If we've learned anything these past few years, it's to seize as much joy out of our days as we can. And nobody carpes their diem more than our nephew Mr. Traveain Finley. This weekend, we got to help him celebrate his 35th birthday, which turned out to be a great big kettle boiling over [...]
The only thing better than seeing Earth, Win & Fire perform live, is seeing their concert with DeeJay Tra. My nephew Traveain, a DeeJay by trade, has been an EWF fan his entire life. His playlist currently contains 49 Earth Wind & Fire songs. “My mother would say I started listening when I was inside [...]
Turns out you can cram a lot of love into Milwaukee's Dineen Park Pavilion. The place swelled with it Saturday afternoon as the man of the hour, Mr. Traveain Finley, sat in the center of the room and received visitors. Beaming, he hugged guest after guest -- school friends, teachers, caregivers, relatives and fans -- [...]
What's a family to do when the Packer season abruptly ends and an interminable winter looms dark and cold? Gather sweet friends for a big ole aca-awesome party. That's what we did Saturday night and it turned out to be one of our most Fundamentally Sound ideas. We took some of the nicest people we [...]
Under the cover of 10,000 hogs, we pulled off the perfect surprise birthday party Saturday afternoon in Milwaukee. Planned with military precision by a three-generational task force -- the indomitable Grandma Peggy, Katherine and Erin -- the party required coded messages on cellphones and layer cakes, thirteen helium balloons and a tiny human carrier just [...]