back after way too long

So, I have been telling myself to update the blog for months now, but life is busy.

But I have decided to try and blog once a day, to get caught up on the last 10 months :), and at least cover the main stuff that happened.

I'm gonna start with some recent stuff and go back and fill in older post. Not sure if anyone even reads this since I stopped for so long, but it will be a good journal for me to look back and see what all we were doing.

so, bear with me while i catch up....