World Cup Fever

We have been loving the World Cup and haven't been able to get enough of soccer. We now play it everyday. Jen even made dreads.

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Grandparents, Spirit Week and Trumpets.

This past May my parents came to visit. The kids really enjoyed seeing there Grandparents.




Also in May, both schools that the kids go to had 'Spirit Week'. Becca and Sam had 'crazy hair' day and Mike had 'inside out' day. They had a lot of fun with it.






Dan has begun to practice his trumpet playing. I am impressed that he can make a sound considering it is almost as big as he is.

Go-Karting

Papa gave us a go-kart last summer that I finally got running tonight. It needed new batteries and an electronic control unit (the brain). We had it running earlier this summer but when I drove it down our street and around the corner I burnt out the brain as I was going down the hill and had to buy a new one. This part was backordered for 3 months. Everyone had a blast driving it and I didn't drive it down the hill :(

Thanks Papa!

Birthday and Bugs

These are pictures from Dan's last birthday. He loves the movie 'Cars' by Disney/Pixar so Jen made a racetrack cake for him with four of the movie characters on it.






This weekend we grilled porkchops for dinner and the weather was beautiful so we ate outside. Dan really wanted to catch a fly for a pet. We put out a bite of porkchop for bait and Dan sat there and waited to catch a fly for about 20 minutes. I was amazed at his diligence. There were several near catches but in the end he didn't get his pet.

France 2010 - Part I

This is an attempt to 'catch-up' on my blogging. Jen and I went to France this past spring and had some wonderful experiences. I did not think that I would fall in love with France but I did. We went from Paris to Versailles, Versailles to Amboise, Amboise to Bordeaux, Bordeaux to Paris. We stopped many places in between and had a great time. We really enjoyed Amboise.

These pictures are some of our Paris shots. This obviously is Jen and I by the Eiffel Tower at night shortly before it starting 'twinkling'.


Panoramic Shot from the Eiffel Tower observation deck.

We did quite a bit of walking through Paris as well as hopping around through the city via the metro. I wanted to make sure that Jen saw as much as we could because it most likely will be a couple of years before she comes back with me.


Outside of the Louvre.


By the Arc de Triomphe.


By the Seine River running through Paris.

Outside Notre Dame de Paris.

I plan on posting an entire blog post to the food that we ate because it was so wonderful. I will also post some non-food pics as well ;)

Hi everyone! It has been months since I blogged and I apologize. I am going to try to start blogging again.

Yesterday I went to Kissimmee, FL to look at a 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Hearse/Ambulance Combo. It was for sale and I bought it. I flew down to FL just for this reason. The car is in great shape and I plan on restoring it back to original (or at least part way). It was used by two FL funeral homes. The best part is that it has a light and original siren. I hope to have it shipped to WV very soon! It is going to make a great addition to our Halloween decorations this year!

Disneyland - Day 3

This was our third and final day at Disneyland. We made sure that we rode the couple of rides that we missed on the other two days and did repeats of 'favorite' rides. Here are the four shots from the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. Take note that for both of my scores I was ranked and nobody else was. I was able to get ranked at 31st best score of the day! He-he.





Today was also the day that we had as many characters as we could find sign the kid's shirts for a wearable souvenir. Jeanette bought some Disney Pirates of the Caribbean shirts from their Disney store at a great price (Thanks Jeanette!) and I read online where the characters will sign shirts if they are not being worn. I liked this idea because they get to see the signatures that they obtained more often than if they were in some dumb book.





Goofy was a blast. He really liked Michael since he had his Goofy hat on. He kept covering his face for the picture. Funny thing is, this is the same exact thing that Goofy did at the Magic Kingdom in FL. I guess Goofy is Goofy no matter where he is.



I really liked these two shots of the monorail and submarine ride.



In Tomorrowland they have the Jedi training academy which Becca was selected to be trained as a Padawan. Dan almost was selected but the Jedi master told us he was a bit too young.



They were trained to use their sabers to fight the Sith and Becca had to fight Darth Vader. I was a bit jealous and wanted to be fighting him myself but I was able to do something just as cool later in the day (see the last picture).



Here she is with her Jedi Padawan certificate.









Here is a night shot of Mainstreet right before the parade. Disneyland is such a fun place at night.


Here is my highlight of the trip. Jen went off after the parade to go to a shop in Tomorrowland to pick-up a toy that Sam really wanted as a souvenir while I went to the Photoshop on Mainstreet with Becca and Dan to get the Jedi Academy pictures downloaded to our Photopass. She came back and told me that I would never guess who they met. Of course I couldn't and then she told me that she met an employee at the store that played an Ewok in Star Wars Return of the Jedi. I freaked out and couldn't believe that she didn't call me. I am a bit of a Star Wars fan. I asked if she could take us all back to meet her and we did. Even though the store was closing because it was past the park closing hour, I was still able to get a picture. This is me and Margo Apostolos. She was the Ewok Tokkat, which was one of the Ewoks that carried C-3PO on the throne through the Ewok village. Great ending to a great day. Way cool!