Ok, so I picked this t-shirt up at Walmart the other day. It was on the sale rack, and when I got up to the cashier to get my items rung up, it turned out to only be $3 … I’m quite the bargain hunter lately. Even better than that, it matched the pair of light blue shorts that I also bought that day (even though I had no intentions of getting clothes...

Tuesday was Jasmine’s 8th birthday. We didn’t have a huge party this year. It was pretty much just family, and a few of her friends. The “non-party” started when I got from from work that afternoon. I’d stopped by the Anthony’s Pizza over at the Fort Hood PX, and took advantage of their 3 large one-topping pizzas for $21...

The other evening, the girls convinced me to go sit with them at the little playground behind our house, so that Jaiden could come … Jasmine is there pretty much every day. Jaiden is really hitting her 2 year old “independent” streak at a full running pace … especially when it comes to her big sister … she thinks that anything Jasmine...

Yesterday Evening my son Justin and I took a little trip down to the creek behind our house. I took my camera with me so that he could show me some of the wildlife that he seems to encounter every day on his trips back and forth to the skateboard park. So far he’s seen everything from deer, to water moccasin snakes, to tarantula spiders; and then the other...

This seems to be a recurring theme for me. I take people’s pictures, and they flip me the finger. The guys at work in Hawaii did this to me all the time. I did figured I’d have at least a few more years before my youngest daughter rebelled in this manner. But no … tonight as I’m going through the pictures I took earlier, what do I...

Ok, so most mornings as I’m getting ready for work, I throw a couple of cans of soda in a plastic bag, along with various other essential snack material, to get me through the day. Well, apparently one day last week, one of my sodas “escaped” from the bag, and decided to hide underneath the front passenger seat of my car. … where it sat for...