Two years ago today Elise and I had a big surprise. Porter decided to join the world on his own terms. Those terms were 2 months early and around 3am February 15th he decided to let us know it was time. It was a long day of course and it just kept getting longer. It was around 11pm that we started to clue into the fact that he was pretty sick. By the next morning we weren't too sure he was going to make it through the week.

Look at him now! 2 years old and growing. He's still a little guy but he's got big personality. We love having him around.

Tonight's celebration was pretty low key. We let the boys play at the play area in Market Mall and then joined up with The Wolff's and Leavitt's for dinner at the food court. Everyone got to eat what they liked and there was enough room for everyone to sit comfortably.

Porter made a killing. Talk about spoiled. I have half a mind to keep some of the presents wrapped and give them to him throughout the course of the year. ... (click here to read the rest)

I'm taking a holiday all this week.  It's been so awesome.  I'm trying to get a ton of stuff accomplished but things always end up taking way longer than I hope.  I'm trying to get something done right now, so I don't have time for any updates.  Mostly, I just wanted to archive the last bit of a chat I had with my brother Scott.  It's important for the world to see this with thier own eyes since this may not happen again for a long time.

Scott Wolff says:
hey, I just noticed the very first bookmark I added to my del.icio.us account was your blog

Kevin Wolff says:
sweet

Kevin Wolff says:
I'm the best

Scott Wolff says:
you are the best

Kevin Wolff says:
I'm saving this chat

Kevin Wolff says:
it is now recorded

I think I may have fixed a glitch with the photo upload mechanism.  The real test will be to try uploading a zip file (my app automatically unzips the file once it gets to the server and creates a photo collection out of the pictures).  If this works, I'll go to bed.  I'd really like it to work because I haven't been to bed before 3:30am in a couple of weeks.

I went through my digital photos and I realize I haven't taken any pictures since the beginning of the month.  That's pretty pathetic.  In order to test this feature, I had to rip off some pictures from my dad's site (www.robbandmarge.com). 

Since I work for a US company I pretty much only take US holidays.  So late in November I took a 4 day weekend for US Thanksgiving.  Elise had it in her mind that she wanted to go down to the states to do some shopping.  I cringed a little because a) I don’t really care for shopping and 2) I know it’s pretty much the busiest time of year to shop in the states.   In any case, we packed up our stuff and drove down to Kalispell Montana.

The vacation was good.  It was cold, the roads were icy and the crowds were insane, but it was a nice break from computers, we had a great hotel and we ate tons of good food.  We invited my parents to join us.  It was nice to have them.  Elise and I have never really done anything like this with my parents in our (almost) six years of marriage.

I’m not sure my parent’s trip was quite as nice as they were expecting.  When they pulled into town my dad said he had noticed their car was acting funny.  After a very tasty dinner we determined he had blown the head gasket.  Since... (click here to read the rest)