Kayla, Nathan and I had my good friend Jeff and his two older kids over for some pool/grillin’ time today. The kids had a great time and the Dad’s did too. Always good to catch up with one of my most interesting friends. He’s been dealing with the often “under appreciated”, life-altering, and life-shortening disease Lupus (which he has unofficially renamed Chronic Hellitis) for several years and is now at the...

We went to a back-to-school pool party at the Rushing’s home this evening and had a great time… except my wife got this crazy idea that we should trade off cooking every week. We may not go back (just kidding!). We had lots of fun and laughs along with jumpy nerves cringing every time one of the little kiddos ventured near the edge of the pool.  I had empty pockets just in case I had to go for an unexpected swim. The light was...

We spent a couple of days down in Galveston last week before Kayla starts kindergarten. Here are a couple of photos from the trip. When we arrived at our hotel, it was blazing hot outside (and we had just visited the train museum which was mostly outside) so we decided to go for a swim in the hotel pool and it was FREEZING. It was almost torture but Kayla and I were eventually able to get all the way in. We had fun as Kayla would run...