U.P. Here

Your Quote of the Day

2010-05-19T23:17:00.000-07:00

We see a great many things and can remember a great many things, but that is different. We get very few of the true images in our heads of the kind I'm talking about, the kind that become more and more vivid for us as if the passage of the years did not obscure their reality, but, year by year, drew off another veil to expose a meaning which we had only dimly surmised at first. Very probably the last veil will not be removed, for there are not enough years, but the brightness of the image increases and our conviction increases that the brightness is meaning, or the legend of meaning, and without the image our lives would be nothing except an old piece of film rolled on a spool and thrown into a desk drawer among the unanswered letters.

--Robert Penn Warren
from All The King’s Men

Yeah, I got my blog back!

2009-03-05T09:15:00.000-08:00

finally, I got my blog back. It got taken down for a while, not sure why. But it's back now. All is good.

Chilly Weather

2009-01-16T23:38:00.000-08:00

It has been VERY cold up here in da U.P. -0F for about a week now. I took a couple of pics of Nicole braving the weather while she was shoveling the driveway the other day. I could just hear the words coming out of the passers by when they say me taking pics of her. "Hey look at that guy taking pics of his wife shovel!" I was just on my way out of town to go down to Escanaba for Chamber of Commerce and Homebrew club meetings or else I would have helped, I swear. Hopefully this cold ends soon, out heat billed doubled this month and it has only seemed to get colder. Yikes.

Our 5 mile route

2009-01-12T09:26:00.000-08:00

Nicole, Dawn, Igor, and decided that we are going to start training to do two half marathons this year. We will be doing one in March and on in October on Mackinac Island. We are following a program that has us working out everyday except for Fridays and on Sunday we do a "longer" run. I just mapped out a 5 mile run for our weekend run in two weeks.

Marquette 5 mile loop w/.60 Mile Cooldown
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1st Birthday Part 2

2008-11-13T22:01:00.000-08:00

Bella's 1st Birthday Party

2008-11-13T21:48:00.001-08:00

We decided to celebrate Bella's 1st birthday party a week early so we could have a collaboration party with the twins, Reese & Riley. It looked more like Christmas with all of the presents being thrown around. The girls weren't shy when it came time for the awesome cake that Nicole made. She constructed a pink castle for the little princess' and it turned out really cool. On a side note, the Packers lost. We waited until 4PM to have the party as to not subtract any smiles from the occasion.

Halloween!

2008-10-31T22:40:00.000-07:00

I ended up having to work on Halloween but Nicole, Dani, Dawn, & Igor took the kids out and they scored all kinds of candy. Bella was a Duck and Brice was a cowboy.

Back to the Corn Maze

2008-10-30T22:58:00.000-07:00

We ended up going back to the Haze Corn Maze again because Nicole's work was having a get together there. It was dark and gloomy and we ended up getting soaked but it was still a great time. There was plenty of food to be had and the kids had a blast...again.

Hail Storm in Marquette, MI June 20, 2007

2008-10-29T18:02:00.000-07:00

Family video this spring/summer

2008-10-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

Fall is Here!

2008-10-15T18:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of us playing in the leaves at Papa and Nana's house, as Brice would say, and also at the "Hayes Corn Maze" in Cornell, MI. What a great day. You can see the rest of the pictures HERE

Sugarloaf Mountain in the Fall

2008-10-15T12:19:00.000-07:00

Let me tell you, there is nothing better than living in the Upper Peninsula in the fall. Nicole, Brice, Bella and I along with my friend Dawn and her two kids Emmi and Kade, hiked up Sugarloaf Mountain on Sunday. It's only about a 10 minute drive from our house and it was unbelievably beautiful. The colors were vibrant yellow, orange, & red with the evergreens mixed in. It made for quite the palate of colors. Just the drive out there was incredible. The smell of fall is in the air and it is getting to be that time of year for pumpkin pie and apple cider and all of those other great treats that we associate with fall. It also seems to be a time of year when friends and family really cling together and enjoy each others presence, not that it shouldn't be that way all the time. Here are some of my pics from the hike. I'm sure their will be more of these fall pics to follow.

Bella and Me

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Nicole, Brice, and Emmi

Brice and Momma

Emmi and Brice