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| I know it looks like I really haven't updated anything since Nov 9th. That's not true. I have but you have to visit www.kentonkauffman.com. But for those of you who still haven't figured this things out let me catch you up.
We're now in New Mexico. It's a long story. We don't exactly plan to stay here long term. My brother in law offered me a job selling used cars. I took it so that we could pay off some debt, my wife could be with her family, and I could get away from the Ohio winter. At first it seemed like that idea has backfired on me. We got around a foot of snow in some places. Meanwhile it was in the 50's in Ohio. Then it payed off once I found out it was below 0 in Ohio. That really blows because I've been walking around in short sleeves nearly sweating. Excluding the last couple of days, we've had amazing weather.
As far as the car selling goes, it's been a struggle. I have to say it's the most emotional thing I've ever done. It's a total mind game. You're always battling your emotions. What happens when you work the whole day and you've talked with a lot of customers and at the end of the day everyone has sold a car but you. You have nothing to take home to your family. Nothing. Then you have to get up and do the same the next day and soon you haven't sold a car in a week. Friends in this buisness if you don't sell a car, your family doensn't eat. You can see how the emotions pile up and I'm suffering from unbelievable stress. I really shouldn't say unbelievable. I'm going through it but you learn to deal with it. You have to find that happy place. I will say this so none of you panic; even though it's stressful, I'm able to provide for my family and if all goes well we'll be debt free it a few months. It's funny to think that my goal is to get out of debt and I'm basically in the debt buisness. Not that debt is funny, it sucks. Meanwhile, I see people all around me making six figures and they're further in debt than me. Wow.
As far as family in concerned. Noah is growing up fast. He's nearly able to crawl and he loves to talk. He can't really talk but you know what I mean. He says things like Uh-oh, Da da, and bye, bye. I slapped together a video yesterday with our digital camera. Hope it brings some joy to your life.
Kenton
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| Hey, for those of you who haven't subscribed to my webpage www.kentonkauffman.com
, I've updated a few times now. You should consider subscribing. It's totally free. I mean What a Deal! You'd be crazy not to. I mean, you don't want to feel left out do you? Plus, Xanga is for Xanga-ers. You know? I don't quite fit into that category. I'm more of a blogger and story teller and not as much a Xanga-er.
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| For those of you who desperately await a "Weblog Entry" from me await no further. It has arrived (just not on Xanga). Not that I don't like Xanga and all, I mean it's completely free. Maybe even too free. Hmmm.
I have 2 websites that I update regularly. http://kentonkauffman.googlepages.com is where you can check out pictures of our WebCeleb son, Noah. You can also vist my blog at www.kentonkauffman.com. I bough my own domain name and registered a blog with GoDaddy. It's not as hard as you might think, it's quite affordable, and I can do whatever the heck I want to with my own flippin' blog without those stupid ads at the top of my page. You can also subscibe there and recieve an email (much like Xanga) whenever I update my blog or post picture. So now you have it. Until next time.
O-H I-O
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| I'm very sorry for not updating my xanga site more often. As many of you know I've begun using Google Pages. If you aren't a fan of Google you just might be missing out. They have a free website for pretty much anything you want to make of it. We try to get photos up every 2 weeks. So if you wait patiently for another 2 week and a half we'll have fresh photos for you. So as you can see it is a lot more fun on the other side. Come on over. If you'd like to check it out you can at http://kentonkauffman/googlepages.com
Life has changed drastically since Noah was born. I never though it would be like this but I absolutely love it. Every day after work I come home and take care of Noah for 3 hrs whilst Karissa works. She is a nanny for a 7 yr old and takes care of her after school until her mother comes home. It's kind of stressful because we don't get quality time in and it ties both of us up all evening. When she does get home we get Noah ready for his bedtime snack and then off to bed. The great thing about this is that Noah does not suffer from DDD. Daddy Deficit Disorder. The two of us hang out together for 3 hrs every night. I teach him soccer and drums and then we watch the news together. Sometimes we go see Buelo (grandpa) play softball, and other times we go to the Library. We have good times together.
In other news, we've been working the summer away. It's been great to have warm weather but out house has been so uncomfortable. We bought a window AC a year ago and now our AC count has grown to 5. Pretty much every room including the kitchen has an AC. I'm going to have to find another part time job just to pay for the electric bill. I have been working a few extra hours so we can fix up the other side of our duplex. We used to have renters in there but they moved out and destroyed the place. We didn't have the money to remodel but we've been saving up and with a few extra jobs we're ready to paint and then save up for carpet. We've done this side right without going into debt. We decided that it was worth it to hire someone for a couple of weeks and so we hired Simeon DeGenarro. If you don't know Simeon then your life will never be complete. He has been awesome. He even risked his life to patch our roof. He replaced the bathroom floor and plumbing, he fixed trim and replaced the doors. He patched walls and fixed our kitchen cabinets. He even made a cabinet door. He's been tremendous and worth every cent we paid him. His wife Janelle and he are also very good friends of ours and we get to see them usually once a week, even though they only live a few blocks away.
Conference is coming, which means only one thing to Karissa, her family will be here. Nearly her entire family will be traveling up next week. Kayleen flies out with little Eazy (Ezekiel) on Tuesday. She'll be staying in out living room. Then on Thursday the rest of the family will drive up. Actually they'll leave on Wednesday and arrive on Thursday. This is absolutely huge for us because we only get to see them 2 times a year and if we're really lucky, 3. The bad part is that I probably won't get to see my son that weekend.
We'll my friends I think this is enough for one session. Please check out my Google Pages for more pictures. I will very possibly be moving to a different blog site, a real blog site. I'll keep everyone posted.
Kenton
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| If you haven't already you should check out http://kentonkauffman.googlepages.com.
I have updated it with the latest photos. There are different pages for each stage Noah's going through. He's a good kid. Karissa has read the book, Baby Wise. Basically it has to do with getting babies on a schedule with feeding times and sleeping times. Noah absolutely loves it. It think his favorite time is feeding time, followed closely by nap time and play with daddy time. I've been working his legs out getting him fit to play soccer. So we have a lot of work to do. Oh well.
Check out more pics on my web site:
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