Yeah, ok, so I didn't update at all during August. Lets see here... we've had a few visitors. Ruth Pedrick and Fran Kulesza headed out to the coast for a few days, helping us with the kids and taking a tour of the Astoria area. Lynn, the boys, and I have been busy ourselves. Two weeks ago, we went hiking around the Silver Falls loop. Its about 8 miles total. Not a lot amount of elevation, but still a nice hike. William did it all himself. What a trooper. We had to feed him some M&M's and trail mix to get him going again. Towards the end, he started running ahead on the trail. Its a wonder what Chocolate can do to a little boy. Last week, we went camping at Cape Lookout. It was a fine time, besides the mosquitos and the micro climate of fog & clouds surrounding the cape. We had a great time exploring Tilliamook and the immediate area. William started preschool last week. I (Jason) accompianted him on his first half-day of school. I think he's going to have a good time with it. Some kids seemed a bit nervous leaving their parents... William was like "See you later!". Who would have guessed? :-)

This weekend Lynn, the boys and I headed down to Mt Angel. Its a town started by a bunch of German immigrants, so yearly they throw a "Oktoberfest" celebration. We hit up mass in their beautiful church, then afterwards, we ate cinnamon rolls and had beer sausage for breakfast. Had German cheese fondue and beer for lunch. We were home by 2 :-)

Pics to follow!

Hillsboro Parks and Rec is holding a open track & field event every Wednesday night for 6 weeks in the summer. They have open events for all age groups. Lynn thought it would be fun, so we headed on over. Lynn had to take off early for work, so it was just the boys and I. William did the softball throw, the long jump, hurdles, and the 50 yard dash. He did well in the Softball throw but had some slight trouble with the long jump. It was more like a long run through the sand instead of jump. After that we hit up his true calling... running for short distances. He lined up for the 50-yard dash for 3 year olds, got ready and....



He won second place! Very exciting. I think he enjoyed that much more. Next time we'll put him in the 3yr old's 100 & 200 yard dash. Let me know if the above video didn't work. I'm trying out something new. Put the cursor over the left corner and a play button should appear.

Enjoy!

Yeah! The Picture galler is finally fixed. I had to re-install it on top of the old, broken one. It took some time to work out the bad stuff out of the database, but all worked out ok. I have to give it to the open source "Gallery2" software. All worked like a charm.

A beautiful weekend in Hillsboro, Oregon. ~70, dry, and sunny the whole weekend. L,W,M & I spent the majority of the weekend in downtown Portland. We rode the MAX into downtown Portland, then we hit up the farmers market. After purchasing some fresh cherries, we lunched on a slice of "Hot Lips" pizza, a Gyro wrap, and a Falafal sandwich. Overall, not too bad. Afterwards, we heeaded down to the "Sand in the City" event, a showing of sand sculptures in pioneer square. Some nice sculptures, you'll have to check out the pictures in the photo gallery section.

After that, we rode the MAX back home again and made homemade pizzas... not too bad if I do say so myself. A bit of fresh basil and wilted spinich does a pizza good.

Today we cleaned up our old couch and loveseat for sale on craigslist. Jason did an excellent job of vacuuming, was even able to get most of the dried milk out. We'll put it up in the next few days, so if you're in the PDX area and want a new couch, I'll put up a link.

Lynn's friends Mike & Laura were in town tonight on their final night of their Oregon trip. We headed down to Papa Hayden, an excellent dessert restaurant. Each couple split a entree and then ordered a full desert. It was excellent.

Anyways, hope you all had a great weekend and I wish you all well in the upcoming week.

So last week you may have noticed that our web site was no longer working. Yeah, you may have figured, "Oh, the Horihan's web site is always down, this is just par for the course". Wrong. I had this site hosted on a professional host to relieve me of any issues like this. I was perplexed at the sudden downtime, so I sent them an email and my reply today was "Sorry, the server that your website was on has crashed. All backups were lost." So I'm at fault as well for not making a backup of my website, but honestly, any data center worth its weight in, oh, say, copper, would have a decent protection plan for its customers.

Oh well. I only lost the top three posts, so we're back to Mae was born again. I had said a bunch of stuff about new pictures... those are all dead too. What can you do?

Anyways, its hot here in Hillsboro. 90+ Hope all are well in the rest of the country.

So its been a few days now, but I'd like to congratulate my brother and his wife, Ryan and Kristen on the birth of their first child! Her name is Mae Rose Horihan. She was born on May 30th at 5:49 PM. She weighed in at 6lb 12 oz and was 19.25" long. Mommy and daughter are doing very well. All are home now and trying to get used to living together. Anytime you get a new roommate there is a "trial period" where people work things out. This is a time when you really learn that sleep is not a necessity... its a luxury. Gone are the days of sleeping in until 10AM!

Anyways, the real news that that I'm an Uncle (and Lynn is an Aunt). I'm a two time dad... everybody else is an uncle or aunt. Its about time I joined the club. For all of you thinking about me, I appreciate it. I'm feeling fine now. I was a bit excited about Mae's arrival, so I had to rest a bit. I'm OK now, thanks for your concern.

Below is a picture of my new niece, Mae.



Anyways, hope everybody is having fun. Lots of clouds and rain in the Hillsboro area... don't you want to come and visit?