Happy Father's Day!!
I hope all of you Dad's have a wonderful day tomorrow! A little over a month left until we all get to see each other....can't wait!!!

Happy Belated Mother's Day!

Hi Everyone- hope that all the Moms had a great day yesterday!

With the upcoming reunion/anniversary in July and all the planning that will go into it, I created a Yahoo group for us to use to store reference material and share a calendar. We can add links as well, so when you all find something that would be of interest to the group - you can place it on our group page.

The other thing that is great about this is the email can be sent to HIJOKOPO@yahoogroups.com and it will go to everyone all at once (provided you joined the group). Members can decide if they want emails as they come, or a daily digest with the full conversation in one email. So, follow the directions in the email (check your spam folders if it's not in your inbox!!) and see u there!

denise;)

Our Hawaii Trip

Melissa and I recently traveled to Oahu for our 1 year anniversary, Melissa's 30th birthday and to take part in the annual Kokua Festival. This was by far the best trip that Melissa and I have ever taken with each other!

Spring should be sun and fun!

Well - as you can see the Johannessohn clan is a bit more reserved! We went to Cayucos, California for Spring Break. Kelsey came out of her frigid, overcast environment in Ohio for some sun and fun, and Erik got some sun to last him while he's in England for six months. We loved it there! On the drive over we took a small back road which was through the mountains covered with wildflowers.

You Can Take The Boy Out OF Florida...

But You Can't Take Florida Out Of The Boy.

I hosted a RockBand night at the coffee shop I work at last week. It was also a costume contest so I dressed as a roadie for Foreigner. It's kind of scary to see how natural I look with a mullet. Enjoy!

02/13

Well, we have been snowed in for 2 days and Tom couldn't get out even this morning (oh darn!!). Everyone thinks we are crazy because we love this.
Our lab HATES walking in the snow and having to
do her business when it is so cold and frozen. She was
a slippin' and slidin' this morning. We are getting new
snow right now. Ya'all come on down:):) We have a
roaring fire and the pot 's on.

Potter's Poison - The Results Are In!! (video)

The video is sideways for the first few seconds - it is corrected soon after.

Analytics

Hello Family,

I have been tracking page hits for this blog using Google Analytics and I figure I will share some of the data with you:

Number of visits to the blog since January 7th: 162
Absolute unique visitors: 28
With an average of 1.33 pages viewed per visit
Average time spent on site: 00:00:54
Unique Page Views: 215
70.37% of you typed the site directly into your browser
25.31% of you came from a referring site?
4.32% found the site using a search engine
Every visit came from the US exept for 1 visit from Morocco
70.37% of you use Internet Explorer
While 29.63% of you use Firefox
This site averages about 4 visits a day
With January 14th being the highest visited day with 8 visits
And February 2nd being the lowest at 1 visit
More people have looked at Neil's "Brewing My Own Beer" page than any other on the site
With a close second being Neil's "Update On Beer Video" page

How does it feel to be turned into a statistic? I think it's kind of creepy I can easily find out all this information. I also have all your credit card numbers as well but I figured it wouldn't be a good idea to post them here. (kidding :-) )

Hope all is well.

-Jason-

We've Adopted!

a new fur baby, that is.... hee hee!

This is Granny's sweet little dog, Mitzi. She is a 9 yr old Fox Terrier. She's has made herself at home with our other fur babies, Joey & Trooper. She's also super well behaved and not barky at all (thank god!)

Anyway, I just thought I'd share this pic of Keith sitting with his girl watching the Giants vs Packers the other night.

To see some pics of Granny, follow the link below. I'm sorry there's been some difficulty in finding them on my Flickr account... http://www.flickr.com/photos/geekgirl415/sets/72157603703130371/

For the Potter & Johannsson families, Granny passed away last week at the age of 96. She's Linda's and Mike's mom and she was the funniest, sweetest, smartest lady around. We will miss her.

Update on the Beer (video)

Day one - the beer is coming along as it should. The valve kept me up all night. It sounds like a leaky faucet. I'm sure it's all worth it!

Brewing my own beer

A few weeks ago, my neighbor, Ernie let me tast some of his "homebrew". He has been brewing his own beer at home for a few months now. I decided to give homebrew a try. Dad gave me a homebrew kit for Christmas and this saturday was brewing day! I am brewing a version of Fat Tire (popular Belgium style Ale in the north - cant get it here in the sunshine state). Once the beer is done, I am bottling the beer and I have even created my own label. Let's hope it comes out great! See below for some pictures of the process.

As you can tell we finially got some rain and it put my new retaining wall that I built a couple of months ago to its first test.

Veronica and Nick and Mardi are standing on the bridge that I built 21 years ago. We live next to the school that Keith, Natalie, and Veronica went to. The old bridge had washed out the winter before. The new bridge is 18 inches higher than the old one. Back when it used to rain a lot water reached the bottom of the bridge but never went over. Isn't all this exciting?

By the way, due to the fact that I do not remember my pass word and I can't get on without it, I am signed in using Veronica's. Actually all I did was take the pictures and write this very insightful message. Veronica down loaded the pictures, signed on, and posted the pictures.