Day 247

For you see, each day I love you more.
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.



~Rosemonde Gerard

Day 234

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

~Dave Barry

Day 225

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

~Chili Davis

Day 206

Time to go home

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

~George Carlin

Day 205

Manchester State Park

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky.

~e.e. cummings

Day 204

Smores by the camp fire. Coby, Erik, and John

Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry.

~Dave Barry

Day 200

John's Truck


We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

~Robert Brault

Day 188

Hole-in-one (Remind us never to go miniature golfing in 109 degree weather in Arizona?)


Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

~Jack Nicklaus

Day 187

John with brothers Ted and Dave

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, and resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship.

~Erica E. Goode

Day 178

John even had a hoopfest team.


I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

~Dave Barry

Day 171

Happy Father's Day!


Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

~Lydia M. Child, 1836

Day 158

John's Tattoo


Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.

~Billy Elmer

Day 149

John and Erik...UFC Fight Night

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

~Muhammad Ali

Day 137

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

~Willie Nelson

Day 127

Gunnar, John, and Chance...Coby was sitting with some friends.


Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

~Ichiro Suzuki

Day 114

John and Gunn

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

~Clarence Budington Kelland

Day 100

Teriyaki dinner

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

~Author Unknown

Day 90

Happy Birthday John

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.

Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.*

~Judith Viorst

*I am so lucky that John's as sexy as Jude Law, as smart as Bill Gates, as funny as Jim Carey, and as athletic as Matt Hasselbeck.

Day 77

John's finally home from his business trip

A Father's Prayer
Lord I'm asking for Your help

To raise my little son.

Give me strength and guide me

Cause I know that You're the one

That sent this angel to me.

A little slice of heaven here on earth.

A greater love I'll never know.

So take these rugged hands of mine;

Help me to understand

Just what it is I need to do

To raise this little man.

Help me build a boy that knows

It's You that holds the key

To all that heaven holds for us.

Show him Your love through me.

~Mitch Speed

Day 62

I love this man

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.

~Karen Ravn