January 2, 2013 My family and I were blessed with a gift for a vacation at Niagara Falls' Great Wolf Lodge last weekend. It was incredible! If your family loves water parks, I would highly suggest it. But there's something you should watch out for if you don't want to be embarrassed like me!
November 12, 2012 Today was a great day for me. I was so proud to have my kids begging me to take them fishing. As we sat there casting out into Lake Erie from the dock, my chest swelled with pride to think that my kids were looking up to me as one of the best fishermen they've ever seen. That ended rather quickly with just one dumb move.
November 10, 2012 It’s Veteran’s Day weekend and we here at WYRK would like to thank everyone who has served and is currently serving in our United States Military. I would like to take a couple seconds to stop and say thank you to one veteran in particular. He’s my favorite veteran. He’s my dad.
October 25, 2012 I've been kind of only going half at it for the last couple years on Halloween. You know what I mean. You get a "costume," but you really don't put much effort into it. This year, though, I said in the summer that I was going to dress up like Guy Fieri for Halloween.
August 7, 2012 Over the weekend I had my first chance to head up to Sterling, NY to visit The Renaissance Festival. Now admittedly, I’m not normally into this kind of thing. The dressing up in costumes and talking in silly accents isn't really up my alley. But this was the “Highland Fling” weekend and because we are proud of our Scottish heritage, my family decided to go check it out.
August 7, 2012 I have always considered myself to be a safe driver. I’ve been driving since I was 16 and am now 34 years old. That means that I’ve been driving for 18 accident free years. That changed yesterday as I experienced my first accident.
June 16, 2012 Being a dad isn't as easy as my dad made it look. It kind of is a trial and error kind of thing. You have to pick your battles. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose (hopefully you win more battles than you lose). The important thing is that when you do lose a battle you learn from it. Here are just a few of the lessons that my dad taught me as I was growing up.
June 15, 2012 There are certain things that have to take place for the summer to be official. Things that I have to do and places that I have to go. I guess you could consider this my bucket list for summer, only they're things that I have to do before the summer ends, not before I die...hopefully.
June 6, 2012 Today I said goodbye to a friend. Well, it was really my vehicle. But honestly I feel like we’ve been through a lot together. Today it was time to say goodbye to the minivan that I called “The Mothership”.
June 5, 2012 The other day I was sitting in my house playing my Wii, and I started thinking about how far video games have come. When I was a kid, we played on everything from the Atari to Vic20 and Commodore 64. But my favorite was always the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Here's my list of the top five games that I used to play on my NES when I was a kid.
May 21, 2012 Most of us have had to go through it. The process known as "The Car Buying Process." When you're in high school or even college you normally love the idea of getting a new car but now, I absolutely hate just about every part of it.
May 19, 2012 Something that many of you don't know about me is that I really enjoy gardening. The ironic thing is that I always thought my dad was nuts when he'd talk about gardening with me. Now I'd give anything to have an afternoon with him digging in the dirt. Now that the weather is getting nicer I had some time to get to my gardens and I clicked some pictures to share with you.
