I'm On A Play Date

Well I have finally made time to post something.

Thanksgiving was alot of fun. John asked me, Cade, and Layne to go shoot at clay pigeons. I actually hit a few. I took Cade and he shot a bb gun. For some reason I kept getting the image of Ralphy shooting at the Black Bart target, from a Christmas Story, run through my head as I was teaching him how to shoot.

More good news I got some turkey this year!!! It was a lot of fun. The older I get the more I prefer Thanksgiving over Christmas.

This year was also my first year with "Black Friday". There are some die hard shoppers out there. For the last few years my wife has been one of them. This year I had to work so Kallie was unable to go. The people who got there early they were really nice. The people that bugged me the most were the ones coming in between 10 and 12 asking why we did not have any of the door buster items left.

The other day I took the day off from Weber and spent it with Jacob. Cade and I have done a lot of things one on one but because I am a slacker dad I can not remember the last time I did anything with Jacob.

The first thing Jacob did was pick out the clothes I was supposed to wear. Blue Jeans, a red Angels shirt and a red Angels hat. This was also the exact same thing that he had on. While Kallie reported for jury duty we built a blanket fort around the entertainment center. We watched a half hour of the Polar Express and then we started reading books. Kallie came home early from jury duty and then Jacob and I went to lunch at Artic Circle and then to a movie. I felt a little silly walking around in the same "out fit" (guys don't wear out fits) as Jacob but he was happy so I guess that is what counts.

After the movie we hung around the mall for a while playing on the little toys they have there. just a side note while we were playing on the toys I noticed a lady herding a bunch of kids to only play on one side of the toys, there were a bunch of kids very close in age so I knew they weren't all hers. Later I saw another lady coming to join her, with her was her 6 year old (I am guessing the age) daughter with no pants. The mother was putting the daughters coat around her waist to cover her underwear while the daughter was crying. I finally started putting two and two together and started looking more carefully at the ground and on the toys and in the middle of the carpeted area I saw a dark brown wet spot. I quickly got Jacob's shoes back on him and we were out of there.

Any way Jacob and I had a great time.

Halloween

I am not very good at updating this blog. We had a good Halloween. On Oct. 30 out ward had the trunk or treat and then on Halloween we went around to the neighborhood and Cade and Jacob filled whatever room they had left in their bags full of candy. The highlight of this Halloween for me was when I came home and at Cade's request Kallie carved the Angel logo into one of the pumpkins. I hope Kallie remembers how she did this because that will be a request of mine for every Halloween from here on out.

Cade was a guy in an accident (He just wanted some costume with fake blood), Jacob was a pirate and Grace was a duck. Of course I better post pictures with it.

A Few Pictures

Here are some pictures, Kallie and I are not the best at taking pictures. For us it takes effort to remember the camera and half the time when we have the camera we don't remember to use it.

One of the pictures is Cade the first time in his Cub Scout Uniform. In working with the young men the last little while it was fun for Kallie and I, (Probably just me) to go to the first Pack meeting. When the boys are teenagers getting them to do or be excited about anything is like pulling teeth. For me it was great to see the Cub master ask who wants to play a game and see 12 Cub scout hands shoot up. On the other hand Kallie came home and asked if that was a normal Pack meeting.

Setting it up

Well I guess I am finally starting a blog. I never really saw the need but in viewing different blogs I have noticed that it has been really nice to see what other family members and friends are up to. I don't normally leave any comments on blog but I have been looking any trying to keep up. So bear with with me as I slowly start updating the blog spot. I was going to title this one "Getting it up" but after reviewing that title I decided against that and substituted Getting with Setting.