The idea for this vacation started with wanting to see Mammoth Caves in Kentucky.  Since we were driving all that way we decided that we might as well head to Nashville as well.  I didn’t want to schedule more than four hours of driving at a time, so we filled in the rest of the […]

Tonight Ann wanted to attend a Nerf gun war with her youth group. William, however, was too young to attend.  Although we wasn’t expressing any sourness toward the situation, (he even eagerly discussed the various pros and cons of the various Nerf guns that have accumulated in the house over the years with Ann before

10 Things I Learned Today About Shoveling Snow And finally: Remember how blessed you are to have to deal with “burdens” like this and pray for those who don’t have the protections and comfort you will tonight in these frigid temperatures.

6/9/2013: A morning flight out of Detroit brought us to Oakland around 1PM local time by way of Phoenix.  The hotel was near the airport, and we checked in quickly.  The room had one king-sized bed and a pull-out couch, so the kids shared the bed while I took the couch.  This turned out to

Ann went over to a friend’s house the night before and was spending the day over there, so William and I had a whole day to ourselves.  In the morning, we played Minecraft for a while and built a long path through deserts, jungles and mountains full of tunnels, bridges and other markers that would

Across from our house there’s a drainage basin that ends up feeding the Rouge River. There’s also a bit of wooded area around that. Over the past week there has been a lot of noise from the other side of the basin and sadly a good portion of the trees have been cut down. The

For Father’s Day, the kids and I took a walk around Ann Arbor.  This was planned and even though it was raining hard when we started, we decided we’d do it no matter what the weather.  As it turned out, the rain stopped as we arrived even though we were ready to be drenched. We