New Look for the family blog

Got tired of the old look and figured that Lisa needed a little better billing so up goes her picture. I don't know who the homely guy is sitting in front of her.

My Birthday!!! (I love you Mom and Dad)

Sorry it took so long to post this but it was something that needed visual aid.

Okay, My Birthday was on the 18th and so was my party! It was bigger because I didn't get one last year. Well, first, we had to invite some people, but I didn't really get that my Birthday was coming up. So it turned out to be me deciding what I wanted to do the day before, and inviting people on the day of. Olivia, Britney, Bri, Miranda, Justen ("Just-EEN").

Now where did I go to spend my 17th (and really delayed 16th)?

Where else, but Medieval Times!

How cool was that?

well just to start the sign outside the castle said 'We've got HOT knights'

Oh yes they did!

And the food's not bad either, served to your bench by your very own Wench!

Now when you go in there's a story plot to this dinner show. At the beginning it's all dark and

showed the Prince (who didn't look half bad) being captured by a traitor when he'd gone to sign the treaty of peace and being dragged away followed by an executioner with a big ax and

a bull whip. When properly cracked, bull whips break the sound barrier. He properly cracked it.

Well next part, out comes the Princess, in her little medieval press box. She overacted, but she had the voice for it. The kind that is on audio fairy tales and tells you when to turn the page. She was whiny! "Oh where is my love, the prince? He said he'd be back! Oh I fear!"

Now out comes King. "My Dear, he'll be back, he just went to sign the peace treaty."

And she goes, "There will be no peace in my heart until he is back with me!"

She really got old. But she did start the tournament.

There was a Falconer!

That was cool! What he's swinging is the meat that birdie dives at. The bird got so close too! We felt its wings beat as it flew literally right over our heads!

And then there was trained horses!

Now I don't have a photo of it but the horse back-kicked from this position without putting it's front hooves on the ground!! They would march and bow and walk and everything!!

Now here come the Hot Knights! First out, march their squire buddies!

And then the tournament!!! Jousting!!!!! To celebrate the 'Treaty'!

Now you sit in sections that are marked by colors. Green. Red and Yellow. Blue. Yellow. Black and White. And ours is the RED Knight, the youngest and best looking there!!!! Olivia said it was the Black and White knight...But we were okay with that because he was on our side of the arena and so supposedly is good buddies with our knight. (People on the other side of the arena you are to give your 'loudest and cruelest boo')

Here's the knights!!

Red knight!

And then there's the Black and White knight he's the guy on the other side. (far side is red and yellow)

and some other guys.

The jousting was so awsome!!! Green knight got kicked out for fowl mouthing the King. Well It went:

Green v Yellow. (green kicked out, Yellow Carried out)

Red v Red and Yellow (Red win)

Red v Blue (Blue win)

Blue v Black and White (Black win)

Now With Our knight we were excitedly cheering and had a chant of "Go Red! Go Red!" and such. Well, as you can expect, blue knocking out Red did not go well with us. Well up next was Black and White. and we greeted him with loving "Kick his blue butt!!" "Black and White! Black and White!" "Kill him!!!"

Dear old black and white came through and out charges Green and lances him in the back!!! Rest assured that we did give this our 'loudest and crulest boo'. And suprise, suprise Green drags out Prince. (Well I really was suprised because I thought Princy was pushing daisies). Prince was leverage to make the old king make Green champion of both kingdoms. I personally would have set my goals higher than 'Champion'.

Black picks himself up and epically duels with Green, during which Prince breaks free and helps. They get Green on his back

"Peace or Death!"

"Never!!"

Well it all went black and there was no more green when the lights were back on.

Another thing, we brought a cake that they were going to serve us later, but, well, our poor Wench slipped and spilled it in the kitchen. We really were glad she did! It got us these free smoothie slushie things and a new cake!

And after the show you can meet the knights and take picturs with them.

And this was all done after the Cha-Cha slide

Anyway I walk over to dad and see Grandpa talking to guess who? Red! Well this is the guy that had thrown me a rose (he kisses it first)

And such, well they all told me to go up and get a single photo with him....guess what he did....

Best Birthday Ever!!!!!!

Katie's 17!

Well, my little girl turned 17 so for her birthday we took her, five of her friends and Grandpa Thomas to Medival Times. She had a great time, we have pictures of her and the "Red Knight" who was all to attentive for her father (imagine me giving the stink eye to a guy in armor with a sword and him backing up). Our "serving wench" accidentally dropped our cake, so they brought us one of thiers and gave us all a round of strawberry smoothies. Then we came home and I sat thier in the dark of the van and listened to a group of teenage girls talk about boys. A Dad should never ever have to hear that. EVER.

After a couple of movies the girls turned in at about 4 and I was finally able to go to bed.

So far my job

has inclued braking up fights, trips to the park, skreach feats, makeing healthy...somethimes not...meals, cakes cookies and puddings, fighting of ghosts, head trama, abandoment issues, movie feats, sunscrean, stomping, ice cream, dirty dishes, haunted key bords, pipes, and bathrooms, and a new hippo.

So far last night was the worst.

I put Lucy down for bed and the others down after we finished Tarzan. well all alost went well

but vivi came down with head trama in need of a band-aid. Put her in mom and dads room with Greta.

Bella came down sobbing about someone knoking on the bathroom door and wouldn't lay down becuse she was scared to go to sleep, so stayed up to watch x-men and iorn man with me (the cartoons).

vivi chouses now to pop her head out and sobb about how she want's mom and dad becuse they're never here any more. (This is at 10:35) and Greta says she dosn't want vivi in bed with her becuse she dosn't like her any more.

to wich I lovingly say "Well look the other way and pretend she's not there! Now be quite and go to Sleep"

Dad and boys come home from Boy scouting around 11 after Iorn man and bella ends up in my bed.

I get to do this every day this week.

Katie trying to get a post from Bella

hi peeps

No Bella that is not a complet post! put in a story! Tell them about watering plats or the ghost you heard! Something!

hi peeps

Bella that's not a story! Now try again or NO Cookie for YOU!

nnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Katie's eating a cookie infront of me! Curse you Katie!

last night there was a sound coming from the bathroom-dondondon-and no one was inside so i said sushup - it didn't like that-dondondonnnn-so i ran down stairs and stayed there with katie and wached x-men - wolviren has anger- ishu's cookie! katie said that she posened are drinds it works it 90 years

from Bella

-with bandit and when they got home -bandit didn't get up for pizzas crust katie's baking cooooooookkkkkkiiiiiiiieeeeeesssss

Mistary meal

I'm making Lunch for Izzy, Princess, Diva, and Valocarapter but I had to share this.

I pulled out some Tilapia Fish Sticks and Greta runs up "Wow I love dos!!"

Izzy and I look at each other. "What are they, Greta?"

"I don't know."

At lest I know she'll eat it.

There's a noise in the tolet.

for the past two mornings Lucy has somehow put herself into my room and woken me up. This morning She didn't! I made sure my door was still closed because it's child locked. It was so I went to take a shower. Part way through I hear this noise. A clunk, and I'm thinking That's probably what that lady in the shower heard first on Phyco too! So i peak out and there's Lulu! She'd gotten my door open! How I don't know!

Well then she starts handing me all these things. A cup, empty shampoo bottle, another cup, my glasses, and a shaving razor.

Well I'm thinking that I'd better do something before she starts handing me really breakable items from my room so I reach out pull the oneze of her head take the diper of and stick her in the shower with me where I can watch her!

Lucy liked it, she turned the shower of once and put the stopper in the bottom of the tub but other than that she behaved herself.

I just had to dry my glasses off before I used them.

Smack Dab in The Acafala Swamp

On our way back home from Aunt Lauries we made a stop at a rest area in Louisianna. You couldn't see this rest stop from the elevated highway, elevated to keep it out of the swamp. As we cloverleaf around to this rest stop we are notified that we are "Smack Dab in the middle of the largest freshwater swamp in North America." Well isn't that just dandy, we've stopped for a potty break in the largest swamp in North America, maybe we can get one of the bigger kids to thrash around in the swamp and lure a gator in for the little kids to pet! We sat in the wooden rocking chairs on the big covered porch and made the young'ens sandwhichs while Maw scooted them through the outhouse.

Local flavor is nice and all, but jimminy Christmas.

Are you smarter than a Dog?

Yesterday there was a little gray schnauzer running around out front and I, like Zeke and well everyone else, could have sworn we've seen him before. He had no tags but a collar and came scampering over when I whistled. Well I picked him up to keep him from scampering away before we could find whose he was and Bandit, watching from the back yard, did not like this. She opened the gate and ran out to me and the stranger doggie.

Yes, she opened the gate.

Four times.

She figured out that the rusty lach will open if she paws at the botom of the gate and pushes against the gate, it will open just enouf to squeze through. On the same gate that took the little girls forvever to learn how to open.

We didn't find the owner and Dad had me put him down and he scampered away....

Bandit i think felt better becuse, I think, she thought that I was finding a new puppy or something.

Vacation!

Aw, dad you left out Asa's blood donation! He lost a tooth and had an hour long at least nose bleed, he left a trail of blood spalters that we cuaght the little kids from a bible school daycare pointing at. And Vivi finaly petted a shark, but she wouldn't join us for the sting-a-ray, even when we told her that she wouldn't end up like Steve Irwin.

Lucy handled the trip pritty well as long as Katie gave her yummy snaks! A twizler for each hand, oatmeal cakes, cheasey crakers!

Braden gave me a bike tour of the base pointing out every thing the morning we got there, including the Girl Marines. "I was watching them once but I saw them punce the head off a dummy that was scrwed on!" So he says, but I think he still slowed down when we pased. Then there was a tour on a carige of Bufort, and then on a boat where we saw lots of DOLFINS!!!!! and then icecream! I got a dirt sunday! It came in a bukit!

4th of July was cool, we went to the beach that morning and after boggie bording with Braden and wave hopping with Bella a lady taught us how to find Sand Dollers under the water! It was so much fun! We found seven tottle with the system of me finding them and Braden diving for them, two of them were the size of dad's hand! but we had to put them all back becuse they were alive still. Then we built a Sand castle city! My castle and the little girls castle and braden's castle with shell paved streats, moats, and briges! then I bured Bella!

And No one Celabrates the 4th of July like Mariens! there were bounce houses, hot dogs hamburgers icecream, and a band made of Marines

It was unforgitabul to watch the men in their unaforms rock out, voices and all exept they still had perfict posture!

Next day well we chilled with Aunt Wally! cleaned up her house a bit and went out to eat. and then hit the road ending our all to short visit!

We stoped at Pensacola and went for a middle of the night walk on the beach. At 12:45!!!! Full moon and all! So cool! kinda wish Eathan was there but there was dad and I knda don't want my boy frined to die.

The next morning Lucy found out that Florida has a bit harsher waters, after a wave picked her up and started to pull her out to sea if she didn't run into my legs. the next day we found sheals and Braden and Asa got covered in jelly fish stings boggie bording! they wrent bad stings but they got up their pants!

Verry Invasive!

And then the trip home! Asa was a bad snak passer outer becuse he ate them constently!

Asa continues to fish - at the aquarium

There will be more on our trip to the aquarium in New Orleans. But I wanted to drop this little tidbit out for you folks. As we are working our way down the floors of the aquarium we went through the Mississippi River section, and my bride makes a "your Dad's side would go noodling for those" as she pointed at the catfish. When we made our way down to the Amazon section there was a tank that was four feet high, so you could look down into the water as well as through the glass. Guess what Asa was caught by his Mom trying to do.

That's right, noodling, in the Audobon Aquarium of the Americas, in the Amazon section. Where things may just take the arm right off.

It's official, we are on vacation!