Gerry's Space

Hi everyone!

Here's a quick update. I've been busy working quite a few weekends this year, as I was a temporary Team Leader on my job for five months, and I became a permanent Team Leader about a month and a half ago. But I've been off for four weekends in a row including this four day one, so I'm pretty de-stressed now.

We had a nice time at my mom's house on Thanksgiving day, and since then I have spent the last two day's being partly lazy and relaxing, and partly busy trying to fix a few things around the house. Today it was change light bulbs, and replace a few parts on the toilets. Nothing too hard really, but at least I got a little bit done.

My wife and kids spent the day in downtown Seattle doing a charity walk which supported Seattle Children's Hospital. Always a good cause, as even our own daughter Anna had a minor procedure done there when she was two years old.

So, church and more relaxing tomorrow, and then back to work the next day. Other than that I haven't been doing too much else exiting, but I have been working on my Blogger blogs and I am trying to get better at editing HTML. Here is a link to an online site that has tutorials on HTML, Java Script, etc. I think learning about this stuff is kind of interesting and it's useful if you use a service like Blogger because they let you have the freedom to edit your site as much as you want to, so I'm trying to learn a little more on my own. Also, I'm still keeping up on Spaces when I have time, but I still wonder if Microsoft has plans to keep it around or not when Windows Live finishes getting it's next update. Blogger has had a bunch of improvements and new features added lately, with more to come. Since it's last update, Spaces remains largely hidden and ignored. As for Facebook, I still have it, but it is mostly ignored by me because I just don't care much for it. To each his, or her own I guess.

I've also been feeding my addiction to Haagen-Dazs white chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream again tonight, something I should stop doing because I have high cholesterol and I could stand to lose about forty pounds.

That's it for now.

I hope you have a nice week!

Gerry

In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (New King James Version) 

I can't believe that our baby girl is five years old already. Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday that she was still a baby. We celebrated her birthday over at my mom's house today, and we also took her to eat at Red Robin last weekend for an early birthday lunch. As presents, she received a cute purse-like bag that holds two stuffed animal dogs, some clothes, and some Hello Kitty stuff too. For food, we had Pizza from Sam's club, pasta salad, which my wife made, and of course the usual birthday cake and ice cream. She said that she had a really fun birthday!

Hi everyone,

Tonight we went to the Harvest Carnival at our church, just as we do every year at this time. We watched as our kids played the games and were given candy afterwards. My son Aaron and I, also bought hot dogs to eat while my wife was with our daughter Anna, who was watching someone make a pink balloon dog for her. We left after about an hour or so as our son is fighting some kind of flu bug and he wasn't up to staying longer. I hope he is over it soon.

I hope you all have a nice weekend!

Gerry

Hi everyone! Yesterday our daughter Anna's preschool class went down to the Spooner Farms Pumpkin Patch in Orting WA., and our whole family went along. It is the best one that I've seen yet, as the whole place is set up perfect for kids to have a great time. When we first got there they sat us down and talked about different types of pumpkins, bees, bats, and other things having to do with the farm. Then we were given a ride on a tractor pulled cart out to the pumpkin patch where they had some nice pumpkins laid out in rows so everyone could choose one to take home. After that we were able to go into a barn area where you could look at some animals and see some other things they had set up for the kids. We also had snack time with some free hot apple cider, and then we were free to go look around on our own. We passed on the corn mazes and went into the gift store instead and bought some kettle corn, and a pumpkin carving knife to carve our pumpkins. Overall, this place has a great fall theme and is definitely worth going to. Check out my "My Pix 2009" photo album if you want to see the pictures of it.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

Reconciled in Christ

19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

Although today is the first day of Autumn, we are still having summer-like weather here in the Seattle area. I hope this is a sign that we will have a mild winter here this year, but we'll see. Last year we had extremes in everything and I hope we don't see a repeat of that this year.

Have a nice day!

Gerry

Hi everyone, I'm a little late with this one, but our four year old daughter Anna went to her first day of preschool last Monday. Although we are doing home school with both of our kids, and Anna is actually already doing the Kindergarten curriculum, she is going to private Christian preschool this year at a local church. This is the same one our son Aaron went to five years ago and it was a good experience for him and he really liked it so now it's her turn. If we could, we would probably have them both going to private Christian schools all the way through high school, but it's just too expensive, so home school it is.

We are back at home after spending the last few days down at Seaside, and Cannon Beach in Oregon. This is the only vacation that we managed to squeeze in this Summer due to our busyness, and my working so many weekends. It was short, but very nice as we did the usual beach walking, souvenir shopping, game playing, and the like. We also ate a lot of restaurant food and some Ice Cream as well. If you visit Seaside, Make sure you stop at Pudgy's, because it is one of the best Restaurants in town. There was also a neat hot rod car show going on in Seaside which we spent some time looking at, as our son Aaron loves old cars. I kind of like them too. We also visited the Seaside Aquarium, which my wife and I  have seen several years ago, but it's the first time for our kids. They liked feeding fish to the the seals just like I did the first time I went there. We had beautiful weather while we were there, and we had a very good time. I've added a bunch of photo's from the trip to my photo album "My Pix 2009", Which is playing in my slide show. Take a look if you want to.

Have a nice week!

Gerry                                                                                                                          

Well, today my family, along with a friend of my wife, and her two kids went to see the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. This was the first time that I have seen this since I was a kid and it was great! It was at the ShoWare Center in Kent WA not far from where we live. It is a perfect place to see a circus as it is a lot smaller than a huge coliseum but big enough for an event like this. Before the show started we were allowed to go behind the building and see some of the animals up close. The tigers are really awesome to look at from that distance but I'm glad they were behind two layers of wire fence just the same. Then when we went inside they had kind of a small preview show where we could walk around the floor and watch the performers and clowns do some things up close. Really a neat way to start the show and I've never seen anything like it before. Then came the real two hour show. There were so many different acts in in it that it is hard to remember them all, but there were some of the usual high wire, and way up high acrobatic type routines with a few new twists, a lot of magic type stuff, and some great animal tricks too. But my favorite part was when they shot the two lady acrobats out of the cannons onto the huge air mats. I knew they were going to do it for real when I saw a green laser light shining below the cannons toward the mat to ensure a straight shot. It was great. When the show was over we all went across the street and had lunch at one of our favorite restaurants, Panera Bread Co. All in all it was a very good day and I highly recommend going to see this circus show if you get a chance.