Bookmarked Recently...

Here are some links to various items found around the web. Some I found while "surfing" and others were forwarded from friends. Enjoy!

Cabrillo Basketball - For the 5th season, I'm the Cabrillo hoops webmaster... season starts soon.

Big West coaches have picked my UOP Tigers to win the league title for the 4th straight season. Tiger center Michael White, who I coached at Monte Vista, is now a senior!

"Free Hugs" - video story of the Free Hugs Campaign - thanks to T-dub

"Can" - cool video about Team Hoyt - thanks to Mindy

"White & Nerdy" - Wierd Al's latest spoof - thanks to Jenna

Bindi Irwin's tribute to her dad, the late Crocodile Hunter

Even though I swore off the NBA over a year ago, here's a funny article from The Onion, a spoof online newspaper.

Other sites that I frequent and thought might be of interest to some of you...

Rocky Bayou Baptist Church where my Uncle Carey is pastor

Prayer First - my Uncle Dana's ministry

River Ridge Covenant in Olympia, WA - Brian Wiele, who was my pastor at Escalon Cov, is now the pastor there.

Oh, and by the way, my team (4th & Inches) is 5-2 and in 2nd place in the fantasy football league that I'm a part of with some friends...

That's all for this random post... peace out!

Sunny SoCal

This spent this past weekend visiting family in sunny SoCal. We enjoyed "camping" with Amy's parents in their motorhome for the weekend. We got to see all of Amy's siblings and spouses on Saturday while celebrating a couple of family birthdays. On Sunday we visited with our friends Brent and Lynelle, Amy's Grammy and then headed out to Mindy and Jason's house for the evening. Monday we went by Biola Univ. to visit with my cousin Rachel (who is a student there) and her mom (my aunt Rynette). It was a busy but fun weekend! Here are some pictures...

"The Rig"

Girl Cousins
(L-R) Laura, Clara, Jenna, Kaylin

(L-R) Aunt Rynette, Kaylin, Rachel, Derek

Picture doesn't totally show Rachel's hair but
she has very curly blonde hair just like our little girl!

A First for Trevor!

A few minutes ago, Amy fed Trevor his first bites of "solid" food. Eating from a spoon for the first time, he attempted to eat a bowl of watery rice cereal. If you look closely at the photo, you'll notice that at least half of the cereal ended up on his bib! But he sure seemed interested in trying to eat it!

A Nice Visit

My Olson grandparents, who currently live in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, are in California staying with my parents for a few days. So we spent Sunday afternoon through Monday afternoon up in Pittsburg visiting with my parents, grandparents and Jaron's family.

It was great to see my grandparents and we were glad that they could meet Trevor and interact with the 3-year old "version" of Kaylin! My grandpa is a retired pastor... so I was particularly blessed to hear more stories from their 50-plus years of ministry together.

Garage Sale!

I hung up signs all over town and Amy posted this ad online:

MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE THIS SATURDAY, 10/14

Don't miss out! ***LOTS of great stuff, including baby equipment, kids stuff, books, maternity clothes, house decor, picture frames, purses, board games, videos and way too much more to list!! Come check it out for yourself!***

We teamed up with our friends Jason & Michelle and held a garage sale at their house earlier today. It was a great opportunity for us to trim down the "stuff" that accumulates. We were able to pass those things along to others who could use them and, in the process, we made almost $250 that we'll be able to put to good use. I'd guess that we were able to sell 2/3 of what we put out and then we donated the rest to Goodwill.

That was the first part of what will be a busy weekend. We're going to have dinner with some other families from our church tonight. Then, tomorrow after church we'll be driving up to my parent's house to visit with them and my grandparents who are here from South Dakota.

More Birthday Presents!

After the party and after Kaylin's nap time, she opened her presents from Mommy and Daddy. She got some educational / interactive / electronic books that will help teach Kaylin her numbers, letters, shapes, etc. Then, she unwrapped a helmet before walking outside to discover a scooter! So we went for a "ride" down the street to get the mail. She's gonna need some more practice because she did more walking/pushing it down the street than riding! =)

Kaylin's Party - A Flip-Floppin' Good Time!

Today is Kaylin's 3rd birthday! Since she loves wearing flip-flops, her mommy threw a flip-flop themed birthday party.


LEFT: The birthday girl with the cool flip-flop shaped balloon!

(NOTE: You can click on any picture to view full-size version)

Kaylin celebrated with a few of her friends...
Ocean, Victoria, Max, Caden, Colby and Lexi.
We missed Carson (sick) and his sister Olivia.
Mommy and Daddy were here too... and so were the other kid's moms!

It was a flip-floppin' good time because... many of the kids and moms wore flips-flops, there were flip-flop candles in the bathroom, mommy made a cake shaped like flips-flops, Kaylin wore her flip-flop shirt, there was a big flip-flop shaped balloon, the party favors were cans of play-do with flip-flop stickers on them, etc, etc.... you get the idea! =)


Kaylin with her Dora doll from Max

Ocean wearing her flip-flop dress and
trying to leave with ALL the party favors! =)

Miss Robyn made Kaylin a flip-flop pillowcase!

Happy Birthday Kaylin!

Kaylin kicked off her birthday by opening some presents from Grammy and Grampa while she was still in her PJs... her birthday party and presents from mommy and daddy will be later today!