2012

2012

•    Got Beth  a Sonny Osborne banjo special edition – only about 200 were ever made.
•  Spent two nights camping, sledding and playing music and one night puking at Emigrant State park with our friends…(it’s on for next year, BTW)
•  Colm hosted a Harry Potter for his 9^th birthday party
•  Tess hosted a talent show for her 11^th birthday party
• Saw Cirque de Soleil in Portland
• Experienced near hurricane winds on the Oregon coast for Spring Break
• Produced “Arsenic and Old Lace” at LHS
•  Beth managed the LG Farmers’ Market through its best year yet
• We put down bricks in our garden paths and more rocks in the front yard
•  Colm played Select Soccer. His team went undefeated.
•   I learned how to hit a draw off the tee
• Tess won $50 for singing “Mean”  in the talent show at the Union County Fair 
•  We went to Silverwood; Colm and I rode “Timber Terror”…never again.
• We biked the Hiawatha Trail, camped on Lake Coeur d’Alene and heard a tree fall in the forest
•  Camped and sailed around Lopez Island with Kelly, Jane, Annie and Jack
•  I served as a teaching fellow at Idea Lab at the U of Portland campus
• Beth served as volunteer coordinator of the Art Literacy Program at Central Elementary School
•  I began my 35^th  or 36^th or 37^th year teaching…no end in sight!
• Tess began middle school; Colm began 4^th grade
• Tess was placed in the Advanced Math group for 6^th  graders and is flourishing there
• Colm is on his way to becoming a Lego master.
• Got 8 chicks in the mail. Heidi killed one. Gave away 3. The rest are alive and laying eggs!
• Tess played fiddle monthly in an Irish jam; Beth performed with Kupenga Marimba
• Beth took a Life Drawing course at EOU and created some very cool drawings
•  I cast my next show “The Odd Couple” (the female version)
• Clearing out the basement to make room for a ping pong table
• Colm and Beth have committed themselves to solving the Rubik’s Cube.
•  Beth and I are hoping to start playing music regularly with a friend, maybe start something?