Any interest?

I'd like to get out and see either Kinsey and/or Sideways. Both movies have received rave reviews by critics even though they aren't raking in the dough at the box office. Looking for anyone who would like to go see either movie. Send me an email if you have a free evening in the next couple weeks.

random thought...

Why is it that a dog LOVES to stick its head out a car window, but HATES it if you blow on its face?

uhh...

Tonight, I was driving to Burger King to refill the drink I spilled in my car on the way home (don't ask me how many curse words crossed my lips). So, I'm chillin' to a CD I compilled a few years ago, just trying to take my mind off how pissed I am about the drink. Phil Collins' song In The Air is on the CD and is currently playing.

I ran into BK to get my blasted refill, and as I opened the door to the restaurant, I hear the song In The Air playing over their intercom. It was about three lines behind the CD playing in my car so the line I heard as I left the car was the EXACT same line I heard as I walked in the door!! Talk about freakin' me out!

Now this type of thing happens every once in a great while if I'm listening to the radio or something, but not the most random song from 1981 like In The Air and not the exact same line I heard as I left my car, playing in the restaurant at the exact moment I walk in the door. I wish typed words could describe the expression on my face as I left the resaturant.

Just another day in the life...

No soup for you!!!

Ok, so I'm not the 'Soup Nazi' from Seinfeld, but I have been playfully labelled the 'Symantic Nazi' by danno because of my propsensity toward changing the Church's vernacular or 'christianese', if you will.

For one reason or another, I have had probably close to a dozen random conversations about the word Christ over the past two months. The word Christ is used so often in christian circles it actually has become a bit annoying to me. The reason I say this is because if someone has never had any exposure to the Church and we say Christ-follower they may look at me like I have a third nipple. We presume that all know what the word Christ means. While most, even many within the local church, could not explain the word's origin, meaning or significance.

Try this as a litmus test:

Ask a co-worker, classmate, peer, neighbor, etc. who is not indoctrinated in the church's vernacular, what the word Christ means. Most will likely say they thought it was Jesus' last name or something to that effect.

Doing my own litmus test around Riv, you would be surprised at the number of people that I have asked that either do not know what the word Christ means and its significance or were quite hesitant to answer b/c they were not certain.

With the aforementioned litmus test, ask the same person who Jesus was/is and I have confidence that they will be able to give at least a generic explanation of who people believe Him to be.

It is my contention that the phrase Christ and/or Christ-follower, while somewhat appropriate within certain circles, has basically lost all social and cultural significance...

THANK YOU!!

Here is a tribute from 2004 to the men and women who provide us all the freedoms we daily take for granted. Being a veteran, I think I may have a greater appreciation, than the next guy, for the people who put themselves in harm's way to protect our liberty.

Go out of your way to thank a soldier or a veteran for serving you and our country!

4 x 4 = 16

Recently, Ethan and I sat down and I taught him how to play chess. He has taken to the game, and is getting really good at it too! Now, when I say he's getting really good at the game, let me put it into a context to give you an idea of how 'good' he has become:

I have played chess for a long time, and would venture to say that I am a fairly decent player. After playing our first game together, he beat me in our second game (on a fluke move, but nonetheless he won). I told my father about this amazing feat, and he decided he would come over to our house to put the young lad in his place. My dad easily beat Ethan in their first match, but somehow Ethan beat him in only their second game too!! Ethan then proceeded to teach Tricia and his cousin Amanda how to play chess.

Well, we are pretty proud of him and the speed with which he is excelling at his knowledge of the game. Ethan found out that his elementary school has a 'chess club' and asked us if he could join it. Aware of the social ramafications of being in the chess club, we reluctantly conceded to his wishes.

On his second evening of playing in the chess club, he beat the 4th ranked player in his school (who is a 5th grade student). Before their match, the 5th grade boy he beat had just finished mocking the 3rd grade student Ethan beat prior to their game. Being the youngest student by three grades, (he's only in kindergarten) Ethan's win was a rather large event that evening, to say the least.

On Christmas eve, I spent some time with Ethan just hanging out together. He seems to have a knack for quickly picking up on concepts and ideas. I shared the concept of multiplication with him, and grasped it pretty well. He has pretty much mastered addition and subtraction, and now is moving onto multiplication.

My sister is a school teacher and we talked about Ethan's mathematical wizardry on Christmas day. She informed me that most schools don't teach students multiplication until until the 4th grade. It's good to see that Tricia's intellectual genes are strong in him. We are planning on sending him to MIT and hoping he will graduate before he is driving. I will never make a lot of money in ministry or otherwise, so someone has to pay for my retirement...

Half Dome

My Uncle Jerry mentioned that he was going out to Yosemite National Park to climb Half Dome this summer (last week in June) and asked me if I wanted to go. Being the mountain climbing aficionado that I am, I told him I was in for the trip!

Here's a list of some of the well-known mountains that I've climbed:
Mt. St. Helens (sledded down the mtn after we summitted)
Mt. Rainier (only climbed to 10,500 ft of the 14,410 ft, but a killer climb nonetheless)
Long's Peak (ran into 40+ mph winds and only made it to the Key Hole, which is about 300 ft from the top)
Mt. Harvard (4th tallest mtn in the lower 48)
Mt. Bierstadt (one of CO's 14,000 ft peaks)
Grays and Torres Peaks (done subsequently)
Pikes Peak (one of the most famous mtns in the US)

I am also planning to climb Mt. Whitney in CA (the tallest mtn in the lower 48 @ 14,494 ft) this summer with some old Army buddies (Jenk, Jeff and Gabe).

Anyway, hopefully Tricia and I will be able to talk my mom and her sister into watching the kids so we can make the trip out together with some of our friends. It's only a 4600 mile round trip from Lansing to Yosemite National Park!! :-)

I know that a lot of my friends frequent this site, but do not leave posts. If you would like to join us in this adventure, shoot me an email.

The Spirit of Christmas

Well, Christmas has officially come and gone.

Over the past few days, I have had an ample amount of time to reflect on why we 'do' Christmas the 'way' we do Christmas.

After pondering this for some time, I believe much of what we do is based on lies the Evil One whispers into our ears.

'Buy more things because the things of this world will bring you and others true happiness!'
'Buying gifts is a tangible expression of my love for you'

Why do we bite on this hook?
Why do we believe the lies?
Why do we fall prey to these pitfalls over and over again?

This Christmas, moreso than any other Christmas, we were not able to buy a lot for our children or each other. Tricia and I bought each other one gift because money is a commodity that we do not have an abundance of right now.

However, it was really good for me, personally, because it forced me to think on the things that make Christmas what I believe it ought to be...all about Jesus!

Riverview's Compassion ministries offered us an opportunity to provide a meal for a needy family in the Lansing area. Even though times are tough for us financially, we decided as a family that we wanted to take a meal to a family in need.
Well, the family that we were asked to provide the meal for was pretty rude to Tricia two separate occasions on the phone. I thought that maybe she was being a little too sensitive until we got to the family's house on Christmas Eve.
The woman came to the door, was quite rude to me, looked in the bag with all the food we had bought and asked me where the turkey was (Riv had provided a HUGE ham instead) and then slammed the door in my face.

As we drove away from their apartment, Tricia and I had a convo about 'why' we gave the meal to this family.

Did we give the meal for the proverbial 'Thank You!'?
Did we give the meal to make ourselves feel good about giving?
Did we give the meal because we wanted to serve this family?

We both confessed that there was a place in our hearts that was expecting gratitude from the family. We both wanted the family to appreciate our sacrifice for them in their time of need. Unfortunately, even in our sacrificial giving we can be quite selfish.

Because of our innate persuasion toward selfishness, I am convinced that Spirit of Christmas, in its purest form, is something we will only get a glimpse of until we meet Jesus face-to-face...

"I like your sleeves. They're really big!"

Tricia and I rented Napoleon Dynamite. I really don't know exactly what to do with this film. It was the most random movie I have ever seen. It was like watching an hour and a half of Saturday Night Live and Mad TV skits. No plot. No purpose. No nothing.

I laughed.
I cried.
I still don't know what to do with this film.

However, the A-Team theme song was strategically played in the movie so that immediately makes it an instant classic...

The Real American Hero

Nate sent me this oldie, but a goodie.You'll get a kick out of the G.I. Joe cartoons that have been dubbed over.

The Gold Wrapping Paper

I heard this story on the radio this morning. I've heard it many times before, but it still tugs at my heart-strings each time...

Once upon a time, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family’s only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve, he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a shoebox to put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy!" As he opened the box, the father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction. But when he opened it, he found it was empty and again his anger flared. "Don't you know, young lady,” he said harshly, “when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something inside the package!" The little girl looked up at him with tears rolling from her eyes and said: "Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full."

The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later and it is told that the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life.

And whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child who had put it there. In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an invisible golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.

There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.

Cheerleader toss...

You simply won't believe your eyes!! Watch the video clip on the left before you play the game...

"I don't kiss strange men!"

love is an accident...
waiting to happen.

desire is a stranger...
you think you know.

truth is a game...
you play to win.

intimacy is a lie...
we tell ourselves.

if you believe in love at first sight...
you never stop looking.

Tonight, I spent a few hours by myself to just get away from the hustle and bustle of life. By definition, I am an introvert b/c I am personally recharged by spending time alone. Many people find it rather odd to view a movie by themselves. However, I truly enjoy going to movies alone b/c not only do I get recharged, but I tend to get to know myself better too.

Closer was very different film, to be frank. The entire premise of the movie was that of cheating, lies and deceit. It left me with vivid images of the rippling effect left in the lives' of people caught in these sins. I would recommend this movie if you have ever had even a fleeting thought of cheating on your significant other. It portrays the anguish left in every life effected by the act of instant gratification.

*This movie is rated R and deservedly so. The content of dialouge is NOT for those w/virgin ears. It is even, at times, beyond R rated adult sexual dialouge.

Who touched my clothes?

Today, Ethan participated in his second Christmas program @ Riv. My parents, sister and her boyfriend all came to see Ethan sing the Song Hark the Herald Angels Sing during the 1145 service. Even though I have sung this dozens of times, I was struck by the last verse of the song today:

Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!

Hail the Son of Righteousness!

Light and life to all He brings

Ris'n with healing in His wings

Mild He lays His glory by

Born that man no more may die

Born to raise the sons of earth

Born to give them second birth

Hark! The herald angels sing

"Glory to the newborn King!"

I'm not sure if it was the voices of children that made the words come alive or if it was just the Spirit w/in me that made these word melt my heart.

Anyway, my dad isn't a regular 'church-goer' and I was hoping that he would have a pleasant experience and good first-impression of Riv. He seemed to be comfortable as we chatted prior to the beginning of the service drinking coffee.

In between the coffee drinking and the children's program, we had the delightful experience of entering into the auditorium. While on a normal Sunday, this wouldn't be so much of an event, but something different happened on this certain morning.

I suppose you could say I had a 'Jesus-like' experience. Let me explain before you pick up stones to execute me.

My mom, sister and wife went into the auditorium ahead of me and my dad. I felt someone touch me (in my bathing suit area) and I immediately became perplexed because I had watched my wife go in to sit down ahead of me. I turned, and to my dismay, there was a man with his hand on my buttock. I like to affectionately call this type of behaviour 'man-love', but it was a bit ackward because as this man touched my bum, my father observed this display of 'brotherly love'.

I'm sure you can imagine the shade of red my face turned as I had to stumble through explaining to my father that Dan was a good friend of mine who is on staff and leads worship at the church...

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

Lost everyone's comments...

I just added a 'trackback' tool to my blog and it erased all the previous comments. My apologies to all who've been posting here. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do to recover all your posts...

Theophostic Prayer

Jeff is a friend of mine from the Army. He is on staff at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. I receive his monthly newsletter via email. This month's newsletter had a hyperlink to a ministry of theophositc prayer.

I haven't had a lot of time to research the theological support for theophostic prayer. I'm not exactly sure what to think about it, and figured that I'd toss this out for discussion.

Makin' babies

Thanks to Angie for this holiday season humor...

Under Construction

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Contentment

1 Timothy 6:6-10
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Over the past several months, I have been learning what it truly means to have contentment. I count the job God has given me as a true blessing. It is physically demanding, somewhat lonely and not my 'ideal' job, but I am so grateful for the opportunity to provide for Tricia, Hailey and Ethan!!

Next time you have an issue with your place of employment, may you find contentment in the fact that you don't have this job. lol...

Balco done Bono-style

Thanks to Greg, for this little ditty! Here are the lyrics, in case you want to read along as Bob sings! This one's for the sports lover in all of us...

Dear Santa,

Because I am so hard to shop for, (or so everyone who has ever bought me a present says) I decided I would go ahead and compose a list of things I need/want/desire for Christmas:

1. Pants to keep my bum warm this winter
2. Gaitors to keep my feet warm this winter
3. Battery for ThinkPad b/c mine is only lasting me less than half an hour per charge...argh!!
4. Wireless Desktop Card so Tricia and the kids can use the desktop computer
5. Mouse for ThinkPad

I'm really not a person in need or want, just a few things to keep me warm as I work outside this winter and a few toys. Bless all of you who give from your heart to make my Christmas wishes come true!! ;-)

You're gonna love this...

Click on this link and type in the word "noel1" or "noel2" (case sensitive) where you see this on the right side of the page:

If you already sent an image, introduce its name without the extension (for example, if your image is myimage.gif you should type only myimage)

Click and drag on his face and have some fun!!

community

I ran across this article about Solomon's Porch, a church in Minneaoplis, MN. I had a chance to chat w/Doug Pagitt, the pastor of Solomon's Porch, a couple years ago when our paths crossed in San Diego.

To say the least, I really like some of the things that Solomon's Porch is doing within the context of community. The ethos that SP creates for its worship experience pushes the envelope, but my heart truly resonates with their communal pursuit of God and the Scriptures.

I am very excited about the relationships that God has been blessing Tricia and me with over the past several months here in MI. My hope and prayer is that this group of individuals that we have invited into our lives becomes our family, in the most pure and elemental sense of the word.

Join us as we chase after God and as we follow Jesus and His teachings...

Happy Hanukah!!

I'm at il Bacio tryin' to get some research/studying done for next month, but I seem to have writer's block.

I'm normally not a huge fan of Christmas music, but Tricia d/l some songs so I decided to listen to Josh Groban's version of Oh Holy Night (easily my favorite Christmas song).

Well, I got my Christmas music fix for the week and decided to switch gears to Adam Sandler's Hanukah Song. Have you heard his Hanukah Song Part II? He just continues to kill me w/his lyrics.

Living between the Hellos and Good byes...

I miss the days when I was a kid.
Everything was constant and my foundation of life was solid.
I grew up in the same house for almost my entire life.
My neighborhood friends all lived in their houses until they gradutated from high school and journeyed off into the 'real world'.

Why is it that today, we move from place-to-place?
City-to-city?
State-to-state?
We say hello for the first time.
We become friends.
Invite people into the journey of our lives.
Love and cherish them dearly only to say good bye.

I'm not sure about you, but I'm tired of living this way. I miss the good ole days. I miss knowing that the friends I have now, will still be near me 10 years from now.

Am I alone in this or are you tired of living between hellos and good byes too?

My apologies in advance if you find this offensive...

This bumper sticker piggy-backed a conversation that Dan and I had at breakfast yesterday morning. The jist of the convo was how do we separate finding our identity solely in Jesus from finding our value as a person based on what others think of us or how often they affirm and/or fail to affirm us.

This bumper sticker was on a van while I was driving out to Grand Ledge after breakfast. Initially, I laughed my tail off. After pondering it for a few minutes, I realized (aside from the mocking of Christianity) that there is a huge nugget of truth wrapped up in this this statement.

May you value others encouragement/affrimation of you as a child of God, but find your identity in the arms of Jesus...

All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth...

Ethan's second tooth came out tonight. He's growing up so fast...

Obedience...

I've been doing a little bit of reading on line about obedience for some teaching I am doing next month and tonight something smacked me right in the face like a two-by-four.

Tricia had a horrible migraine tonight. The best thing I can do for her when she gets a migraine is to get the kids out of the house. I decided that I would take the kids out to dinner @ BK so they could play after their chicken tenders. Well, BK's play place was under repair, so we scooted over to McDonald's. What a friggin' ZOO!! There must have been around 40 kids tearing the place apart.

Well, there was this large family of probably 8 kids, and the mother and father were trying to round them up to go home. None of the children were obeying their parents, and I was embarrassed for them. The mother was screaming at the children, and the father literally picked one of his sons up by his coat and carried him out the door.

Not only did this give me the greatest appreciation for how well-mannered and behaved Ethan and Hailey are, it forced me to ponder the question, "Is obedience something that is ONLY a learned behavior?" Can I attribute the obedience of my children to the training they have received from Tricia and myself?

Processing these questions led me to the place of asking myself, "How well do I obey my Father?" Jesus said, "If you love me, you will obey what I command." I sometimes wrestle with this because when I don't desire to obey Jesus' teachings, I feel manipulated rather than compelled by my love for Him, to obey. Can they be separated? Can I obey Jesus' commands without the feeling of trying to gain His approval? The journey is sometimes mind-bending...

The refusal of obedience must . . . be a venture undertaken on one's own responsibility.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Quote of the day, from the Late Show...

AP Report: This bulletin just in from the Bush administration..the White House Christmas Tree has just turned it its resignation.

The Pimp and the Princess

This is easily my favorite picture of the kids. God is so groovy!!

Hero

What a beautiful movie. Watched this last night w/Prices, Bracks and Schaefers. This movie is in the same genre of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. However, I liked the plot better in Hero. If you haven't seen the the movie, click on the title 'Hero' above to view the trailer. It's definitely a must-see!

end times...

Sunday.
quesiton? what's the deal with Jesus
question? why are people so unwilling to believe He was who he said he was

onethought. it shouldn't be the miracles, b/c the Prophets and even his disciples performed them

onethought. it wouldn't be His teachings b/c His teaching is so simplistic that my 3 year old can understand and obey them

onethought. it couldn't be that Jesus came back to life 3 days after he was killed on the Cross b/c many ppl will believe it happened

[proposition] if Jesus is actually kickin' it w/God in heaven and if He is coming back again as the Scriptures teach...what does that mean for us?

i suppose it's kind of like the situation my parents are currently in. they have lived in the same home for about 25 years now. they live right around the corner from the intersection of Okemos Rd and I-96. if you haven't noticed, that area has boomed with business over the past 5 years or so.

they recently found out that some development company purchased a HUGE lot of land (in the neighborhood of 50 acres) that is within a mile of their small little community on a dead end road. this development company is planning to build a large apartment complex.

what can my parents do about this situation? they can get angry. they can fight the development company in court to block the construction. they can even live in denial. or they can embrace the inevitable.

\this is my contention/ we must embrace Jesus' imminent return. while there are some negative connotations that come along with Jesus' return for those who are not pursuing Him with their hearts and lives, (please see 2 Peter 3, Thessalonians, Revelation, etc) there is great joy in His return for those who are chasing after Jesus.

i always think of Jesus' return in terms of when a friend calls us on the phone and says they want to stop over in 5 mins. we rush around to pick up the kids toys and other things that clutter the house in a race to present our home in a way that honors our guest. we frantically clean the house to try to beat our guest's arrival.

may you live your life in a way that races to beat the arrival of Jesus...

THEJRMillers (Tricia, Hailey, Ethan) in case you didn't get the 'THE' part...

Here's a pix of the four of us @ the SkyDeck atop the Sears Tower in Chicago back in August. Why does Ethan ALWAYS have weird faces in all our pictures? lol...

Why do we have such a hard time forgiving one another?

This is an upclose pix of the list of things her neighbor stole...

The only difference between this woman and many of us she is not afraid to publicly display her pain...

Here is the picture of the sign in front of the lady's house...

Definitely ready for the weekend...

Saturday.
I promise I will update my blog more frequently than once a week. I just started it Thursday night, so I've got to get used to doing this daily again.

This past week I felt like I was riding the Millennium Force @ Cedar Point. Lots of highs and lows. I also felt like I was back in ministry this week. Each day this week I spent it w/people from the community @ Riverview. God continues to affirm the fact that this is exactly where He would like us to serve and pursue Him.

Monday.
I shared a burger and a beer with Travis and Justin. We seem to have some great conversations each Monday. I will post some of my thoughts pertaining to our convos as we meet on a regular basis. I missed Rod this week guys! lol...

Tuesday.
I had the unfortunate opportunity to watch MSU lose to Duke over at Justin's house. I may be mistaken, but I believe that there may have been a Christian Lattner sighting. By the way Dan, CL scored 23 points for the Miami Heat last night. lmao...

Wednesday.
BoB (the name I am affectionately calling my 1983 Volvo b/c that is the name of the Hula Hoop dancer on the dash board...long story!) decided that she was going to puke on me. After spending a cool grand on the master cylinder, calipers, pads and rotars last month, I now have to spend an additional $350 on a break line distributor. Not sure exactly where I'm going to get the money for this, but I'm considering donating a kidney!!

After work, I picked up Dan and we went to play poker @ Todd's w/Chris, Joel and Brad. If it weren't for the Oh $%#@ game, I probably would have lost the entire $10 I put in to play. Fortunately, I only lost $1!! Where else can you spend $1 for four hours of entertainment? Not a bad investment to spend quality time w/some good guys.

Thursday.
I came across one of the most interesting things I've seen in my life. I was reading meters around MLK and Mt. Hope. I walked up to this house and there was a rather large sign in the driveway. It was so saddened by the sign that I called Tricia and she packed up the kids and drove out to meet me with the digital camera. The lady had written out all the things that her neighbor had stolen from her and how she was so proud of the fact that she got away with thievery.

This woman had invested her life into her neighbor, and loved her like a sister. Her neighbor, in turn, abused the friendship by stealing more than $3,000 from her. The woman was so devastated by this, and the police family services involvement, the restraining orders and visits to court that she is the most bitter and angry woman. I decided that I had to go and talk with this woman. I asked her, "What would it take to forgive your neighbor?" Her reply was, "If she would simply say, 'I'm sorry!' "

This reaffirmed in me the importance of being able to forgive those who wrong me, and quickly reconcile relationships when they have been strained.

Friday.
Dan and I met for breakfast. 6:30am is pretty early for this guy, but I definitely make that sacrifice to spend time w/Dan. Our friendship is quickly becoming one that I believe will be something pretty amazing. God has given me such a desire to spend time w/him and to share my heart as a brother w/him. He shared some personal things at breakfast w/me that gave me a greater perspective of his life and how he's become the man he is today. I am really looking forward to our trip next month. Was that really the best bacon & toast you've ever had, Dan?

Long day at work, but it too passed. Katie came over and had dinner with us. She's a nut. I really appreciate her friendship!! Ethan and Hailey initially played shy, but eventually warmed up to her. It was so cute to see Hailey cuddling w/her on the couch as they watched Frosty the Snowman on TV before bed.

After they went to bed, the three of us watched the movie 21 grams, had magaritas and ate Rice Crispy treats and Movie Theatre popcorn. Good times! Great flick!! I'm not sure how Naomi Watts was a 'supporting actress' but she phenomenal in it. Sean Penn and Benecio Del Torro also did fantastic jobs in their roles. I would encourage anyone who enjoys Quinten Tarantino films to watch this movie. Some sexual content and language, but those are overshawdowed by the acting and the story line.

This is Hailey Nicole, my little princess...

This is definistely Tricia's daughter. I'll try to find the picture of Tricia doing this same pose.

This is M. Ethan, the coolest little boy ever!!!

Nice smile, dude!!

It's been so long...

I had a blog that I started about 3 years ago, and it is so outdated that I decided to simply start a new one. Enjoy the ride....