Tara has been very excited about my (Daddy John) birthday this year – more so than myself. A week or so ago she got very excited about it and decided that I should have a Star Wars cake for my birthday. Once again Danielle used her creative cupcake skills and made me her verison of [...]

Spring in Acadia Park (a.k.a. the UBC family housing complex) brings with it the start of T-Ball season. There is enough interest, and enough young kids, that the complex fields 4 teams of 10 kids each. The teams play amongst themselves twice a week for six weeks. Recently we went to a local sports store [...]

One of the things that separate humans from all other living creatures is our excellent ability to multi task. God has blessed us with the capacity to concurrently concentrate on several things at once. There are those times however where things just go haywire upstairs and we can’t keep things straight. We can get so [...]

Evan and Brett shared a special moment today. I asked Evan to play with Brett while I unloaded the dishwasher and as a result he was the only one to witness Brett’s first steps. I quit my task as Evan shouts, “Mom, Brett is WALKING!” I had missed those first few steps but Brett showed [...]