Sunrise Swim

First Swim Meet

This past weekend - mini-golf and geocaching

Las Vegas Vacation Video

So Tammy and I went to Vegas for our 10 Year Anniversary. We went to see Cirque du Soleil's O, ate a ton of food, did some desert geocaching, and just spent some much needed time together.

Red Rock Canyon Photos

Geocaching Intstructional Video

This is just a fun little video I made with my video students.

Best Burger Ever?

The kids have been impressing us by eating more and more foods lately. Our favorite meal right now is tacos and it is so nice having everyone at the table eating the same things. We have allowed Sophie and Caleb to start eating fruits in place of their usual 3 carrot requirement and they are responding well.



However we were quite taken aback when Sophie invented this sandwich herslf at lunch this past weekend. It you want to recreate it try turkey burger on pita with tortilla chips, hummus, and salsa stuffed inside. Sophie claims that it is amazing. When I own a restaurant someday it will be known as The Sophia Pita.

Caleb's Preschool Graduation

Kool aid face!

Michael and Caleb - priceless.

Caleb and Xander.

Jaxton and Trey.

The Reed Family Kids clean up well!

Sophie Jump Rope Team

She did it! She did it!

After a couple of years of trying... Sophie finally conquered riding a two-wheeler! Now Daddy and Sophie can hit the bike trail together!

Waynesville 2007

I found some old footage of a Waynesville NC trip from last year that I finally got edited...

Tennis Season...

Here is an article about the tennis team:

http://miamivalleysports.com/?p=1085

We open the season Tuesday.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! We had an egg hunt, a fine lunch, and took the grandparents geocaching. The picture is of a spot we had gone before but couldn't find the cahce in the snow. This time, SUCCESS! It was a beautiful Easter spent hiking around Caesar's Creek and Collett Woods in Clinton County.

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geocaching

The Reed family has taken up Geocaching and we love it! We were thrilled to find out that we can use our Garmin c330 to get fairly close to the coordinates so that we didn't have to buy anything new.

Geocaching is basically a hobby where people hide a container somehwere and then you go find it using a gps. When you find the geocache you log your visit and then generally you leave and take a trinket. Some of the trinkets are trackable so you can go online and see where it has been. Some cahces are easy to find once you get to the general area and some are much harder.

The best part is how fun this has been for the kids. Caleb looks at every one as a treasure hunt and is so determined to find them.

It was actually a snow day when we decided to go out hunting for the first time. I loaded the locations on the gramin and we were off. Our first ever cache was at Engle Mill Bridge. We had trouble finding it until we realized that the container had fallen down to the river bank below. The bridge was beautiful and without geocaching I doubt we would ever have visited this site.

After this one we tried to find one at an old pioneer cemetary at Caesar's Creek. There is an old stone wall that encircles the cemetary and we searched and searched but could not find this one. We will go back and try again another day when there is not snow on the ground. We had a good time looking anyway - other than when I got peed on by Caleb.

These two pictures are from the last find of the day. Caleb and I went out on some land off Pyle Road that coincidentally is adjacent to a property that Papaw is interested in buying. It was a beautiful winter hike but we almost gave up when we saw the log bridge above. When we finally found the cache it was worth the trip. There was a trackable geo-bug in this one that had originated in California. So we took it and plan to take it to Maine this summer so it can make it coast-to-coast.



Grant snapped this photo of me when I took him on his first find. This one is in an odd place... just feet from St Rt 134 in a patch of woods between the National Weather Service and Southern State Community College.

Great Wolf Lodge

For our birthdays this year we went to the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio. Xander and Sabrina joined us and the family had a wonderful time! It was a great opportunity to use the underwater camera too!

Pictures from Brad

Super Bowl Commercials

So the kids were really excited about the Super Bowl this year. They made signs and decorated the basement. So to help keep them interested we have decided to rate the big commercials. We are each doing two thumbs up, down, or in the middle after each commercial. The commercials will get 0 points for a thumbs down, 1 point for in the middle, and 2 points for a thumbs up. Here are the results:


Bridgestone - Screaming Animals: 5.0 points

Under Armour - Shoes: 4.5 points

g2 gatorade: 4.5 points

fedex - carrier pigeons 4.5 points

tide stain - talking stain: 3 points

cars.com 2.5 points

(red): 1.5 points

Pepsi Max - What is Love: 0 points

godaddy - Danica Patrick: 0 points

Well we stopped there because the kids left me watching the game alone. :)

This weekend...

I really don't think any of these pictures need explaining. Except maybe the one where Grant is going through the contents of some stranger's purse...

random pictures from this week...

Karate with Caleb and Xander

Caleb, Xander, and Michael all started a karate class today at the YMCA and my shins will never be the same. They were bowing nonstop and chopping everything in the house.