May 21

For our four-year wedding anniversary, we took the day off work.



We had coffee, of course


We visited the Pittock Mansion. But not the inside because $7/person seemed like a bit much.


The view of Portland.


That's quite a door.

What do you do, anyway?

I get asked what my job is all of the time, and generally I say that I run a project that visits schools, after-school programs, and community-based organizations and teaches young people to make videos. This project is called OLLIE.

Then the other person looks vaguely confused by all of this and says, "Oh... cool."

This is the kind of project I get to make at work. Not all of them are this entertaining, but they have one thing in common: young people learning to use a new tool (video) to express themselves.

Every school we visit has a different theme. This group's theme was school lunch, and my group was particularly concerned with nutrition issues. Because they are kids, of course the students had a laundry list of things they didn't like about school lunch. Finally we settled on one area of focus - the prepackaged Jamwich peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

even more disgusting in real life...

This particular project was really special to me because I got to work with my second cousin, Isaac. We didn't really know each other before this project, it was great to get to know him.

cute runs in the family

What I did on my 28th Birthday

For my birthday, I got an awesome tiny digital camera from Dan. Of course we had to take lots of photos to document the day, here are a few: