Feb 19 2021
Anyone ever hear from Chris Vaught or cbassjr?
That is the dude that got me into blogging…and then just vanished…
Feb 19 2021
That is the dude that got me into blogging…and then just vanished…
Oct 09 2024
The hosting provider is increasing pricing again because I am too lazy to upgrade some of the software that is used to run things like the Gallery. So I am going to make a backup of all the files, the database, and then probably shutter things.
All good things must come to an end.
Sep 10 2020
Decided last Saturday, to walk away from Facebook. Just tired of arguing with people post conspiracy theories and not fact checking stuff to make them feel better.
The internet is one of the worlds greatest inventions but if people can’t be responsible with it, it degrades it’s worth.
Sean started soccer a couple weeks ago but due to our family issues, we pulled him out. If numbers improve, we may stick him back in. He was amazingly supportive and understanding and he and I will keep his practices up together.
Karate for Sean has been a bit back tabled due to the virus because we can’t risk him or Emily working indoors and the weather has been hit o miss this summer for the brown belt and up classes. Emily is still working on her next black belt level and sean is studying for first degree black, currently brown.
Lily is doing well with her horseback riding and her coach is looking into trying to get her into a competition in october – not sure she is ready for that after so many months off this year. We’ll see!
As for me, I am working from home, with the kids here schooling from home. I am IT guy, lunch lady, substitute teacher, etc. It has been challenging but our kids are great and don’t put up too much of a fight. Emily works with them when she gets home from work to cover anything I missed. We make a good team.
2020 has been a pretty crummy year overall – lets all try to make 2021 better!
-pc
Jul 31 2018
This site is going offline. My hosting provider raised the monthly rate from $7.99 a month to $13.99 a month. I will consider bringing it back online and hosting it from home, but for now, PaulandEmily.com is going offline – that includes the Gallery pages as well. I have everything downloaded and backed up, but who knows when I will have time to restore it all to a new server. The gallery especially is really old software so getting it to run on a modern operating system may not be feasible or doable.
So probably sometime in august 2018, this site will “go dark”.
-pc
Sep 22 2014
I had a customized theme on the website previously, one that I made hand-edits on back in 2005 or 2006. Forgot about that, and went on updating the site’s themes and plugins. I broke something, so this theme may be temporary until I figure out what I did. Whoops.
–pc
Sep 21 2014
Well hello there, and welcome back.
So this weekend was busy and fun. Emily had a church event Friday night and I hung out at home with the kids. Saturday, I ran my 2nd 5k race, and almost took a minute off my time, running just over a 9 minute split for each leg. The race was mostly flat, so that may be why – but I am training for a thanksgiving day 10k race, so I will take what I can get :).
I am training with Tri-State Running on Tuesday and Saturday with some scheduled off-day training on my own. Not sure I am ready for a 10k, but I am going to try! Saturday night we took the kids to one of the local Catholic church festivals. It has some really great rides and they had a fun time.
Sunday was church and then I came home and cut the front yard and side yard, and had a neighbor stop by interested in the Jetta. Their son is getting his license and really wants a manual transmission car. Just shy of a year ago, I found a note on the Jetta from someone letting me know they really liked it and was curious if I was selling it. Then this past spring, this same teen stopped by after I got off work asking questions about it, so it has been on his mind for a while. I let his dad know what was wrong with it (ebrake cables, AC died in July, etc) and they are considering. I’ll miss it, Here is the blog post from when I bought it. It has been a very reliable car for me and I really enjoyed it. Can’t wait to pass it on.
We have quite a bit of exciting stuff coming up so I will make sure to post on that stuff.
update – Sorry about the closed comments. A WordPress update turned them off by default. Will try to fix that.
–PC
Nov 20 2013
Anyone check our site anymore? I’ve considered coming back to here from facebook. Just didn’t know if we had an audience anymore.
I’ve gotten closer to fixing the gallery so we can post to it again too.
-plc
Mar 03 2013
While we celebrated Sean’s 5th birthday in our house, we decided to make this his first birthday where he got to invite friends from school, the neighborhood, and church. We opted out of the home party and went to Jumpzone in Florence, KY. My mom came into town and really helped out. The kids spent the night at my mother-in-laws house friday night and we got to try out a Cinci landmark, Terry’s Turf House. Amazing burgers, but a tad loud inside due to the lack of space. Its one of those joints where we sat at a six top table and there were only three in our party. Part way through our meal and had another couple sit with us. Kind of awkward but we actually ended talking with them and exchanging great local restaurant info.
Back to Sean’s bday- he had a mixed bunch of kids from his life and it was a ton of fun. VERY hectic. Jumpzone is basically a nice-ified warehouse that has those huge air-filled slide/jump things. Our kids have been there a handful of times and just run themselves ragged. As did his friends on Saturday! It was a really a great time for the kids. Parents are usually pretty bored there and they REALLY rush you after your party is over because the next party is booked five minute after yours.
After all the hubbub was done, we decided to have the local family over for dinner since my mom was in town. My mom hasn’t had one of my “steak dinners”, so I decided to go all out and we had bacon wrapped fillets, asparagus, bearnaise sauce, mixed vegetables, sweet baby peas, and parmesan rissoto. We had appetizers too 🙂 shrimp and a couple of cheese and cracker plates.
Saturday morning, Emily did want to run a 5K run in cincy with some our our church friends but we missed the registration so we went to a local church and my mom, emily and I ran a 5k (actually 3.25-3.5 mi) to make up for it! I hope to make it a normal Saturday think – at least until the weather is nicer and I can get back to the track.
Mom had to leave early because the weather got weird today. We weren’t sure if a snow storm was coming or not and I think Lillian may have another ear infection – hope it isn’t time to get more tubes! Will be going to the doctor tomorrow I think.
Hope all is well with your family!
Paul
Feb 05 2013
We had some snow this weekend and the kids got to go sledding. Lillian LOVES to throw “snowballs” at anyone around her – so watching! She won’t sneak up on you though, because she loves to yell “IIIIII got you!” before she attacks.
We went sledding in the front yard too!
And made snow angels!
(Sean made one too, but wouldn’t stand for a photo)
Smallish gallery by clicking here.
Also, Sean has shown interest in cameras lately so I’ve decided to keep a gallery of photos he is taking. Click the image below to go to the gallery.
-pc
Jan 21 2013
I had planned on writing a long blog post about Christmas and all the other fun things that went on in December, but I lost my mojo on it. It was a special Christmas – Sean came down form St. Paul and my mom and sister were able to come in from St. Louis. This was the first time I’ve seen Megan since last Christmas! I can’t tell you when the last time that happened! Unfortunately, the weather was predicted to get bad so they were not able to stay as long as they hoped.
Oh, we also had an extra house guest this time – and I don’t think Uncle Sean will be able to visit without her, or face the wrath of my kids – he brought his cat, Pinky:
Megan go to spend time with her first neice, megabyte:
And her Niece 2.0:
Uncle Sean got plenty of time with the kids (to the point where I think he was just about ready to go back to St. Louis and St. Paul maybe even a little early – potty training time with Lillian can over power the weak!):
Lillian even shared her new princess hat with me:
But probably only because she got this really cool winter hat that she loves to wear:
There are more photos in the gallery. Click Here!
Will try to get more updates on here. I’m trying to use Facebook less and get more over here.