The first post...

I want to say first off that this blogging is inspired by Sarah who I don't know but through my wife Heather. She is a mother of 5 boys (yes 1 of them is her husband) but what I know of them and their family, they are great people...they are Christian people most importantly...and her words express that. I want to model our family (boys and GIRLS :)) around theirs. I think they are great examples of reality in the aspect of young Christian families and pray God blesses that family. Here is her link...it is worth the hours of reading. Thanks Sarah! http://sarahsdandelions.blogspot.com/

Well here we are. It took some time and finally we are now blogging. What a word, blog. Ask Webster 10 years ago if blog was a word....or even BLOGGING. Weird. Anyway, 29 years (almost) to catch up on and I'm going to do it all here in this first one so tomorrow (or the near future) we can start fresh.

OK so there was the 70s, 1978 to be exact, June 16th of that year to be more exact...yes go ahead and start sending cards :) So I did 1 1/2 years of that decade, was great. I ate, pooped, cried, made my Dad do miles in the basement and my mom do miles in the living room. Etc... :) Then the 80s, blah blah blah, the shuttle blew up while i was in 2nd grade, i met my best friends Jeremy and Hubie (David...now my brother-in-law) and learned most of what I appreciate today. And then the 90s, blah blah blah....and blah. A lot happened in the 90s and if you're reading this you probably experienced most or some of it with me. I graduated from high school after years of Math team and Band (GEEK) :-D, I started college at Hibbing Community College (many new friends added here) and then on to University of North Dakota (repeat, many new friends added here...and brothers.) I joined a Fraternity :-O Lambda Chi Alpha and was in the Fighting Sioux Marching, Pep band and drum line. 2000 brought a pretty decent New Years event as you can imagine, my computer(s) didn't succumb to Y2K :) and we didn't see all the other scary things expected that day/evening. It is now 2007 and yeah, I'll leave the rest for future posts. But in that time (and what I'll dive into more in the future) is that God blessed me with a miraculous meeting of a woman whom I married and who has become my 1st humanly reason for being (and the future mother of my children....) We are looking at 4 years of being married in October!! :-O where has the time gone?? I have experienced the process of buying (and refinancing) 2 homes...the 2nd of which will probably bring you most of the updates. In the 2000s I've gone from living at Dad's in his basement and owning nothing, to buying my first brand new vehicle (still have the 2000 Gold Ford Ranger,) to going to school, to being a hot-shot Engineer-to-be and going to live in Chicago and travel the world, to working for IBM, to remodeling a bathroom :-P and working my backyard until there was nothing left to work, to moving back to the country and the "simple" life with 8 Acres.... I've found the place where I want to live my life, grow my family, and leave my legacy. I Love my family, home, land, and yes even the 100 year old barn... More to come...