It takes a pretty special woman to keep me organized and out of trouble, I’ll admit that I’m pretty high maintenance at times. We are fortunate in the fact that she doesn’t work a 9-5 job, but when you factor in all that goes into keeping this house in order, and add in a dog […]
Diabetes Update: Crazy Vision + Foot Pain / Sores
I’ve had a couple of people ask me to post an update as to how things are going w/ the whole Diabetes thing so here goes. Before I go any further though, I’m going to go ahead and give you a heads up disclaimer, I’m going to be talking about feet. I know some of […]
Turning 40 & The End of the World
Okay, so I have set this blog post to publish at one minute after midnight on December 21st, which according to the Mayan calendar is supposedly when the world will end. Ironically, they picked my 40th birthday to be the end of the world, go figure. I guess if you are reading this, then… well, […]
Update: Diabetes Picked the Wrong Guy!
I’ve had some people ask so I figured I would post an update as to how things are going two weeks after being released from an unexpected week-long stay at the hospital where I learned that I have type 2 Diabetes. I’m happy to report that my blood sugar levels have stabilized at our target […]
Operation: Ortner Adoption!
Update: 11/13/12 – I’ve had a lot of people ask how we did w/ this event and what the final number was. I’m happy to report that according to our estimates we are somewhere in the neighborhood of $21,000.00. God Bless Everyone that Took Part!!! A while back Donna and I asked Mike & Melisa […]
Spencer’s New Truck…
Most of you that know me are already aware that I’ve been an Audi fan for several years now, it’s not because my family is from Germany or anything like that, I’ve just been a huge fan from the moment I sat down in my Audi TT Roadster for the first time over 10 years […]
My First Father’s Day…
One of the first things I realized after we found out that we were going to be able to adopt Spencer so fast was that I would be able to stand up on Father’s Day in Church when they ask all of the dads to stand up. I know this sounds like something trivial to […]
Spencer’s First Visit to the Farm…
This past weekend we carried Spencer to the farm for the first time so he could meet his family. We basically had a cookout that lasted all day on Saturday and people just dropped in at various times during the day. Needless to say everyone fell in love w/ him and he put on a […]
My Wacky Pie Dream…
Okay, so this past weekend I had the opportunity to do something I have been wanting to do for a long time. I took my baby boy to the farm to meet his family for the first time. I will blog about this a little later, because trust me it was awesome, but something happened […]
Updated: Spencer’s Baby Registries…
Okay, so here’s a list of Spencer’s updated Baby Registries, I think I had some bad links when I posted the other day so here’s the correct links / locations online. Please note that some of the places we have registered are local and do not have online baby registries yet, so we’ve also registered […]
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