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Latest News: 06-07-2008

Well I am just busting at the seams with pride.  My son, a 6th grader in the Kent School District, entered a contest titled "Battle of the Books" along with three of his classmates.  The contest basically consists of these four person teams reading a previously decided19 books, and then being tested on them.  The contest included 4th, 5th, and 6th graders from 28 different elementary schools throughout the district.  Each school has at least 6 different teams and sometimes as many as 9 in the competition.  So roughly about 200 teams start out, this eventually gets cut to one representative team from each school (28 teams).  They then meet in the district finals, which was held earlier today.  My son's team came just one question away from winning the entire contest. On the last question of the contest (there are forty questions) another team caught them and forced a "sudden death" overtime.  It went to 4 questions before the other team prevailed and My son's team took second place.  I feel so blessed to partake in some of the simple joys of a father.  I know that you can be happy and be single, or childless, but for me there is nothing more gratifying than raising children.  It is also the hardest "job" I have ever had to do.  I have been giving a lot of thought lately to what God has in mind for me. I am feeling pulled to the Right to Life movement.  Being a Catholic I have a strong belief that life is truly sacred and it is our responsibility to speak out and try to protect our children.  Who among us would ever witness a child being murdered or harmed and stand idly by and not do anything to intervene?  We wouldn't think of it.  Yet there are millions of small children being slaughtered every year through abortions and our government and many of our citizens think it is okay? You think that doesn't put a tear in God's eye?  I am the father of four, two biological and two adopted, and I could not even fathom that people could do that to a child.   I know that having a child is not easy but believe me, there are people waiting in the wings to adopt children.  I love my adopted kids not one iota less than my biological.  I know first hand that there can be an extremely happy ending when a mother can not take care of her child.  Happy for the adoptive family, the biological mother (knowing she gave life to her child and did not kill it) and obviously happy for the child given a chance to grow up in a family that loves him/her dearly.  All my children make me very proud. I am proud of the mothers who made unselfish decisions to keep my children in their wombs until God could put them in our arms.  The liberal left will say it is a "fetus".  This is an obvious effort to get people think/deny that it is a child.  IT IS A CHILD!  Don't ever be fooled into thinking that it isn't.  Please consider getting involved to help save these beautiful little children before they are murdered and make no mistake about it, this is murder!  I'm not quite sure yet as to how best serve the righteous cause of saving our kids so please pray for me in that effort.  Please consider it with your vote for President as well.  We will all have to face our "Maker" some day and I for one will not have to explain why I voted for the "pro death" candidate.  I know that I will probably get some hate mail from this but that is such a small price to pay.  To tell you the truth, if you stopped coming to see me or avoided me because you believed that it was okay to kill an unborn child than I really have lost nothing at all.  I know that I am getting "preachy" but I am just expressing some of my heartfelt thoughts.  If you don't agree with the way I think then please just click on to the next website.  Please pray for the kids and PLEASE get involved in a peaceful, legal manner.  Let's have the courage to stand up to the liberal left and say that it is just not right.  They are in the minority but they are vocal about it and that sometimes intimidates people.  We owe it to the children to speak out.  God Bless!

My daughter took several of my videos I made for an "America's Got Talent" tryout and put them on the web in the Youtube realm.  Just go to youtube and type in FIREMANOLY and they should pop up.  Or to make it easier just click on one of these links to see my own Youtube Channel or one of the videos my daughter  put on her own channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FiremanOly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-rTJ9K_LA

Kind'a cool but also kind'a wierd to see yourself on screen.  As usual I make some mistakes and as usual I look like I just came back from a camping trip but take it for what it is and I hope you enjoy it.  Later Gator!

Thank you so much for visiting my site. I am a singer/songwriter of sorts, and decided to start this site as a way for people to listen to a sample of my music, find out where I am currently playing, and what events I will be playing for in the future. Also you will be able to order CDs on-line soon.

Although I do play secular music for certain venues, I consider myself mainly a contemporary Christian artist. My aim in life is to continue to grow in my relationship with Christ, my family, and with my music. I hope you will sign my guest book and give me your thoughts on what you liked/didn't like on the site or what you think would make it better. It is a work in progress so I will be tweaking it as I go and someday I hope to have a highly polished product for you.

I hope that this site will continue to grow, get better, and be an interesting place for you to visit once in a while.

I hope to meet you in person for weekly mass at St. Stephen the Martyr Church in Renton , WA (Sunday evenings) or at one of the other events I may be playing for.

God Bless You,

Your Friend in Christ,

-Steve Olson