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I’m smitten…

// March 30th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // family

…with this little girl. Our sitter put her in the hat, Jina put her in the dress…all I did was the simple part of snapping the photo.

Random Lyla photos and videos

// March 29th, 2010 // No Comments » // family

Haven’t posted much about Lyla lately, sorry to the family! However, I’m back, with some random photos and a few videos that let you see her moving around and doing new things.
Here they are!

This one above…we’re cleaning out the garage, she climbed up the lawn mower and then slid down into the catcher…and was stuck. [...]

The Amazing Race Leg 7

// March 28th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // fun

“I think it’s anonymous.”
What???
“I mean UNANIMOUS!”
Thanks Brent for that gem…you could tell how much he regretted saying that right away.
Oh man, this was a fantastic episode of The Amazing Race. So many blundering people, so many close-calls, tough decisions and a huge pile of luck for one team.
And luck was either abundantly good on this [...]

Cleaning the garage: Before and After

// March 28th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // family, hdr

So as you saw in my previous post, we’re planning on moving downtown somewhere. Hence the preparation for selling the house is in full swing. We’re throwing crap out, cleaning away the clutter and junk and trying our best to make this place as attractive as possible.
The garage…ugh…spring cleaning hasn’t seen that place in a [...]

A new chapter is here for the Olbinskis

// March 28th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // family

Date nights can be dangerous for Jina and myself.
Let me back up a bit. The last six months have been busy for me at work. This project I am working on has taken me to places like Springfield, Toronto, Salt Lake City, Portland, Corvallis and Las Vegas. Just in the past two months I was [...]

Richard Alpert, Smokey and some other Lost thoughts

// March 23rd, 2010 // 5 Comments » // fun

Tonight’s episode of Lost was a pivotal point in the series. Not only did it deliver on an awesome backstory for Richard Albert (complete with a few tearful moments I thought, something almost equal to The Constant a few seasons ago), but it gave us some seriously juicy mythology tidbits that are going to make [...]