I’ve got to take a moment to say a quick happy birthday to my wonderful wife, Amanda. She turns [AGE REDACTED] today, and–if at all possible–she has become even more beautiful, captivating, amazing, and inspiring than she was the day I met her nearly ten years ago. Happy birthday, sweetie! I love you! (I would […]
Homeowners (again)
Well, we did it. We signed our lives away once again. My wife and I signed the papers to purchase a brand new townhome in Waukee last night. The deal is obviously contingent upon us selling our current home. But in order to pull that off, we need to get in gear and get the […]
Everything is starting to look a lot like MOVING
Well, it looks like after 6 years of living in a quiet, sleepy farm town in rural Iowa, we might actually be uprooting our nest and moving east. Not too far east, mind you. We’re currently looking at a cozy 3-bedroom brownstone in Waukee. Most of the details are in place: we’ve gotten pre-approved for […]
Surviving no TV week
It’s TV turn-off week, and though it isn’t affecting us greatly, it is having an influence. We aren’t overly dependent upon the televisions in our home, but it is nice to take this opportunity to unplug and show our boys that every now and then, you have to have something else be the focus and/or […]
I’ll get him to sing Blackbird next
This weekend my wife and I got into a crazy frenzy of cleaning and organizing the house. Anytime we do this (which is apt to occur roughly once a month), we always put some music in the stereo and crank it up to keep us motivated and give the boys something to dance to while […]
Thankfully, there was no mutiny
My little pirate on Halloween. The other one was a lion, but wouldn’t cooperate, which is actually pretty funny when you think about it.
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