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The Natural
Most of you who have been reading my blog for a while know that Cole and I play baseball together almost everyday. While we were home in Chicago visiting my parents we actually went out and bought a wiffle ball and bat so we could play a bit in the back yard.
Here’s some footage:
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At Wrigley Field with Cole
I’m writing this from Wrigley Field in Chicago. I came down with my brother, my dad and Cole. This is cole’s first time here and I’m not quote sure he gets how great this place is. I think in due time he’ll realize it, but today he was just excited to see Soriano play and by the 5th inning I think he was ready to go home.
I’ve been to a bunch of games here, too many to count. …
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65 miles a gallon baby.
This is my “new” 1979 Yamaha xs400.
Its not going to win any races or awards but it runs great, has 10,000 miles and they notoriously run forever. Now i have to learn how to maintain it. Time to get my hands all greasy.
Yes, I will wear my helmet every time I ride.
Yes, I am taking the free motorcycle safety course.
No, I won’t do any wheelies. (It won’t!)
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Celebrating Adoptions Family Photos
Last night we had a family photo shoot. It turns out there is a group out there called Celebrating Adoption that helps adoptive families get a free photoshoot and pictures from a professional photographer within the first year that the child is home. Its really a great program and the photographer we connected with was awesome. Angela Pursell did a great job interacting with the kids and taking some amazing shots. She has posted a few …
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Update on the Poverty Forum, Missions Trip, Anniversaries, The Well
So, I’ve had a few crazy weeks and blogging has been on the way back burner as far as priorities go. I need a short break from working on my sermon so here we go… This will serve as a summary and update of my last two weeks.
Mission Trip To Suburbia
I posted recently about our week long missions trip to suburbia. We basically spent the week serving in Lower Bucks County. We worked with different housing groups … -
My 4/5 year old baseball star
I’ve been posting a bunch of serious thoughts lately so I thought something on the lighter side would be good. My son Cole loves baseball. We play together daily. He’s four, turning five this week. If you are a major league scout, you can contact me if you’d like.
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Cole Learns to Ride His Two-Wheel Bike
This is the first day. About 30 minutes into our bike riding lesson. Not a bad days work!
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Our First NASCAR Event
Okay, its time to come clean to the world. I love NASCAR.
In fact, Cole and I attended our first NASCAR event this weekend at Dover International Speedway.
Now, you’ve got to understand, I didn’t intentionally become a NASCAR fan. It was an accident. I promise.
Last year the animated movie Cars came out and it quickly became Cole’s favorite movie. We’ve watched it …
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Cole’s Graduation from Preschool
This morning I took off from work for a few hours to go to my 4 year old son’s graduation from preschool. At first I found it funny that we had a big ordeal for this event. But as I was talking to my wife I realized that this is a pretty big deal. Our son starts kindergarten in the fall. He’ll be going …
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Personal Financial Accountability In the Church, A Way Forward
For the first three years of our marriage my wife and I didn’t have any outstanding credit card debt. Then the crap hit the fan. Between some unnecessary purchases, not making enough money, hospital bills, and a string of car repairs, we amassed ourselves some significant credit card debt.
Over the last two years we’ve been trying to be more conscious of how we spend and how we save. We’re finally starting to show some signs of …
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Don’t Call Me Mr. Mom
I just got done pulling Strawberry Chex out of my son’s hair. It was awesome.
For the last two months Melanie (my wife) has been working on Thursdays so that means I have been home with the boys. It’s funny, a number of people have made the predictable “Mr. Mom” comment. I’ll be honest, I hate that comment. I really do. Last time I checked, I’m their dad. So, if you want to …
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The Best 1:43 you will spend today (A Mason Video)
Seriously, if you had to do spend 1 minute and 43 seconds doing something, you’d have a hard time finding a better way to do it…
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The Chop
My beautiful wife went away for a “girls weekend” recently and came back looking a tad different. I’ve gotta be honest… I love it! She has had longer hair for as long as I can remember and every time she thinks about cutting it shorter she has flashbacks of the ‘fro she had when she was a little kid. While I think ‘fros are awesome I was nervous to see …
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My Four Year Old Jesus Freak
We were rocking out to old school DC Talk in our house tonight….
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Just so you know…
I can’t help it. She’s amazing.
What’s a guy to do?
I’ve loved her like crazy for 7 years.
However, I told her yesterday,
I love her more today, than the last 7 years combined.
I think that’s a good thing.
It’s not our anniversary or anything.
She’s just freaking amazing.
What else can I say?
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Travel Day from Philadelphia
So, this morning Melanie and I woke up the kids and got out of the house by around 6:50 for a 9:15 flight out of Philadelphia. It took us 1 hour and 45 minutes to get to the airport (usually takes about 1 hour that time of day). In addition to missing our flight and having to wait around till 12:30pm to fly out here is a list of what else when “wrong”:
Most of the trouble …
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An Adoption Sermon
Intro: Below is the sermon manuscript that I preached on August 10, 2007 after my wife and I and our new son Mason got home from Guatemala. I meant to post this a long time ago, but I had to make a few edits. I didn’t really make all the edits and I am fairly sure that what I actually said is different from what I wrote here but the general idea is here (I never follow my …
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Update on the Boys…
Sorry its blurry, but come on, is that hair not amazing?
Click on the picture to enlarge it…
We’ve been totally loving being parents of two kids. People keep on asking me if I am now really tired. Well, I am, but its not because the kids are keeping me up. Mason is basically sleeping through the night. It’s the dang MLB playoffs. I mean, come on, why do I have to stay up till …
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Guatemala Adoption Process Questions
Since our family finalized our adoption and brought our adorable son Mason Carlos home from Guatemala we’ve obviously received a ton of questions about the process.
The first thing people usually ask is: “How long did it take? ”
The answer there is: A LONG TIME! We started the process in January of 2006 and Mason came home to Philadelphia in August 2007. We had a number of stalls and a ton of waiting for it … -
Headed to Chicago
I’m headed to Chicago tomorrow (Thursday) till Saturday. Looking forward to a friend’s wedding (a friend from highschool) as well as some time with my parents. Playing golf twice with my dad, dinner tomorrow night with my brothers and I am sure my mom and I will go out for coffee together a few times.
It will be good to see my family in chi-town but I’ll be missing my wife and my boys for sure. At least …
