Share your gifts

Today I am pleased to kick off a special project for 2016. I am calling it “Share Your Gift”. The notion came from a sermon I heard sometime last year and I wrote it down in my notes. The sermon was about finding happiness and had 3 simple steps, one of those being live for […]

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. We didn’t send out a holiday card this year so I guess this post will have to do. We had an incredible year here at the Gnat house. We carried out the work hard play hard motto. Mostly we followed followed these two kids around to all their activities. We […]

People of 2015

One of the things that I have personally been inspired by is people. Some of you that know me know that I have said out loud that I want to learn to take portraits. Some of you that know me, also know that when I say stuff out loud and set my mind to it, […]

THE MN STATE FAIR – THE GREAT GET TOGETHER

I fear that I might lose my Minnesota citizen’s card by what I am about to say, but I feel I must confess. I have not been to Minnesota’s State Fair in over 20 years. There, I said it! This past week though I redeemed myself. I took a day off after working 13 days […]

Our trip to the Pacific Northwest

Last week my wife and I celebrated our 16th year of marriage by traveling to Seattle and the area north of Seattle. It was our first trip in many many years without our children. Our plan was a couple days in the city and a couple days out of the city. We found out […]

FIFA Women’s World Cup Fever

Last week my kids finished up school and to celebrate, we headed to Winnepig, Canada to see a couple matches of the FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer tournament. It isn’t often that you get to see one of the best teams in the world play. We got to watch Australia vs Nigeria and the USA […]

What the heck?

Looks like in a two month span, I will go from my peak traffic ever with my Trans Iowa V11 coverage to my slowest month in years. Heck, I have only 1 post this month. Yikes. What the heck have I been up too? Well…..Living life, that is for sure. I’ve been mostly hanging out […]

Dirt + Burgers

It’s a boy weekend here at the Gnat household and we took advantage of it. Early coffee, Xbox, riding mountain bikes followed by burgers. Topping off the evening with pizza, popcorn and a movie. It doesn’t get any better than that. Hope you all are having a great weekend too. What will our tomorrow bring?

Trans Iowa V11 Starting Line Portraits

I posted on Saturday evening a quick series of portraits. These were quick edits and I noted in the post that I may take them down after I edit the images and see them on my larger monitor. Well….I deleted that post from a few days ago and am reposting today my Starting Line Portraits. […]

Life is Now

I wrote a couple of days ago that I took a vacation with my family and have been out of town. We took spring break near Tulum, Mexico. This post is really directed towards friends and family as it is mostly family pics, but I wanted to take a moment to talk about the title […]

Not dead yet

I meant to have a post with lots of pictures today but our internet is down and it’s just not going to happen. Bummer because I have some great pics to share. But as the title says I am not dead yet! Just been busy and traveling. Spent the week in Mexico with my family. […]

Minnesota’s North Shore

It’s Friday and I am stoked it is here. It’s hard to believe how fast these past two weeks have been. Two weeks ago I headed up to MN’s North Shore for a family get away before my work binge called Frostbike. It was a great time in possibly my favorite part of the country. […]

Recovery And a Dog

A week has gone by here with no blog posts. Lots going on. I am mostly catching up at work and at home after being gone too long. I have honestly also been a little bit un inspired as I came home from an incredible trip to winter and I have been secretly protesting by […]

Desert Ramble – The People!

After a week of exploring the desert southwest with 9 others and after 17 hours of driving, I am back in MN. I left the desert tired & inspired and returned to snow. Crazy. Yet, even with snow I can’t curb my enthusiasm for this past trip. While it didn’t go as planned, it took […]

Blessed NOT Busy

Every once in a while I read something, hear something or see something that really hits home. Sometimes it seems like the preacher, the writer or the speaker are speaking directly to me. This happened recently at church. I was sitting in a large congregation listening to our pastor and it felt like I had […]