Category: Family

  • Nathan’s First Birthday

    Well, it was one year ago today — Oregon State’s football team was being whipped by Boise State and my youngest son Nathan was being born. He was born at 5:34 am, Sept. 11, 2004 — so today — we celebrated OSU avenging last year’s lost to Boise State yesterday (I’m teaching Nathan and Kenny…

  • Oregon Vineyard Country

    I sometimes forget how pretty the Willamette Valley is — and then I get on my bike and Oregon just opens up. This is one of my favorite times of the year — early fall/late summer when there is still daylight in the morning and the afternoons still hit 70, 80 degrees but the mornings…

  • New baby on the way….

    Well, we are expecting a new baby…a puppy 🙂 (ha, ha). We are getting a new Yellow Lab. from a breeder in Aumsville, OR. The momma dog is expecting the last week of Sept., first week of Oct. so we will get to pick out the puppy at 5 weeks and take her home at…

  • Crater Lake Trip — Pictures

    Thanks to Kyle for providing some pictures. Full resolution pictures can be found at: http://www.alptown.com/photos/images/Oregon.2005.CraterLake.Joe.Kyle.jpg http://www.alptown.com/photos/images/Oregon.2005.CraterLake.Joe.jpg http://www.alptown.com/photos/images/Oregon.2005.CraterLake.Terry.jpg http://www.alptown.com/photos/images/Oregon.2005.CraterLakeEastSide.jpg http://www.alptown.com/photos/images/Oregon.2005.CraterLakeWestSide.jpg http://www.alptown.com/photos/images/Oregon.2005.CraterLakeWizardIsland.jpg But since I doubt most folks are interested, I’ll just post some smaller res. files here. –Terry

  • Weekend at the beach

    We spent the weekend with my wife’s family at Cape Mears — near Tillamook, OR. It was a pretty good time. The house was on a lake which was about a 1/4 mile from the ocean so we spent quite a bit of time playing in the water. Nathan is a little water boy. He…

  • A forgetful day

    Today was a bit embarassing…my mind wondered a bit today and I ended up forgetting to bring quite a few items today. The first was my bike helmet. For those that don’t know, I bike about 25 miles each morning and evening between Independence, OR and Corvallis, OR most days. On others, I ride to…

  • Kenny’s Birthday weekend

    Kenny finally had his birthday weekend. Saturday, we had a birthday party and invited about 30 kids from the neighborhood to come and celebrate with Kenny. We had a pinota, a Thomas the Tank Engine cake and bubbles. My wife had put the party together and did a fantastic job keeping the kids busy. I…

  • Discovery blasts off with Kenny’s imagination

    As I’d posted earlier, Kenny (my oldest) has really been looking forward to this launch. He’s been watching all the videos, soaking in the NASA channel and pretty much learning more about shuttle program that I do. Anyway, I had to ride my bike in this morning — so I didn’t get to stay home…

  • Bye, bye daddy

    What a kick. Its been a long time since my oldest son (4) started to learn how to talk. Kenny, my oldest, was an early talker — which we figured meant that he had a lot of different stuff say. Well, Nathan (10 months) has finally taken an interest in trying to express himself. He’s…