In August of 2013, I started my journey in Hapkido. While, my journey continues, I have accomplished one of my many goals in this sport/art. I have achieved my first degree black belt. With as much as I have trained I am happy for this part of it to be over. It...
2008 was a great year for me. In 2008 I came home from Iraq: Alive. That was a good event. Coming home alive. In 2008, I also met the most significant person in my life to date. The most important person that would change the way I lived, the way I thought, and...
2014 was a very rough year for many people especially in my family. My Uncle Rick (paternal side) had died, and I had two friends die. The year before, my Grandfather (on my maternal side) had died. My wife and I were going through some financial hardships at the...
Sometimes it is hard working from home, but then I get to look around me and see all the things that God has given me: a house, an "office" of sorts, a dog, a cat, friends, and of course my family! My three wonderful children: Kenneth William Lee, Bradley Roland,...
Today is a great day! The Cubbies are winning 13-2 thus far in the bottom of the 8th. My children are on fire to play in the pool outside... Not literally, but definitely you would think it. My daughter is now 14 weeks old, my sons are starting VBS this week, and I...
On March 4, 2016 we welcomed our newest member to our family! We welcomed a little baby girl! Addison Marie Holmes! She was born at 3:29 am, was 11 lbs 4 oz.
Yesterday was my 34th birthday and it dawned on me, that I am getting old, but still love doing the things that young people like! I still love video games (no good at them), music, playing the drums, hanging with my kids, and riding my bike. Yep! I am just a big...
So it has been a long time since I have updated this blog, so I figured I would add a few pictures from my last Hapkido test, my blue black stripe belt. I have been working out very hard to make myself feel better about myself. Something...
So I took this trip with my little boys up to River Falls, Wisconsin. It is about an eight hour drive from my home here in Elkhart, Indiana. We only made one stop on the way up there! My boys were amazing! We made one stop, and ate...
Fathers all over the nation: REJOICE!! It is our day! Well kind of. It's our Fathers Day, right? Right! I mean we can't really celebrate it for ourselves, can we? Or can we? "On July 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of...