New Floors, Sort Of...

Michelle and I wanted to resurface the floors of our house, but I didn't want to do it. Thankfully, Marilyn and Jake stepped up to the task. Here's a before shot when we cleared out the front room and kitchen.

The front room looks soo big now!

I'll take some more pictures when I can and upload them so you can see the difference.

Hooked On A Feeling...

Did I tell you about the time when I hooked my finger?

Ok, I know what you're thinking. HOW? WHY? OUCH! So this is the hook that came with Malo's new fishing pole. I took it off so that he could practice casting and show off to his buddy Josh. A few minutes later, BAM! I set the hook in my finger.

A trip to the ER and three hours later, I'm free! To tell you the truth, it hurt me more explaining to the ER Registry Specialist what happened than the actual hook did.

Fishing Derby...

We took Malo to a fishing derby last Saturday at Island Lake. There were about 60 kids there between the ages of 5 and 10. Malo got a T-Shirt, a fishing pole, and the opportunity to catch two fish.

He wasn't too excited about the hook being inches above his hand. Notice the finger-tip grip technique he is using.

Here he is reeling in his first and only catch of the day! w00t!

All in all it was a great fishing outing. I think we may have a little fisherman in Malo now...

Man down, MAN DOWN!!!

Bad news folks...
My beloved iMac is in critical condition. He's non responsive, won't eat, check email, or even wake up. It appears that sometime between Saturday night and early Sunday morning, the power went out and prematurely took the life from my poor unsuspecting iMac and his friend mister 17in Dell monitor. I'm not sure how to handle this, I'm not even sure I'm in the right state of mind to be posting this but I know that getting online and doing something is what he would want me to do.

I'll keep you posted on his condition as I seek professional help for both iMac and me.

Family Portrait

Here's our latest family portrait. I'm sooo hanging this in our house!

The Sidewinder

They sold these DVDs at Knott's Berry Farm and I just had to get one.



Man I tell you! The actors they choose for these videos are amazing. It was the best 15 bucks I ever spent!

Vacation Day One...

Michelle picked the perfect hotel for us to stay in. This is the view of Disneyland and California Adventure from our room. All we had to do was walk on over to the gates and boom, we're in!

80 MPH Michelle

Ok, so we're back from our family vacation to California. We went to Disneyland, California Adventure, and Knott's Berry Farm. I'm working on getting some pictures up but for now, here's a small video of Michelle going from 0 to 80 in 2 seconds on the Xcellerator ride in Knott's Berry Farm.

If you listen closely you can hear her screaming. hehe...

Another Tooth Story...

Since Malo's tooth surgery, his front two baby teeth have been very loose. We told him that if he let us pull it, we would get him a new Wii game. He aggreed but wanted to do it his way. This is what happened...

Of all the ways to yank a loose tooth, Malo chose to tie a string to it and shoot it out with a Nerf Gun. I've been proud of my son before, but this is his finest moment.

Malo's Special Tooth

Today Malo had his surgery to have his "Special Tooth" removed. All of us were a little nervous about the extraction but in the end, it wasn't so bad.
Here he is, just before his surgery.

See that bump? That's the extra tooth.
"I'm ok daddy."... sort of.

There it is in all of it's glory. I think were gonna make a necklace out of it.