We didn’t sleep well last night. We’re in the intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital. Yesterday, after attending church with Jude while Jessica stayed home with Levi, she took the boys outside to play in the melting snow. Following an hour of hard play and snowball fights, Jessica decided it was time to come in. …
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A Day at the Orchard
A few weeks ago, a former co-worker joined us on a trip to the orchard. He is starting a new photography business, and asked if I would take my family someplace fun and let him tag along so that he could put together an album to go into his portfolio. He did an amazing job. …
European Culture
As we prepare to return home after 3½ weeks in Europe, I wanted to reflect on the differences in cultures that we experienced. Most of our trip was in Germany, which is very similar culturally to America in so many ways, probably more-so than the rest of Europe. Closed on Sundays – This used to …
Levi Alexander
It was a very late night for us. Last night, as we were getting ready go to bed, Jessica decided to use the bathroom one last time before heading to bed, when she heard a pop, felt a kick, and started having a lot of fluid come out. She wasn’t sure at first if she …
Baby’s First Photos
As some of you may know, Jessica is pregnant once again. As of today, she is 10 weeks. Because of the previous miscarriage, the doctors are watching her closely, and so she’s getting more ultrasounds than would normally be available. So far two, with another next Friday, and a forth at 20 weeks, when we …
July Podcast
I posted the newest episode of my podcast “Echo Zoe Radio”. I interviewed a friend and ministry partner that I work with at Signet Ring Ministries, Nick Coldagelli. We talked about the duty of Christians to submit to governmental authorities. You can download or listen right on the site, available here.
Greatest Waffle Recipe Ever
I found this via Lifehacker. They, and several other sites that have this recipe have dubbed it the greatest ever. I thought it was really good, posting it here to preserve it as much as to share it. Ingredients 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 egg yolks 1 …
Echo Zoe Radio
For the past 14 months, I have been doing a monthly “radio” show (a.k.a. podcast) on my website, EchoZoe.com The show is theological in nature, and in each episode I interview a difference guest on a topic that I find both interesting and important within Christianity. Many of the episodes I have done have been …
Uneventful Mother’s Day
Yesterday was Mother’s Day. We were a bit busy to celebrate. Jessica’s sister Katie and her husband Phil had their second child late Friday night. Jonah Nicolas came about 11:40pm. Jessica and I went up there to see the baby and help out as we could. Sunday was spent visiting in the morning and driving …
“Chef Andy” Pizza (revised and updated)
For several weeks, I’ve been experimenting with a couple recipes to make the best pizza I can from scratch at home. I’ve gotten it pretty good after a lot of trial and error. This is what I’ve come up with. For the crust, I use the following recipe for a deep-dish dough, which is no …