Our daughter’s last birthday alone On May 5th we celebrated our daughter’s last birthday without a family. She turned 14 and we prayed with all of our hearts that someone celebrated her.  If you haven’t guessed yet we are adopting! After many prayers and a visit to Colombia this past October, we were guided to... Read More The post We are adopting from Colombia! appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more

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Note: Be sure to keep checking back to this blog post to see photo and video updates for the entire month of December! On the weekend before Thanksgiving, my family and I were pulling up into our driveway when we noticed some suspicious activity going on in our house. As we approached the front door... Read More The post Real Life Elf On the Shelf is Back appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more

Nikki turned 40 this month and when I asked what she wanted for her birthday, she didn’t hesitate to tell me that she wanted to go back to Kauai, Hawaii. Our first big vacation together was in the Hawaiian Islands, so we were both excited to reminisce about some our more youthful memories from that... Read More The post Our Favorite Tips When Visiting Kauai appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more

This post is sponsored by Amazon, however, all thoughts and opinions are my own. It’s hard to believe that Gracie, our first child, was born 18 years ago! We were fortunate to adopt Gracie after a long five year battle with PCOS. It took only four months after being approved by our adoption agency before we were... Read More The post Baby registry tips and the benefits of using Amazon Baby Registry appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more

 This post is sponsored by Amazon, however, all thoughts and opinions are my own.  If you’ve been following our family since 2015, you know that two of our favorite charity organizations are Reece’s Rainbow and Ruby’s Rainbow. Through everyone’s generous donations to our, Wil Can Fly calendars, we were able to raise thousands of dollars... Read More The post Delivering Smiles With Amazon This Holiday Season appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more

This post is sponsored by Amazon Prime We were sad to learn in early April that Ali’s girl’s camp was going to be canceled due to the current pandemic. Her camp was going to be in late July and she was so excited to attend her first official girls camp. As Nikki and I started... Read More The post An Amazon Prime Alternative For Ali’s First Summer Camp appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more

We’ve partnered with the Homedepot for this post to share how they helped us solve our sticky floor problem while harvesting our garden and orchard.  If you’ve been following our IG stories, you already know that we had a record harvest of 21 bottles of apple sauce, ten bottles of beets, eleven bottles of plum... Read More The post Cleaning tips during harvest season – Our review of the Floormate Jet appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more

We decided to take a quick family trip up to Yellowstone over the weekend. It was our third family trip to Yellowstone but our first time visiting the park in the Fall. Before this trip our favorite season to visit the park was Spring but now the Fall season is our new favorite. With the... Read More The post Our Family Travel suggestions in Yellowstone National Park appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more

It’s hard for me to believe that this June marks the 16th anniversary of our first trip to the Oregon Coast. Gracie was only one year old at the time, and the thought of her going off to college seemed forever away. Now, 16 years later, I’m walking those same beaches with Gracie as we... Read More The post The Oregon Coast Will Always Be Our Favorite Vacation Destination appeared first on That Dad Blog ..read more