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...

Three cheers for the cheapo pool we put up to keep cool this summer and to teach the kids how to swim.  Two weeks ago, neither of the kids could swim for squat. Kayla, because of her past ear problems, would NOT even go under the water. And Nathan has never really had a chance to swim. Today, we have a couple of fish in the family.  They would stay in the pool ALL DAY if we let them. I think Kayla finally got tired of Nathan getting all...

The all-star baseball season has already come and gone. Nathan was the youngest player on a team. There was one other 5 year old, a bunch of 6 year olds and a few that were 7. After playing first base during the regular season, he ended up playing second base for all-stars. He learned a lot and really did a great job. The team lost their first game after a sloppy final inning but they won their next 2 to finish the tournament...

So as I’ve mentioned in the past, Nathan is a baseball fanatic. He walks around almost all day every day in baseball pants tucked into his socks (like his favorite player Hunter Pence) and a jersey. Every morning he wants to know who won all of the previous days games so he likes me to pull up the scoreboard on espn.com and although he can’t read for squat, he can tell me who played in each game and who won just based on the...

Nathan has officially finished pre-school and all of the classes closed the year with “Splash Day.” I can’t believe he’ll be starting kindergarten soon. He made some huge strides this year. Amy I and are very proud of him and are thankful for the staff at the Early Childhood Center at our church. Great people. Don’t forget to click the images for a larger...

Well, the site has been down for a while now thanks to some hacker that messed up this site along with with a couple of others. I still have to go back and add all of my photos back to each post but at least I didn’t lose everything. Hackers stink.

If I’m going to spend a handful of cash for some flowers that will be dead in a week (despite the assurances “they’ll look great for two weeks!” – yeah, maybe if you think they look great in a trash can), I might as well take the opportunity to really make them last by getting out the photo gear. Macro photography is a favorite of mine because… well,  there are lots of things that look really cool when...