My Brother, The Thief

Something we've always liked doing is day trips. In Ohio, we tried to find all the historical sites near enough to drive to, especially ...

Five Andrew celebrated his fifth birthday this past week, and it got me to thinking about birthdays. I don't remember most of my bir...

Vacation Vacation: use it or lose it. When life is as busy as ours is, it can be hard to schedule vacation time. My vacation year goes fro...

The Fun of Being a Preacher There are times when preaching is hard. Sermon preparation isn't always easy; sometimes a message just fal...

Reflecting Back on 2010 I honestly haven't talked to anyone who told me that they would miss 2010.  Many of my friends really struggled...

The Waiting Game Anyone who has had a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) knows the waiting game.  The first question is always...

Could This Be the One? Or... Wait and See Even before we were married, Tara and I talked about adoption.  Our eventual wish was to adopt c...

Christmas Parade Millersport puts on a nice Christmas parade, but wow, Gatlinburg's Christmas parade was something else.  We headed do...

Just What the Doctor Ordered After a long several months with four kids and quite a bit of personal stress, our family got to take a vacati...

Latest Adventure I didn't post much about our most recent adventure in foster parenting because I didn't think it would be prudent;...

Better Than Winning My Age Group I think I've won my age group twice. I really only remember once. It was in a winter 5K cross country ...

Running With the Boy Ever since I can remember, I wanted to run.  My family would drive past the local middle school and would dream about...

Spring Break Part 3: Ft. DeSoto County Park While we were in central Florida with our friend, we visited Ft. DeSoto Park , located on Mulle...

Happy Birthday, Jonathan! Our little boy is now 6 years old! He had a fantastic birthday - the grandparents came up from Kentucky to celebr...

Spring Break, Part 2: Sanibel Island When I think of a vacation to Florida, my first thought is... the beach. The one pictured to the left...

What I did on my Spring Vacation Before this April, I had never taken a vacation longer than 10 days.  We had not yet taken the boys on a c...

Proud Moment This evening Jonathan was playing with his castle and was bantering about enemies and friends, and his knights were fighting o...

Christmas Morning in the Vinson House If a picture is worth a thousand words, you've just been given a six thousand word essay.

Christmas Eve Services This was the scene at our Christmas Eve services last night.  Our kids were the "acolytes" who lit the ca...

Jonathan Lost a Tooth!