Happy Valentines Day from Aviva (and all of us)!

(PS Sorry I haven’t blogged much; Facebook has been getting nearly all of our picture and video uploads, since frankly, it’s so easy. I have a goal to start doing…

While we were in Michigan a few weeks ago, an old family friend stopped over at my parent’s house and entertained us all by putting on a performance of her puppet show, starring Coco the monkey. It was…

As a last minute fourth of July trip, we decided to take a quick trip down to San Francisco to see a couple of friends, get out of town, and see how Aviva did while traveling. Mission accomplished – she…

We are pretty lucky out here in Seattle to be near people from my past – which, to be fair, is pretty far away from most of my and Joelle’s families (Detroit and DC areas respectively). Not only does my…

During the week before New Years, I had the week off of work. Our goal was to spend time organizing the house – unpacking boxes we never unpacked when we moved in, moving my office to the basement downstairs (to…

The comparison between birthday presents is quite striking this year. One present, which a friend of mine graciously got for me, was to have the Seahawks wish me happy birthday on the big screen during the Seahawks-Jets game…

A couple of updates from the real world, many through the blogosphere.

• We spent time this weekend hanging out with our friends

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As Halloween approaches this year (conveniently on Shabbat, so we’ll be home having dinner when all the kids come a knockin’ on the door), I’ve been sick for a few days. On Sunday however, for a couple of hours at…

Over the 4th of July weekend, we decided to take a trip up to Whidbey Island, for a few reasons:

1. It is close, only an hour or so away (including ferry time), so it was easy on my back

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