May
11
Colin’s Soccer Practice
Colin really enjoys his soccer practices. He is quite fast and starting to figure out how to position himself.
Apr
29
Violin Recital
Daniel and Colin had their violin recital yesterday in Yountville. Teacher Beth Vye really does a great job with the kids. The concert had about 25 performances! Daniel played in 4 pieces (including a solo) and Colin played in 3. Very proud of the boys. Click on the more link to see a video of their performances.
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21
Salmon!
Laura’s brother Barry caught this wonderful 20lb Salmon just outside the San Francisco Bay on Friday, and we had a big salmon barbecue in the back yard with the Cassianis, the Briskoviches, and the Truchards.
I made the salmon two ways… filets (front half of the fish) on cedar planks with mustard and white wine sauce, and (back half of the fish) poached in foil with white wine, lemon wedges, red onion, garlic, dill, rosemary, and thyme, served with a dill-sour cream sauce.
It was a perfect evening with friends around the fire pit.
Mar
31
Spring Break – Nasa – Houston Space Center
Spent two days in Houston with the family. Visited the Houston Space Center, which was really cool.
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17
Maureen’s new Engagement ring
Maureen picked a beautiful setting for her 10-year anniversary ‘refresh’ of her Engagement ring. I have to say, it looks stunning, and a whole lot better than the one I picked out 11 years ago.
Feb
20
Colin’s Art
Translation: One day I found $100! I could not believe my luck! I dashed to Target and I bought a 100 video games.
Colin wrote this cute story about Abraham Lincoln. Love the phonetics… wacd=walked.
Feb
17
Happy Anniversary Luc and Kathy
At the Montage | Happy Anniversary! | Maureen, Kathy and Marie-Teresa | Drinks celebrating Luc and Kathy's Wedding Anniversary | 
We had a great evening celebrating Luc and Kathy’s wedding anniversary in Laguna Beach with Ron and Marie-Teresa. Drinks at the Montage and then dinner at Las Brisas.
Feb
04
A few Mac OSX Tools
I have slowly but surely been moving my life from the PC to the Mac. Here is a list of useful things:
- Moom - a very cool tool for moving and zooming windows
- Mint - from Quicken – a wonderful replacement for Microsoft Money. It is cloud-based, but makes budgeting and tracking as a family very easy.
- Alfred - I use it to launch programs, search for files, search evernote, create reminders – all from one central place. It seems like every action I initiate these days goes through Alfred with its extensions.
- XtraFinder add tabs and extra features to Finder
- Omnigraffle – it is not cheap, but a fantastic drawing tool. Effectively Visio on steroids for the Mac. Can even edit visio drawings and export back out to Visio.
Thought I would capture these here for future reference.
Jan
26
Canvas Collage
Rachel (http://rachelpiersigphotography.com) helped us put together this collage of canvasses for our living room.
Nov
11
Violin Recital
The boys had their violin recital today, and did a fabulous job. Unfortunately, Daniel’s violin was completely out of tune for the first piece, but Beth Vye (his teacher) fixed it for his second piece. You can watch their whole performance (along with their friend Giada) here, or you can watch the short clip below for just the boys’ performance. Nice job, Colin and Daniel!
Abhilash
Masud
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