Well Brandon and Shaun that is. Brandon’s has picked up bowling over the past couple years as a side-hobby and plays on a league with is buddy Shaun. They both use the crazy “youngin” two-handed side sling as their unorthodox throw. Brandon gave us a call and said they made […]
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Just a simple entry to remember a simple event. After taking many years off of our annual spring and fall hikes, it was great to be able to get back out there with Ezra, Brandon and Matt. Albeit short, but great just to get out. Looking forward to longer and […]
Here goes another step towards empty nesters. I’ve always thought that empty-nesters was a term for old people… definitely not the case. 🙂 It was great to see Brandon walk the graduation walk at the Kent State MAC center. So proud of his commitment to his studies and final 4.+ […]
Congrats to Brandon and his Varsity Kent Roosevelt Baseball team for winning the Suburban League Championship with a 10-2 record. It was a hard road playing up in the Suburban League vs teams including Tallmadge, Aurora and Copley. Particularly vs the always competitive Tallmade. It was exceptionally rewarding to take […]
Since we live in Ohio, you got to make the best of all the weather. Got out the quad and sleds today to take advantage of the seemingly rare good snowfall since it’s been a couple years. After Brandon and I tooks several trips, he and Nick took some turns […]
A big thank you to Matt Murphy again for his outstanding work on Brandon’s senior photos. Below is a link to a  gallery of the experience. Brandon’s Senior Photo Gallery
Had an awesome time this weekend at the Props and Pistons Festival at the Akron Fulton Airport. Just a small little venue with a few aircraft to walk around and eye candy for any aviation enthusiast. The primary goal was to surprise Jim Murphy on his 70th birthday with a […]
It’s official, Brandon got his license today and he’s stoked, even though his picture doesn’t say “stoked”. He breezed through both tests and got the the magic card to his freedom. Or really magic card to cart his butt around. As always, that first trip leaving the house by himself […]
I had the opportunity to go on the week long mission trip with the St Joan of Arc CHAOS Youth Group to Cumberland, Kentucky. This was the 5th year in a row I was able to chaperone the group. This year was the largest group we’ve taken with 15 kids […]
For the 4th year in a row I accompanied the st joan of arc youth group to kentucky for their week long summer mission trip. Nate, Brandon and I were all able to make the trip this year. Our 9 kids and 3 adults while meeting up with 24 other […]
I chaperoned a field trip with Brandon’s 8th grade class from St Pats this last week. We had an awesome 4 FULL days of touring that left everyone exhausted. I made this trip once before with Nate so I suppose I’ll let Jean go next year with Aly seeing as […]
Wow, I was definitely caught off guard at church this last weekend when the Knights of Columbus presented us with the 2015 Catholic Family of the Year award. A great appreciation to whomever was involved in giving this award to our family. I can’t say how super-proud it made me […]
For the 3rd straight year I was blessed enough to be able to go on the mission trip with St Joan of Arc’s youth group (C.H.A.O.S) to the Appalachian region. Our destination this year was Cumberland, Kentucky where they have a great base of operations that can reach out to […]
Well I was lucky enough again (thanks boss) to be able to go on another field trip with Brandon’s class this last week. It was a 3-day trip to Camp Fitch in Erie, PA. Like Camp Christopher, there were lots of learning experiences and great times with all the kids. […]
Thank God spring has finally gotten here. It was an awesome day to be outside so I took my boys and a bunch of the nephews and niece on our spring hike. Nate, Brandon, Jacob, Abby, Dylan & Nick. We went across the street again since there’s so much more […]
Brandon sure seems to be a magnet for oddities. The day before New Years Eve he was playing in the basement wrapped up in blankets like a burrito. After an unfortunately hard drop to the ground, he felt a very sharp pain that he said we should go get checked […]
Just a simple little entry to take advantage of Brandon’s non-accomplishment. Today… just now…. at 12:12pm, he is 12 years old on 12-12-12. That’s it. Happy Birthday B.
I want to take a little space to tell Brandon what an awesome job he did this year on his baseball team. He was one of our most valuable assets playing hard in the catcher position primarily, but also giving us good help at pitcher and short stop. He finished […]
Our three kids, along with several others got their photo in the local Gateway News, while at a fund-raiser for the Streetsboro Fire Department. Here’s the full story. The Streetsboro Fire Department held its annual pancake breakfast and open house recently to raise money for the Aluminum Cans for Burned […]
Brandon has been doing great at his gymnastics. He really is a natural at everything he does. After just 2 sessions (14 weeks). He was at a Level 3 after completing his first session. His instructor has taken a real interest in him and given him lots of attention and […]
With such a crappy summer, and winter seeming to hit quick this year, when I heard it was supposed to reach 68 degrees for the first week in November, I was glad to hear I would get in my fall hike, which I was sure we missed. We decided to […]