To My Averi

When I first started this blog my goal was to tell you more about our life, my life and the ones you love. It is amazing to me how time fly's. You are almost four now. There is not a day that goes by that I don't look at you and say wow, what an amazing person. You grow and mature so fast it baffles me. I love when you sit and talk to me. One of my favorite things in the world is when you tell me about your day and the things you made at Ms. Stephanie's. The passion and excitement in your voice makes me gleam with love. I love you kid. A little about me on this day. You will soon find out, I believe in one thing, the present. I refer to myself as a Buddhist primarily because that is what people know. I am a believer in being a good human being, I am a believer in when I die, I will still have some sort of presence later, I am a believer that there is inherent good in everyone. Lastly, I am a believer that the mind we have is more powerful than anything in the world. ...

I recently read a blog about "50 Things I Learned in 50 Years" and needless to say it got me thinking. This awesome place has so much to offer and often times we take it for granted. In my 28 years here there have been so many things I have learned and so I put them in a list in now particular order, for you to ponder. Embrace your feelings, anger, happiness, sad, whatever you feel at the time, embrace. We focus so much on trying to be happy, understand the other feeling and often times we end up happier. Take a cold shower, for that time you sit under the cold shower be thankful. Drink a great cup of coffee, coffee is so good, so sit drink and be you. Eat something you not suppose to, like a doughnut or those little heart attack pies they sell in the grocery store. Every now and again partake. Take pictures, you never know what you will capture. Adopt the pick up rule, don't wait until the whole house, car, desk is a complete wreck. Make your bed everyday, t...

When your down in the dumps and feel like the whole world is collapsing, smile. Take a walk and say hi, compliment someone or my favorite find a picture that always brings back a good memory. The bad feeling you are feeling will pass soon just go with it. Don't be afraid to embrace the feeling and move on, even if you do not want to.

A friend of mine is a really judgmental person, particularly to the homosexuals of the world. That said I am sure it does not stop there. I used to see eye to eye with him and would over play my "homophobia" (which I never had). As I grew up and I made friends with anyone that was just a good person. My standards of a good person are vague and what I really mean is just a good person to hang out with. Your Uncle Dave has a lot to do with this mentality. I used to have to be the guy to break the silence when my friends were around. I used to be the guy that was irritated by inactivity and usually I would break that quickly. Sitting in just silence with someone is a way to learn about them very quickly. My insecurity would break the silence every time when I was with my friends. Your Uncle Dave always carried a certain swagger and confidence with him. He could care less who would come to hang out, as long as they were able to just chill and "be cool." Your Uncle...

From this day you we born just about 8 weeks ago. This blog will be for you and when you get old enough I hope you appreciate the words. As I sit and begin to write I am watching you in your white swing. We refer to the mobile with the lambs that spin as your friends. You like your swing very much but right now you are quite fussy and I have gotten up several times to replace the "bink" in your mouth. I am watching a movie called The Rocker right now, using a Dell, having a MGD all in our apartment in Ft. Collins. You just got back from your Gram's where your mom went to help clean her house for Thanksgiving dinner. My browser is open to Blogger, Facebook and GoDuke.com to check the Duke game. You are not aware of yet but your are a die hard Duke fan. Your Great Granddad graduated from Duke and from the time I can remember your Granddaddy has always made sure we were loyal fans. Your Granddad had a knack for keeping us kids loyal and keeping us away from the bandw...