Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Bunch you cute pictures

Yeah It has been awhile since I posted pictures. Here is early winter and Christmas '09
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Fall Bike Hike Map

Here is the map of where Brian and I biked.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009

Summer 100K Bike Hike 2009

Our 100K bike hike turned into a 102.2K bike hike complete with blown tire, taking a wrong turn, rain, and a peddle mishap. All 5 of us had a wonderful time, full of memories and adventure. I'm going to start planning the fall bike hike soon.


2009 08 22 100K Bike Hike


Saturday, July 25, 2009

Planning for the 100K Bike Hike



We will be leaving from my house, riding north from Xenia, through Yellow Spring into Springfield, to the Buck Creek trail. You will have the option to swimming at Buck Creek State Park. On the way back we will stop for ice cream at Youngs. Bring a sack lunch. I have a basket on my bike to hold it.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Pictures of the trip to Michigan

2009 07 12

Three Rivers Loop1

Map of the bike ride I took at Grandma's in Three Rivers, MI

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Pictures

2009 07 05
Ezra, Lily, Park, Helping Janelle & Bob move.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Prairie Grass Trail aka Ohio to Eire Trail Map

Trying out a new bike maping program. This is the Prairie grass trail. I use about 7.5 miles of it to ride to work.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Jungle Jim's


All 4 of us made it to Jungle Jim's. The trip all thing considered, went very well. I bought a lot of realy good pop including many flavors of Jones Soda, Mexican Coke, Throwback Pepsi, Organgina, and Jarritos Lime Soda from Mexico. I am a really big fan of using real sugar and not HFCS.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

A bunch more pictures

2009 06 21

Lily opening presents 2nd birthday

Lily playing in the pool

I'm a little behind on posting this, but Lily really enjoys her pool!

Happy Birthday Lily

Lily is 2! Danielle and her mom made the cake, Chocolate with whip cream, blueberries and strawberries.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Few more Ezra Pictures

Ezra



Ezra with our family. Lily is very excited about being the big sister and adores Ezra.

Ezra Pictures

Ezra

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Welcome Ezra John

Baby Ezra was born today at 7:45 weighing in at 8 lbs 13oz and 21 inched long. Both Ezra and Danielle are doing great! The goal is to have a few pictures posted tonight.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Flight Memory and twitter

Found this fun website


I also signed up with twitter.

I wish I was holding my son, but I guess I'll have to wait.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Xenia-Jamestown Bike Trail

Jamestown Xenia Trail






Sunday I was able to ride my bike to the Jeffersonville outlet malls. I rode the whole Xenia Jamestown bike trail. I really enjoyed this trail. It was very rural, pretty and very shady. The trails doesn't have mile markers. This trail will be especially nice when it connects to Xenia Station, and even cooler when it connects to Washington Court House and Chillicothe.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

[Insert clever phrase]



I thought you might enjoy these pictures taken about 22 months apart. Our son should be born in the next few days. A few days before Lily was born, I wrote a nice sentimental blog post. I tried that this time around and nothing really good came to my mind. But, I was inspired to write this on my bike ride home:

Wahoo! We are having a boy in just a few days! I'm going to have a son and I'm trilled. God is good to us and Danielle is amazing! I'm a big fan of being a Dad.

Lily does seam to understand that we have having a brother and to quote her "[Babies Name] belly, come, out, play!" I think she is excited as well.

As is becoming my tradition, our car is all washed and clean ready to go. Lily even help me out.

Travel Bug in Svalbard








One of my Geocaching travel bugs with the goal of traveling around the world heading east is currently hanging out in Svalbard. Svalbard is halfway between main land Norway and the north pole. This travel bug has been on an amazing trip starting in December of '05 and has travel to Venice, Mauritius, Austrian Alps, Sweden, and now islands in the Arctic Ocean.

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Lower Bellbrook Washington Mills Loop

I'm going to be posting my non-commute bike trips on my blog.


Starting Point:
Sterling Greene and Lower Bellbrook.
Type: Loop
Length: 20 Kilometers (12.4 Miles)
My Time: 53 Minutes*
Weather: 67F Sunny and Very Windy W at 28 mph gusting to 35 mph
Quick Description: This is route is very hilly for SW Ohio, with a killer hill on the way out of Bellbrook. The roads are well paved and there is plenty of rural scenery to enjoy. Traffic is on medium side. Very enjoyable route.

*includes time to get to starting point

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Growing Tomatoes upside down

This is our effort to grow cherry tomato's without having the dig up our yard. We are growing the tomatoes up side down in two litter bottles of pop filled with 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 manure and compost, and 1/3 peat moss. We grow the tomatoes from seed. I bought 7 iron hooks from Lowes and attached them to my desk railing. They are very easy to water, and hopefully will produce tasty tomatoes. I'll keep you posted on their progress.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

CNN and credit cards

How often do you read about Clark Howard, Dave Ramsey and Crown Finical in One CNN Story that includes quoted scripture?

Monday, May 04, 2009

Not voting

Tomorrow, us Xenia folks have to opportunity to vote on a massive expensive new school system. The good news is that the state of Ohio is going to match almost dollar for dollar what Xenia will raise in increased property taxes. This just drives me crazy, personally, I don't think we need to spend 85 million dollars on schools. True some of our schools are falling apart and need replaced, but why do we need the Cadillac version? I'm not trilled about paying $365 a year for 28 years in extra property tax. But I would like to see nicer schools, but I don't think it's fair to the families who home school or families who pay to sent their kids to private school. With increased property taxes comes the possibility that families could not afford the higher taxes. With all this turmoil in my mind, I think that I am not going to vote. I'm going to be unhappy either way, that is unless this vote fails and we vote yes for far less extravagant new schools in yet another election later this year.

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Mexican Coke


Today, I enjoyed a Coke imported from Mexico, complete with glass bottle and a pop cap, that I needed a bottle opener to open. The basic different is Mexican Coke is made with sugar not corn syrup. US coke is made from corn syrup because of the sugar tariff. The Mexican Coke does taste mush better, more pure and less like syrup. Stupid government messing up the Coke tast.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Movie Lily's Easter Egg Hunt

A bit delayed but here is a clip of Lily hunting Easter Eggs.


Saturday, April 18, 2009

Bike Hike Spring 2009

Brian, Ben, and Patrick joined me in a 41 mile bike hike today. We started in Lebanon and completed the Lebanon trail, then we took the Little Miami Trail to Xenia. This was the first time I've been on the Lebanon trail. The trail was fun. There were mile markers every tenth of a mile, which was nice. Most of the trail doesn't follow old Rail Road tracks, so it was hillier than normal. I advice starting in downtown Lebanon, you will enjoy a very nice down hill, just watch out of a stop sign at the bottom of the hill. Part of the trail is a shared road with nice wide shoulders.
Bike Hike Spring 2009




Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter 2009

Easter 2009


Easter Pictures. Lily's dress was made by Danielle. Most of my family was able to meet in Oxford, OH for a wonderful Easter dinner.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Air Force Museum

We finally made it to the Air Force Museum. Lily enjoyed the planes, but even more she enjoyed all the steps to go up and down, and all the room to walk and run. It was a good free activity for a cloudy March Saturday.
Air Force Museum
(click on the picture to view more pictures)

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Quick update

I was able to ride my bike to and from work, this week for the first time this year. It was a bit of a challenge. The wind was strong out of the east. It was an uphill ride and ending up taking 1 hour 12 minutes to get to work. 12 minutes longer than I planned.

This week I also started tracking my calories intake and consumption at gyminee.com. This is a really neat free website. It is a lot like tracking money, only for me a lot harder (for me at least). I also found out that I eat a lot. But, on the flip side a round trip bike ride of 24 miles to work in back burned 1800 calories.

Monday, March 23, 2009

More Ultrasound Pictures

Here a couple ultrasound pictures taken today, a face and a foot. Our baby is average sized at about 4 pounds 2 ounces.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

New Skirt

Danielle made this really cute for Lily - *the Big Sister*

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Thursday, March 19, 2009

you can either use credit or creativity

Living Life Richly on the Cheap
Choose creativity over credit.

I think we can all learn from this family.
"We have found that you have a choice when you need something you can either use credit or creativity." I have read their book. It is an excellent read full of ideas all of which do not include borrowing money.

Go Blue!


I was able to watch Michigan win their first game in March Madness, I'm sure they are well on their way to winning the whole thing. Which would be a very good thing, since in my bracket, Michigan is going to beat Michigan St in the final game. I watched the game over the internet. I had to have the quality on fair, which was just barely good enough, but exciting none-the-less.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

New Videos

It's been since October since I've posting any video and since Lily hasn't ceased to be cute, I thought it was time to catch up a bit. Hopefully, next time to void in videos will not be this long.



Lily's Kitchen



Everything else. 5+ Minutes work. Unedited b/c I'm Lazy.

Midway through March

Spring is almost here in South West Ohio.

* The robin that keeps trying to peck his way through my office window is back
* I have seen a couple of garage sales.
* There have been a few warm days in the 60's and 70's,
* Day light saving time is here. (Lily just doesn't understand leaping ahead and going to bed when the sun is still up.)

Yesterday, I spent many hours fixing our ever faithful, but noisy '94 Saturn. I told Danielle I hoped to be done in an hour. Hope and reality are two different things, at least for me. I'm sure a saved well north of $100 and it only cost me a Saturday morning and half an afternoon, and some blood. Lily is also enjoying Spring and going to the *gark*. Enjoy the pictures.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Awana Swag

I have accumulated vast amounts of Awana pins and Awards. I am working a creating a web application so Awana nerds like me can display their Awana awards on their website. This is as far as I got today. This project is just in its beginning state. I'm looking for more pins to scan. If anyone wants to let me borrow yours, please let me know.

JD's Awana Awards

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