Homework and my son

Today at the Lewis-Clark State College baseball doubleheader, my son sat next to his really good friend Patrick. When I told Patrick that we might be moving to a house closer to him, we got to talking about the area and it was noted that Jenifer Junior High School was between us. Patrick told Isaac that he wasn’t looking forward to Junior High because it meant he would have to do a lot more homework.

My son, Isaac’s response was, “I am already in Junior High then.” 

He always has more homework than most kids because he always has late work. He does well when he gets his work turned in on time, but he just can’t seem to get it done in class.  I got a good laugh from my son’s statement.

Super Bowl

It came and and now it is gone. The Super Bowl.  I had nothing at stake this year, so even in picking the Arizona Cardinals to win, I could walk away not feeling like my team had been defeated.  I am a Seattle Seahawks fan so it was fun to just be able to watch Super Bowl. I missed last years Super Bowl because I had to work. So this year I threw a SB party and invited my family over to watch. 

It was a great game. It had that feel it wasn’t going to be a great game. Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Rothlisberger again, didn’t have a great Super Bowl, but was able to keep his team going. His best moment was the winning drive at the end of the game. The drive that drove nail into my enthusiasm because it sure looked like Arizona was going to “shock the world.” 

Kurt Warner played like a Super Bowl quarterback and I figured had Arizona won, there would have been c0-MVP’s.  Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald.  But it didn’t end that way. 

For the record, I loved the Super Bowl commercials, minus one or two “stupid” ones.  GoDaddy.com needs to clean it up. Sex might still sell some things, but sell it with some good humor and not stupidity and dullness. I don’t have any real favorites because they come at you so fast, I sometimes didn’t even remember who did the commercial. 

Well now comes the bummer part. My wife is a huge NFL football fan and really that’s the only sport she will sit and watch. So now we have zero football for several months and even though I will move onto watching golf and eventually baseball games, there is nothing like watching football, watching football with my wife, and watching a really good Super Bowl.  One side note: If Pittsburgh gets into another Super Bowl, I’m going golfing instead. 

Until next year, good luck Seahawks and let’s get back to the play-offs!

Picture gallery January 09

 

 

Just some photos from Christmas 2008, Snow in December 2008 and Myleen’s birthday.  I am learning how to do this photo gallery thing.  Enjoy.

Happy Birthday to my wife, Myleen!

Wow, its her birthday today!  She is only thirty-something.  We’ve been married almost 12 years and she’s been a great mother to our two children.  We are having a small party for her today and we need a birthday gift from Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts today, Myleen’s favorite NFL football team. So Happy Birthday, Mahal and hope you had a great day.

Went Sledding

“I can really fly!” exclaimed Anika

It’s Moms turn

Saturday, December 2oth, my family

walked down the steep hill behind our house, crossed the road, crossed the railroad tracks and hiked up a short hill to sled.  What a blast. We can see this little hill from our house and we’ve been watching sledders there the past couple of days. So we joined them.  My kids had never slid down any real hill at all. Which is hard to imagine since they are 8 and 6 years old respectively.  But you’d never know they hadn’t done that.  They loved it.  Even their mom got some rides in.

A Journal and a Snow Globe

All my daughter asked for Christmas this year was a journal and a snow globe. I can’t imagine asking for a couple of things so simple. Simple to me. Wanted to and by her.  She saw one at the Dollar store a couple of weeks ago and said that’s what she wanted. That was easy to buy for her. A dollar and a trip to the store while she was at school. I always wonder what my kids think as they grow up. Now that they are living in the same place that I grew up in, life takes on a totally different perspective. But I now get to relive my childhood life through the eyes of my kids.  I can’t even think of something simple to get for Christmas. My list includes things like WSU Cougars wear, LCSC, the local college wear, a couple of shirts, a Wii, money, a gift card to Applebees. No, these are not hints. Those are things I honestly think about at Christmas time. But not for my daughter. She just wants a journal and a snow globe. Little does she know she’s getting one thing bigger than she asked for, but I can’t say it in this post because Christmas isn’t here yet and I wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise.

When Something Goes Crash in the Night

Things like this happen to people. To other people.  If something bad happens, make sure it happens on a Monday so that you have all week to get it fixed. Not on a Friday night, definitely not on a Friday night. Today started out not-so-good. Our internet went down and when husband and wife both depend on the internet to get their jobs done, as in real employment, that’s not a good thing. So I had to cancel my work in Pullman and Moscow.  I went to Les Schwab and had my snow tires put on as we have about three or four inches of snow and its everywhere, on every road.  During the day I kept hearing a popping sound, like the sound you hear when a rock hits your windshield.  I would look around and see nothing unusual. Well, tonight we went to Costco. Bought some groceries, loaded them into the back of our SUV, Nissan Xterra, and went to Albertson’s across the street. We got out of the car, shopped somemore and when I came out to the car and opened the back hatch, I found pieces of glass in the back.  I looked up and saw a hole in my back window.  I lowered the hatch and saw that the whole window had been shattered. I knew immediately what would happen next if I wasn’t careful. We reshuffled somethings after first trying to call my insurance agent. When I closed the hatch, the small hole got real big.

We decided to go report it to the police as we had no idea if someone threw a rock at the window or if it was one of those things where heat and cold cause windows to shatter.  After talking to the Clarkston police officer, we decided it was most likely the latter. Hot, with cold, equals crash in the night. Now I am driving with a huge hole in the back of my car and with no money (its Christmas, man!), to get it fixed. I dread getting up in the morning and breaking out the rest of the glass and vacuuming out the  car.  Anyone out there know how much this is going to cost me?