Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Jeremy's Motorcycle


Jeremy passed his permit test on Tuesday, April 29 and drove his gas guzzling truck directly to buy a motorcycle. This should help on gas consumption. Not to mention the fun for Jeremy.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Alexandra's Baptism

Alexandra was baptised Sunday May 11th. We had everyone head on down the hall at church after the baptism to enjoy pot luck lunch. Most everyone was able to make it over to our house afterwards (we just didn't have to feed them). It was a very enjoyable day. Alexandra was smiling so big at Pastor Chronis he said if she didn't stop smiling he wasn't going to be able to finish. She had stole his heart.


This is Katie, Jeremy, Godfather Tom (Katie's brother) and Godmother Joy (Jeremy's sister) with Alexandra.


This is Great Grandma Hazel, Grandpa Ron, Katie & Alexandra.


This is Grandma Lee, Katie & Alexandra.


This is Grandpa Jim, Jeremy & Alexandra.


This picture is actually from Easter but it is Jeremy, Grandma Ila, Great Grandma Dorothy & Alexandra.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

NKOTB


Check this photo out, they say some things get better with age???
Any votes??? (except the convict on the right)
Go NKOTB!

Now that I'm 30...

I received this email and thought it was funny. Instead of bombarding email in boxes with it, I thought I would post it here!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways ... yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! …With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire..Imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Monday, March 31, 2008

NKOTB

Thought this was hilarious! Did we really like these boys when we were younger?


Following two months of rumors that New Kids on the Block might be back on the block, the '80s boy band is slated to appear on the April 4 edition of NBC's "Today" show.

Lake Of The Woods Ice fishing trip


This was our Ice Fishing set-up at Lake of the Woods. The 4-wheeler on the right is mine. It is a Polaris 700. The 4-wheeler on the left is my brother-in-law Todds', it is a Suzuki 750 with his Ice house. The sled behind my 4-wheeler was another family members which we used to haul two of the five kids in our fishing group. There were 4 adults and five kids in our group. All related in one way or another. The island behind us in the picture is Garden Island on Lake Of The Woods. By GPS our spot here was 22.93 miles from our resort straight as an arrow. But, actual mileage was between 26-32 miles out on the lake from shore. We all had our own 4-wheelers and drove them out. We were up here from thursday March 27th to Sunday March 30 2008. We caught our limits of Walleye and had a great fish-fry out on the lake friday afternoon. Only one trip to the E.R was made when one of the kids in our group got a treble hook buried in the palm of his hand. Nobody else was "seriously" injured on our trip. This was my 3rd year going on this trip and I am already counting down the days to go again. The last few years I have gotten so much into ice fishing that I'd have to say I enjoy it more than summer fishing. Maybe I'll sell off all my summer equiptment and buy more ice fishing gear. Yea right!!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

What the.....!


Hey Mom and Dad. So help me this picture better not come back to haunt me later in life! I can say though that I do thank you both for keeping this picture rated PG and not The Unrated version. Hey, I just noticed there is something on my head, What the....!