Author: Shay

  • Awesome to Awful: Our First European Vacation (Part 3)

    Editor’s note: This post is the third installment of a three part series. If you haven’t read the first two, please click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. Must…Get…Up With us being so sick, our appetites were gone but the kids were hungry. Somehow I needed to get out of bed, go…

  • Awesome to Awful: Our First European Vacation (Part 2)

    Editor’s note: This post is the second installment of a three part series. If you haven’t read Part 1, please click here. After all the fun we had at Lake Bled and the wedding at the castle, we were just as excited to head a little more south towards the coast of Slovenia which is…

  • Awesome to Awful: Our First European Vacation (Part 1)

    We’re back! Not just from our month long hiatus from the blog, but from our very first European vacation. Quite honestly, I sighed a sigh of relief as we returned home last night and finally turned the car ignition off after a thirteen hour road trip home. And now we’re one of those families–you know, a…

  • That Was The First

    One year ago today, on a rainy night in Prague, our plane touched down in what would be our initial move to the Czech Republic. It was from our hotel room just across the street from the airport that I wrote these words and posted them to this blog. This is the first. This is…

  • Rainbowed

    I’ve been a little emotional today. As a guy, you rarely say things like that, but I think I have a pretty good reason. Mainly, I’ve been thinking a lot about the past year here. I even started working on tomorrow’s one year anniversary post just because I had some things on my mind. I…