Monkey Boyz!

My boyz love to climb trees. I joke with them and tell them if they spend too much time in the tree they will grow a tail.

Nathan actually walked over to some people at the park and told them to be careful when they climb trees!

Car Break-in - in SLO??!?

Today I parked on the top floor of the new parking garage in downtown SLO (the one on Palm st). I was just getting off the phone (with a detective in SB - talk about IRONY) and I left the stairs and turned to my car.

The driver's side door and trunk was open. My first thought was debating whether or not this was my car.

What was stolen? Not much - I have plenty of reason to count my blessings. Even though the trunk was opened -the tools and even a LAPTOP was left behind. Onside my car the charger to my cell phone, a Maglight, and some CDs were the victim. Not to mention my driver's side window is now out of its track since it was forced.

So I did call it in to place a police report. I guess life wasn't exciting enough!

Anyway, I thank God the car was not more damaged. I thank the Lord my client's laptop in the trunk was not stolen and I thank the Lord that this was all that happened and it was not a crime a violence.

Stay safe and lock your doors. Even in SLO Town.

"I found a snail!"

We are enjoying the weekend at my mother in law's house - the boyz are playing around as usual and I heard my youngest son say, "I found a snail! He is going to be my best friend."

Totally hilarious - something I never want to forget. 5 minutes later I heard him say, "I stepped on him, because I do not like snails."

Plagiarized!!?

Yes, an article I wrote (actually 7 of them) were copied by TechXpress!

To make things more interesting, it was out on the newswire.
OLD URL: www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2186994.htm

So I took advantage of of the situation and wrote a press release on my own company site
I was recently contacted by the owner who took down my articles and asked that I remove my Press release.

Movie Night

So about every two months Travis and I try to put together a MANly movie night. Previous movies have included:
Gladiator, Alien vs. Predeator, Alien, Aliens, Iron Man, The Hulk, etc - the last movie we upgraded our office for Blue Ray as well.

Now my wie play in the orchestra so about once per month she will come early with the boyz and we hang out in the office and watch a movie together. Tinight we watched Back to the Future.

What an adventure! It has everything boyz love - cool machines, a bully that gets beaten up, an electric guitar, lightening, guns, a pretty girl, and of course skateboarding behind cars!

Throughout the whole movie Jacob was asking about what was hapening in the movie - he aso would do reality checks of whether or not time travel is possible.

We have watched all kinds of good boy movies together (especially my oldest): star wars (the original 3 of course), all three Lord of the Rings (Legolas was his favorite), ET, and Karate Kid.

I am still not sure how I am going to top this last movie night the next time my wife is in orchestra!

1. Making Mo-hawks during bathtime
2. being shot at from pretend guns across the kitchen
3. Saving my son who is 20 feet up in the air, stuck in a tree
4. Chasing naked boyz around the house
5. the tickle monster
6. Story time
7. Wrestling in the living room
8. Scaring my boyz when they walk around the corner
9. Building a treehouse

These are some of my best memories with my boys. I love being a father.

"Daddy, can I use your staple gun?" - that is how my day started today and I love every minute of it!

How many dads get this question from their five year old?

Whenever I work around the house, Jacob is there to help. I know that I work at half speed when he is around because of all the questions I have to answer, and the curiousity he has that tends to get him in trouble - but it is also fun.

My favorite thing is when I ask, "Jacob, can you get me a screwdriver?"
and he says, "Do you want a philips or a flathead?"
I am so blessed!