Here are just some of the pictures we took in Bocas del Toro, Panama & San Jose, Costa Rica.
The rest will be posted on my flickr account soon.
When I came home from some errands yesterday there was a helicopter flying pretty close to our house and a huge downed tree just down the street, I didn’t think they were related but Sara told me that I missed the tornado. Up until last night I just thought there was a water spout and it was a coincidence the tree came down. According to the local news last night ( don’t know why it was on ) there was a small tornado.
Here’s our local paper’s website.
Here’s a map of how close it was to us.
I'm guessing the path was pretty close to us. Too bad I missed it.
I’m a couple days late in writing these but I’ve been thinking about them for a while now.
Most of my 2010 resolutions are centered around my business at Sprout Venture, however, as a “small business” owner I feel my success and dedication effects my family the most. So, while I talk the business talk my family is always first.
.I’m missing a few but these are my primary focuses for 2010.
A 2009 review should be following this post shortly, I know a little backwards but I have a lot of projects to gather and link.
Went to the second game of the NLCS today, I’m not a huge baseball or Dodger fan but live MLB games are great. This happens to be my second year of playoff baseball, both years were in the bleachers and I sort of like it out there. It’s very rowdy and crazy, they’re also good seats because you can see the whole field — including the pitch which is much easier to follow.
[damn, youtube's quality stinks]
We ended up parking behind the “Think Blue” sign on the hill.
It took us 2.5 hours to get out of the stadium and get to a restaurant 5 miles away. Luckily traffic wasn’t that bad back to Ventura.
For our dad’s celebration of life my sisters and I created a brochure for people. In it was a story from each of us. This was mine:
My dad loved being a grandfather to his four granddaughters and one grandson, he tried his best to spend as much time as possible with them and over his last few years he made that known to all of us. He traveled to Nevada to see Shannon, Donna and Areil whenever he could; Sara and I were very lucky to have my mom and him close.
My dad always made a concerted effort to get Avery over to their house on Fridays to spend the night. It was a ritual for the last few years. Avery loved these times, not only did she get spoiled by eating chocolate cake with grandpa, my dad would surprise her by taking her to see that one movie I would never take her to see — the same movie Avery would rave about but I would cringe thinking of spending 90 minutes watching.
Over the last few months my parents were also able to watch Sawyer while Sara and I were busy, it didn’t take me long to realize watching Sawyer wasn’t inconveniencing them, it was my dad’s pleasure to watch his very loud little grandson.
Just four days before our dad passing he spent another day being a great father and grandpa. My mom and him supported Avery at her firstsoccer game, cheering and making sure Avery was hydrated on that blistering hot day. That same afternoon you could see my dad holding his grandson throughout the day at Sawyer’s first birthday party at the park and helping shove cake in his grandson’s face.
Some say my son looks just like me, that might be true but on the same afternoon when I saw my dad pushing Sawyer on the swing they both shared the same ear-to-ear smile.
Love, Daniel
It’s really been a tough few weeks but only the last few days has it been the most difficult.
