12.31.2007

What's Brian Doing Next Year?

Several people have expressed interest in knowing what I'll be up to this coming year. It is a most busy time -- not so unusually for me. I'll traveling to Malta, South Africa, Switzerland, China, and Uganda -- and that is just work related international trips through June!

For a a full list of my activities, you can check out the REACT Services website.

12.30.2007

Kitchen Remodel #2

Christine, the artist, here hard at work in bringing the next phase of the kitchen to some semblance of order!

12.29.2007

John and Joe at 20 Years

Here they are, Joe and John getting past the teenage years. Still can't believe I'm old enough to have kids that old!
We went to a Gonzaga basketball game today in Seattle on their birthday which was a fun adventure. They are majoring in engineering at Gonzaga and enjoying life. I am proud of these men and what they are becoming.

12.25.2007

No Dreaming Required

Well, no dreaming for us this year! For one of the few times in Seattle history, we have a white Christmas Day!

12.18.2007

A Kitchen Remodel -- #1

Here is our kitchen -- now in hiding as we try to put a major remodel together.

12.12.2007

Anniversary Dinner

Christine and I celebrated 24 fabulous years of marriage last night and today (a bit earlier than our December 17th date). Our usual scenario is to stay in downtown Seattle to enjoy the Christmas ambiance. This is a picture of us after dinner at Tulio's restaurant.

12.05.2007

Snow before the rain

We had a fairly major snow storm this weekend -- right before the announced big rain and wind storm coming up on Monday.

Here is the front of the O'Connell house in the middle of it!!

12.02.2007

Snow Dusting



Here is what last night's snow dusting looked like on our deck! Some got much less, but because we're in the convergent zone, we usually get a bit more.

Christine and Mosiac Choir



Christine had a concert last night (she's in the middle of the back row). The community choir she is in had their annual Christmas event. The choir -- which has members from about 28 churches -- was awesome!

Unfortunately, winter arrived with some snow dusting which limited the numbers. They still had a good crowd for the two shows.