I bet Nash Doesn't Pull Weeds!

Like Father like son... I got tired of looking at the weeds in the cracks of our sidewalk that line our house. I've really liked spraying the weeds and just killing them instead of pulling them causing knee, back, and holy finger pain. Unfortunately, the weeds in the cracks were pretty big and I didn't want to compromise looking at brown dead weeds; so I found myself slowly creeping along the sidwalk pulling away! There were times I'd hear Dad in my head, "If your going to do the job do it right!" especially when I just couldn't reach deep enough to get to the root. Thanks for burning yourself into my head Dad!

Go Suns!!! Playoff time with home court advantage! This is our year to win it!

Lacie's got the sneakiness down. She loves to hide in her dresser cabinet and stay there. She knows we'll come looking for her. After she tricked us the last couple of times, we know where to come looking for her. No more booster seats for them! Yay! It was such a pain getting them in and out of the chairs. It's not as freeing as I had hoped, because now we are constantly telling them to get back in their chair with their food. It's not fun crunching a cracker into the carpet!

Yummmmiiieeeeee!

So I thought I'd treat myself today and have some Chipotle! Yummmieee (as Sean and Oz say). I tried to be healthy with it by putting it in a bowl and not getting sour cream. It was a good protein hit - 51g. I have my leg work out tonight. I hope I'm ready enough for soccer this Sunday, first time back in over a month.

I gotta say I'm impressed with what my wife can do with cookies!

Enter them into the state fair competition or something!
BTW! She makes many other cookie favors! http://www.eventfulcookies.com/

When we pray with Sean we have to be sitting on his bed with our hands folded. We'll say, thank you for, "Mommy and Daddy" he'll repeat and at the end say, "You and you" as he points to us. If we say Grandma or Grandpa or any other person not in the house, he'll say the word door. When we say thank you for Jesus, he'll also say, door too. I'm trying to teach him to say heaven on that one. 

Quick Pic

Saw this and had to laugh!

Hey kids! Be careful going under the chain as you climb the ladder.

Fat People Should Give Twice as Much Blood

I didn't get to see the kids at all yesterday! I finally got around to giving blood yesterday (technically plasma), I guess they had enough red blood cells but needed plasma. I don't understand why everybody doesn't just give whole blood and they extract what they need out of that! Actually I remember now... People can only give so much so by taking the specific red blood cells they can take twice as much while they "return" saline back into your system. So they basically took water and put water back in me. I hope it's at least purified... I’m helping at my church standing in this Sunday for a bells piece that requires an extra set of hands. I'm not that good, so I keep wondering why they call me to ask me for help. After all that I headed home, did my P90X, and watched Biggest Loser with Rach. I fell asleep hardcore during the biggest loser. Rach woke me up a few times, but I honestly can't remember the last half of the show. So I'll have to go back and watch it again.

Sean's enjoying going to school every day for a few hours. Rach has decided to knock it down to four days a week. His behavior starts to get a little too ornery from the other kids at school. He's been waking us up at around 6am now that the sun is coming up earlier. I ignore him in the morning so I can continue to sleep (Selfish me!) and poor Rach gets the brunt of his energy when he comes storming in. He’s doing really well pedaling on his bicycle. We all went to the park and he pedaled the whole way there while Lacie and Oz wore their sunglasses and relaxed in the wagon.

Why are fat people fat?
Genetics, gland issues, low self-worth, addictive behavior… whatever it is Obama’s going to solve it by making you read! That’s right! Work those eyes as you skim the nutrition info on the drive through menu of your favorite fast food restaurant. That way you can feel even guiltier about what you’re addicted to because of your family genetics! Glad you’re thinking about making America skinnier Obama, but fire the person who gave you that idea! You want to make fat people skinny and fix the economy at the same time? Start putting a tax on all the Twinkie crap food and soda drinks that’s putting everybody 6ft under from type 2 diabetes. Hey, kill two birds with one stone fixing our healthcare system too! The leading cause of death in the U.S. is heart disease. Because YOU’RE FAT! Just like cigarettes are taxed, tax the junk food!

13 Easter Apostles

Eaaaster Eaaster Bobeester Banana-nana Fo Feaster Me My Mo Measter EASTER! Why does the celebration have to stop?! Because I would faint from exhaustion with all those kids! We made it through the craziness that is kids on Saturday. We had something like 13 kids.

At one point they all got out of control and started some riot that required me to break out my riot shield and gas mask as they proceeded to reach into there diapers and flinging there holy poo! No, not really, but I don't think the real riot police could handle that!

I had a great time! Thanks to Rach for getting everybody to come and setting everything up! I was tasked with taking pictures, hiding eggs while the kids decorated the cookies, and cooking up the food. I've never cooked on my little grill for more than just me and the wife, so it was nice to have Chris and Billy there to help out. Oh btw, we were the only husbands there... Some of the best burgers I've ever had! Besides the big icing messes from decorating the cookies and the bubbles spilled on the patio everything went smoothly. I'm pretty sure Rach would agree.  Until next time... I must go now and pump the iron to get the rippage I desire!

Kid-Tested, Mother Approved

So let's understand something first. I'm working diligently at work as usual, and all of a sudden, like a holy dragon from the sky, my account gets locked out! I'm limited, working at 50%, unacceptable! This is no good so I call the support people in India to help me unlock my account. Stay with me here. In my line of work I have administrative rights to do many things: get into privileged work websites, different test domains, testing new OS image releases etc... So why am I calling some support person in India who's possibly been working for the company for less than 6 months to unlock/screw with my account?! Makes no sense!

Yes, we are still trying to get ready for the party tomorrow morning. Rach is at the store while Grandma Sher is at home with the kids... I'll refrain from saying anything, moving on... So like yesterday I'll be spending most of my day/night tonight trimming bushes and cleaning up with my blower. We bought a picnic bench to help with sitting while eating in the backyard, that plus it's totally cool, or super cute Rach would say. Let me see if I can dig up a pic...

Oh yes, here it is...

I haven't tried sitting on it yet, so for all we know it's kid-tested and mother approved! Sean's still in his pajamas in the pic. He loves his football footie "jj's".  I wonder what he'll do when he sees Oz wearing them a couple years from now? Hopefully his sharing abilities will have improved. Sean's been watching a lot Monsters vs Aliens lately. A good movie if you haven't seen it! Hail Gallaxar!

Easter Egg in the Bush

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh so what possesses people to put a bunch of maintenance requiring things in their front yard? People are lazy! It's all going to go to crap and look terrible until a $100 plus is shelled out to have Jesus -(pronunciation hayzues)- does it for you anyway! Yes! That's right! I am the lazy man and I want to pay Jesus, except my better half won't let me! I'm so not looking forward to going out and working on the yard as fast as I can before the sun goes down. I will be trimming lots and lots of bushes. You can call me, "The Bush Trimmer" if you like...

I must upkeep the bush and make it look pleasing to the eye.





Sean's a crazy little monster, now showing many more ways to defy us. I was sitting on the can/pot/crapper yesterday minding my own business and he shows me something that belonged to Rach. So I told him to put back. After telling him three or four more times he decided to spit at me. I couldn't believe it! I almost didn't know what to say. Luckily for him I kept my cool, because I'm a really cool guy, a bit gnarly at times, but mostly chilled.

We have a party this Sat morning that we are trying to prepare for. Rach has invited everybody and their mother, no, all families with kids. It’s supposed to be a crazy huge Easter egg hunt! We even bought a huge picnic bench for it. Reminds me of the bench I had on the patio growing up. I threw many a things off it to seal it's doom. Hopefully I'll be back to give you summary of the experience. Until then!

Why does the liquid come to the top of cottage cheese and sour cream? How can I have been eating these things for so long and not know why? This blows my mind!