Zack on January 30th, 2010

Seven inches of snow this weekend has pretty much everybody’s plans canceled around here.
That means I found some time to use my computer for something besides work and I’m actually posting a couple of videos for the first time in months!
Enjoy:

Continue reading about Our Little Drummer Boy

Zack on January 30th, 2010

Josiah has been doing this for a little over a week.
He can only take about 5 steps before he gets scared and collapses, but it won’t be long now!

Continue reading about Baby Steps

Zack on November 5th, 2009

It is *really* hard to believe that a year go today we were at Rex hospital — completely exhausted and trying desperately not to break this little 7 pound, 10 ounce person God added to our family.
Now we have a 22-pound bundle of energy and effervescent joy that loves crawling, eating, and Elmo.
Happy birthday Josiah!
You [...]

Continue reading about Happy Birthday, Son!

Zack on October 14th, 2009

I found this laying around on my computer this morning.
It’s a few months old now, but I think it’s fun.

Continue reading about Found This Morning….

Zack on September 24th, 2009

Continue reading about Ever just have one of those days?

Zack on September 16th, 2009

Please don’t think we worship our son or anything!
We just really enjoy photography, and Josiah lets us take as many pictures of him as we want.
You can see the rest of ‘em here…

Continue reading about Some New(ish) Photos

Zack on August 28th, 2009

Continue reading about Just Because

Zack on August 19th, 2009

For several weeks now, Steph has been going to a Tuesday night Bible study. That recently ended, but it has now been replaced with another Tuesday night meeting, so somewhere along the way, Tuesday nights have officially become “Guy’s Time” at the Riesland house.
From the minute I walk through the door on Tuesday afternoon, my [...]

Continue reading about Tuesday Nights

Zack on July 28th, 2009

Our friends with children will understand our latest bump in the road as parents: baby food is expensive.
Right now, the cost to feed Josiah is around 50% of what it costs to feed Steph and I combined. Now, in fairness, the kid might have an over-eating disorder is an eating machine, but he doesn’t eat [...]

Continue reading about Home-Made Baby Food, Anyone?

Zack on July 13th, 2009

Well, even though it lasted almost 2 weeks, our vacation has come and gone, and as expected, it flew by!
You can rest assured than an over-abundance of pictures will be posted over the next couple of weeks, but for today, here are a few tidbits from the past week in no particular order…

Vacation with a [...]

Continue reading about Vacation Roundup

Zack on June 17th, 2009

Come on y’all.
Let’s have some fun…

Continue reading about Caption Please

Zack on June 10th, 2009

We first noticed him doing this the day before we took this video.
Now it’s a few days later and he still says ‘Ada da da’ whenever you ask him to say ‘momma’.
I should probably feel kind of bad, but, well, let’s be honest: my kid is freakin’ awesome!

Continue reading about It’s Official: My Son Is A Genius

Zack on April 14th, 2009

Josiah could have starred in this commercial:

Continue reading about Lessons learned from parenting… boys

Zack on March 27th, 2009

For all the dads: check out this short (5-minute) video that my friend Eric pointed me to.
I really believe that the most important problem in our country, and even in the Christian church, is men not behaving like real men. It seems like most men live with this misconception that their career, ‘ministry’, and bank [...]

Continue reading about “I’m watching you, dad”

Zack on March 19th, 2009

Last week, we had to take Josiah for his second round of vaccinations.
This is quite a joyless process.
Yes, in a big picture sense, vaccinations are a huge blessing, and we are grateful to live in a country where we can get our son the health care he needs
But the process is no fun…

Continue reading about Lessons learned… Pt. 4: Vaccinations