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Welcome Home Troops

In October, the president said that troops in the Iraq war, nearly 40,000, would be coming home; and they’d be home for the holidays. Keeping right on his word, the troops are coming home. The greatest thing a family can hear from their soldier is “I’m coming home” and lots of families are getting that gift […]

Daycare: In-home, at home and now a center.

Lily started her new daycare today and she was very excited. It was a bit like sending your kids off to school as she had her little backpack, supplies and some new clothes. She was going someplace new with lots of other kids, toys and the unknown. Ok, so maybe it was more Mom and […]

Cupcakes, Cows, Presents & Water

Our little girl is now two years old! What better way to celebrate than with two parties and doing all the fun things she loves to do. It started out with Uncle Josh visiting on her birthday. That’s pretty special as he was in from California. Josh gave her some plastic food so she could […]

Lily has completed her first swim lessons.

Today was Lily’s last day of swim lessons. The 1 month program was just to get her comfortable with the water. She learned some things and got exposed to quite a bit. She even got dunked under the water a few times. One of these days she’ll learn to close her eyes and mouth first, but […]

TwisterMc – New for 2011

As I posted a few days ago, a lot has changed around here. Here’s a quick rundown. First off, the design. You’ve probably already noticed it. That is unless you only read this via an RSS reader. The new design is focused more on CSS and less on images. The images that I do have […]

Hello? Is this thing on?

If you can read this, then you’re now connected to the new TwisterMc.com. Lots of things have changed in the past week and I’m excited for them all. From here on in, it’s all about simplification. More details to follow, but feel free to take a look around and let me know what you think.

Cleaning up the database.

I never fully realized how bad WordPress’ database gets after a while. Plugins leave all sorts of junk behind and it’s just a huge mess. So I started deleting information. Hopefully I didn’t break anything. This all started because my site got suspended yesterday for using to many server resources. I thought that was odd […]

Don’t trust iPhoto with your Flickr photos.

I found out yesterday that iPhoto, when integrated with Flickr, alters your sets based on iPhotos limitations and doesn’t let the user know. I’ve been using Flickr for years and have been very happy with it. Once Lily was born the number of photos I uploaded increased dramatically. I’ve now got nearly 900 Lily photos, […]

Alligators, giraffes, food and a good vacation.

Our vacation to Bonita Springs, Florida was a lot of fun. We got to hold an alligator, ride on air boats through the Everglades, feed a giraffe and we had more than enough food and drinks. While there was a threat of snow in Minnesota, we were relaxing by the pool in the upper 80s. Instead of cereal for […]

Life on just the iPad doesn’t work for me.

Well I made it though a week without my iMac. How did I do? Well…. not so good. I was doing fine for a few days. Granted it helped that Lily was sick and I had to sleep with her a few nights and that took away from my computer time. However I found it […]