I had a dream a few nights ago that Aiden was a toddler again. He had the diapers, curly hair, and everything. But we were living in this house. Maybe it's because I've been thinking a lot about how quickly our little boy is growing up. Parents tend to do that when their children have birthdays, don't they?

Happy Birthday, Aiden! Don't grow up too ( Read more... )

Christy's step-mom's mother passed away on Friday. Although it really wasn't unexpected, that doesn't necessarily make it less painful. We were in Mooresville all day today for the visitation and the funeral. Then we all went out to eat, which was a good thing because today's also Christy's birthday and I was concerned that we were going to have ( Read more... )

For my birthday, Christy and the kids bought me a bicycle. I've been talking about buying a bike for at least a year, but I never did for one reason or another. Yesterday, I took my new ride out for a spin.

It had been at least 10 years since I'd actually ridden a bicycle on the street. I didn't really realize this until I got on this bike for ( Read more... )

i guess I was spoiled as a child. Of course, I didn't realize it at the time - but who does when they're in the middle of being spoiled? Every Thanksgiving, my Grandpa would buy tickets to the Hadi Shrine Circus. I didn't realize how special that was until I experienced other circuses. I had always assumed they were just like the ones I had ( Read more... )

Christy and the kids took me out to eat for my birthday on Saturday evening. We were originally going to go to Texas Roadhouse in Muncie. Christy mentioned that she needed to do something in Anderson and wondered if it would be OK to go to the one there. It made no difference to me, so I agreed.

Before we left, I almost said, "Hey, why don't you ( Read more... )

As mentioned earlier, Tracie was admitted to the hospital last week and they planned on taking the baby on Friday or Saturday of this week. Well, the little one had other ideas and decided to come even earlierLily Grace Wilson was born yesterday afternoon. Although she's approximately 5 weeks premature, momma and baby have been on steroids for ( Read more... )

As promised several weeks ago, here are more pictures from the Indians game earlier this month. It only took me 30 seconds to upload all of them, compared with the 15 minutes it used to take to upload each picture. What does that mean? That's right - dialup is no more. We've finally caught up with the 21st century. This also means we have a ( Read more... )

We went to an Indianapolis Indians game over the weekend as part of Aiden's birthday celebration. Some of the pictures have been posted over at anakin_redeemed. I'll post more pictures of the family on here as soon as I can. It's taking longer than I'd like with dialup. Hopefully, that inconvenience will be fixed by this time next week. We'll see.

Welcome home, Xander Joseph Pierce!  That's quite a head of hair you've got there!

When Aiden woke up this morning, he was greeted with this:


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