Kappell Family Blog

In life we all go through changes. They can come in all kids of different ways and forms. Emotion, physical, mental etc.

No matter what they are we can find ourselves in a place of discomfort and frustration. This can lead us to be unhappy with ourselves the ones around us our job and a list of other things.

The problem is we tend to react immediately to the situation we we find ourselves in at that moment. We don’t stop and think we just react, it’s the fight or flight mechanism built into us. I’m not saying that is a bad thing, however our first reaction tends not to be the best one. This can be a positive thing when it comes to making changes that need to happen NOW. However most of the time we act to hasty and can find ourselves in place we hate, a place we thought was going to be better….

This is a good example of the grass is green on the other side of the fence… The problem is when you get to the other side it is no longer the greener side. Most of us will look outward for something better or with the appearance of being better. We will work towards that change of scenery rather then assess whats going on right where we are. Don’t get me wrong you don’t want to dwell on something for to long.

If we would just invest the time to water, seed, fertilize and manicure our own lawn we could have the grass we want. The lawn we worked on the one we made could be the envy of the neighborhood.

So what does this have to do with anything? Simple, take the time and invest in your our life, the ones you love the things you have. Don’t just give up with out trying. And I don’t me just sitting there staring and waiting for something to happen. Make it happen.

You have to invest into what you want. Everything takes work, sometimes it is easy and others times it is hard.

I have been in school for some time now. I have plans to start my own company as soon as I can. I have already started to some extent doing maintenances and small repairs. The biggest issue for me is lack of actual experience. Now I know I can trouble shoot to the point I could almost figure out any issues. The problem is I have not seen or been exposed to all the different possible issues that could occur.

So I have decided to try and go into business with an experienced technician and another student who seems very knowledgeable with HVACR. We have started doing small jobs offering Maintenances Tune-ups for $50.00. So far this is proving to be a very slow start. We have landed jobs, but have failed to make much money. Part of the problem has to do with the fact we have no truck stock for most of the potential issues that we recommend the customer have replaced. This means if the customer agrees for the replacement we have to come back and that cost money. 

Now even though the three of us are trying to start up a business we are all still trying to do our own thing at the same time. So the family and me walk around and place flyers where ever we can. I still have a problem that I don’t have any truck stock for recommend part replacements. I know what I am doing and am very confident in the work I perform. I just need to find a way to bring some money in to for truck stock. The old “You have to spend money to make money” analogy is staring me right in the face. Because in order for me to spend money I have to make some first! I definitely need to think outside the box and find a way to get the money to spend.

I just wish I had some family or friends that could help! It would be an investment for them and I know I could bring a profitable return on their investment in my start up company with-in a matter of months.

 Anyway I will keep everyone updated.

Hello World.

Today I have to share some bad news. Last night Carries Uncle Lee decided to end his own life. The call came in around 10:00 pm from her Uncle Ricky, Uncle Lee had shot his self in the abdomen and died from his wounds.

Uncle Lee was a great guy who loved everyone and would help you if he could. He always made me laugh he had a knack for it. He could make you laugh even when you didn’t want to. He was a great person to be around.

Lee had issues with alcoholism, and drank daily almost all his adult life. He did have periods were would stop, but would start back up again. I think Lee’s love was so deep, that when that love was taken away or broken it would send him into a deep depression that was over shadowed by his drinking. It was his mechanism for copping with hard things in life or just away to escape the way he really felt inside.

It doesn’t matter what the person’s flaws are when they are family! You love them because they are family, so you over look their flaws and except them for who they are and what they do. No one is perfect if you are then you are a self-diluted self-absorbed person, and are most likely not normal in anyway.

This is the second Uncle that Carries side of the family has lost in a year. One was accidental, and the other was suicide. No matter how or when it happens when it does it always seems so sudden and to soon! You can’t replace their unique personality nor can you understand why it happened when their life ended. All you know is you now feel this empty feeling inside. You start to do the, I should have or could have scenarios in your head. The fact is nothing can be done to change what has already happened. All you can do now is remember what that person meant to you, how much you loved them and how much you will really miss them!

We need to remember, that no matter what a family member maybe doing that might not sit well with us, or that we just down right disagree with, that life is very short and we are not promised the next second let alone the another day! So don’t find yourself in the “should have or could have scenarios”. Forgive the ones you love, except them for who they are and what they do no matter what, and tell them you love them.

WE ALL LOVE YOU UNCLE LEE! YOU WILL BE MISSED GREATLY!

Hello,

I know it has been a long time since I have made a post. It actually took a special day for me to get my butt in gear and post this bad boy. I got to see the man I have consider to be my dad all my life. His name is Mike Moore, and he is actually my youngest sisters real dad. I remember always flying out there to visit him as a kid. He is a good man and a great father I can’t put into words what he means to me. I am not his biological son, but you would never have known that by the way he took care of me. I will always love and respect him and consider him my dad.

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to share with you some new photos of Jaden. He is doing well and growing fast.

Hello,

Today Jayden went to the Dr. for his first follow. He now weighs 10 pounds 4 ounces. He is 21 – 3/4 inchs long.

He goes back this Thursday for his one week follow up, it is hard to believe that he is already four days old WOW!.

Here is a link to some Dr Appt Pictures First Appt

Hello,

I know this seems out of the blue since I have not been able to update or to post anything new on the website in a while

I would like to introduce Jayden Michael Kappell, born June 12th, 2008 at ll:37 pm at Chandler Regional Hospital. He weighed 10 pounds and 11 ounces, and is 21 – 1/2 inches long.

Unfortunately we found out on the day we were going home that he has a fractured collar bone on his right should. On top of this he was circumcised and had his shots all in one day. Needles to say he had a rough day

 
Here are picturesBaby Jayden

Hello,

I know long time no read. Well Christmas past and the New Year is already here. Christmas was good with the help one of Santa’s helpers. The kids got thing they wanted and thing they needed.

The family is doing well and the kids are growing fast. Carrie and I are expecting our 4^th addition to our family. She is due in June. I saw June 6^th and it is going to be a little girl! ! Well that is what I am saying

Here is some Christmas pictures

X-Mas Pics

Here is a Video Video 1

Anyway I love my family and hope for a good year.

Being I parent carries a lot of responsibilities. As a parent we have made a choice to put our children before ourselves. To make sure that we do our best to instill in them good values to enable them to make good decisions in their life’s as young adults and as a grown adult. When do see if all our efforts have failed or succeeded in our children? Will our children see our hard efforts to make their life better through the instructions we have laid before them? Will all that we have given be for nothing? These and a great deal of other question plague my thoughts late in to many sleepless nights.

But there is also the area of learning how and when to draw then line of when to be their father or their friend. This is a hard feat to accomplish the older they get. You want to be their friend and their buddy. On the other hand you need them to take you serious, and understand certain issues need to be taken seriously. I love my kids want them to know no matter what I will always be there for them, to try and guide them in their times of need. And hope that then know they can come to me with anything and I will understand.

I love my family and I especially love all my children each in there own special way. Nonetheless I love them with out reservation and nothing they say or do will ever change the way I love and care for them. All I want for my children is to have the best in life so my struggles and hardship that I have lived and seen are left with me and not passed on to my children. So there children’s life can be even more glorious then theirs.

To my kids who I love with all my heart I know I am hard on you at times and you cannot see or understand exactly why. You may not see why that is, but I tell you it is for your benefit and I hope you believe me when I say that. I try to explain the reason why the best I can. I hope one day you can look back and say, I now see what it was that you were trying to get me to see and understand. I know in life you see or hear things that you don’t quite understand, but are reviled to you at in time in life. Life is a mystery and out father intended it to be that way. Some things are seen clearly and yet others are seen through abstraction, left up to us to piece together what we are to do. However the path is always there!

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Check out this video it is funny Anthony gets over on Josh!