Ellen is Fourteen!
Our second oldest is growing up quick, she is now 14 and we are so proud of her. Keep up the good work Ellen, we love you.
She loves to sing and is now taking private lessons. She recently won first chair as an Alto in regional middle school singing [...]
Physical and Spiritual Fitness, finding the right balance in your [...]
We celebrate Halloween in our home, which I know is something that we Catholics and indeed all Christians may be struggling with in their own homes. We celebrate this day for a few reasons. One is that my mother (God rest her soul) was born on this date in 1945, and she would come up [...]
Well I am sure you have noticed, or maybe forgot that I actually had a blog, that I haven’t blogged in quite a while. In fact it has been about a month since my last blog entry.
In this return to blogging entry, I wish to share with you my thoughts on priorities. First [...]
Announcing the first episode of our new family show, 11 to Heaven, will premiere this evening at around 8:30pm. We had originally hoped to air it live at 7:30pm CDT (which was about 11 minutes ago), but life got in the way.
As Catholic parents, my wife and I have a goal, to get our whole [...]
Our new little one was baptized this past Saturday. We had about 80 family and friends celebrate this joyous event with us, the kids outnumbered the adults. It was a beautiful ceremony and it was great to visit with everyone. I have included an collection of photos taken by our good friend Christine Mesich. Thanks [...]
This has been a busy weekend thus far, but it is not over yet. We started our weekend on Friday night with a Piano concert by two of our older daughters (hence the recent purchase of a baby grand piano). We took some video (iPhone again), if you are interested in watching, click here. The [...]
A Baby Grand Piano that is. Our second oldest daughter loves to play the piano and she is very good. So we shopped around using the advice contained in the Piano Book by Larry Fine and finally found a very solid piano that fits our family. My daughter is very excited and it is very [...]
After taking a year off we are back with the neighborhood swim team for the summer program. 4 of our children are swimming this summer. What that means is that our weekends are not our own for the next 6 weeks. The swim meets start at 7:30am, which means that the kids need to be [...]
It appears that filling our lives with all things electronic reduces pregnancies. I read this very interesting article in the Houston Chronicle:
A Baby Boom Thanks to Ike
It talks about the baby boom that is happening now, 9 months after Hurricane Ike.
Having a large family myself (9 kids), I find it fairly interesting that when there [...]