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• Weekend Greatness

  Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 10:25 in entertainment, family, fighting, friends, outdoors, party, Projects, soccer, soccer practice, ufc, weekend

  Side Note: I meant to post this on Monday or Tuesday but the work and family schedule has been busy this week so here it is.  [my little disclaimer] This weekend we decided to do some project work ar...

• Moving to a New Card

  Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 06:50 in blogging, credit cards, debt, family, finances

  Lately we have been pushing to get out of debt.  Interest rates are always changing and sometimes they get out of control.  And then our monthly payment goes up and up and I truthfully believe nothi...

• Theater on the Wish List

  Posted on Thursday August 7th, 2008 at 11:03 in blogging, DVD, entertainment, family, good stuff, home theater, movies, surround sound

  I love movies.  As far back as I can remember I have loved watching movies.  Over time though movies have changed and so have the prices. (lol)  As I have grown in age and watching the technology c...

• Money and Our Future

  Posted on Wednesday August 6th, 2008 at 21:26 in blogging, family, financial planning, mutual funds, Retirement, stocks

  While I was doing some filing in the home office I ran across some quarterly reports that talked about my wife’s retirement.  After reading over the statement I came to a realization that we ar...

• Mission Trip back home

  Posted on Sunday July 20th, 2008 at 14:32 in family, Mexico, mission, mission trip, next worldwide, tcal, travel, xalapa

  My wife and the entire group got back into town last Friday (couple days ago) after being in Xalapa, Mexico for 1 week.  There are plenty of stories I have heard about how wonderful this trip was and...

• Don’t Leave Home Without It

  Posted on Tuesday July 15th, 2008 at 21:00 in blogging, family, flying, health, insurance, Mexico, sickness, travel, usa

  Insurance that is.  This week my wife is on a mission trip to Southern Mexico, so of course she is traveling out of the country.  One thing that was good to hear before her trip is that she would be...

• A Festival and a Shooting

  Posted on Monday July 14th, 2008 at 08:26 in cornucopia days, crime, earrings, family, festival, kent, Seattle, shooting

  For about one year now, my mother decided to start a business (rather small) and go to little craft shows and festivals to sell her custom made jewelry.  So this past weekend she had a booth set up a...

• Project Update

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 13:59 in family, flower bed, landscaping, outdoors, planting, plants, water, weeds

  I thought I should give a project update since I haven’t said much about it.  I think we finally stopped for the weekend about 9:45pm Sunday night.  It was pretty dark out, but it was much coo...

• Recap of the 3-day

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 22:21 in 4th of july, entertainment, family, outdoors, soccer, weekend

  This weekend was a nice 3 day weekend.  Although we were pretty full with our schedule. So here is the list and how we fared this last weekend: Workout Friday morning (first time in months) ** We w...

• Landscaping Project

  Posted on Saturday July 5th, 2008 at 13:59 in family, flowers, landscaping, movies, outdoors, project, soccer, stone

  Today we started our landscaping project.  Not really sure what we were thinking since it’s 95 out.  However Thursday night we said we were going to do it so here we are.  For starters I had ...

• 3-Day Weekend Checklist

  Posted on Thursday July 3rd, 2008 at 23:06 in dog park, family, landscaping, miniature golf, movies, outdoors, weekend

  OK so someone asked me earlier today what I was going to do tomorrow (The 4th) and the rest of the weekend, and at the time I said, I really have no clue, probably nothing. Well in a matter of hours I...

• Weekend Project

  Posted on Thursday July 3rd, 2008 at 22:49 in DIY, family, General, home, landscape, outdoors, project

  So tonight after dinner we drove down to Wally World to get 2 things.  And when I say 2 things, that doesn’t mean we left with 2 things!  ha ha We have been wanting to do something with our fr...

• Happy Camper she is

  Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 21:36 in AMD, birthday, blogging, Computers, family, laptop, memory, toshiba

  For my wife’s birthday a couple weeks ago, I decided to replace her aging old p4 laptop that she has been using for awhile now.  She really needed something new.  Not to mention that every tim...

• Weekend Wrap-up - Last one in June

  Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 09:05 in entertainment, family, june, movies, soccer, weekend

  I think I pretty much took care of my to-do list this weekend.  I’m still getting over my strep throat so my energy level just isn’t quite back to normal.  So here is the list: Updated l...

• Birthdays and an Anniversary

  Posted on Friday June 27th, 2008 at 21:51 in anniversary, birthday, blogging, family, General, invites, invitiations, Wedding

  May, June and July for us seem to have a bunch of birthdays and an anniversary or two.  The bad part is most of the family is spread across the US so it’s pretty hard to see one another every y...

• Weekend Wrap-up

  Posted on Sunday June 22nd, 2008 at 20:18 in dinner, entertainment, family, fun, grill out, pool, soccer, sun, swimming

  So Friday night started off pretty good, we met up with some friends for dinner for  my wife’s birthday.  After that we went back to there place to see their new puppy.  They have a 9 week ol...

• Weekend Fun

  Posted on Friday June 20th, 2008 at 23:06 in blogging, cedar hill, dinner, entertainment, family, party, pool, soccer, texas, weekend

  Looks like this weekend might have some fun around the corner. Tonight our friends are taking Leslie out to dinner for her birthday.  That is always a good way to start off the weekend.  It sounds l...

• Happy Fathers Day

  Posted on Sunday June 15th, 2008 at 09:14 in dad, family, fathers day

  I wanted to wish my father as well as the other fathers out there a happy Fathers Day Today.. Sorry dad since there are 2000 miles between us I hope you have a wonderful day.....

• Fathers Day

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 21:38 in family, fathers day

  Once again fathers day is closing in upon us. So it’s time for a fathers day sale at all the area stores and shops. The only question is what in the world to get him. Of course there are a lot...

• I need shoes

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 11:51 in barefoot, family, hiking, sandals, shoes, soccer

  Now I don’t need a ton of them, but I would like to have more than just 4 regular pair that I always wear. Right now I have a good dress pair (hardly wear), some hiking boots, indoor soccer sho...

• A look into the past

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 09:42 in family, high school, lowrider, memories, mini-truck, photos

  Last week in an effort to be better organized I started to go through a bunch of old pictures that we had in the closet. As I was going through all of them (there were tons) it brought back memories ...

• Weekend WrapUP

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 10:04 in Computers, exchange, family, john 13, nic, polaris, servers, soccer, springcreek, sql, weekend, work

  I started off the weekend Friday night by going out to dinner at one of our favorite BBQ places.  It was really good and we ate way too much,  I’m getting hungry right now thinking about it. L...

• Summer Travel Time

  Posted on Friday June 6th, 2008 at 21:48 in arlington, family, insurance, Seattle, texas, travel, washington

  Almost every summer Leslie and I head back up to Seattle (My home town) to visit family and friends. And almost every time we travel, regardless where something within the family happens. So this su...