2008 Annual Day After Christmas Get Together

Michael Mercer and I were up pretty late playing Left 4 Dead and Resistance 2 last night.  This morning I stayed upstairs for a while as Amanda and Karen got a few things ready to take over to Amanda’s grandparents’ house for the annual big family day after Christmas get together.  It’s thrown every year […]

Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas! Amanda heard a little bit of noise downstairs this morning around 6:30 and, noticing Harvey wasn’t in bed, asked me to make sure he wasn’t nosing around in the presents.  After we came home from church a few weeks ago and discovering that he’d had his way with a few things that were […]

Christmas Eve 2008

Amanda took the day off and we spent most of it cleaning some more.  It’s amazing how much there always is to clean.  We bathed Bruce and Harvey too, which is always fun.  Bruce isn’t so bad- he’s small and doesn’t generally mind going into the bathroom.  His hair is short, too, so he rinses […]

Riley Ashton Pless

I received the following e-mail tonight when I sat down at the computer. Kelia and I want to introduce Riley Ashton Pless.  She weighed in at 7.0lbs and is 20-1/4″ long.  We came in to the hospital to be induced a little after 9:00am on 12.19.08, but after many hours of steady contractions little Riley […]

PC3 Christmas Card 2008

This was a present, a Christmas card they called it, from the Port City Community Church staff to the churchgoers that greeted us this morning. It’s amazing. It was all done in one continuous shot. Nick Warkentien (who appears screen left at 1:04 and towards the bottom right in the last big staff shot) told […]