Today’s post is from the one and only Mr. Randy Allsbury. Randy has recently become an “online” friend, but I look forward to hanging out with him when Team Sprad relocates back to Edmond, OK. Randy spent 12 years in ministry and for the past several years he has been buried in the corporate world teaching the philosophy of “core values” based marketing or relationship marketing. Want to learn more about what Randy is doing now? You can get more info on his consulting HERE.
Randy has also just release a brand new book that is geared to men and marriage. [...] Read More
Today’s post is a re-run from a year ago…
But it is a must read from my 13 year old son Cole!
Like most kids my age, I have a long list of “my wants”, here are a few of the things I would love to get my hands on…
Xbox Live
Fly fishing gear
“NEW” snowboarding gear
Basketballs (I can never have enough)
OKC Thunder gear
FiftyNineFifty Hats
Lots of duck tape (Love to invent w/ this stuff)
I brought this list to mom and dad, just hoping they might buy some of it, and they told me that if I really want this stuff that I should get [...] Read More
10 Signs You’re Abusing Your Kids!!
At the end of the day, do you pick up all your kiddos stuff? Dishes? Evil Knievel action figures? Undies? Junk in the living room? If so, I think it’s awesome that you are getting her accustomed to having an expensive personal servant when she becomes a young adult.
When your kiddos ask to go see The Avengers (which is awesome btw…), when they want the new KD’s or when they have to have the new Dora backpack…do you jump to it and make it happen ASAP? If so, you’re teaching him that the world owes [...] Read More
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!
Jodie and I just learned that one of our great friends has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic & liver cancer.
Her name is Stacey Slaton and she is one amazing lady!! She is an incredible wife, EPICMOM and true friend!
She is married to Greg Slaton (GM @ Pole Position Raceway in OKC) and they have two beautiful daughters…Alison who is 11 and Ashytn who is 3.
Greg and Stacey have lived in Edmond, OK for years. They attend LifeChurch.tv (OKC Campus) and have been deeply involved in Edmond Schools for many years.
The reason I am writing this post [...] Read More
70% of kids 0 – 8 watch 1hr. & 52 minutes of television a day.
Half of kids under 8 (and 40% of 2- to 4-year-olds) have access to a smartphone, iPad or some other mobile media device.
Kids under 2 spend more than twice as much time watching videos as they do being read to.
About 80% of children between the ages of 0 and 5 who use the Internet in the United States do so on at least a weekly basis.
60% of children under age three watch videos online..
7.5 million Facebook users are below the age of 13.
Kids 13 – 17 [...] Read More
In this crazy Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, social media, technology driven world that we live in…I am finding myself creating friendship online with people that I have never “officially” met face to face!!
And so today’s guest post come from one of those friends.
His name is Matt McKee.
Matt and I seem to run in some of the same circles, but all of our conversations have been via Twitter, Facebook or email.
Just from hanging online with Matt, I know that he loves his wife more than life…and he is an amazing, committed, Jesus focused dad!
Matt is also an aggressive, hungry, Kingdom Entrepreneur! He [...] Read More
Ok moms…
Settle in and enjoy!
Here are the TOP “Mom Post’s” from the past year.
5 Important Conversations Every Mom Must Have With Her Daughter
5 Important Conversations Every Mom Must Have With Her Son
5 Things Every Son Needs From His Mom
Spaghetti, Breastmilk & The Fight I Wish Never Happened
Are You A Workaholic Stay @ Home Mom
6 Tips For Mom’s Running On Empty
15 Things To Tell Your Teenage Daughter Before She Closes Her Eyes
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It was June 14th and my wife was hell bent on NOT showing up to give birth until it was time!!
We think Jodie hit labor at some point in the night, but we just weren’t sure if this was really the JackHammer (our 3rd son) making his way into the world, that Braxton Hicks thingy or just spicy gas from Mexican food!!?!
So as I am snoozing my morning away, all of the sudden I hear a…
“It’s time! He’s here! Chris, wake up and get me to the hospital now!!!!”
I jumped out of bed, threw on yesterday’s clothes and we split! I’m [...] Read More
I remember hearing my friend and pastor, Craig Groeschel, tell a story about a friend of his that was OC (obsessive – compulsive) about the cleanliness of his house.
His specific passion was having clean, smudge free, paw print free, sparkling, heaven like windows!
To the point that this guy would break out the windex, water and vinegar…any MacGyver like combination of chemicals that would leave his windows lookin pristine and pimped.
So time flew, the clock ticked, his kids grew up, graduated and flew the coop!!…and left dad to stare out his pristine, pimped and sparkling clean windows all alone.
And Craig remembers [...] Read More
I would like to dedicate today’s post to my smokin hot, Jesus lovin, super resilient, tough as nails, reverently irreverent wife…
The one and only
Mrs. Jodie Spradlin!!
Three years ago Jodie decided that she wanted to go back to school and get her nursing degree, and that’s exactly what she did! So for the past three years she has studied, traveled, poked people with needles, cleaned up vomit, studied, wrote papers, worked in hospitals, traveled, studied…and this past Saturday she graduated.
And can I just say that I was a freaking mess during the entire graduation ceremony.
I laughed.
I cried.
I remembered when.
I cried [...] Read More
