A Montero Christmas

December 24, 2018

Not a lot of words to accompany this post. Just wanted to share some photos from our family Christmas get together. My brother Frank came into town to join in on all the typical Montero antics. These include things like:

Kids running around
Smoking
Gambling
Complaining about the Gift Exchange
Uncle Mike being Uncle Mike

Also: I was super pumped to see my Aunt Connie and cousin Robert show up. It was a nice surprise. Happy Holidays everybody!

I always forget to never be the person who lights the fire in social situations. The moment things start to go sideways (even if they are out of your control) people start blaming you for it. This time it was damp wood smoking out the family function. Here, Frank is rearranging the fire to minimize the smoke generated.

Uncle Mike got baking stuff that he didn’t understand.

1st Anniversary Night Out

October 8, 2017

We celebrated our first wedding anniversary last night. Ended up at a cool little spot called “Plunge” on Ocean Ave. After that, we ended up meeting with our friends J Paul and Heather who were in our neck of the woods. Heather was our officiant, so it was a real treat to spend time with […]

André Galvão Visits J2L

May 12, 2018

In life, you’re always learning from someone who’s come before you. In that same respect, you often find yourself teaching someone else where you’ve been. I like to think about it like this. You have two hands, one for pulling yourself upward and another to help your fellow man climb with you. As a professor […]

Cần Thơ, Vietnam

October 31, 2017

I’ve had the urge recently to go through some of my old travel photos. I found so many photos that didn’t make the cut back then. It’s interesting to find new meaning in old photos a few years later. I really enjoyed this trip, Vietnam in particular. There’s a certain ruggedness that we found there […]