For those who visit my blog regularly, you may notice it looks completely different.

Well as I was playing with some features today, I got a critical error which let me to uninstall WordPress and reinstall it.  Well that whole process completely wiped out my blog and everything that went with it.

I hope to find some backup of my blog post but something is telling me that might not be possible.

This really stinks…….

Our family just ended a week’s vacation.  My wife and I saw it as a vacation  not only from work and from home but from our kids as well.  This was the first time in our six years of marriage that we did not have at least one kid with us for more than one overnight.  My parents took our two kids and two of my brother’s three kids (my [...]

Most people want to succeed, but whose version of “success” are you trying to achieve? How do you measure your success? How do you know when you’ve really accomplished something in your life? Success on other people’s terms may only mean frustration for you.  If we measure our success by goals that others think worthwhile or if we try and measure success by own personal standards, we will wind up [...]

If it wasn’t for the Blog-off that I participated in earlier this summer, there is a high possiblity that I would not of touched my blog all summer.  I really got out of the routine of blogging and twittering over the summer (except at the national youth gathering).  I must say that I have missed posting and I do have a number of posts started but not complete. I can’t [...]

Today is day three of our trip to New Orleans.  It has been exciting to say the least!! We got up bright an early to see Tangled Blue at worship this morning.  It was great!!  They remembered us from Vanderkamp just a few weeks ago.  To our surprise another Lutheran Church from our conference (King of Kings) was at worship with Tangled Blue. We then proceeded to have a sit [...]

Yesterday July 23rd was our second day at the National Youth Gathering.  It was another great day.  If you are following me on Twitter then you would of seen lots of pictures and updates.  But I will try and give you a recap here.  Before I go too much further I wanted to let you know that there is a live feed on the web for our gathering time every [...]

As I mentioned earlier I have had some Internet problems so I was not able to post a “wrap-up” after each day.  But I hope I have straighten that out so I am able to bring you up to date information about our trip.  I was going to post pictures in the blog posts (and I might add them in later) but the connection that I do have at the [...]