On Saturday we went to Doug, Naoko and Tommy’s house for their annual holiday party with friends & family. Even though Doug told us that Naoko would only be making appetizers, we all knew better than to eat anything before going. Naoko is kind of Martha Stewart. All of the food she makes is so [...]

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I was surprised this year to see that I read less than last year. I still have a pretty long commute and I travelled a lot, so I thought I’d have read more books, but I guess not. Last year I finished 28 books and this year I read 21. In 2005 I read 24 [...]

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I made this the other night for dinner - Home-Style Meat Loaf & Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Garlic Butter. I really liked both of them and the recipes are from Cooking Light, so they’re a healthier version than we grew up with.
Side note: It’s hard to take an appetizing photograph of meat loaf!

Home-Style Meat [...]

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Derek

Mitch

Tommy
The first year I went to Christmas dinner at Dallas’ Aunt Gail’s house Chris and Mitch were the youngest kids I knew. Kyle and Winnie were visiting from California and they had 2 young boys, but I didn’t know them well and was overwhelmed by all the new people that I don’t remember them that [...]

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It’s kind of a “must” now to post these each year. I like to see how I’ve changed year to year. What I remember last year when I took this photo was that I was completely stressed out to the point of knowing something was gonna break but not knowing what, which is even more [...]

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