Mike’s 26th Birthday

15 Mar

Well, it’s official: I’m getting old. I’m on the wrong side of 25 as the old saying goes. Pretty soon I’ll be telling Laurie to turn off her darn rock-and-roll music, and lecturing to her about how, back in my day, I had to walk to school. Uphill, both ways, in the snow. Anyway, even though my actual birthday isn’t until the 16th, this weekend we headed up to Manassas to celebrate the Reda’s annual “Mike’s Birthday + St. Patrick’s Day dinner.”

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Laurie & Mike Version 4.0

9 Mar

Welcome to the new website! It has been over a year since the last re-design and I felt like it was time to make a few changes. Hopefully you’ll notice that everything is bigger and easier to read. We thought was important to increase functionality and readability (Haha, Reda-bility) with this new design

It was also important to keep everything neat and clean in order to give our loyal readers a better experience. Don’t get me wrong, I was very happy with the old design. I really dug the colors and the trendy wood background. But white text on a dark background is just too hard to read. That’s probably why books aren’t printed on black paper.

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Shutter Island

20 Feb

Those of you who know me also know that I love movies. I love turning off my brain for two hours and going on a cinematic adventure. I think it’s safe to say that everyone has favorite actors and directors, and when I heard that two of my favorites were coming together (again) for a psychological thriller, I was on board from the word “go.”

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Snow Day

3 Feb

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Last weekend we got a lot of snow in Richmond. We couldn’t drive anywhere (not just because of bad driving conditions but because our cars were buried in roughly 12 inches of icy precipitation) so we let Kelsey loose in the back yard and recorded her running around and having a blast. Kosmo thought he might want to join, but quickly changed his mind. It was a great long weekend with the family and today I posted some of the video we took of Kelsey in the snow. Check it out, and let us know what you think!

2009 Wrap-Up

29 Jan

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Here we are 29 days into 2010 and we’re already falling behind on our resolution of more consistent blogging. Sorry it’s been a while but I hereby declare that we will get better, starting right now!

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