Do You See The Glory?

I always thought Fonzi was so cool, especially with how he could just bang things with his fist and turn on lights or juke boxes, or break tables, or unlock things.  But I was wondering… if the Fonz lived in our day, how would he manage dealing with computers.  Can you imagine the Fonz updating [...]

I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas.  I thought I’d take this opportunity to share a couple Christmas related notes.  First is a conversation I had on Tuesday with my son, Jaxon.  We were together and my brother-in-law, Mark, called to ask if I had any suggestions about what Jaxon would like for Christmas.  [...]

Here’s a video clip Beth took at Jaxon’s most recent TaeKwon-Do class. They were bandanna sparring, which is where they have a bandanna tucked into their belt behind them, and they try to grab the other person’s bandanna. It’s pretty funny. You can tell Jaxon just loves this stuff. The kid [...]

Jaxon began taking TaeKwon-Do this week.  He’s only been to two classes, but so far he loves it.  Here’s a few pictures of the class.  Some are not so clear becuase I’m taking them indoors with a moving subject.  You can click on the pictures to enlarge them.  The first one is when they were [...]

Last Saturday, we went and visited the Campfire Creek Therapeutic Riding Center, run by Emily Oliver.  They minister to children who have special needs.  As we’ve found out on Saturday and through talking with them, horses can be very therapeutic.  It’s a very interesting ministry.  I got in contact with them through some friends, the [...]

It’s time to teach Jaxon to tie his own shoes, so as I usually do, I did a little research on the internet for tips on teaching kids how to tie shoelaces.  What I found was quite amazing.  First, I had no idea how many different ways there were to tie your shoes.  I would [...]

Jaxon, my 5 year old, wore out his old bicycle, so we went to the bike store last weekend to look for him a new bike.  I tried to get him to get this one, setting out in front of the store, but he wasn’t too keen on it.  So we went inside to see [...]

If you enjoyed the Cone on the Throne, I think you’ll like this one as well.  Not too long ago, Jaxon and I were in Family Christian Store in Cedar Hill, doing a little shopping.  Jaxon decided he needed to use the restroom.  For their public restroom, it’s a small, single multi-gender restroom, on the [...]

Being a parent can be frustrating. You tell your kids not to do something, and they do it. So you discipline them. You tell them not to do it again, and they do it again. You discipline them again. You tell them not to do it again. And they [...]

As I wrote in the previsiou entry, Cowboys Don’t Dance, Jaxon was a Sheriff this year for Halloween.  We went to his school fall festival last Saturday afternoon.  He had a lot of fun playing just about every game there, and doing a couple big bounce houses.  He also got into a boxing ring with [...]

Jaxon was invited to a dance recital/Halloween party this past Wednesday night.  One of Jaxon’s female classmates at school is in dancing, and she could invite one friend to take with her to her dance recital/Halloween party… and she asked Jaxon.  We were very proud parents that she would invite him, of all the kids [...]

Just recently, I’ve learned a few lessons that I probably should pass along.

Keep your tools clean - If you let your tools get dirty and rusty, when you try to tighten up an exterior faucet, and the wrench slips and smashes your hand putting a deep gash in it, you will have to get a [...]

Here’s another video that you may have seen, or at least heard about.

When you become a parent, you see a lot of things differently. This is one of those things. If I had seen this during the first 11 years of our marriage, I probably would have thought, “nice story”, and moved on. [...]

Jaxon and I went to visit a couple of great people and friends on Saturday, Al & Karen Putman.  We drove our Jeep for the first time since I finished the recent work I did on it.  Jaxon always wants to drive the Jeep everywhere we go, but it’s been under construction lately.  When we [...]

I think I’m coming to the realization that my oldest son, Jaxon, is going to be the polar opposite of me concerning his behavior in school.  I’m afraid to admit that he looks like he’s going to be that kid in everybody’s class that is known as the crazy one, the class clown.  He’s the [...]

Sounds like a # for a Cal Rip games played streak. Not exactly, he played 2632 games in a row. By the way, Cal’s birthday was yesterday. Happy Birthday Cal! Today was Jaxon’s first day of Kindergarten! And at 180 school days in a year, for the next 13 years, [...]

I don’t remember exactly when I started, but it was probably about the time Jaxon (my now 5 year old son) began to talk, I would ask him at just random times “Do You Know What?” And of course he would always say, “What?” And my response would always be, “I am SO [...]

We just returned back from a vacation to Florida to see Beth’s parents.  They live in Eustis which is about an hour NE of Orlando.  We really enjoyed it.  We spent 1 night with Beth’s parents and the next 2 nights in a condo on Daytona Beach.  Jaxon loved the ocean, and our hotel pool [...]

I haven’t written much about what’s going on in our lives lately. We recently changed churches, which is usually a very scary and anxious undertaking. But God has been very good to us. We’ve been attending The Avenue for about 3 months, and officially joined today. In the very short time [...]

OK, I’m not sure why I’m telling this story, but then a story like this really should not go untold. Beth’s birthday was on Friday. She’s a little different than most people in that she does not like going out to eat. So Jaxon (my 5 year old) and I decided to [...]