My brother, Marc, and his wife Kari, announced that they were pregnant with their second baby over Thanksgiving. They were really excited to add to their family and it looked like this one’s birthday would be about exactly two years after their son Parker’s. Marc and Kari are such good and dedicated parents that thisContinue reading “In Memory of Ashton Newell”
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Katie’s New Games
It’s been a while since I did a thorough report on Katie, but she’s been making a lot of progress lately. She has really figured out the potty thing – she hasn’t had an accident in over a month. We still put a diaper on her at night – we tried going without, but that’sContinue reading “Katie’s New Games”
Water Park
We took the plunge and headed to the Thumper Pond Waterpark on Sunday afternoon to take advantage of a special deal and the fact we had to take Monday off since we didn’t have any daycare. The waterpark featured four pool areas – a kiddie/splash pool, a hot tub, a basketball hoop are and aContinue reading “Water Park”
The Good, The Bad and The Busy
It’s been a really long week. You can tell our weeks are getting long when Becky and I say to each other – it’s only Tuesday night? Friday night always seems so far away. I’m making my list of the week’s good, bad and busy, in reverse order: Busy 1) Super Bowl – two partiesContinue reading “The Good, The Bad and The Busy”
Jazzy Fox & Super Sunday
My best friends throughout the years have always remained my friends from high school – Uggie, Brad and Kelly. The first two are married and have two kids just about the same age as our kids. We’ve always managed to stay in touch and we get together 8-15 times per year. One thing we’ve startedContinue reading “Jazzy Fox & Super Sunday”
In search of QAM
No, I’m not into Dungeons and Dragons or Harry Potter – QAM is quadrature amplitude modulation (thanks Wikipedia). It is the signal that displays HDTV over cable. I found out last week that my small town is now offering HDTV for the local channels. I didn’t know this before and was under the impression thatContinue reading “In search of QAM”
A New School?
As I mentioned before, I’m on the school board and the economic development authority in my town. On Monday evening, a meeting of the school board, the economic development authority members and the city council was held to discuss our shared vision for the town, so I was there to share in the French Dip sandwiches andContinue reading “A New School?”
Party Party
Katie’s long awaited birthday happened this week. I was recalling today that she’s been talking about her 3rd birthday since my birthday back in October. It seems the event lived up to the hype. We had her friends Mya and Jalynn over on her birthday night to hang out. Then today we had all theContinue reading “Party Party”
School Board Conference
I’ve been on the school board for a year now and I decided to make the trip down to the annual Minnesota School Board Association Annual Leadership Conference. Three of us from the board went down for the conference along with our superintendent and his wife. After checking in to the Minneapolis Hyatt, IContinue reading “School Board Conference”
And She’s Off
Amelia is off and crawling now. She had taken a couple crawl steps on Thursday night, but she really took off yesterday. I was playing with her in the living room when she started coming after some mail I was opening. She took four or five crawl steps, and then I moved the mail andContinue reading “And She’s Off”
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