Our Family Adventures

The kids and I drove to visit mom and dad during their weeklong vacation in Las Vegas.  The trip seemed to revolve around food for us; inclu...

Rented some Alien Bee strobe flashes and took a few photos of Aleena.

President Trump’s executive order to ban individuals from certain predominantly Muslim countries is not in the best interest of the US.  No...

I decided to buy a domain, ebrianvogel.com I would have preferred brianvogel.com or vogel.com, but those were gone many years ago when I ch...

Happy 12th birthday to our youngest daughter Aleena (pictured left).  She is just getting to the point where she has lived half of her lif...

Yesterday was the first day that we generated more power that we used.  Well, it is not technically the first time.  On some days when we we...

One of the things that has floated around on my mental bucket list for a while is to drive across the country.  Originally my plan was to do...

So, I had to go to the Apple store a couple of times of the last few weeks, and as always, it seems like a mixed bag.  I guess that overall ...

Yesterday we generated 93% of our home's electric use from solar energy, the highest ever (except perhaps on days we were on vacation)....

Right before moving back to the US, I decided to obtain credit card with better rewards, since we generally charge everything and pay off th...

The geese along the river in Austin are a feisty sort.  

The trip to Houston was a lot of fun.  I've been wanting to visit Al Williams for a while, but between my injury, the kids schedule and ...

After leaving Al and the Woodlands behind, I drove south to see an old friend named Derron Whitaker.  Derron and I knew each other from our ...

When we decided to spend this Christmas back in Cincinnati, Tim and I also decided that we were going to leave most of the presents behind t...

This year Tim and I decided to take the family back to Kentucky to visit family for Christmas.  We decided to save some money and spend our ...