Five Years

It has been nearly five years since my last update on this site. It has also been five years since Jennn and I were married, a year and a half since we bought a house in Beacon, NY, and six months since Levi was born. In that time I've run one full and two half marathons, built a retaining wall, become a platelet donor, been promoted at work, visited Disney World, and retired from six years on council and eight years of leading youth group. I'm still playing the guitar, involved at church, in love with Jennn, working at IBM, and still a geek.

Yet in many ways life these days is completely new. Our family life in the heart of Beacon means walks to the grocery store and the post office. It is filled with small house projects, working on the lawn, exploring our town, and playing loud movies without fear of annoying an apartment downstairs (but just of waking a baby upstairs).

In the past few months each week brings more changes. From worrying about a tiny newborn to awe at his first smiles. From mastering cloth diapers to failing to teach a chunky baby to roll over. Levi continues to occupy, stress, impress, and amaze us. He now tops the charts at twenty-two pounds and twenty-eight inches, three budding teeth, and smiles for everyone he meets. Right now he is the joy and the center of our lives.

What will the next five years hold? I may still live in Beacon, work at IBM, help out in church, be doting upon my son, and be working on this house. But whatever is the same, I know even more will be new. And that I look forward to finding out.

Steve