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Happy Mother’s Day!

Pekka — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:22:29 +0000

Hyvää Äitienpäivää!

Lamp shade

Pekka — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:20:36 +0000

Mia and her friend Emma worked together to paint a lamp shade. Looks pretty cool!

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One step at a time by Mia

Pekka — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:09:34 +0000

Mia made another painting – a pair of sneakers hanging from the wire, called One step at a time. It is a monotone acrylic painting where she was only allowed to use shades of orange and black. Great job, Mia!

One step at a time by Mia

That’s me

Pekka — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:49:52 +0000

That’s me doing what I like to do to relax. This was last year’s event with colleagues from work. Cooking event at Kaspar’s for the team. Thanks Robin for doing this for the team, it was a lot of fun.

Any resemblance with the caricature?

More of Mia’s art – amazing

Pekka — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:18:18 +0000

Mia made this portrait of African boy. For privacy reasons I can’t tell you where he is from. Mia’s school received few photos of African children. Most people there cannot afford pictures taken of them, let alone have portraits painted of them. So the school project was to paint portraits and send them over to these kids.

The painting Mia made is just amazing. She said the project was frustrating amounts of coat of paint over another. But the result is just amazing. I was pretty good at drawing things when I was young (I think), but I could not have done anything like this.

Great job, Mia! I am sure he will be proud of this picture. I just can’t get over it.

2013 African boy portrait by Mia

Happy New Year 2013!

Pekka — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:25:55 +0000

We had this in between the courses to clear the palette, between appetizers and the main dish. It was delicious! Fresh berries and lemon sorbet combined with prosecco in champagne flute.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2013!

Pekka — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:38:24 +0000

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Happy New Year 2013!

For this new year, we made a frankencake – half of it is lingonberry cake, the other half is caramel cake.

Hyvää Joulua ja Onnellista Uutta Vuotta 2013!

Frankencake – half lingonberry, half caramel cake.

Happy New Year 2013!
Frankencake – half lingonberry, half caramel cake.

Finnish School Teens Skating Event

Pekka — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 02:30:47 +0000

Finnish School teens had their first monthly event on Saturday, December 2nd. They met at The Chaplins Bellevue Volkswagen Ice Arena in downtown Bellevue to do some skating. Here’s a quick video of the event.

High School Girl’s Soccer

Pekka — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:26:53 +0000

TBCS Grizzlies soccer practice in Marymoor Park

Mia has been practicing hard and playing soccer all Fall in her school’s soccer team. Their school district playoffs went really well leading them to play for gold or silver in the state championship game last weekend, Bear Greek Grizzlies vs. Napavine Tigers in Sumner at the Chevron Sunset Stadium. The game was pretty exciting but there were no goals until there was 16 minutes left on the first half. The Grizzlies, Mia’s team made their first score. The game went well for the Grizzlies and they won the state championship with 4-0 score.

ACL 2012

Pekka — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:53:10 +0000

Austin City Limits music festival came and went, in Zilker Park, Austin, Texas – 3 days, 8 stages and over 130 bands. We were there with a group of fun people, about 13 of us. Mike and I rented a nice house from Lakeview, TX. It is outside Austin 40-60min from there depending on the traffic. Mike, his nieces and I stayed at the house while the others stayed at the Driskill hotel in downtown Austin (our usual hangout). I did not take whole lot of photos but here are few from my flight to Austin, the house we stayed in, Driskill bar (at the hotel), Juan in a Million (place we had breakfast with Mike’s relatives, and of course couple from the event itself.

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Thank you Brandee, Kelly, Kristle, Michelle, Rebecca, Bill, Cliff, Forrest, Jeff, Mike (both), and Robert for the good times!!