Yes, it is me. I do apologize. I have been a little lost and in turn have not been able to keep up with my previous pace of posting every day. While this is certainly a goal, it is sometimes just not a reality with the number of other items that take up my free [...]

As a person I have never been good at handling pain. I am talking about punched in the face, stub your toe, get hit with a baseball bat pain. The pain I felt while training and competing was very different, and that was a pain I understood and was able to handle.
Avery has [...]

I wavered back and forth whether or not I wanted to post this, but since I have posted about anything and everything I thought that I would have to share.
Tonight during our bath, Avery and I sat in the tub as usual. The only difference today was that she seemed more interested in the fact [...]

Colleen (and my) new favorite activity is sitting downstairs with the baby monitor when Avery wakes up from naps and listening to her talk to Lola (her stuffed cow). Now that Avery loves to babble, the “conversations” she has are just a crack up. Constant laughing down here.

Overheard this conversation today between Colleen and Avery (well, less of a conversation and more of Colleen talking to Avery):
"Hey, I just held in a fart. That was the first time since you were born."
Great, just what I always wanted to know. Hey Colleen, I never hold in farts… what do you think about that?

Nope, we are not going anywhere - even though the frequency of posts may say something else. But this “bye-bye” post is more about the daughter then either Colleen or myself.
Avery is quite the piece of work. It is amazing to see her learn something new everyday. The past few days is [...]

Avery has been busy, busy, busy. Standing and cruising and the sort, but for the past day or two she has been concentrating on one thing. Let me tell you, she concentrates hard.
What is it that she concentrates on? Well, it is number 2. Yeah, number 2 as in the bathroom [...]

Avery began the weekend on a good note, cruising around the house…climbing, wrestling and the like. Then, we all went to Topeka to visit Grandma and Grandpa where Avery showed off her new talents. Avery also tried teaching herself to eat veggie puffs. Those melting little cheerio-like things that taste like sweet [...]

After being a customer for a day with Time Warner, we found out how reliable the service was when service went out for over 12 hours… no television, no internet - you can only imagine. I was not happy one bit, and neither was Colleen for that matter. Avery on the other hand [...]

Today marked our first day without TIVO, the product Colleen and I know and love - you could almost say that since we got our first one in mid-2000, that TIVO was a religion in our home. Why have we moved on?
Well, the high-definition television we purchased over a year ago was [...]