Gary Poppens's Blog

Last night amid the storm warnings of dangerous travel we made our way to my parents house, about twenty miles from ours, to celebrate Christmas with my parents, my brothers all their families which include a number of grandchildren and of course my family in its entirety. We had thirty plus peop...

Every night when I get home my wife has another string of lights, wreath or something for Christmas to put up. Well not every night but it seems like it. I love the season of Christmas not only for the birth of our Christ child but the get togethers we have with family and friends. Our tradition ...

Here I sit two weeks before Christmas and I haven't even thought about shopping, this year we are going to do something a little different instead of buying presents for each other we are taking a winter trip, plus we finished the lower level of our home. We love to go south in the winter for a c...