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It was bound to happen

Gabi is practically famous for her hair. She was born with a ton of it and it is long and gorgeous. I was woken up one day last week by my wife telling me that we might have to cut off Gabi’s hair and that I needed to come see it. [...]

Gabi’s first ballet class

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Happy Birthday Andres

My favorite son has turned 10 years old today.

Manny and me

Go Cubs!

Yazmin and Andres are U.S. Citizens!

Yesterday we took a trip to Atlanta for Yazmin’s citizenship exam. She passed with flying colors! This also made Andres a citizen automatically. We all got to participate in the Ceremony. There were several men from the armed forces there becoming citizens as well. I was glad to see [...]

Play Ball!

Little League season starts tonight! “Manny” is on the Cubs. The real Cubs have not won a World Series in 100 years. I gotta go get the sunflower seeds. I’ll be a dugout dad again. That’s my favorite job keeping the kids pumped up and batting in [...]

I’m sick

I’ve been sick since Saturday. My son had baseball practice at 9 am and it was freezing out. We weren’t even the first scheduled practice of the day! Soon after, I had the flu. “Experts” say that being cold does not make you sick, but experience has taught us all [...]

Tragedy for Rick Burgess and family

Over the weekend, Rick Burgess of the Rick and Bubba radio show lost their youngest, two year-old son Bronner Burgess in an accidental drowning.  This is devastating news.   Rick, who was Andres first football coach, is just about the nicest person I’ve ever met.  I’ve always been impressed with what a strong family man he [...]

Happy Birthday Princess

4 Years Old.
My little girl is growing up too fast!

Another trophy

The boy and I went to his year end football party and when we got home his three year old sister said, “Why do you have a trophy? You didn’t win anything.” Well said. We all had to laugh at that one.
In fact his football team was 0-8 for the 2nd year [...]