Weekend Recap

Hey kids,
Daddy here. This weekend was another adventure for the MansClan. Friday night, we had Gabe and Rudy spent the night so I swung into Little Sneezers for 4 pizzas. There's was only a few pieces left which Gabe and Al ate at 2 am. As i was drifting off the sleep, I  heard a terrible noise. The sound of glass hitting the tile floor, but not breaking. Gabe has got to be the luckiest guy around for that.
Saturday morning, Mom and I had a morning date. We went to Starbucks and then to Home depot and Leslie's Pool Supply. We got the last of the wood for Papa's cooler. We had to get done for Father's day. So, Mom and I worked all the rest of the day on the cooler and Grammie's towel rack. I think it turned out pretty good.

Sunday was Father's day. Being a Father is so much of my life I can almost not remember before I was. I still remember when Mom told me each time i was gpnna be a father. In fact, I found out i was gonna be a father for the second time 14 years ago today. She told me on father's day that she's and I were gonna have a second baby. What a joyful day. I love you guys so much, and every day I thank God for the chance to be your dad.
We headed to 9am Mass and Grammie and Papa met us at church. Afterwards, we headed home for brunch. Mom had made quiche, scones, potatoes, sausages  and fruit. It was awesome, as always. After brunch, we played a quick game of B.S. and then headed to the movies. We all went to see Pirate's of the Caribbean since it was getting hot. There were so many people there, that we ended up in the front row. It worked out ok and we had a fun time. Mom and Papa nodded off at different times but they still loved the movie. After the movie, we headed home for some swimming. It's was about 108 and the pool was so nice. Grammie and Papa stayed kinda late and we had some snacks for dinner and checked in early. Tomorrow morning, Mom has to go to Chico for a teacher thing, so I'll be taking Al to workout and Foof to piano lessons. It'll be a busy week and crazy hot.

Sure glad we have a pool. I love you guys,

Daddy

Weekend Recap

Hey kids,
Daddy here. This weekend was pretty much a hang out and have fun weekend. Friday I left work early and when I got home we decided to play some street football. As Izzy had just scraped up or elbow and knee, again comma She Was Out. So Mom and I teamed up against Jake and Alex. We were doing okay for a while, but the boys started to pull ahead. Is he decided to get involved in the game as she was starting to feel better and we all had fun. Well, mom is and I had fun and Jake and Alex arguing about which one of them was Garbo. Later in the evening Jack came over to spend the night. So Jake and Jack got to stay up playing Destiny and had a great time.
On Saturday Sarah and Dean came up for a visit and we had a great day relaxing with our friends. We played a corn-hole tournament to the best of 7 and it went all 7 games with Sarah and I coming out on top period after corn-hole it was time for some delicious barbecued burgers while Dean and I played for more games of corn-hole and left it knotted up at 2 apiece. After dinner we went in to watch the fight and it was pretty uneventful with the two heavyweights pretty much just dancing around the ring period after the fight we all went to bed.
Sunday Morning, by the time we got up Sarah and Dean had already left period we got all of our stuff ready and went to church period I was going to read for Mr. Shoffner and it was our old pal Ed's first mass since his ordination. We went to the reception after church and congratulated him and got a great blessing and Mr Midas took 200 photos.

 After church, mom and I went to the annual Taste of Redding for my broadcast. It was a great time just hanging out with Mom.

After the remote we headed home and found out that Jake was going to spend the night at Jack's house period we had leftovers for dinner and a nice relaxing, Sunday evening. After a great weekend with my favorite people I don't mind so much going back to work tomorrow. I love you guys,

 Daddy

Weekend Recap

Hey kids,
Daddy here. Well, now it's definitely official. SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMAHHHH!!! We rang in the summer with an awesome weekend. Mom sometimes has a hard time relaxing, but I think she's gettin into the spirit of summer.

Saturday, Mom and I ran some errands and you guys stayed home and got the house tidied up so that we could go to the Reagan's for dinner. We played some corn hole, Cory bbq'd some awesome meat and we had a great time.

 Or rather Mom, Jake, Izzy and I had a great time. Alex was being a  butt for much of the evening because and I quote, God! There's nothing to do! It's like totally pointless for me to go!" Turns out, we all had a good time, with the exception of my phone which Jake dropped while playing basketball and cracked the screen to pieces. When we got ready to leave, I went to get Al and found this...

Sunday, Al and I were the readers for Pentecost. Our readings were a bit tricky, but we made it thru. After coming home to swim and play some more corn hole, we headed to the Warrens for a party for Father George. We watched the Warriors beat the crap out of the Cavs and headed home for some popcorn and Pirates. We fired up Curse of the Black Pearl and all but Al fell asleep in about 30 mins. Al put us all to bed and settled in for some video games. Tomorrow Al has weight room training for football and the whole nonsense starts all over again. I cant wait for our next adventure. I love you guys,

Daddy

Memorial Day

Hey kids,
Daddy here. This was a three day weekend, not just for you guys but for me too, sorta. I had a remote on Saturday for a couple of hours but after that we packed up our stuff and headed out to the house boat! It was our first house boat trip of the year and we were all super excited.

The lake was as high as I've ever seen it, which is awesome, except for the fact that there was more driftwood than you could possibly conceive of. Alex was a little bummed out because there was no one there for him to talk to, but when we got there I had barely set foot on the houseboat deck when he came up to me and said, "Dad there's twins next door!!" with as much excitement in his voice as a fifteen-year-old boy could muster. He was a little bummed though because his three favorite things to do on the houseboat are:
1. Play bolo (Couldn't do due to the lake being to high there was no land)
2. Hang by the bonfire (See above)
3. Swim behind the houseboat (Too much driftwood)
After we fired up the engines on the boat and push some of the driftwood out, we could swim that part worked out okay.

We had lots of great food and just an all-around relaxing Memorial Day weekend. My favorite Memorial Day quote this year has got to be, "Good people can sleep peacefully at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." I'm so thankful for all of our veterans that gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we could have a relaxing weekend on the houseboat. I love you guys,

Daddy

Braces!

Hey kids,
Daddy here. Today was the day the boys for braces on.

I know they're not real excited about it, but in the long run it'll be worth it. It's going to be sore for the next couple of days and probably for the next couple of days every time you have to go in for an adjustment but for a lifetime of nice, straight teeth a little bit of suffering you guys have to deal with. Trust me I know. And if I'm being totally honest, I think you look pretty cute. I love you guys, Daddy

Rodeo

Hey kids,
Daddy here. It's time again for the annual Redding Rodeo. This year we were joined by Cory and Mack. We made the Thursday night Rodeo our event out.
There was food:

There was good company:

And we all had a blast. Although I have to say, the bull-riding was a bit weak. The best part was the bucking broncos and the little girl who rode the sheep. Tomorrow morning we are all getting up early for the Asphalt Cowboys pancake breakfast. It's gonna be awesome. I love you guys,

Daddy

Mother's Day

Hey kids,
Daddy here. This weekend was very busy. It started on Saturday morning when we got up before the sun so we could take pictures in the field out back. Mr Vu came over and we took a bunch of pictures.

After we were done with pictures, Papa came over and we cut down some trees, mowed the back, pruned some bushes and started power washing the patio. All in all, it was about 12 hours of work, but dang the back looks good!!
Sunday was Mother's day and the Moms celebrated down in Chico at Jula's house. We played some cornhole and had a very nice day with some tamales we bought from Rudy's mom. We made it home and crashed. Another successful weekend. Although I think we're gonna have to spoil Mom this weekend since she didn't get a good chance to relax. I love you guys,

Daddy