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With interest rates being so low, we refinanced again (we’ve only lived here 18 months). We used Ally Bank to refinance and was able to lock in an interest rate of 2.375% for a 15 year! The savings from the previous 15 year loan at 3.5% will be more than $35,000.

A few weeks ago, a friend used our car to drive the kids home and they suggested they wanted to watch a movie (which we never use, since ugh DVDs are awful). The disc was loaded incorrectly into the CD drive and it wasn’t in the tray right. It’s a six disc changer and if…

One of my good college friends flew down from the Indian Lake area (about 75 minutes away) to deliver a jacket he posted on Facebook. He’s a pilot for American Airlines and has been flying on the weekends to get more hours so he can move up to bigger planes (and higher salaries). The kids…

We spent 10 glorious days in Florida in January. I snuck some dumbbells in the back of the car and it was so nice to do some workouts outside, in perfect 70 degree weather.

How much longer will it run? 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix. We’ve had it for more than a decade and have put on nearly 200,000 miles. I’d like to get a pickup, since my commute is six miles taking kids to school. And I’m tired of taking the car seats out of the SUV all.the.time. Maybe…

We started the month off anticipating that we would be moved in by month’s end, but due to a few delays, everything wasn’t finished up. One of the big delays was about the driveway. The engineers had spec’d the driveway to be a width of ten feet wide, but the HOA covenants states that all…

You use a hammer when changing the oil, right?

When our car hits another milestone, I like to take a picture, so I can estimate approximately miles we drive.  Here’s the latest miles:

CrossFit Programing: Are We Doing Too Much?

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Er, Lake City Captains versus the Dayton Dragons.  Beautiful day for a baseball game, especially when the box seat tickets were free 🙂

Preview of our new born photoshoot today. 

Fun event that I participated in a few weeks ago in Detroit.

I like to keep my iPhone apps to a minimum so the apps that I use daily, get real estate on the home page.  Everything else is in a folder on the second page and if I need one of those apps, I pull down from the top and search.  Notice the phone app isn’t…

Not quite the right shape, but these gluten free pretzels were a nice after dinner snack. 

Because sometimes you have to pretend to go to the store, on the steps, with a giant monkey. 

Five kilometers. So many stories. via Community Recap: Automattic’s Worldwide WordPress 5K — WordPress.com News

On our flight to New Orleans, I got stuck in the last row in the window seat.    Also on this flight the PA system didn’t work and the flight attendants had to use a bull horn to communicate. First time for everything 🙂   

We have a pull behind carrier for my bike so we can go on a bike ride as a family. Last year, we could only go on short rides as Kenley wasn’t too big of a fan of staying strapped in. Now that she is bigger, she plays with toys while we rides and looks…

I’m a big fan of Apple gadgets, especially new iPhones. Last Friday, I got the new iPhone 6s 64GB in Silver. My last phone was the 5s and I see some major improvements with this new version. TouchID is fast. Like wicked fast. I cannot use my thumb to press the home button otherwise I…

We had a busy day today: riding bikes, picking apples (pictures to come tomorrow) and hanging out with friend from college. I’ve been trying really hard to ‘cut the cord’ and give up cable, but there’s two reasons I haven’t as of yet: DVR Sports Since we were busy today, I wasn’t home to watch…

Last week, I was at the Financial Blogger’s Conference. The event had a huge expo hall with lots of innovative banking/investing companies. One booth I stopped at was one for Simple Bank. They are doing some really cool things, including not allowing you to write a paper check from your account. They also featured an…

We had a blast last week in Florida. It was relaxing to hang out by the pool all week. Here are a few images to highlight the week.