Fathers Day Fishing.

After a long day of yard work and tree trimming in the heat, Tucker and I went fishing for Father’s Day.    We fished Mill Creek below Shawnee Mission Park.  Tucker caught a few blue gill, a channel cat, and a bass.   In fact, he caught the largest Largemouth Bass he has ever caught [...]



Tucker’s first 5k.

Tucker ran his first 5k today.   He has been training for it a few weeks now.  This race was sponsored by the Kansas City Trail Nerds, a  local trail running group.   The race was out at Wyandotte County Lake Park.    The park doesn’t look like one would expect Kansas to look like. [...]



Harper’s 6th Birthday

Harper had her 6th Birthday today.   We thought we would have had travel approval by now and thus would have been in China so we did not have a big party.  Instead, we just had dinner, cake, and presents at our house.   Harper picked ribs for dinner (and probably ate half a [...]



Tucker has taken up running.

For the past couple of weeks Tucker has been going out running with me in the evenings.   He has already worked up to being able to run 3 miles.   Of course, being that he is super competitive, he is already asking when he will be faster than most of the other runners in local 5 [...]