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Today’s post is a re-run from a year ago…

But it is a must read from my 13 year old son Cole!

Like most kids my age, I have a long list of “my wants”, here are a few of the things I would love to get my hands on…

• Xbox Live
• Fly fishing gear
• “NEW” snowboarding gear
• Basketballs (I can never have enough)
• OKC Thunder gear
• FiftyNineFifty Hats
• Lots of duck tape (Love to invent w/ this stuff) Continue Reading…

10 Signs You’re Abusing Your Kids!!

• At the end of the day, do you pick up all your kiddos stuff?  Dishes?  Evil Knievel action figures?  Undies?  Junk in the living room?  If so, I think it’s awesome that you are getting her accustomed to having an expensive personal servant when she becomes a young adult.

• When your kiddos ask to go see The Avengers (which is awesome btw…), when they want the new KD’s or when they have to have the new Dora backpack…do you jump to it and make it happen ASAP?  If so, you’re teaching him that the world owes him everything he wants without any work or effort on his part. Continue Reading…

WE NEED YOUR HELP!! Continue Reading…

• 70% of kids 0 – 8 watch 1hr. & 52 minutes of television a day.
• Half of kids under 8 (and 40% of 2- to 4-year-olds) have access to a smartphone, iPad or some other mobile media device.
• Kids under 2 spend more than twice as much time watching videos as they do being read to.
• About 80% of children between the ages of 0 and 5 who use the Internet in the United States do so on at least a weekly basis.
• 60% of children under age three watch videos online..
• 7.5 million Facebook users are below the age of 13.
• Kids 13 – 17 years of age send/receive an average of 2,899 texts a month. Continue Reading…

In this crazy Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, social media, technology driven world that we live in…I am finding myself creating friendship online with people that I have never “officially” met face to face!!

And so today’s guest post come from one of those friends.

His name is Matt McKee.

Matt and I seem to run in some of the same circles, but all of our conversations have been via Twitter, Facebook or email.

Just from hanging online with Matt, I know that he loves his wife more than life…and he is an amazing, committed, Jesus focused dad!

Matt is also an aggressive, hungry, Kingdom Entrepreneur!  He has been involved in many projects, but his latest is ROAR.  ROAR is quickly becoming famous for  iPhone and Android apps for non-profits and those who serve non-profits.

You can friend Matt on Facebook or follow him on Twitter.

Here’s Matt!! Continue Reading…

Ok moms…

Settle in and enjoy!

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It was June 14th and my wife was hell bent on NOT showing up to give birth until it was time!!

We think Jodie hit labor at some point in the night, but we just weren’t sure if this was really the JackHammer (our 3rd son) making his way into the world, that Braxton Hicks thingy or just spicy gas from Mexican food!!?!

So as I am snoozing my morning away, all of the sudden I hear a… Continue Reading…