Well, summer has unofficially ended which means that it’s time once again to go back to school.  Emma and Alex are both going to the charter school near our home this year which is new for them.  Because it’s a charter school, they get to wear uniforms.  Surprisingly, this hasn’t really caused any issues.  Neither one of them seems to mind looking like everybody else.  I expected Emma to make a stink about not being...

This is a post that I’ve been wanting to write for quite a while but have not been sufficiently motivated to do so.  Now I have a video clip to accompany my words so I’m glad that I waited.  Videos make everything so much better. Everyone is familiar with MySpace.  I don’t like it.  With all of the half naked ugly chicks, angsty pre-teens, and frat boys, it’s bad enough.  When you add poorly designed pages that...

A few months ago, I mentioned how one of our friends, Mike Phipps, is a successful artist.  By successful, I mean he gets paid for his skills with a paintbrush.  Up until now, if you wanted to buy his stuff, a shirt with his work on it was the best way to go.  Being the successful artist that he is, he has now expanded his body of work to include high quality giclee prints on canvas. Last week I received an email with a link to this...

Last Friday we loaded up the van and headed back up into the mountains to do some more camping.  We liked where we camped a few weeks ago so much that we decided to go a few miles up the road.  Actually, the campgrounds were all reserved months ago.  We just happened to get lucky in the fact that they were great places to pitch a tent.  But I digress… Camping with friends is always more fun so we went with our friends, John and...

As a kid, whenever anybody would ask me what my favorite holiday was, the answer was obviously Christmas.  After all, what kid doesn’t like Christmas?  Free toys, lots of candy stuffed into clothing designed for feet, and did I mention free toys? Now that I’m a bit older, I still love Christmas (I think it’s the free toys thing), but I’ve developed a deep appreciation for other holidays.  Thanksgiving is awesome...