Archive for the 'Family' Category

New Year’s Resolutions

With the passing of the old year and the beginning of the new, many people make their traditional “New Year’s Resolutions”. I’ve usually eschewed these resolutions that more than likely will fail anyway. This year I’ve decided to give this whole resolution thing a go. I’m going to be successful at it too. I’m not [...]

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Broadband Update

I ranted about my broadband frustrations in the previous post. An update to the story. Apparently the question to ask is not if I can get service to the home, but how much would it cost to get service to the home. After I talked with Mediacom a couple of more time I found out [...]

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Broadband Frustration

I’m a software engineer and one of the few fortunate individuals who gets to work out of their home. We purchased some land a couple of years ago with the intention of building a new home. We are now in the process of building that house. Being a remote employee doing software development, I need [...]

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Noah Dancing

Rachel’s mom stopped by for a visit the other day and she left us a disc of photos she has taken over the past couple of years. We ran across this gem of Noah playing and dancing at Andrew and Holly’s wedding.

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20 Week Ultrasound

Last week we had Rachel’s twenty week ultrasound. We found out we are having another boy. We got some cool pictures, I thought I would post. Baby’s Profile It’s a Boy His Feet This time around, we’ve decided to do something kind of fun. We are going to keep the name a suprise

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Grandma

For Grandpa’s funeral several people shared stories about the things they remember about him. Afterwards I wondered if there was anything I could have shared. I know that I’m the wrong person for this kind of things since specific events don’t tend to stick out in my mind. More like general perceptions and images. So [...]

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Noah & Wyatt at the beach

Originally uploaded by richwklein. A great picture of the boys enjoying the beach at Okoboji this last weekend. We had a wonderful time and thought I would share this with my friends that are not on facebook

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First Bike Ride

About a month ago Noah took his first official bike ride. I thought I would share some photos from that experience. Here he is just getting started. This is our first experience with falling. Which he now has a lot of experience with. Getting the hang of it.

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Death and the Internet

Over the weekend I learned about a classmate that had recently passed away. Last night while I was on Facebook, I ran across his profile. Reading what people had written on his wall was sad and poignant and beautiful. His family writing to him since his passing was so heart wrenching to read, but somehow [...]

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Random 25

This is a repost from Facebook. I figure a few more people will actual get a chance to see it on the blog. Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have [...]

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