Author: Admin
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Happy Birthday to Gabriel!
We are so thankful for your life and proud of how you are growing and learning so many new things. He asked for a cake with Curious George on a bike. Hannah came up with the idea to make it a Curious Gabriel instead.
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Circa 2001 – Mt. Hood Community College
Grandpa and Grandma Olson came to see my graphic design presentation day.
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Tools for teaching snowboarding
About 3 years ago Michiyo (Michan) and I started a little project that we call Snowboard Attendants or SA for short. The goal is to help more people experience the joy of snowboarding by developing resources (instructors and tools) to lower the threshold of learning to snowboard. Although there are good tools for supporting kids…
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A Family Riding Day at Blue Resort NORIKURA
Last week we got to participate in a Kirara Kids snowboard camp as a family up at TANGRAM Resort in Northern Nagano. Today we got out at our home mountain and enjoyed some sunny weather together. A few years ago a friend and I started working on developing some tools to make teaching kids to…
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Kirara Kids Family Snowboard Camp
This week we got to participate in our first Kirara Kids Snowboard camp up at TANGRAM Resort in Northern Nagano. The camp is produced by some good friends of ours Hayato & Michiyo and this year was the 18th consecutive year running. I got to be one of the camp coaches and Hannah was asked…
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Happy 12th Birthday EZ
12 Years ago today Hannah gave birth to our first son and we became parents. A lot has changed since then and I think we have all done a lot of growing up. We are so thankful for each and every time we get to celebrate a birthday as a family and every year Ezekiel’s…
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The Beatitudes
2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall…
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Happy New Year – Family Foundation
About 5 years ago Hannah and I were going through some stuff that really made us stop, think and pray about what life is for (purpose) and what we are doing here (mission). At the time I was super down and frustrated about many things. I am naturally a typical type A, fast-paced task orientated…
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Exploring Mt. Norikura
We got out on the mountain again this week to explore around the summit of Mount Norikura. The highlight of the trip for me was standing at the top of Mount Fujimi with one foot in Gifu Prefecture and one foot in Nagano Prefecture while looking down into Beautiful Norikura Kogen. I always enjoy looking…
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Nagano made CNN’s list of best places to visit in 2018
This is pretty cool. Nagano made CNN’s list of best places to visit in 2018.Anyone looking for details about travel in this area feel free to ask. http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/places-to-visit-2018/index.html
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Board-meeting at Hoonoki Ski Resort
Today I ventured over to Hoonoki for a boardmeeting with some sideways thinking teammates.
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High Five Coffee Stand
I have been following @high_five_coffeestand for a while and finally got a chance to go check them out today. I met the owner @tetsuhito_takagi and had fun chatting about coffee roasting, and Matsumoto. If you’re looking for a good coffee in Matsumoto, stop by and say hi to these guys.
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Enthusiastic skepticism
“Enthusiastic skepticism is not the enemy of boundless optimism. It’s optimism’s perfect partner.” Astro Teller
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