Merry Christmas!

The most memorable thing about this Christmas is the snow. We woke up to a few inches, we opened presents and it kept on snowing. Eventually we went out to play in the snow.

My commute home

North - From Seattle to Albany

I woke up really early and flew from Seattle to Albany. This was the first leg on my way the cold north. I would like to note that this was video taped was while Minna and I where dating, just a few months before I asked her to marry me.

Sometimes just one thing...

...can make you 10 times more cool than you really are. In my case, on this day a motorcycle did just that.

Luckily, Shane stopped recording just as I realized I was going too fast for the stop sign and skidded to a stop.

The swing was the best playground toy ever invented

I'll tell you why there is no better way to play with your kids than using a swing.


Jane is actually pretty good at using a non-kiddie swing.


They don't run away from you.

It's really easy to make them laugh.

You can make a game out of it.



I would swing them and they would try to eat the Teddy Graham from my fingers on the up swing. After the Teddy Grahams were gone Hannah lost her flip-flop so I was trying to put her flip-flop back on while she was swinging. This caused an outpouring of laughter on all accounts. I was about to take a picture of this until Jane fell out of the swing.


Then we reversed roles and I was swinging and trying to get the grahams from Hannah. Jane was recovering in the stroller.