Mike on July 29th, 2005

In a few years…she’ll be sitting in the drivers seat
Well, we’re back from our annual trek to Port Aransas. In case you’re new, Kayla and I make it a point to visit this little city on the Texas coast at least once a year. It started 4 years ago as a whim [...]

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Mike on July 23rd, 2005

All this for $8.66
I’ll abbreviate that to “BOC” from now on…this is a family website.
One of my favorite things on the web is Woot. Woot is a website where you have the opportunity to purchase one item per day (at a pretty good price). They often sell cordless phones, computer parts, mp3 [...]

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Mike on July 21st, 2005

Latest picture of me in my office – I tried to crop the photo to hide the clutter
Many of you are visiting here for the first time because of a recent series of Evite invitations I sent out. I’m sure you were thinking “Surely, there can’t be that many “Guentzels” out [...]

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Mike on July 17th, 2005

The Object of Desire
One of my favorite lines from a movie is in “Ghostbusters” starring Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd (among others).
At one point in the movie, a secretary (played by Annie Potts) is trying to impress one of the Ghostbusters named Egon (played by Harold Ramis). She goes on about [...]

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Mike on July 12th, 2005

I’m a big baseball fan. I like to draw silly little analogies between life and baseball and I think there’s a lot of wisdom in some of the quotes you read surrounding baseball (Yogi Berra nonwithstanding).
Life threw me a curve ball last night.
My 20 year high school reunion is coming up [...]

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Mike on July 11th, 2005

Erik figured out how to use this downed stroller as a ladder to the chair — we are so proud
Erik has been growing up at an amazing pace. It seems like only yesterday he was doing the “commando crawl” and barely getting around. He’s a world class crawler now. Not only that, [...]

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Mike on July 6th, 2005

Here’s something you don’t want to see behind your house!
Technically speaking, the fire was behind our house in the brush.
Imagine getting in your car and getting a call from a loved one saying “Uh…there’s a fire at our house. I’m dropping the kids off at your mother’s house and then I’m coming [...]

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