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Ethan
Ethan’s teacher sends home a little behavior report card daily, means he was good and means he was disruptive. When he gets a disruptive sad face he loses the computer. The other day he went to his teacher and asked to be moved away from a boy that distracts him. He stated “can [...]
82 degree’s in Miami
Well, conference went great, it was very informative. I spoke in front of about 75 people, I was nervous at first and then it all ironed out and I was fine. we picked up our Prius yesterday its an AWESOME car. We drove to a huge water park with the kids in Gurnee Illonois and [...]
Miami & stuff
Heading to Miami to speak at an HSA symposium. Taking mom, should be a lota fun. Meeting up with Robert and a freind I game online with, Paul. After I watched the debates and reading up on the canidates I could not bring myself to vote for Mcain. Even though Obama is against health savings [...]
Minnesota
I had to come to Minnesota on business yesterday and today I leave to go home after some meetings. I brought mom and she is staying with Uncle Carl and Diane. We all went to dinner last night at a nice Italian restaurant, I had rack of lamb, yumm. My cousin dave came with us, [...]
Cub Scouts
ETHAN GETS TO JOIN CUB SCOUTS! I am so excited, we get to build the derby cars and go camping, fishing. We went to look at the lot we are buying to build again this weekend, its a pretty big lot, almost a full acre. There is even a little patch of woods in [...]
Waterpark
Took the family and kids to tundra resort in Green Bay, it has a huge indoor waterpark. Cassy’s boyfriend came along as well. I am going to the Green Bay Packer game today as I have to take a business partner from South Carolina. It will be fun. The kids were in heaven with all [...]
American Bankers 3rd annual HSA Symposium
November 12th and 13th I will be going to www.doralresort.com in Miami. They invited me to be one of the speakers. Should be very interesting seminar. Especially in light of the elections I am curious to see how the topic of a democratic president (if elected) will impact HSA’s.
PaintBall
Went to a Stalingrad scenario game this past Sunday. It was AWESOME. I brought Kristian, Cassy and Cassy’s boyfreind Mitchell. Everyone had a blast. Ethan wants to play so bad but he is still too little. Kelly is in Maine with Makenna, she is having a good time. We all miss them very much. Marna [...]
Stupid Bush and company
Ok, for the record I do not consider myself Democrat or Republican, I vote for whomever I feel will do the best Job. In fact I voted for Bill Clinton twice and for Kerry. I only voted for Kerry because there were no better alternatives. In this election I am obviously voting Republican for the [...]
American Bankers Press Release
Republican Platform Calls For Lower Taxes, Free Market Economy
The Republican platform, adopted during the party convention this week, acknowledges the economy’s problems and embraces a free market economy that includes lower taxes, reasonable regulation and smaller, smarter government.
The platform contains several planks on financial issues of interest to [...]
Be Optimistic
Some people think that optimism is about living in a Pollyanna world where everything is nice and bad things never happen to good people. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. Optimism really is a courageous state of mind – one that comes from a person’s desire, effort, and choice to accept and make [...]
Great summer
Wow, am I way behind posting what we have been up to for the summer. We have been camping multiple times and kids loved it. Kelly and the kids also went to Florida and went to SeaWorld and hung out at a beach in Clearwater. They were gone a week and I missed them terribly. [...]
PaintBall Galore
Title: PaintBall Galore
Location: Nelson Field
Description: Hey everyone a bunch of us are coming this Sunday from 1-4 at Nelson Paintball Field. http://www.nelsonfield.com/ they have everything you need to rent a gun, paint and unlimited air. For $10 you can rent air tank and have unlimited air. So far six people confirmed and growing, the more [...]
Bay Beach
We took the kids to Bay Beach in Green Bay today. We went with a neighbor Pete and his son Piercon. Makenna went on some rides I chickened out and she loved them. I took Makenna on a NASCAR go cart and she couldn’t get enough, yelling faster, faster. I think everyone’s favorite ride was [...]
4th of July
We had a cookout at a neighbors house. One of Ethan’s friends pierceon. I made bacon wrapped filet mignon crusted with basil and garlic, it was awesome. We were lighting off fireworks this week and the police came twice. There was a crazy neighbor who kept calling them, they were really cool about it. We [...]
Chicago Conference
On train returning from 3 day conference in Chicago. It had over 15k attendee’s, very big. I had a lot of fun but miss kelly and the kids terribly. I have some cool trinkets for the kids, monster.com necklaces, lighted pens, blinking badges and other cool stuff, Ethan and Makenna should get a big kick [...]
Ethan’s Birthday
Ethan turned big 6 yesterday, he brought in a power rangers birthday cake into his class. They all loved it. We got him a couple of presents but are going to celebrate his birthday on Sunday. I got him Iron Man for the PC and we will probably pick him up a Wii game. He [...]
Karate and Frogs
I signed Ethan and Makenna up for Karate, we took them to their first class last Thursday. They LOVED it. We went to Maywood last night for a frog program, they had about 15 different frog species and kids got to hold them all. A tree frog (small) jumped on Ethan’s cheek and and stuck [...]
funny IM conversation
Roberts [11:22 AM]:
McMahon, a former pitchman for the American Family Publishers’ sweepstakes and former “Star Search” host, received a $7.2 million settlement after a toxic mold spread through his house and led to the death of their dog in 2001.
Peterson, James [11:23 AM]:
wow
Peterson, James [11:23 AM]:
I knew I should have snuffed the cats
Roberts [11:25 AM]:
one [...]
Good Story
Today’s article is excerpted from Welcome The Rain.
Welcome Mistakes
My grandmother was born in a small West Texas farming town on August 26, 1929, two months and three days before Black Tuesday, the Stock Market crash that started the Great Depression. As the youngest daughter of sharecroppers, who earned their [...]
