — which is saying something since Independence is a town of 7,500.  Anyway, tonight, they had the city appreciation day fireworks.…