Birthday Fun We celebrated my youngest son’s birthday with a spectacular birthday weekend. The poor fella’s had a few lousy birthdays, people just out on vacation because it falls during the summer months, etc., so we wanted to make it up to him. We first celebrated by doing our normal birthday celebration, dinner at your …

Bin Building We are finally finished building the bin with only finishing touches to be done, like adding in the windows and painting, which aren’t that difficult of an undertaking. I am excited to be able to put this behind us. It took four of us to finish the project and I think all of …

Ted’s Graduation We have one off to middle school! It’s crazy, I dropped him off for the last time and watched him walk up the steps for his last day of school. I dropped him off at day/care, kindergarten, and two different elementary schools over the past decade and finally that is over. Next year …

Ted’s First Solo Campout Because of the storm Friday, leadership decided to postpone Ted’s campout until Saturday morning. I brought him and a neighbor to the drop-off where they loaded the trailer and left for Walnut Ridge. I drove there with another scout, also a friend of Ted’s, and found the campground. It was odd …

MBA Acceptance It is official, I am going after my MBA with a focus in Data Analytics. I am really excited about it, a little nervous, but excited. I am going to take one class first to get my feet wet, and since I’m paying out of pocket, this is the easier approach. Northern Kentucky …

Cincinnati Museum Center and Jungle Jim’s We visited Cincinnati Museum Center. It was 50s Day and they had some cool cars there and people dressed up in period attire. Rain kept us away from Kings Island the Cincinnati Zoo this weekend so I think everyone decided to come here. We also saw two Imax films, …

Master’s Program Review I’ve been on the fence about going back to school for a master’s degree but I believe I’ve made up my mind. I want to go to NKU, where I got one of my undergraduate degrees because they have an online program that is very affordable. I am stuck between an MBI …

Lots Of Work I didn’t get much done this week as I was on a project for work that needed to get delivered on time (I got it out). I coached Ben’s soccer team for a practice and that was fun. I’ve not coached a soccer team in awhile and it was my favorite players, …

Indian Rocks Beach We spent the better portion of this week recuperating from our one day at Magic Kingdom. I will say, I am glad I spent the time walking and exercising my legs before this trip. We did around 8 miles walking that day and I was able to fit into every ride that …

Indian Rocks Beach We left the house Friday for the first time ever on schedule, which made the drive down much less stressful. We stopped at Buccee’s and grabbed our road snacks and dinner, then off to the Hampton Inn in Fort Oglethorpe for our first stay of our trip. This is roughly a 1/3 …