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  • Popping In

    There’s been a lack of blog posts lately but for pretty good reason. We’ve been busy and I guess I haven’t needed to complain about anything. Ronnie and I got back late Sunday night from a fantastic ski trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and went right back to work Monday morning. We’re not even unpacked.…

  • Edited

    Sometimes I think I might shut down the blog and cease writing. Each week goes by and I realize I haven’t yet written a post, and this doesn’t sit well with me. Isn’t it an unwritten rule that bloggers have to write at least once per week and really good ones do far more than…

  • Counting Down

    Our Florida vacation is right around the corner, and every hour it gets closer the more my mind wants to check out of work. But this week became oddly busy at work so the more I want to check things off my to-do list to wrap up before I’m out of the office for six…

  • 2010 Bikers for Babies KC

    It got to me every town we rode through; every truck parked on the side of the road with kids waving at us from the tailgate. Every shirt that said “Bikers for Babies,” whether it was this years design or one from a few years back. And then there were the custom-made matching shirts “We…

  • Pride and Joy

    Pride: Watching my husband go all out in his first strongman competition. Joy: Celebrating Skyler’s 3rd birthday and watching her open all her new Mickey Mouse/Goofy presents.

  • Bikers for Babies

    Has it really been almost a year since my highlight of last year? Bikers for Babies 2009 was perhaps the best experience I can note from last year. It was about family, giving, community; when people from all different backgrounds and lifestyles come together for one day to raise money and awareness, and celebrate life…

  • And Then There Were Two

    All those friends, family, coworkers and strangers who are always asking when we’re going to have another kid…it’s still not now! But we have added a new addition to the Oswald family…of blogs. I got Ronnie hooked up to start blogging his passion for fitness! It’s only the beginning, and who knows what it could…

  • Out with the old…?

    Skyler’s been obsessed with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for several months now. Even though we cancelled cable and no longer have every episode on DVR, we bought one DVD with 4 episodes and she is still happy to watch those same 4 over and over and over. She’s got them all memorized. Luckily, her birthday is…

  • Potty, Breaks

    I had forgotten about how when I post a blog that describes a particular challenge we are going through with Skyler, that usually means the tides will turn shortly after it’s posted and we’ll find ourselves on the other side of it. And so it goes with the potty training – we’ve done a one-eighty…

  • QT

    Ronnie and I are blessed to have lots of great friends and in the summer, a seemingly endless supply of social events for our calendar. I counted from the beginning of May, that we could potentially go and do something every single weekend until September. And even then I think that month is already half…