Raise your hand if you married up? You know who you are. See me over here? I have my hand up and I’m proud to admit it.
My lovely wife and I have been married for 17 years (yeah, I’m old, shut up) and we’ve just had one vacation apart from the kids in that time. [...]

What to do… what to do… I’m not sure really.
I’ve been blogging since 1996 and wonder if there’s truly nothing new under the sun. I may take this site in a completely different direction… or maybe not. I’ve not yet decided but it seems there may be a need to ramp things up.

Jesus, born to die.
The Three Trees
Long ago in the forest, lived three tall tress, the biggest among all trees in the forest. One fine day, the three were having a chat, talking about their dream of the future.
The first tree said, “I want to grow taller and stronger, and I want a man to chop [...]

Just made all the file moves to 2.8.4 of WordPress but I already see some silliness happening here. May take some time to figure it out but I wanted to move to a newer version so that I can “Upgrade Automatically” which is uber-keen.

Fripp, now just weeks past, seems a distant memory. Oh but life is strange. Onward and upward!
Here’s a great shot Andrew took of Barret at the Cabana pool. Looks like the boy is having fun, no?

The time is upon us, quite literally. We’re heading out the door to pile into our minivan and take the accustomed 12-hour drive to the Holy land… also known as “The Beach.” In our tradition, this is the most blessed of times and we wish it to be no other way, except possibly sans kids, [...]

Ellery is a happy baby! (Well at least some of the time.)

A three-year-old Bear is a serious bear.

Here’s Creampuff sporting a throw-back Rashard Lewis Sonics jersey.

I bet you all were fearing for safety, right? Honestly, I know things are tough all over as they used to say in the 60’s. But I’d be remiss to not post some candid shots of Louisville’s recent ice storm. It’s a doozy! Turns out this is “…the worst ice storm in a long, long [...]

Can you just imagine what’s going on inside his head? He’s killing it!
As a father, it’s built-in that I want my kids to enjoy the things I enjoy and avoid the things I dislike. But there’s a catch. What if I do like something but am so horribly inept that it borders on freakshow status? [...]

Here are some of our first ever ski trip. The boys and I had a great time in Copper Mountain with very little crowds, almost perfect weather and plenty of the white stuff. If only my back hadn’t gone out on me. Ahh… you can’t have everything. Cheers!
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The baby in this picture is not dead. He was just born into a very tough life.
Another baby arrived on planet Earth some 2000 years ago with a heart-breaking mission—to die for humanity. Literally Jesus was born to die.
On this Christmas morning, take a second and remember that without his death and resurrection, Christ’s [...]

Barret can’t write his name or say the alphabet but he can throttle some Angels & Airwaves on Rock Band.

“Yes,” we still love Ellery. And “yes” she cries more than a French soccer player. Therefore, we haven’t taken as many photos as we might normally would have wanted to.
I mean, how many pictures of a crying baby do you need (even if she’s as cute as she can be)?
So, here are a [...]

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown tomorrow to a known God.”
-Corrie Ten Boom

Given the non-stop media barrage, I’ll be glad when this election is over. Not because I’ll be happy with the outcome, mind you, but because I won’t have to watch the endless stream of hateful ads and obvious liberal bias in the media. They can’t even disguise their slants any more.
Then you have the [...]