So the year hasn’t turned out to be a total failure (nobody has died this year), but it isn’t over yet! We ended up having to walk away from our mortgage and let our hours foreclose. Not the most fun thing in the world. In the end our interest rate went way up and our [...]

Today is Cadie’s birthday. We had a birthday party and she had a bunch of her friends over. She woke up around 10 minutes until seven this morning ready to jump out of her skin because it was her birthday. She was very excited about the whole thing. It’s nice to have some distractions from [...]

Having somebody close to you die really makes you ponder existance. While death is a constant it seems that birth and life is too. My cousin Courtney just found out she is having twins. So the exchange rate is going pretty good in our family. Out one Grandpa Steve and in two new cousins. I’m [...]

So the whole tale has to begin on Thursday night. We had run out of wood the night before and since we were going to Sacramento for the weekend we decided to just use our baseboard heaters for Thursday and Friday. We wake up Friday morning after the huge storm and the power was out. [...]