Recap on Life Since Last Year's Post

There was a greater sense of urgency to blog at the beginning as there were so many people curious about the progress our twin girls were making and on Lauren's heart surgeries. It was good for Michelle and I to chronicle our experience so that we may be able to revisit this time and to show Lauren what a miracle she really is. Of course, getting back to the normal routine of life with our 4 young children, who really has time to blog? Even if we did have time, the real question is, what do we blog about if not heart surgeries and the routine we've come to know as life? For now, here's a brief recap on life since 2006. After this, we’ll see how it goes with blogging.

Update on Kirsten and Ethan:
Kirsten is now 6 and Ethan will be 5 in December. These two are now attending GACS, a private school in Atlanta, GA. There is so much to say about these two, I'll revisit in later posts.

Update on the Twins:
The twins are now 2 and half and are doing so well. They started a 2 year old class twice a week for 3 hours a day. (Yea for Michelle!!!) Again, there is so much to say just about the twins, more about them later.

Update on Michelle:
This woman is amazing in so many ways as a mother, wife, friend, daughter, and person. She's doing very well and staying as busy as always. When life could have slowed down with the twins going to school, she takes on more projects to stay busy.

We Moved to a New Home:
Last year (October 2006), we moved from a house that made sense to newlyweds with no children to a home more accommodating for a family with 4 children. The neighborhood is active with very social people and there are so many kids here. The tough thing about this move was it took 6 months of double mortgages before we sold our first house.

New Company:
February 2007, I took the plunge, secured some investment capital and left consulting to launch an internet based tech company. We've been keeping our product under wraps and everyone is anxiously waiting our beta release. Needless to say, this project is the biggest reason why so many haven't heard from me this year. We hope to change this by early next year as the product will be released this year. More to come on this later.

Hopefully this recap is enough to sort of pick up without boring you to death.

Something Nostalgic about Fall...

As the weather has been changing, high school football in full swing (go St.X ranked #1 in KY and #5 in the country), people in the past calling me out of the blue, I can't help but to reconnect with those really great memories of being in high school. Trying not to get lost in the spider web of websites and searching for the many people I knew from so many schools in Louisville, I started some random searches on myspace, facebook, friendster, reunion, and 30 minutes later realized I could do this all night. It was disappointing to see how many names I could locate, but no information about people. What are people doing these days, are they married, have any kids, where are they working, where do they live, and most fun of all, what do they look like now? All I could find is how old a lot of people are (calculated from birth dates) and new married names.

Anyway, it got me motivated to take a short break from my endless hours of working on my tech startup company and upload some new photos and catch up with the world. For those who find this web site, by all means, drop me a line. You can email me at blog_david@carrolljournal.com.

Oh yeah, thanks to my good friend Chris Ames, I am now using Picasa Web to host my photo albums. Check out all the new photos online and stay tuned as I try to start blogging more and updating our site.