2025 March

March was a month of movement. Between field trips to government buildings, tourist centers disguised as educational facilitie

2025 February

February was quieter in theory, but the calendar didn’t get the memo. Between city runs, backyard livestock, ancient cro

2025 January

January came in fast. Between birthdays, snow days, major upgrades to the vehicle fleet, and a long-awaited supersonic event y

2024 December

Christmas Tree We got a real tree this year from a local church (again). They smell good, but are messy. We also got some indo

2024 November

Around the House Choior Concert Presidential Election Basketball Spaghetti Sandwiches saxaphone Thanksgiving

2024 October

Downtown We tried to spend some extra time together downtown, with nothing planned. Just hang out on a nice day, walk around a

2024 September

Josslyn’s birthday This month, we celebrated Joss turning 12! She really wanted Kirby-themed cupcakes for her birthday,

2024 August

video placeholder – I am behind and havent made the video for this month yet. Will update later. Wesley’s Birthday

2024 July

Video This month was busy. The video captures only some of the fun. I took more pictures this month than what I have in the pa

2024 June

Video Swimming June was super hot, and we spent a lot of time cooling off in the pool. We’re lucky to have awesome neigh

The Legends of Wes

Welcome to Wes’s Comic Book World! Introducing Our Young Author: Wes Wes is an imaginative and creative 8-year-old with

2024 May

Video CAMPING We went camping at Abrams Creek – it rained really hard but it did let up enough to let us go for a little

2024 April

Video Kite Wes and Austin got the kite out – flying it high while dodging trees – but it eventually landed too hig

2024 March

video This month I tried to put links to the video “chapters” for each event. The video is long (30+ minutes) so h

2024 Feburary

video This month’s video tops out at 30ish minutes. A little long, but there were parts that we just didn’t want t

2024 January

video Happy new year! Another month of taking more video than pictures. There is overlap of course, but the video is pretty fu

2023 DECEMBER

Video I took more videos than pictures this month. This video is longer than normal – it was hard to cut out what were g

2023 NOVEMBER

video November didnt feel like there were too many highlights. We stayed at home most of the month, but watching the video, we

2023 October

October was a busy month as a family – we started the month in Ohio and then Traveled To PA, back to TN, visited a frien

2023 September

Joss’ Birthday Joss had her 11th birthday two times: we celebrated her during the week as a family and then she had a slumbe

2023 August

Wesley’s Birthday Christian made Wesley a triforce cake (had to use a paper triangle for the 3rd one as the cheesecake he ma

2023 JULY

4th of July We didn’t know what to expect for our 1st Fourth of July in Tennessee so we ended up buying some of our own fire

Michael G Leskovac – Grandpa

Obituary Humble. Faithful. Generous. Kind. These are but a few descriptors for Michael G. Leskovac. Born on May 1, 1939 to Pet

Abrams Campground to Falls Hike

Hike from Campground to the Falls (the back way) My son Christian and I recently decided to embark on a camping trip to Abrams

Saving Pork from COVID

About Because of COVID-19, animals were getting euthanized and going to waste at an alarming rate. A farmer friend offered up

2020 Anniversary

We got to get away for the weekend, child free, for the first time in 10 years. In a shutdown COVID world, we decided to spend

19 Jan – New Puppy Camping

September 4 2019 We got a new puppy. After Fisher and Arlo died in the past year, we decided to take a break from dogs. That d

19 Aug – 4 Wheeler and Pancakes

August 18 2019 My wife is awesome – we get to go to camp for her birthday! There is a pancake breakfast in nearby mounta

2019 Cubscout Camp

Christian did his first summer Cubscout Camp for the past 4 days at Camp Magnus, a ranch camp in Elbert Colorado. He had a bla

19 July – Camp Swing and Horses

July 5 2019 We decided to spend the 4th of July weekend at camp. Unfortunately the fireworks were canceled in Breckenridge and