Grandmas house (AKA Mom)

So the little turd comes running up to me "dad can I keep it." This time I’m not going to try and out smart him, so all I say is go and show your momma. So Gunnar runs into the house and shows Fawn and aunt Dusty as I’m staring through the back window. I get to see it all, both of them scream there little heads off. And almost scaring Gunnar half to death. I think I heard dusty say get out I really have know idea because I was laughing so hard. He comes back out side and he goes off with his brothers and his cousins to see what fun they can have with the toad. And all I can do is sit there and watch, and think to myself man I love this place and I know my boys do.

Dad can I keep it!!!

So there i was getting ready to leave grandmas house (AKA Moms) and Gunnar comes running up to me and the all infamous fraze comes racing out of his mouth "Dad can I Keep it" he goes on to tell me how he caught it all by him self and it LOVES him and doesn't want to fly away. So me being a genius i reason with him, "I'll tell you what if you open your hand and the bird doesn't fly away then you get keep it" i got him now right, wrong. So he opens his hand and the bird stands up and the stupid thing just stands there. Gunnar smiles up at me and say with a twinkle in his eye "see dad he LOVES me. And then Gunnar starts to climb in my truck WITH THE BIRD. Now you tell me how in the world am i supposta git rid of this bird. after the boys all sit down in the truck WITH THE STUPID BIRD they tell me how they caught it apparently Damon and Gunnar got a couple of big sticks and went out by the pigs. and as you can see they hit a bird and stunned it. I say "Gunnar open your hands again" he does and the bird flies right out the truck window. Problem solved. now there all excited to go back to grandmas and see if they can catch another one.

Father and Son's

i was camping with my boys this morning and just talking with a friend when my ,oms car pulled up, it was my brother. He came to inform me that alittle befor 5:00am my dad passed away. I'll miss him!

Joey aka My Dad

I have stewed over posting this for the last few days to a week now but I finally said who cares. This is how it got started, I had just read something from my mom and I thought well if she can why now me. So here is the first entry

If my momma gets to have an “I HATE DAY” then why can’t the rest of us? I hate that my dad is going to die, I hate that my boys aren’t going to know him like I do, I hate that he is in pain, I hate that I cry so much, I hate that he might not know how much I truly love him and have always wanted to grow up someday and be just like him, I hate that I cant tell him how I feel about him because if I do then I feel like I’m saying goodbye and I don’t want to say goodbye… if he’s not here then who will be here to show my boys the quacker the pissed off lady and the helicopters? But i know the answer to that I'll be there.

Then the other day I saw a sign of a little boy with a bubble above his head that said “who is my hero?” I thought about that for quite a while until I got home then I sat done and wrote this. I’m not sure if it flows but here it is anyways.

My Dad has always been my hero. He's not like Superman, Batman, The Green Lantern, or Captain America, he's more than any of the super heroes I've read about or seen on the TV. He didn’t hide behind a mask (although he did do great things without others knowing it was him), he was just Dad aka Joey. When I was growing up my dad was magic he could make ice cream appear in a freeze by saying abra-ca-dabra, and he could cut you to deep to bleed. It seems like everyone knows him, no matter where you go with the man someone new him and even now I occasionally get “aren’t you Joey’s son”. I think between my dad and my mom I couldn’t had better teachers, there both constantly trying to get me to be a better person. Once a long time ago my dad and I were at work (AKA driving around a lot) and he showed me the coolest stuff like the quacker the pissed off lady and the helicopters. Dad would take me and my brothers out camping and shooting, he would play around with us and show us the coolest things like dry ice bombs, and he always had a stash of fire works. I got to go out with Dad and Mom and dress up like mountain man and play with knifes, tomahawks, and black powder rifles, now tell me what little boy doesn't think that's totally cool? And more than anything else he taught me how to be a DAD to my own children, how to love them and play with them. He taught me what a real friend is and when someone needs help you jump right in and help.

WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE MY DAD!

Watering the plants

"Dad I gotta pee" those dreaded words came out of the mouth of all three of my boys mouth at the same time, I thing they planned it. Well there we were headed back from Tucson, I should of known it was coming. It took us about an hour and a half to get down there and because of the route we took it took us around two hours to get back. And half way back to mesa it was potty time. I think the funniest part of the whole thing was “look dad I can pee the farthest.”

Are you hungery for Cake.

Ya know every time I look at these pictures I can't help but wander, Why didn't I take better pictures? I know you can't really see how wonderful these cakes are and you can't taste them and find out how amazingly terrible they taste. well most of you know I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth so when I taste something and I like it, it usually ends up being really cheap, and then when something cost allot for some reason I tend to not like it. Whether or not I like something or not it sure has been fun to make it. And I thought you might like to see what I've been up to.

What do your kids do during the prayer?

Have you ever watched your kids during the prayer? i did today, and it absolutely grossed me out. one of the boys was saying the prayer and i see another one pick his nose and sprinkle it on his cereal. i wanted to yell NNNOOOOOO but it was in the middle of the prayer. he looked up at me and was horrified to see that i knew what he had done. he then very slowly lowered his head and folded his arms. now i may pick my nose from time to time, (i know me pick my nose its hard to believe but my wife can verify if you done believe me.) but we have tried and tried to teach the boys boogers go in the garbage not your MOUTH i thought they under stood that well guess now we need to teach them they don't go in your FOOD either. so the quiz for today is can you guess what boogers taste like.

Sorry about the picture i needed something that had all three of the Suspects in it, the pictures is of us swimming in January at grandmas.

I meen Really

What the heck I thought we were in some sort of Economic crises. And here I am driving to school this morning and (OK sing along with me) I looked out the window and what do i see, no its not popcorn popping on the apricot tree its SIX city on mesa Workers and one police officer (that's seven in total for those of you who might not be so good at Math), now i understand the Officer standing there, that's his job. But what the heck do we all Need to stand around and lean on our shovels and watch that guy work. cause i now of allot of other things they could be doing, if all they do is road repair i bet i could find stuff for them to do for years. but NO what do they do they stand around and the city has to, no WE have to pay they to stand there. On a side note i did yell out my window at them to "GET TO WORK".

Pheasant Hunting with Dad

I got to go Pheasant hunting with my Dad and and brother and a few others. It wasn't what I thouhgt it was going to be, but it was an awsome time. We watched them plant the birds, then to watch the dogs go and find the birds was cool allby its self. Then one by one we brought em down. we hit 48 out of 50 birds and got. THANKS DAD.

Space Ranger

I could of sworn that my Fawny was sitting next to me. She even got some sort of score, maybe Zurg got her. I'll get her back. Being a Space Ranger is something that I have always wanted to be and now knowing that I am ranked #2 as a space ranger, I thing Buzz Lightyear must of just barely beaten me. But its OK he's getting up there in years so he needs to win sometimes I love this ride