Archive for June, 2006

Of Fun, Flying, and Floods

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Well its Wednesday and we are back in Philadelphia after a week down in Florida. We can’t really say that it was relaxing but we did have a good time.
Fun

As mentioned previously, Alex had her first beach experience and her first dip in a swimming pool. We were able to visit with lots of friends [...]

Vacation Time!!

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Well folks, we’re on vacation in Florida this week. Don’t expect to hear too much from us but do check the pictures page as we will be updating frequently. We already have pics of Alex’s first beach experience and her first swimming pool. She got to meet her great grandma McKinny and a lot of [...]

A most special happy birthday….

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

….to the love of my life. I won’t give your age. Girls are weird about that.

Reunited

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

After nearly 2 weeks apart, yesterday, a father was reunited with his daughter…and a husband with his wife. It was an interesting 2 weeks and we both managed to stay really busy during our time apart.
I finished up one of my summer courses (I’m pretty sure I got an “A”) and I took a midterm [...]

My Tax Dollars

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Surely by now you’ve all heard about the report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) about the way FEMA handled the Katrina and Rita disasters (if not you have got to start watching the news regularly). Billions of our tax dollars went to buy diamonds, girls-gone-wild video, a boob job and yes, even a [...]