I recently figured out a way to get access to an old facebook account that I thought was long gone. It was made using an email of a domain that I owned at the time, but then let expire. I ended up buying that domain again, then using iCloud to get the same email and doing a password reset on facebook. Once I got in, I was able to get to the photos that I shared back around 2010.

There were these ones from my 2008 deployment. My dad got to ride back on what they call a tiger cruise from Hawaii to Everett, Washington. I don’t remember too much about that time, because it was the end of a deployment and I was probably ready to be off the ship, but it would be great to go back to Hawaii with him sometime and NOT take a boat ride :)

Then in 2009, while he was visiting we went on a seaplane tour of the Seattle area.

Rachel and I went to Lexington, MI today to celebrate our five year anniversary a week early without the kids. We got lunch at the Cadillac Hotel, where the ambience was better than the food. The food wasn’t terrible, just not the best. Then walked by the river that divides Michigan and Canada and took the trail to the old coast guard ship they’ve made into a museum. In five years, we’ve gone from one kid to two, from a cat family to a cat a dog family, moved from 850 sqft house to 1650 sqft, and to keep with the doubling theme grown in our love

My Dad drove for a visit and brought along my nephews, Nolan and Dallas. They got in on Friday, at the perfect time since I just had taken the steaks off the grill and was starting to cut them up when they walked in. Levi was a little suspisious of everyone at first, but by the end of the night he was already trying to take snacks from my Dad on the couch and run with the other boys. While they were in town, there was a Halloween festival in my downtown that the boys got to dress up for. My dad and I took all the older boys to Lexington, Michigan while Rachel stayed with Levi so he could nap. The boys got to see Lake Huron, do their kites on the beach (apparently my dad just keeps kites in the back of his trunk… just in case) and then hit up the candy store. Sunday, we went to Activate which was a mix of games that light up on the floor or patterns you follow around and try to solve with others. That one actually looked like a lot of fun to do with just adults as well.

I recently figured out a way to get access to an old facebook account that I thought was long gone. It was made using an email of a domain that I owned at the time, but then let expire. I ended up buying that domain again, then using iCloud to get the same email and doing a password reset on facebook. Once I got in, I was able to get to the photos that I shared back around 2010.

There were these ones from my 2008 deployment. My dad got to ride back on what they call a tiger cruise from Hawaii to Everett, Washington. I don’t remember too much about that time, because it was the end of a deployment and I was probably ready to be off the ship, but it would be great to go back to Hawaii with him sometime and NOT take a boat ride :)

Then in 2009, while he was visiting we went on a seaplane tour of the Seattle area.

Rachel and I went to Lexington, MI today to celebrate our five year anniversary a week early without the kids. We got lunch at the Cadillac Hotel, where the ambience was better than the food. The food wasn’t terrible, just not the best. Then walked by the river that divides Michigan and Canada and took the trail to the old coast guard ship they’ve made into a museum. In five years, we’ve gone from one kid to two, from a cat family to a cat a dog family, moved from 850 sqft house to 1650 sqft, and to keep with the doubling theme grown in our love

My Dad drove for a visit and brought along my nephews, Nolan and Dallas. They got in on Friday, at the perfect time since I just had taken the steaks off the grill and was starting to cut them up when they walked in. Levi was a little suspisious of everyone at first, but by the end of the night he was already trying to take snacks from my Dad on the couch and run with the other boys. While they were in town, there was a Halloween festival in my downtown that the boys got to dress up for. My dad and I took all the older boys to Lexington, Michigan while Rachel stayed with Levi so he could nap. The boys got to see Lake Huron, do their kites on the beach (apparently my dad just keeps kites in the back of his trunk… just in case) and then hit up the candy store. Sunday, we went to Activate which was a mix of games that light up on the floor or patterns you follow around and try to solve with others. That one actually looked like a lot of fun to do with just adults as well.