Reid's Pirate Adventure

Reid had a great pirate adventure: sailing in "pirate's cover" (Chesapeake Bay).  It was a terrific time with Grandpa Tony and Grandma Barbara.  Reid had his face painted, donned his authentic outfit, and unsheathed his blood thirsty sword.  The actors kept all the kids busy finding the map hidden on the ship, fighting the evil pirate Pete with water cannons, discovering the keys throughout the bay, and eventually finding and opening the secret treasure.  Reid had a wonderful time.  Every night we now 'play pirate', where his bed is the ship.  Watch out for the big waves!

Reid's First Ski Adventure

That's right. Reid started skiing at the ripe old age of three! We all had a great time. Thanks to Blake's friend Cam, we received expert advise. I think Sarah and Jason had fun too - especially when Sarah was stabbing me in the neck with a ski pole. It was a great warm up to our upcoming Utah trip.

Anderson Blog – Inaugural Address

Welcome to our family blog. This website helps the Andersons shelve the abacus, sun dial, 35mm camera, and VHS tape to enter into the digital age. It’s not that I’ve been opposed to technology, I just haven’t been smart enough to use it (luckily I had smart friends in my engineering undergrad and grad schools). Fortunately, google (with its Russian co-founder) has made it easy enough for even myself to share thoughts and concerns via the web - an unintentional consequence by google as the average intellect of the internet is dropping as I’m typing. It’s also free, which is reassuring in the booming economic times of Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs.

Proper etiquette suggests you shouldn’t talk about politics or religion in public settings – good thing I don’t care about etiquette, as politics and religion are of particular interest to me. I plan to blog about a myriad of topics, and if I spend the time to write, I hope that people respond and post comments. Otherwise I’m just talking to myself, and I don’t need the internet to do that.

The real purpose of this website is to share photos and stories with family and friends. This will become all the more vital in our upcoming move (as I hope this website will also serve as a commercial to come out and visit us). Our public calendar will be useful to ‘synergize’ our schedule. Coordinating between family, bible study, friends, and work is often like herding cats.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy.
- Andy