Happy 8th Birthday!!!

Daily Picture: 8 Years Ago Today…

Well it has been 8 years since my oldest was born.  It seems so long ago and hard to beleive he is 8 years old already.  He is the same age my younger brother was when I met my wife…(DOH!)  At the time I had no idea how much my [...]

9 Eight Year Olds, No Sleep and Football

Daily Picture: The Nerf N Strike Recon CS-6

Well Saturday was my oldests birthday party.  He turns 8 tomorrow which is kind of freaky.  For the party on Saturday it was basically two stages.  First it was a party from 5:00 to 8:00 with swimming, Pizza, Cake and Ice Cream Sundaes.  There were a total of [...]

We Bought a Puppy

Daily Picture: Gandalf

Our new addition will not be with us until August 11th the Monday after we get back from vacation.  At that point he will be 14 weeks old and not a tiny puppy, but still a puppy.   We drove out 90 minutes last night with the kids to visit the 40 acre farm [...]

Water Parks and Weddings

Daily Picture Friday: Six Flags Hurricane Harbor

Friday was our day to go have fun in the sun.  We have season tickets to Six Flags Great America thanks to my Father In Law so it is easy for use to spend a few hours here and there having fun.  Well on Fridays I watch a friend [...]

Those are Hot…Ouch… Let me have more…

Daily Picture: Flaming Hot Cheetos

For weeks my 3yo has been asking for the “Hot Cheetos” and I had not said yes.  Well last night while at the store I decided to get him some.  At lunch we had some and they are pretty hot.  He ate one and said these are relly good!  Then the [...]

Baby Jump!

6 Month Old Jumping!!!

Rejected, Review, Rethink…

Daily Picture: The Plastic Zoo

3yo wanted me to take a picture of all the little plastic animals he could fit in the “Bug Cage” as he calls it.
Being Rejected
We were approved as an adopter for Australian Shepard’s, but after this past weekend I really doubt we will be getting a rescue dog.  We visited a [...]

Dental Work and Doggie Visits…

Daily Picture: The New Work Laptop

This new toy important piece of work equipment has already proved to be great to have.  I have been able to get work done while sitting on the patio with the boys swimming.  Being able to be outside with them while they play on the swingset and play in the [...]

Alien Insect Invasion…

Daily Picture: Praying Mantis

While I was taking the garbage can out front this afternoon I spotted this little fellow on the side of the house.  A rather tiny Praying Mantis so I caught the little alien to show the boys.  After being looked at and photographed I put him in the garden.  I tried to [...]

Laptop Blogging

Well my new laptop for work came in yesterday.  I have spent a ton of time setting everything up and moving files from multiple sources to the new toy.  It has already worked out well since I was able to spend a bunch of time setting things up and bookmarking work related sites while the [...]