Amanda’s 30th Birthday and Mother’s Day Present

As some of you may know, Sunday is not only my wife’s 30th birthday, but her very first Mother’s Day as well.  I had something in mind that I was going to get for her to commemorate both, but she told me she wanted to get a tattoo for it, so that’s what we did […]

Welcome to the World, Ayden Hauenstein

Congrats to Justin and Lisa Hauenstein on the birth of Ayden late yesterday.  All I know from Facebook is that Lisa was in labor for 26 hours before having a c-section (very similar to Amanda) and that the kid was about half the size of his mom at 21.5 inches, and weighed in at 9.5 […]

Bummer Lost

I thought it was a good episode of Lost, but what a bummer! SPOILER ALERT!  Don’t read beyond this if you haven’t seen Lost yet. So, it’s been said that they were going to kill an important character.  But killing three and a half of them?!?  Sayid got over his evil thing and sacrificed himself […]

Prayers for Amy’s Family

Amy left her phone here last night (along with a hat and Nick’s iPod).  Her phone rang this morning and I saw that it was her dad, whom I’ve met, so I answered to tell him that she left it and that he should try Nick’s phone.  Well, he had some really bad news.  Amy’s […]

Baby Gate

Amanda came home today with three baby gates- one for downstairs, one for upstairs and one because the third one was free (or something) and we can use it around the house or at either grandparents’ house.  When Milly, who was pretty fussy this afternoon, went down for a nap, Amanda started working on installing […]