Jake's Prom and Squatching at One Time Canyon

This was Jake's first Prom. It was Home Coming on September 12, 2009. They went to Subway first and picked up lunch. They drove to Layton Park and ate it their. They went miniature golfing at Swan Lakes. Jake Record came in first and Jake and Carli came in second. He dropped off his date so he could shower and change. He had to smell nice and look hot for his night on the town. He used my Curve cologne to spice up his manly scent. He went and picked up his date in Jake Records van. Sweet ride. All of them went to the Staleys house for dinner. They had steak, potatoes, green beans, garlic bread that was off the hook and then peach cobbler. They finished up and then took pictures. The single pictures took about an hour waiting in line. Then they danced. Jake made it a point to slow dance which he did four times. He may have danced fast once or twice but who cares. The slow dances is what matters. All in all he had fun. Then they dropped their dates off and Jake gave his a hug good night.


Here is Jake grinning ear to ear just anticipating the slow dancing and the food.

This is typical Jake so I had to throw the picture in.

Jake picked out the flower for his date. He called it a croissant instead of corsage.

Here he is with his date Carli Park. She live around the corner from us in the cirlce by the stop sign. Notice you can only see one hand.

Here is Micah and his date Rachel at the dinner table.

The crew at the dinner table waiting for the grub.


Here are some pictures from our night on top of One Time Canyon. This canyon was horrible. The road started out great and then narrowed to just wider than my truck. My truck got scatched up big time. We named it One Time Canyon because we are only doing that one time. There was a long stretch of road right next to a drop off of over a thousand feet. Another spot in the road had a huge bolder that I had to navigate which was tons of fun. We heard some howl from a deep canyon but we don't know what it was. It was in response to what we were doing though. This was on September 4, 2009.

Here is Amanda and Ethan sitting around the fire just before Squatching.

Christina eating dinner. Poor Christina getting caught with food in her mouth. Luke is probably chatting.

Yes? I know you are there mister.

Look, I told you it was dirt.


Amanda had to make sure she smiled first before I could take the picture. Ethan is wrapping up dinner and Lucy is snacking on her frito mix.

We had tons of fun but no luck with the big harry dude.

John...

Interesting Neighbors...

Well we have some interesting neighbors. Amanda went outside last night to take Sophie potty. The neighbors to the west were acting suspicious. She came up and informed us. It turns out people who are suspicious should not do things next to a neighbor that owns night vision. Turns out I witnessed our four individuals, two males and two female acting funny. I could tell the two men were passing a cigarette back and forth by how they handled it and flicked the ashes. The I notice a female pull out what looked like a pipe. She brought it up to her mouth and used a lighter to light the top and take a drag. She then passed it to the next person who did the same... and so on and so on. Hmmm... what are our neighbors kids doing while their parents are away? So what do you smoke in such a fashion? We finally have the Vampires move who were on the east and get good neighbors. Then our Mike and his wife on the west move and we get this. Vampires come out at night but the new ones seem to have an additional habit, I guess blood is not enough.

Well tonight they are having a hot tube party and there are more couples. I hope for their sake they don't bother my sleep or our friendly neighborhood policeman might be knocking on their door. The joys of owning a house.

John...

Ethan's Arrow of Light and Luke's Star...

It has been a while since I have made an entry. I am going to add several to this one. All of these took place in August. Luke received his rank of STAR in the Scouting Program. We don't have any pictures but would like to mention it.

Ethan earning his Arrow of Light. I am the Cub Master but I also play the role of Akelia when the Arrow of Light is given. Here I am reading the script that I made.
Now do you think Shay has confidence in Ethan not sticking her with the pin he is putting on?

Ethan after the ceremony.

Here we all are on the bridge.
This is for later.



Now the next few pictures are of Josh's teddy bear. He is a friend of my boys and wanted to have a burning ceremony to say good bye to his teddy. So they decided to burn it.
We have the pyro and the water boy just in case things get out of hand.
Burn baby burn. Now doesn't this remind you of the typical boys?


This is a day when Luke and Ethan were hot and just wanted to play in the water out back.
This is Water Ninja boy. Try and hit me? I dare you?
Yes... I have a gun and I am prepared to use it.
Dude. It is a water gun. For real.
Mwahahahahaha!!!
Well I thought I would catch up a little bit. There was a side note. At the end of August we had a party over and Mike and Louises house. We ate and swam. Before it began we were out back with the dogs and laying in the grass. Jake started laughing and said it would be funny if we were laying in some dog poop. He then got up and it turns out he was laying in some dog poop.

John...