Colin's collision

Thursday evening, Colin was at Gavin's ball practice playing with Maddox.  While chasing a ball on the tennis courts, he clotheslined himself on a wire holding a net.  He doesn't remember much of the details after that but he had bruises and a goosegg on the back of his head.  We kept an eye on him thruout the night.  The next day we had the doctor look at him and he said he had a mild concussion.  No activity or PE for a week.  What are we going to do with the boy??  He is slowly getting back to normal but it is going to be hard to keep him from running or playing 4-square for a whole week.  Pictures will come later when I get them off the camera. 

Spring Here Already??

I can't believe and worried about the weather we are having now.  Above normal temps and record highs for this time of year.  I can expect the pollen season will be horrible and my sinuses are going to be bad.  But like my grandpa always said " Not much we can do about it".  A lot of good is coming from it: kids outside playing, furnace is not running, and flowers are blooming.  We are getting a lot of compliments on our tulips in front of the house. 

The tulips have been there for the last 7 years and always look good every year. We will be keeping  an eye out for the rose trees when they start blooming.  They always look wonderful too.

  Now that I got my blogging caught up I have to do another spring time favorite   MOWING!!!

Enjoy the spring!!!

Week of the Birthday

  The past week was very busy and I was down in the back on top of that.  My back is alot better now and I am still babying it.  Like I put in the title, last wednesday was my birthday and I am creeping closer to that 40 year old mark.  It was a good birthday.  We ate at the Ole Tyme Steakhouse and the kids talked to the waiter to bring out a dessert with a sparkler lit in it.  I think the kids were amazed at it in it's glory.  It was a wonderful family outing.
  Saturday was 4-H shooting sports but after that I took the kids Geocaching.  For those that don't know what that is I will explain.  First you go on www.geocaching.com and pick coordinates for a cache near you.(they explain it on the website).  Insert the coordinates into a GPS and follow the GPS to where it leads you.  It should lead you to a box or canister hidden with trinkets and a log book to sign.  To the kids it was like treasure hunting.  We found six caches that afternoon and they did not want to stop.  This is a go way to get out and enjoy nature.  Other than gas money and a GPS, it is cheap entertainment and the kids really enjoyed it.  Now they want to go every waking moment.  Future Indiana Jones's!!!

Very First Find!

Another cache bites the dust.

Pinewood Derby Races

Well this was the big day for Colin's Cub Scout Pinewood derby race.  He picked the design of Perry the platypus (imagine that).  He did most of the work on it and I thought he did a great job.  I probably pushed him to try and get it perfect then realized just let him do the best he can.  Looks just like a platypus!! 

This was one of the heats he was in.  As I was helping with the races, I took pictures.

The last picture shows his car (third lane over) flying down the track.  He races 4 times and came in first two of the times.  A computer was used to time the races and calculate the winners.  It also figures the speed and one of Colin's speed was 127 MPH.  Now that is fast!!!

GOOD JOB COLIN !!!!!!



Rock climbing

Two weekends ago, the family went to Terre Haute shopping and while at the mall they had free rock climbing for kids.  The boys were all about it but Kendra was skeptical.  We convinced her just to try it and to go as high as she felt comfortable.  Caden got too high and got upset until we told him to let go and the cable let him down slow.  Colin got to a point, he could not climb past, close to the top and had to come down because he was getting tired.  They all tried it and we are proud of them for that. Here's the pics.

New look!

Well, when you are in the Hair Club for Men club, you know the beginning of March means no more full beard look. I usually start growing my beard out Oct. 1st and end it Mar. 1st. This year I decided to not to get rid of my beard completely. The guys at work have been talking about the "pork chop" look of the 70's. They convinced me to try that look. I didn't want to get rid of my goatee so I combined the look. Trust me, I researched images of "chops" on the net and was reluctant to shave my beard. After I was finished, it wasn't that bad of a look. I also had positive remarks about it at work. (Unless people were just nice about it) Scroll down and take a look. Feel free to post any comments!!!

One good looking guy?



Where Have I Been?

   Sorry, I've not been posting lately.  I would like to say that I've been busy with working last weekend and odd and end stuff going on, but I just didn't have much to say.  It's been a long week, Kendra's been sick running temp so she missed school all week.  Colin's been bored with nothing to do, and Caden's sensory disorder seemed to have came back.  Lucky us.
   I did get a chance to start working on Lucky's (our demon dog) doghouse.  It is the doghouse from the RMH's Christmas float.  It is a Snoopy style house, and I have been trying to insulate it and putting a metal roof on it.  When it is completed and you see it from the Pizza Hut parking lot, it will make you think that Lucky will have a 2 story mansion.  Knowing my luck she won't even use it.
   Lent started this week, so may the fasting begin.  Not eating between meals is one of my goals this Lenten season.  The other, that I might find a little tougher, is adding more daily personal prayer.  It is easy on weekends to remember to pray but during the week it will be hard to skew off the "normal" routine of my life.  Not only pray when I need to but also pray when I don't have to.  I think this will be a wonderful challenge for me and a practice that I hope will remain after Lent.
  This weekend was good.  I took Colin to Shooting Sports, went bowling with the Kocher Brother Construction, Inc. team, and went on a date with my loving wife.(Thanks to my sister Jenny and family for having the last minute babysitting service.)
  Date night was good for the both of us.  Went out to the steakhouse to eat, then a friend's pole barn for shuffleboard and conversation.  Which reminds me to question any road directions from a certain Kilpatrick couple unless you want to go to the river bottoms.(a "T" road should be in the shape of a letter "T")It was good laughs by all.
   Well that about all I have to say at this time, but I did change the music.  I hope you enjoy it and hope you will not have to wait so long for the next post.