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Monday January 31, 2005

Made it home!

We made it home today and boy is it great to be back in Denver ... and healthy. We had a great time with my parents and sister at my parent's place in Salem, Oregon. It was so cool being back in another place I call home. For the past few years, I've always looked at Montana as my true home, but I came to realize that I need to visit Oregon a lot more. It took me until this weekend to realize the power that your parents house can hold for you. I experienced one of several "perfect moments" in my life when I was holding baby Jack on Saturday night. It just felt great being around so much love. And their basement sauna rocks. I'll be installing one in my basement in the next year.

Friday was a nice and smooth flight out there. We left at 8:30 a.m. and Abbie slept for most of the flight. Not only that, but Frontier has individual TVs for every passenger. Julie loved it and watched HGTV for the 2-hour flight. The highlight of the trip is when both kids threw up (from coughing) w/in 5 seconds of each other. Like some kind of wonder-woman, Julie got both kids messes in the same hand.

My sister, Kalin, showed up a couple of hours after us - and we all enjoyed a nice evening together. Later that night, Kalin and I made a "Welcome Home Dad!" sign and drove to the Portland airport to pick up my dad. He flew in from Amsterdam (after visiting Germany and working in Tanzania for a week) and had been on a plane the past 20 hours.

We spent most of the weekend just hanging out and laughing with old friends. One of my best friends from high school (whose name is also Matt) has two boys (4 and 2) and Abbie had a great time trying to keep up with them. I was terrified of them at first b/c they were so crazy, but I ended up having a great time with them throughout the weekend. Julie dreads Jack growing up now more than ever.

Today was a nice easy flight, where Abbie slept half of it and watched Monsters Inc. the other half. We came home to melted snow, and missed the "2 feet" of snow that fell last night. After having the last week off being sick and then on vacation, I'm very motivated to do some AppFuse and Spring Live work this week - in addition to my regular job. It's good to be home.

Posted in General at Jan 31 2005, 06:27:01 PM MST 4 Comments
Comments:

Welcome back, glad you're feeling better. And thanks for the laugh. The bit about Julie catching puke had me rolling, laughing harder than I have for a long time. Perhaps that is because my youngest threw up 3 times (during the night) last week (also from coughing). Tell Julie I'm sorry.

Posted by Lance Lavandowska on January 31, 2005 at 08:59 PM MST #

Very nice that you are enjoying sauna. There is also a good introduction of sauna on the pages of Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, with instructions and everything. Are they so common in northern US?

Posted by Huckleberry... on February 01, 2005 at 12:02 AM MST #

I don't think that saunas are that common among North Americans. However, when you have Finland flowing through your blood like I do - it's a must! My Grandpa Oliver Hill was 100% Finnish and spoke fluent Finnish throughout his life. My heritage is 5/16 Finnish, 3/8 Irish, 3/16 Dutch and 1/8 German.

Posted by Matt Raible on February 01, 2005 at 12:11 AM MST #

Like Mr. Rumsfeld (originally from Germany) said: Good old Europe!

Posted by Lars Fischer on February 01, 2005 at 05:18 AM MST #

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