Holy-Days: Part I

All things Christmas holidays:
Christmas tree hunting in a little community called Rosebud

Our first Sebastopol, MS snow.  As much as we ever had in Portland.

Come back Frosty!

Southern Miss ends on a high note

This was the first year the family and I had season tickets to Southern Miss football.  The team started off to a dismal 2-6 start but finished strong by winning the last 4 regular season games and then beating Troy in the New Orleans Bowl 30-27 in Over Time to finish 7-6.  That’s 15 straight [...]

Labor of Love

We celebrate 2 years

We celebrated 2 years with my only, unique son, Trey back in November.  He is all boy and I love it.  He loves to wrestle, sword fight, and hit his sister and I didn’t even have to teach him those things.
Lorrie made the green, dinosaur cake.  Below right, Trey is holding his new birthday guitar [...]

Kin-Tucky

After fun time at the Schell’s, we headed two hours south in Nichalsville, KY to celebrate Thanksiving with my mom and her husband, Lee (aka Granny & Paw).

The kids had a fun time at Granny & Paws.

Trey got his first shot at mowing (to my delight) by using Granny’s manual lawn mower.

Thanks to [...]

Lost Season 5

I don’t think there is ever been a TV show that gets me more excited than LOST.  Maybe Transformer when I was kid.   Season 5 starts on January 21st.

13 hours to go

For Thanksgiving we decided on driving to Lebonon, OH near Cincinnati where our Fun Friends, the Schells, live (close friends that also used to live in the Northwest like us).   But what do you do with three children under 5 for 13 hours?

You let them watch movies.  And they did.  All three did suprisingly well.  [...]

Cheeky Bops

Sometimes a father can get stuck on the previous child’s nickname and attribute it to the next.  I had been calling Hannah, Cheeky Meeks, over the past few weeks but that name belongs to Trey.  After some discussion and reflection with Shelby, we decided on Cheeky Bops.  Cheeky Bops is now 6 months old.  Full [...]