Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday to Dad! The big 6 0 !!! I've been expecting some great wisdom from you throughout these old years of yours but compared to Jesus, you really aren't much are ya? Well, we can't all be that cool. Unless you're totally awesome like me! Dad! Are you sleeping again? You aren't even 5 sentences into my post! Anyway... you're one year closer death... don't worry, we are all dieing like you, you're just doing at a much faster rate. Think of it as a game, you'll always be winning at this.

I must admit, as the years are catching up to me I have caught a case of the snoozies on the couch and in the car. Luckily my naps while I'm at the wheel aren't too long. Curse the Happ sleep gene!

Suns play the Laker's this Monday! I can't wait to see the Suns kick some major @$$!!!

We finally cleaned our garage out and put the van inside. Just in time before the summer heat. Well, it's hot, but not Phoenix hot quite yet.

The kids get so dirty now playing outside in the dirt and with chalk, and in-and-out and in-and-out of the house with their grubby little hands. Costing me precious $$$ cooling the outside and making my lovely wife clean up after their mess. But in end, it's all so cute right?

Sheew (as Sean would say) it's been so long I almost forgot my password to my own blog. I bet you all thought I was banned after my last post huh? No worries there are many more important people being slammed with claims of being racist, like our governor for example!

So it's been a while. No I didn't run out of things to write about, or forget how to type. I simply got too busy and stuff like this took a backseat, calm down!

I went to the movie theater last night to watch the midnight showing of Iron Man 2 and soak up an out of this world IMAX experience. We had to get there early to watch the movie of course, so we waited for over an hour and a half in our semi comfortable theater seats. It was nice of them to make them with a pleather material so my butt would be wet after the movie. I thought maybe I had spilled my drink. Curse my sweatiness. Anyway, while waiting for the movie a pack of extremely dorky junior high/high school kids behind us were doing some really obnoxious voice impressions. It took everything in me not to tell them to shutup and throw my drink in their face! The movie was good. Not as good as the first one, but still full of action and FX. Yahoo users gave it an A-, I'd have to agree.

Mother's day is coming up and I'm not talking about a day to celebrate the yummy goodness of Mother's cookies, or the cleanliness of Mother's Cleaner, or the naturalness of Mother's Barley...

I'm talking about the day in which all Mother's should put up their feet, relax and enjoy a quiet environment like a spa for example, or go out and have fun! I can't wait until our kids start going out and buying things for Mommy, mainly so I can see the crazy things they buy.  Rach had a fun time at the Mother's day event at Sean's school. They went to different stations much like the Father's day event I experienced last month. Sean got to paint mommy's nails with all kinds of different colors... It was funny to see the messy purple nails when she got home. Rach said that Sean was a pill towards the end of the school day. Instead of singing the songs he kept saying, "Hold you mommy, hold you." This was a little embarrassing. I guess Sean got upset earlier about not getting a cookie that wasn't his in the first place.

I guess Sean and Oz are starting to hold tiny little conversations with each other. "Hey Sean." "Hi Oz" "What are you doing?" "mmm nothing". Lacie is saying please and thanks in her low commanding voice.

Suns play tonight! They've beat the Spurs 2-0. So now they have something like a 90% chance of taking the series against them! But what do I know, 70% of all statistics aren't true, or is it 50%?

Who Wants to Go Home Anyway!

Immigration Bill :: So Arizona now has a law that makes it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally. A lot of people are calling it racial profiling and is against everything this nation stands for. I have no problem with different races being in America; just wait in line like everybody else. Don't be lazy and do what's necessary to get legal. Obama is of course against it because now his lovely votes will be leaving this state. It doesn't matter anyway because I don't think a democrat will be winning in this state anytime soon... hopefully. In lieu of everything going on about race, here is a bit from Mitch Hedberg, a funny comedian...
You know when it comes to racism, people say: " I don't care if they're black, white, purple or green"... Ooh hold on now: Purple or Green? You gotta draw the line somewhere! To hell with purple people! - Unless they're suffocating - then help'em.

Rach had her first call from somebody inquiring about her cookies that wasn't a friend, she wanted them for a wedding... we'll have to see what happens.

I think I might have runners knee. I don't know for sure because I'm not a doctor. It hurts at the front of my knee when I do a lung. It was probably from kicking that door in to save a baby from the burning building... I wish I had fireman skillz!

Last Sat we took our kids to the pool for some swim lessons. It was the first time getting wet this summer for them. We thought it would be fun for the kids... Yeah RIGHT! This was our kids crying in the pool the whole time.

Well... I gotta give credit to Sean for sticking with it! He started to cry and wanted out after a little while, but he kept on going.



I watched the Suns game last night. It was a site to see! The Suns blew out Portland by 29 points! That's like the Suns played a whole quarter with Portland not scoring anything! It was blowing my mind! Watching the professional athletes run back and forth on the court got me all pumped to do some P90X!

Look out! You might get crushed by Rachael's cookie business! Eventful Cookies is getting more and more business! Snowballing to unprecedented heights! She got a call from church for a quote to see if she could do 325 cookies. I think Trinity is looking at the numbers... She also got a call for a baby shower. She may or may not get that gig too.

Lawnmower Man

Like a ninja hawk from the sky, searching, circling, watching... diving out of the sky and overtaking its prey! That was me vs the lawnmower yesterday. It took some talking into from Rach, but I took apart our free lawnmower (courtesy of our neighbor) and started cleaning it out to see if I could get it working. After watching a couple 'how to' videos my confidence level started to become awesome. A few screws later, I started to wonder if it was worth all the effort as I gradually got more high from all the gasoline fumes. After about 3 hours I finally got everything back together. I primed the beast with gas and started to tug like I’ve never tugged before! It started like a mighty v8! I roared like the dominant lion that I am to say that I have conquered the beast! It did however still have a problem. It doesn’t catch any grass/dust/dirt/particles/sticks/chopped up toys into the bag. Instead it was flying all over me and the lawnmower. Rach was watching me from the window and she couldn’t stop laughing at me as I was in the center of this huge dust cloud. I had to stop the lawnmower (risking not being able to start it again) because the dust was so bad! I don’t know why the grass and dust wasn’t staying in the bag; it just kept shooting out of the sides! Next weekend I'll figure it out I guess...

I had my soccer game last night. We won 6-0. I had an assist for a goal with my left foot cross to Scott who headered it in like a Shaolin soccer warrior! I didn’t know I was allowed to have two big victories in one day. It was a good day.

Rachael had a great idea to keep the kids out of her way in the kitchen while she’s cooking or doing the dishes. She put down blue tape in strategic locations and told the kids they couldn’t go any further, so simple yet so brilliant. Who’s got a smart cookie on his hands? I do.

Don’t sit on your surf board watching all the good waves go by, be brave and live life! - Joe Happ

Vomit Causing Earthquake

No wonder my parents were screwed up reading stuff like this while they were growing up!

I was watching the movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks with Sean. There was a part in the movie where the chipmunk’s rebel from Uncle Ian and take their clothes off... I looked back at Sean to make sure he wasn't stripping down. You just don't know what the little ones will copy now-a-days.

Man purposely vomits on Phillies fans
New Jersey man busted for vomiting on off-duty police captain and his daughter.
I read this news line thinking, is there no decency left in people!? My imagination totally rocks, so the images entering my brain disgusted me to the upmost bounds, so much so that it limited my ability to actually read the article. I linked it for you all if you wanted more details.

Since there have been so many earthquakes lately I thought I'd check out AZ. It looks like from USGS that AZ has most earthquakes near Yuma or Flagstaff. Which means Phoenix is due right? Maybe if all the hippies got together and made a circle around Phoenix mother earth would spare the city. I know, laaame…

Classroom Fun

I took the day off today to go to Sean's school and be a part of "Fudge" day! Friends, Uncles, Dads, Grandparents, etc... I really enjoyed it! Sean took the school bus early and I arrived at his school an hour later. When I got there Mrs. S was reading them a story about how awesome Dad's are. I gotta buy that book. She set up 3 other stations where Sean and I could hammer nails into wood and paint it, eat ice-cream with toppings, and squirt shaving cream on his hands and put it on Daddy's face. The shaving cream activity was the most entertaining. We all know Sean hates putting messy things in his hands, he needed some coaxing by Mrs. S but when the cream got into his hands he started to gag! I told him to put it on my cheeks so he quickly put it on and wanted to get the stuff off his hands. We cleaned him up and gave him a popsicle stick to take it off my face. He instead started spreading it around. While I was cleaning my face up Sean was very adamant that I get every bit, like it was acid that was going to eat my face away. Maybe he knows something I don't :) He had plenty of ice-cream and did really well with the hammer and nails. He wasn't really finished painting his wooden creation when the teacher wanted everybody to come back to the circle and sing some songs before leaving.

Rach and I just got back from taking the kids to the mall where they played like crazy in this weird play area outside. Sean insists on taking his shoes and socks off when there are signs that ask the kids to keep on their shoes because of hot or slippery surfaces. So that got annoying along with him running off into the store to follow Mommy. Rach left me with three, well, two kids because Sean wouldn't listen to me and ran off while she went to find Lacie a swimsuit for their swim lessons this Sat. So I was playing with Oz trying to keep track of how much time I hadn't seen Lacie because she was behind a big toy tree, so I thought that's where she was staying. I started looking for her after about a minute of not seeing her. I couldn't find her in the playground area. I immediately started to get sweaty and my heart jumped up 100 bpm! It was cool how my senses went into overdrive trying to listen, hear, smell anything I could at the time. I wonder if that's how super heros are except with way more efficient abilities. Anyway, I broadened my focus to the sidewalks lining the play area and found a store owner holding on to her waiting for a parent to come get her. I thanked her with much sincerity as I tried to calm myself down. I hate those moments! Probably like how a super hero feels when he loses his sidekick because the sidekick thinks HE can be a real super hero!