Tuesday, April 20, 2010

EASTER 2010

Well we did the same thing this year as we do every year for easter and it was a good time except the weather was a little challenging and my mom and dad couldn't make it this year:( but overall we had fun and we will do it again next year. Some of the proud parents waiting at the bottom of the egg roll hill

Ron seranading us with his guitar playing

This is what my arm looked like after I had a run in with a giant bolt that was sticking out of a door while I was carrying a cooler. It was still bruised 2 weeks later and to this day the bottom part of the bruise is still there!


Braysyn on his dirt bike, everytime he would stop and leave it running I would jump on it and take off it was funny. He had several wrecks and never got hurt but that is how they learn.



Kyla, Terra, and Steph chatting it up by the fire, and no blue was not the designated color to wear, they just all somehow ended up matching.




Lainee and Mylee





Preslie







Me and Mace






I know I know I look like an elephant on a bike but it was so fun. I need to get me a 70 cause the 50 is a little small:)








Campfire improve songs. Pretty sure this was the funniest night I have had in a long time. I love just making up random songs about people. I got a few on video but I don't have written consent to post them yet, but I might do it anyway.

Maycee, Preslie, and Braysyn waiting to roll their eggs

Landyn, Aust, Stets, and Tanner rolling their eggs

Mace and Pres

The famous egg rolling hill

The kids getting ready to go on the candy hunt, minus Braysyn and Mylee due to a mini melt down right before we left, and minus all of Cary's, Derrick's, and Dallas' kids.














Wednesday, April 14, 2010

UH.... FINALLY A POST

WELL I KNOW IT HAS BEEN FOREVER BUT I FORGET I HAVE THIS SOMETIMES:) SO HERE IS MY TRIP TO TAMPA. I WENT ALONE AND WATCHED SPRING TRAINING BASEBALL, IT WAS PRETTY MUCH AWESOME. SO HERE IS A FEW PICTURES AND NOT VERY MUCH INFO CAUSE THAT'S JUST HOW I ROLL:)



PHILIES TAKING BATTING PRACTICE



PHIL HUGHES, AJ, AND CC


THE 2009 WORLD SERIES TROPHY




POSADA GETTING READY TO BAT






THIS IS ALL THE ATTENTION WE GOT FROM A-ROD AND JETER





ROBINSON CANO COMING OVER TO SIGN MY BASEBALL








SOME GUY WANTED TO TAKE A PICTURE OF ME SO I LET HIM. HAHA










POSADA AND CC GIVING A FIST BUMP BEFORE THEY HEAD OUT TO THE FIELD






Wednesday, January 6, 2010

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS

OK HERE IS THE PICS FROM CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS YOU MIGHT HAVE ALREADY SEEN THEM ON FACEBOOK, BUT IF NOT HERE THEY ARE. THEY ARE IN NO ORDER AND YES I AM STILL CARRYING HOLIDAY WEIGHT FROM LAST YEAR!!! BUT HOPEFULLY WITH MY NEW YEARS GOALS THAT WILL START DISAPPEARING:) ME AND MY NIECE SHAY

NEW YEARS EVE DINNER AT STEPH-N-CLINT'S, THERE WAS 31 OF US THERE!!! AND WE WERE MISSING 7(MY OLDEST BROTHER AND HIS FAM) I WILL TRY TO LIST THEM ALL
MOM-DAD
STEPH, CLINT, LANDYN, AUSTYN, MAYCEE, BRAYSYN, MYLEE
DERRICK, ASHLIE, SHAY, SHAN, SHONTAE, SHAYCIE, KIERA, ZOEY
KYLA, RON, KAYLIE, STETSON, TANNER, LAINEE, PRESLIE
DALLAS, EMILEE, WESTYN, TREYSON, MAKYNDIE, TREVYN
AND ME:)

DAD AND THE KIDS WITH THEIR NEW PUPPY


MOM, STEPH, ME, AND EMILEE



STEPH, MYLEE, AND KYNDIE




WHEN WE WERE ALL BUSY ON OUR COMPUTERS,DS' AND I-PODS, NO ONE WAS REALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT MYLEE WAS DOING AND SHE WAS BEING REALLY QUIET, WHEN WE FINALLY LOOKED UP SHE HAD FOUND HERSELF AN APPLE IN A BAG AND WAS MUNCHIN IT UP WITH HER LITTLE TEETH

BRAYSYN, TREY, AND WEST, GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER AT DALLAS AND EMILEE'S HOUSE




MAYCEE, MYLEE, AND ME



ME AND TREY


ME AND STEPH-OLDEST SISTER



ME AND DAD, HE THOUGHT HE WAS A THUG AND HE WOULD NOT SMILE


OK SO WE TOOK LIKE TEN PICTURES BECAUSE MOM CANNOT SMILE IN A PIC, SHE ALWAYS PULLS A WEIRD FACE, ITS LIKE SHE CAN SMILE JUST FINE AND THEN YOU PULL A CAMERA OUT AND SHE CAN'T SMILE AT ALL IT LIKE THIS WEIRD FAKE SMILE, ITS SO FUNNY, SO THIS IS THE BEST WE GOT

ME AND MYLEE JUST ROCKING IT AT THE CHRISTMAS PROGRAM


OK SO WE WANTED A PICTURE OF ME AND MY SISTERS WITH MY MOM, IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET EVEN A GOOD ONE, SO THIS IS THE BEST WE HAVE, THE BOYS WOULDN'T LET ME GET PICTURES OF THEM.


DERRICK AND 3 OF HIS GIRLS, SHAY, SHONTAE, AND SHAYCIE


JUST WANTED TO SHOW ANOTHER FUNNY FACE OF MOMS


ME AND KYNDIE

A BUNCH OF THE KIDS EATING ON NEW YEARS EVE



THE BOYS AND THEIR LITTLE GANG- AUST, LAN, SHAN, AND STETS


ME AND MY NIECE KAYLIE, CAN YOU BELIEVE SHE IS 16!!!


ME AND MYLEE, SHE LOVES TO TAKE PICTURES BUT WON'T REALLY LOOK AT THE CAMERA UNTIL AFTER THE FLASH THEN SHE SMILES

Thursday, December 17, 2009

STRAIGHT UP FROM BEN STEIN!!!

I REALLY LIKED THIS AND THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE ITS LONG BUT WORTH IT.

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where theAmerica we knew went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:

This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking. Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Are you laughing yet? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully, Ben Stein

Saturday, October 10, 2009

TEN THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR RIGHT NOW THIS VERY MOMENT

I decided I better put some things down that I was grateful for being as when winter like weather shows up I tend to really be a Negative Nelly. Here is my sad attempt.

1. I am grateful for baseball playoffs and the Yankees, without which October would be lumped in the worst months category.

2. I am grateful for soda without which I would not make it through most days or meetings.

3. I am grateful for my family because they love me no matter how grumpy I get, they are so polite and just tell me not to come around till I cheer up, so I will be very excited to see them all in April:)

4. I am grateful for my roommates, who let me live with them and tease them relentlessly

5. I am grateful for Ashley when she flips the breaker with her heater, because she reminds me what it would be like to not have power and how to be prepared if the lights suddenly went out while I might be doing things that could be dangerous. like shaving.

6. I am grateful for Kacee and all her many cooking adventures, she really knows how to make new recipes, my dad was very grateful he didn't have to buy salt lick for his cows this year he just used some loaves of Kacee's bread.

7. I am grateful for Cassie and how she holds leverage over my head so she can stay in the COT, this teaches me that I should not kick people out on the spur of the moment and that I should consider what they can do for me first. well played cleave well played.

8. I am grateful for my other friends who day after day wake up and decide they still want to be friends with me.

9. I am grateful for the guys who park their 4-wheeler and motorcycle, and truck which is a trash can on wheels right in front of our house so I have to park down if front of someone elses house, this teaches me to be forgiving, and work on my anger by not pushing his bike over or letting the air out of the tires, and I get a little excercise, I guess we both win.

10. I am grateful for floor burns on my elbow so that every time I put my arm down and wince in pain I can remember that I am 27 not 16, the next time I decide that I want to throw my body across the gym floor in an attempt to save a ball when we are losing by ten anyway!

This is not the list for the Month or even the week, its basically for the moment I was writing this, it could change tomorrow I will keep you posted.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Whats new? o wait nothing

I think they are about to shut down my blog because it has been non active for so long! j/k, a lot of it due to the fact that nothing new ever happens, I don't have a computer at home, and I usually just put most of it on facebook. Anyway I will try and get better at updating what is going on, mostly I work and then work some more so nothing to exciting to report.

Friday, July 31, 2009

MISSING MY NEPHEW

SHAWN MACINTOSH DEC 20TH 1994- JULY 28TH 2009
Why did he have to go So young we just don't know why Things happen half the time Without reason without rhyme Lovely, sweet young man, Son, Grandson, Brother, Nephew, Cousin, Makes no sense to me we just have to believe

he flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels By the clouds and stars and passed where no one sees And he walks with Jesus and his loved ones waiting And we know he's smiling saying Don't worry 'bout me

Loved ones he left behind Just trying to survive And understand the why, Feeling so lost inside Anger shot straight at God Then asking for His love, Empty with disbelief Just hoping that maybe

he flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels By the clouds and stars and passed where no one sees And he walks with Jesus and his loved ones waiting And we know he's smiling saying Don't worry 'bout me

It's hard to say goodbye His picture in our minds They'll always be of times will cherish And we won't cry 'cause he flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels By the clouds and stars and passed where no one sees And he walks with jesus and his loved ones waiting And we know he's smiling saying Don't worry 'bout meDon't worry 'bout meDon't worry 'bout me

Shawn helping out at the cow herd

I tried to get a picture of him and Ron and I had them both smiling until Ron had to turn at the last minute to hold on to the cow he was holding the rope to, its still a great picture though.


Shawn getting ready to ride the cow, he was off to quick for me to get a shot of him on it:)