Category: Family

Danelle is quite proud of her harvest from her garden. It may not look like much, but it is a small garden.   While it doesn’t look like much, with some creativity, it can be turned into cole slaw.   Album Hogan Haake

For Danelle’s birthday this year, I got her tickets to the Cardinals game. She has never sat right up front before, so I purchased up close seats. We were in the second row only because I couldn’t find any front row seats for the games we were able to go to. Before the game, we … Continue reading “Cardinals Game – 7/9/2013”

My brother Henry is into golfing. He wanted to go to the driving range. So 4 out of 5 brothers were in town and went together to make fools of ourselves together. We aren’t good golfers and have terrible form!   In order to be better at golf, we all decide to study the form … Continue reading “Driving Range – 7/7/2013”

The first full month of summer has past. Corvin has managed to break his glasses and fix them in one shot. Not sure that they are up to quality standards…   The kids danced on the tables at camp   I rode my street bike through the mud nearly falling several times.   And both … Continue reading “June – 2013”

We took a leisurely swim in our hotel pool in the morning of our last day of vacation. After checking out of the hotel, we started driving home to St. Louis. During the drive our van occasionally started making a loud noise as we speed up. I had a pretty good idea what the noise … Continue reading “Surprise Pizza Party – 6/29/2013”

The day that our family vacation started was the end of a nearly 24 hour paddling session. I slept for about 5 hours and proceeded to give tours of the outside of our house, mostly discussing the solar panels in the Sustainable Backyard Tour. I had to stop my tours early to take Corvin to … Continue reading “Chicago Family Vacation – 6/24/2013”

Sorora started taking ballet. Every little girl should learn how to dance 🙂 Album Hogan Haake

I’m a huge strawberry jelly/jam fan. The rest of the family likes it as well. So we went to the strawberry patch in town and picked a huge amount of strawberries for making jam. As always, the kids start out on a tear and get tired quickly! Of course, they can re-energize when they see … Continue reading “Strawberry Jam – 5/27/2013”

My next door neighbor cut down a tree in his yard. The way the tree fell, the trunk was against the ground and he didn’t want to mess up his chain saw cutting into the ground. I decided to help out. I went over with my 2 ton floor jack [for the car], a large … Continue reading “The Axe – 5/26/2013”

Sonora has been wanting a birthday party for a while now and we just never got around to it. So its mother’s day and the kids and I decided to take Danelle out for mother’s day to Incredible Pizza Company. This would also double as a birthday party for Sonora. Fortunate for us, it was … Continue reading “Sonora’s Birthday and Mother’s Day – 5/12/2013”