Before the New Year, a recap
| It's time to put up a new calender, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to look back at our Year In Pictures. The dates here, for the most part, may not be spot on, as I took the dates from my filenames which are likely close to (but not necessarily the day of) the actual picture-taking. A lot of these you've already seen, but together they all make a nice retrospective. | |
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January 4, 2008 -- The Year started off with a bang with a high-wind storm that brought down the arch of the property next door. |
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January 13th, 2008 -- We catch up with our friend, Amey, at her apartment and have a wonderful lunch with her and her dad, Harold. |
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January 13th -- having recently come into this century, we purchased a new digital camera and promptly discovered the awesome "Aquarium" setting. |
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January 24th -- After years of yearning, we finally start Anna's knife collection beginning with this Global sword. Since this picture was taken I've actually become quite comfortable with the knife -- I'll actually wash it. Use it? Oh no. Knife too big. |
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February 15th -- If we were to call 2008 "The Year of..." whatever, this year, for us, would have to be "The Year of Winston," who came into our lives on Valentine's Day. |
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February 14th -- He's so small! And he's playing with regular toys! (These days we have to shop for chew toys in the "Extreme Chewer" section of Petsmart). |
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May 1st -- I know a lot must have happened that we didn't take pictures of between February and May. Or, it may have been "New Parent Syndrome" and that time passed in a haze. Not sure. Either way, Winston started growing. |
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May 1st -- same time frame. This picture is at Anna's folk's house at Russian Easter. |
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June 12 -- And then the preperations for the other dominant theme of 2008 -- Rachel and Shawn's wedding! This is the finished mock up to check for the fit of the pattern. |
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June 29th -- The problem with calling it "The Year of Winston", however, is that there were other dominant themes. How about "Year of the Jam"? This is from our guerilla plum pillage of the over-hanging tree next door, but it was fruit-gathering for just one of many jamming sessions for Anna and Jennifer. |
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June 29th -- There is the bubbling goodness! In addition to jam, they also made pickles, tomato sauce, and mustard. Next year? They're looking to branch out into cheese and soap -- not at the same time, mind you. That'd be gross. |
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July 4th -- "Year of Travel"? We had a couple significant trips -- In February, Anna had her first business trip to Portland. Here, in July, we're in Buffalo, NY for my friend Venus's wedding. |
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July 5th -- I was a bridesmaid! I was glad I didn't have to wear a dress :). |
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July 20th -- Anna looking stylish in a new dress and her hair all did. This is one of the pictures I have on my desk at work. She's so cute! |
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July 20th -- Dillon Beach became one of our favorite get-aways, because the dogs can run off-leash. Note the fantastic Northern California summer beach weather. We put the camera away and didn't manage better shots because a) sand, b) it was fog-wet. |
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August 24th -- Oh yeah, I went to Switzerland! Crazy! Looking back I can't believe it myself. While I was in Switzerland, Anna was back here having her own set of adventures holding down the menagerie by herself. |
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September 13th -- Our friend, Kim, came up to visit in September. It was a nice break between me getting back from Switzerland and the next big thing.... |
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September 24th -- Rachel's dress is done! Let the wedding come! |
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October 11th -- And it came! The weather couldn't have been better, and everything went fabulously! |
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October 18th --Just a week later, however, came the culmination of Anna's work-year: the 2008 Memory Walk. It, too, went off without a hitch. Shortly thereafter we slipped into a coma for the rest of the year. |
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November 7th -- Just kidding! Here's Anna and Winston, an ever growing Winston. I think it was about this time he went into the vet and weighed in at about 85 lbs. |
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November 28th -- We took Anna's dad to the car show in San Francisco for a little post-turkey recovery, and Anna had the chance to sit in her future car -- seriously, if all goes well this will be her ride by the end of February! |
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And Jordy's future car after his mid-life crisis. No, not really. But I can dream, right? |
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December 6th -- And we leave you with our tree. Presently it's a lot more decorated and a bit more desicated, but it's still a great tree! All in all, 2008 had a lot of adventures with a minimum of major injuries -- I'll take that as a good year! Hopefully 2009 will be even better! Happy New Year!! |
