From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Balloon Boy a Hoax

The infamous Balloon Boy balloon came down this past October 15th, and after a few more hours of rivoting suspense…”Where is he then?”, “Did he fall out?”, we discover he was safe and napping in a box in the attic. You can’t script TV like that! And you certainly couldn’t ask for greater media exposure…hmm. I’m sure we all thought at that moment, especially us parents, man what an ordeal for that poor family. If you are like me at all, you probably also wondered what kind of lame parents have carelessly left a way for a 6yr. old to get into the attic. But I digress…

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Planning a vacation to San Francisco

My wife and I will be celebrating our 2 year anniversary this November, and we want to do something special together. Not only because we didn’t officially have a honeymoon, but as soon as baby #4 comes in April, life as we know it will cease to exist, replaced by sleepless nights, dirty diapers, a terrible twos toddler, an increasingly moody preteen and a rambunctious 1st grader who gets 1 ½ hours of homework every night. Yep, it’s vacation time!

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Congrats new Dad! Welcome to the exciting, crazy, inspiring, frustrating and wonderful world of fatherhood! Thinking of all the great times ahead, all those proud, broad smiled Dad and child moments to come? Are you thinking perhaps of how you will give your child everything they ever wanted, or how you’ll be there for their every need? Yea, of course you are! I’ll bet you hadn’t put much thought into changing diapers though, did ya?

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Why I Love Audiobooks

October 12, 2009 Editorial

All my life I have always enjoyed reading books. I reminisce of afternoons as a kid sitting up in the crook of an old tree in our backyard, imagining that I was a dogsled musher while reading Jack London’s Call of the Wild. To being a geeky teenager spending his allowance on the first novels [...]

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10 Tips to Choosing a Baby Name

October 6, 2009 Helpful Information

It’s official! You are going to have a baby! Congratulations to you and yours! What a wonderful thing it is to be a parent, especially a new parent. There’s so much to do to prepare, so much to consider and decide. One of the most important decisions is what to name the baby when he or [...]

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The Best Place to Eat at Disneyland

October 4, 2009 Fun Stuff and How To's
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On a recent trip to Disneyland, my family and I discovered one of the best and less known dining choices in the park. The Big Thunder Ranch Barbecue features an all you can eat, family style barbecue meal for lunch or dinner that is absolutely delicious! For Disneyland, the price is reasonable considering the food [...]

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Star Wars: In Concert – A Fans Review

October 3, 2009 Editorial
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The greatest science fiction film saga of all time came alive as never before on Thursday night at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA. It was a great spectacle of sound, light, pyrotechnics, dramatics and blazing lightsabers. Star Wars: In Concert brought audiences, young and old, rookie and veteran, a multimedia concert experience that featured [...]

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