October 4, 2015

The Next Chapter in my life

This past May was my 15th wedding anniversary. It wan’t a good one, my and I were living apart. I still had Love in my heart for her, but I quickly found out that she had none in her for me. I sent a small gift saying I will willing to give our marriage a chance. I got a text back saying that she knew […]

June 5, 2014

Love Hurts

It has been almost 4 months since my wife moved out for a 2nd time in the past 4 years, we just celebrated our 14th anniversary. Her telling me she was moving out, came after I thought it was odd that she moved $800+ from our saving account. I had told her a few months before to take money out to help pay for new […]

July 9, 2013

Passing of my mother

Vonnie Toop, 68, of Eau Claire, died on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at Dove Healthcare West in Eau Claire, under the care of Mayo Clinic Home Health and Hospice. She was born in Eau Claire on February 10, 1945, to Frank and Charlotte (McMahan) Winter. Vonnie graduated from Eau Claire Memorial High School in 1963. She lived most of her adult life in Willmar, MN, […]

February 23, 2008

Hayden Turns 5

Wow, I can’t believe how time has flown by.  Soon it will be Hayden’s 5th Birthday.  It is amazing how fast he is growing up.  I’m lossing my little buddy in a sense. 

February 2, 2007

A New Year……. A New Beginning

A New Year……. A New Beginning – On January 26th we said goodbye to our house in Ramsey for the last time. Earlier in the week we went to the house and let the kids roller blade and swing in the basement one last time. Sheryl picked up some supplies and we had a good fire in the backyard firepit and cooked brats and later […]

December 24, 2006

Prasky and Team!!!

Two weeks ago we received an offer on our house. The closing is scheduled for January 26th. So we have been busy finding a place to rent, while our townhouse is being built. So this Holiday vacation we are busy packing and plan on moving as must as possible to the rental townhouse. A big thanks goes out to Andy Prasky for being patient, understanding, […]

October 9, 2006

Life continues

Many things have happened recently. We hooked back up with our old, great realtor Andy Prasky, and have been pleased with him now as in the past. We feel we are in good hands. The housing market has slowed, we knew it was going to happen, but we still have faith. My mother found out last week that she will need to under go a Carotid […]

June 27, 2006

Stay away from Rod Schimmel!

Last night we made the decision to hold off on the whole house/townhouse process. We are going to wait until we get back from our Vacation in July before we make our next move. We were disappointed with our last realtor. He kept making promises about communicating with us, but never followed through. There were several times where weeks went by without a phone call […]

June 5, 2006

Hold on

Well we have made a couple of changes. This weekend we decided that we are not going to sell out house. At least not for the summer. We want to be able to enjoy the summer more with the kids. So today I’m going to be calling the Realtor and tell him that we are canceling the contract. We might look at putting it back […]

April 1, 2006

Stepback

No April Fool’s here. Late this February Sheryl and I decided we wanted to take a step back in life. We built the home that we had loved and wanted. But have found that it isn’t exactly what we wanted it to be. We can afford it. But feel that we are not spending some quality time with our children. Last summer we worked hard […]