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Archive for June, 2009

A drizzle, sunny blue skies, a rain storm with lightning and loud clapping thunder.  Ahhhh…, the fickleness of our weather in western Washington!  If you were in charge, you’d want the cold, rainy stuff before and after like it was on this summer solstice for Beth and Aaron’s outdoor wedding.  And if you were in [...]

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Friends, family, and of course, color, fashion, glitter and lace – was all there in spades on Katie & Jordan’s wedding day.  Having met working at Nordstrom probably set the tone as everyone and everything was stylin’!  From the Four Season’s Hotel, the whole wedding party converged on the UW campus to start the clear, [...]

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What an incredible day for Ana & David! We got to relive a bit of their history before they stepped into their bright future together. First sight photos took place on the UW campus where they met as engineering students and had their first date! Then it was off to the Woodland Park Zoo [...]

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Officially, it’s called Field Day but by consensus, most of the kids call it the “last freaking day of school”.  Greeting them in the Northshore Junior High auditorium as it did over the last three years, was our Studio-on-the-Go to catalogue the relief and laughter of the end of the school year.  Look out – [...]

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The important work of conferencing for 4 days at the 12th International Symposium of Cochlear Implants for Children culminated with dinner and fun at Seattle Center’s Pacific Science Center.  The ever-popular Ravishing Radish catered the 1000+ attendee event with fancy, delectable appetizers and potato station (w/all the toppings including real bacon!), espresso cart, and can’t-go-wrong [...]

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Every two years, we all converge on New Hampton, Iowa, which, except for cute small towns and endless fields of soybeans and corn, isn’t much to get excited about.  But we do it because it’s bi-annual HOFFEY REUNION time!!  Held on a beautiful farm w/natural greenbelt, stream and pond along gravel roads “straight as the [...]

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It’s certainly fun and games at the reception but B’nai Mitzvah, the coming of age ceremony, is serious stuff for which one must prepare long and hard for, so we’re always impressed with these youngsters!  Rebecca’s Bat Mitzvah was held at Mercer Island’s Herzl Ner Tamid and the reception, a couple of days later at [...]

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What makes a successful non-profit?  Relevance of its mission and ability to fund itself might be at the top of the list.  While few can say funding isn’t an issue these days, the recent Ripple of Hope auction held at the Seattle Waterfront Marriott and hosted by City Year Seattle/King County helped a lot.  A [...]

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Seems whenever we’re here the sky does something wistful, weird, beautiful and wondrous as it did this time, for Robin and Andrew.  Maybe it’s because of the perfect setting inland from the Sound’s ‘convergence zone’ above the vast and lush Snohomish Valley overlooking the picturesque, snow capped Cascade Mountains or maybe that’s just way things [...]

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We just came back from the jam-packed weekend of family fun in New Hampton, Iowa.  One mom, six kids, five spouses and 12 grandkids actually got together for a photo before anyone got injured!  More photos to come!

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