Ad Vertis Meant

Merry Christmas
Sweet Hat
White Peppermint Russians, yes

Frantic abandon for His Love

No minute undevoted

Passion

Open letter

Just my take - nothing more - not the answer

Every Sunday when I go to Church I lift my heart and worship and praise God. Grandmas floats into my head. Nothing triggers it, she just shows up. This letter comes from guidance

This whole situation seems like a blur to me and all of you. Remember when we would arrive for Christmas to a house packed with people not STUFF, that house was crushed with LOVE. So much so you touch it, feel it and breathe it in. Remember the scene

It has been 1365 days, just a number but I can feel every day in that number
Each night I tuck Oak into bed he wraps up in a quilt from her, from my childhood. I can feel her presence in those moments.
In those 1365... Oak and Cal have walked me through life with joy
Adriane has become a woman of grace and wisdom beyond her years
Josh has built a life a future
Kamaria has played a thousand more SkipBo games against hundreds of new opponents
Paige has found the love of her life
Kent has served his country
Khloe never got what she deserved

I know it's a lot, but how do we bring back some of those times, she was the common denominator for all of us as grand kids, she connected us and let's all stay connected somehow

Bring back the 4th
Let's fill a room with LOVE again
Merry Christmas
Love always

Football and Sandwiches

I will take the first step

I can't deny my desire to solve and accomplish, probably why this career fits me so well. I won't let go of a situation and move on. I want you all to know this when I'm not giving up on you

Oakley can hit a ball that is pitched to him, we practice in the garage at night.

Halloween was a success

Saturday Mornings

Lessons learned sometimes I wonder of that balance can ever be found

The fall of humanity I think maybe defined in the embracing of life because of all that pulls and detours you from His Light

I went to Mexico

Season 2 The Office still fantastic
Ponder Era starts tomorrow, loving this...
Try sporcle.com

Orchard Land

Oakley is 3 for 4 going to the orchard

Who skips June and July....

Didn't go to West Graham in June July August, first time in 27 years yuck

Just got back from mazatlan, amazing

Adriane, I can never ever thank you enough, you'll never know how much this meant, no one will

New Snow Patrol- called out in the dark, delightful

Shawn McDonald- rise
Thank You Brookwood, you called me out

Memorial Day

Pray for Kent in Kuwait



Sometimes you go through your day to day life, you watch the news and you see the current events but you dont always see or feel the effects of them...

This is the first time that I remember the direct impact of the war on my life and the economy on my life.

There will be dozens of changes in Oak and Cal's lives in the next couple of years, things that will shape their growth dramatically but i am excited for their development and excited for them to learn how to Love with passion, to soak up the moments and to store them up in the memory banks ;)

Memorial Day, the start of summer, it was a GREAT weekend.

Easter Egg huNt

how you doing??

Happy Boy!!!

You should see how long this kid is...

The baseball season has started and loving it.

Found Oak his new Twins hat

I am doing Fantasy Baseball this year, maybe a mistake

CowLick or Colic

Not wanted nor needed in my vocabulary...

So we have been attending a great new Church, needed and necessary. However one of the funniest moments has been an invitation to Lunch afterwards and not 10 minutes into Lunch accepting an invite to play softball from someone i have known for 6 minutes... Ahh Simpler Times

Oak Nation

First baseball glove day today!!! Lil Lefty...

One Week

Oak continues to embraced big brotherhood. Only a couple of challenging moments, that were to be expected.

So many people have visited this week and it has been awesome to see everybody!!!

Comments

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Big Brother Oakley

For all the concern Amber and I had about Oak becoming a new big brother, i couldn't be more relieved. He has been an amazing listener, helper and lover of all things Callahan. He blows me aware with his maturity and grace. Couldn't be more proud of my Boys... huh that felt weird, my boys. I like it...

Oak, meet Callahan...

I Think She Knows Interlude

Oakley is trapped in the wonder that was the 2009 Vikings Season...

Do you ever watch a movie and you find yourself so involved, so connected that it scares you, makes you think you should make some big change??

Im not talking about movies like Avatar or something random like that but those other movies, those ones that connect. I guess thats why they make millions... huh random

The weekends are super tough, i feel like i constantly need to be doing something, putting something together, doing an activity for a result. yikes. So do people ever truly retire?? without a hobby you want successfully enjoy retirement?

how many farmers do you know that golf? few if any? farmers never stop farming...

Edina is getting better...

Oakley got this sweet new MLB quilt, its awesome and yes i am jealous...

is it weird to think i need to NOW purchase a new baseball glove to play catch with the boys?

John Mayer - Ain't No Sunshine (cover)

Mamma will not be happy...

So Callahan should be arriving shortly. We painted his room. my heads spins at the thought of completing this stripe task however, the attention to detail skill i never received from my Dad showed up for me. Thanks Dad.

it is probably not possible to dream of spring as much as i have in the past couple of weeks.

Mom and Dad are moving to Florida and it is bittersweet.

Warm Vacation spot yes, the comfort of a drive away, no.

Should be an interesting change, one with loads of anticipation.

my first thought, honestly, was Oakley rounding third base and dad giving him the big wheel towards home with a red B.U.M equipment shirt on. Not sure why that popped into my head, but i am sure a few of you know. I get the feeling that a video camera will be overused by my in the coming years and this BLOG will surely blow up quite often.