Recap

Hey kids,
Daddy here. The past few weeks have been absolutely crazy. One Sunday, we went out to breakfast with the Mangas family at Jeff's California Cattle Co. It was awesome. Alex got two full plates of breakfast! It was even too much food for him!

Jake has played in more basketball games than Steph Curry!

We had Rudy spend the night one time.

Izzy spent the night at her friend, Emma's house and came home and  begged us for a hamster, unsuccessfully.

I got pneumonia again and missed a few days of work and because of the stupid lingering sickness, we missed the annual trip to Laird's house for the Superbowl. We ended up staying home and watching the game just boys. Mom and Izzy went out and did some fun girly stuff and made it back home in time to watch Lady Gaga absolutely kill the half time show. It was pretty awesome. Despite the Falcons going up by a score of 28-3, wouldn't you know that the damn Patriots found a way to come back all the way and tie it! The first Superbowl in history to go into overtime. Pats win the toss, take the ball and drive right now the field to cap the greatest comeback in Superbowl history. Brady wins his 5th Superbowl, his 4th Superbowl MVP and we just sat in awestruck wonder. I could not believe what we saw. This games will be talked about for years to come, and although I'm sad we didn't see it with our friends, I'm glad the three of us boys watched it together.

We celebrated Kristin's birthday.

The car's transmission broke and we were down to one car for about a week. That was interesting. One of the days the car was broken down, Jake got up before his alarm, walked out into the kitchen and fixed himself a bow of cereal. After about 4 bites he looked and the clock on the stove and saw that it was 12:56 am, LOL. He finished his bowl of cereal and went back to bed.


That brings us to this past weekend. It started Friday when we found out Jake got the part of the King of Siam in the school play, The King and I!! I cant wait to see it SteveO, I'm very proud of you.  Friday night, Mom and I had a date night at Woody's pub.

Big Ol pub burger and some bacon and bleu cheese tater tots and a coupe cold ones with my favorite person in the world, yep. Not too bad to get the weekend started.

Saturday morning, Mom, Jake and Izzy headed out to Chico for Jake's basketball tournament. Alex and I had to get some stuff done around the house. Like giving Rudy a bath.

I heard from Mom that the boys lost both of their games, ugh. In the afternoon, I had to get all ready to once again host the Rock Mountain Elk Foundation benefit dinner at Win River.

There were some interesting characters at that dinner.

I finally made it home about 11:45 pm, and found this...

I put him to bed and then put myself to bed only to find this....

Sunday morning, we headed for the 9 o'clock Mass, which is our standard.  After Mass, we came hoe for a bit but had to take Jake back after the 11 o'clock Mass for a confirmation meeting. After the meeting I took the boys for haircuts. Despite what they thought, I liked them both! We came home and had to get some chores done.

Then it was a relaxing night of watching Arrow and some awesome roast that Mom made in the crock pot.

Today, all of us except Alex had to go to work and school. Al took the day off and relaxed. he and I hit the Snack Shack for lunch and I'm headed home from work now to check on the pool and put in the last of the chemicals. This weekend we'll have Jake's birthday and trivia night fun! The adventures continue for the MansClan. I love you guys,

Daddy