Ben's Birthday Party

Benjamin's birthday was last week, so we had a party, and invited over some friends. His big present for his birthday was a Fisher Price 'Kids Tough' Digital Camera, and he loves it. He's always loved when we would occasionally let him take a picture with our digital camera, but we were always worried he would damage the camera or try to play with it like it's a toy when we're not watching, so this Fisher Price camera was a great gift.

I figured I'd let benjamin tell the story of his birthday party as he saw it. So, I give you Benjamin's photo-blog of his party.

Hawaii picture post

So I figure if we don't start on this sometime, we never will, so here's a few of my favorite Hawaii photos for those still checking this occasionally. The trip was tons of fun, and we'd love to go back someday. I was trying to make the arguement that even being a bum in Hawaii is probably better than working hard in Minnesota... :)

Ah well, someday I'll have to retire there and be a bum on the beach. :)


Good Japanesse food all over the island

Waikiki from the top of Diamond Head



Ready for some boarding! :)

My lovely wife ready for some boarding too. :)

Hello to all reading this, and thanks for sticking with us. It's a lot easier to post on here with Picasa, so hopefully that translates to some more frequent posting from us. Aloha!

Once again we try this....

Ya Ya, so it's been a while :-) What have we been doing you ask? Well, we bought a house, moved, painted, hung some doors, did some pluming, (CA) made several trips to Michigan, and oh ya, we went to Hawaii! So it's been pretty busy. Yes I would like to post some pictures on here. Apparently Will has some great new way to do it so I am going to try and get him to show it to me because right now posting pictures on here takes WAYYY too long for my short attention span. :-) Oh ya I also have picked up another job along the way too. I work for our church as a part time assistant to one of our pastors. It's good work and really flexible so I can work mostly from home and manage to still take care of our lovely young boys. Other random thoughts? I miss Hawaii :-) Headgear may start becoming a safety precaution in our house... And never paint without having all your furniture picked out already. It's much easier to match your paint to your couch, than your couch to your paint ;-)

Smile, God is crazy about you!

Let's try this again...

So here we are again, I'm afraid to even look at how long it's been since we last posted. My main excuse resides around a heavy workload, that involves little time in the office, and all that.

Really though I just got out of the habit, and need to get back into it.

So some basic updates: Joshua is talking up a storm lately, and is extremely proud of himself, he giggles a lot each time he realizes he's grasped a new word or phrase.

We're closing on a new house today, over in South St. Paul. It's pretty exciting, it needs some work, but we got a great deal on it, and I think it's a place we could really live in for a while, and has plenty of room to expand.

We cooked up some amazing food over the last few weeks, a delicious Pad Thai, and even some gourmet pizzas. Hopefully I'll start keeping up with this and post some pictures of our creations.

There's other news to be shared, but I'm going to keep this short in the interest of having stuff to write about later. Thanks to anyone still reading this, we haven't forgotten about you, just have gotten a bit lazy.