Happy Fathers Day Bill!!

so this post is to thank my amazing Husband for being such an amazing Daddy!!! Our boys are so lucky to have such a great, involved daddy! They love you so much and it shows just how great you are!!! :) I love to sit back and watch you play with our boys, the play I try to do but fall so short on. I just dont get the world of make believe cars ;)
Thank you for being who you are!! Thank you for providing for us! Thank you for loving us! and Thank you for wanting to spend time with us! but most of all today, Thank you for being such a AMAZING daddy!!! :)
We love you!!!
Bradyn, Titus and jess :)



Bradyn



Titus :)

Bradyns last day of school

Today was Bradyn boys last day of school :( he woke up SUPER hyper I dont know if he got he wasnt going back or not but time will tell. Im praying whatever house we end up in, it will be local so he can go back next fall. either way he Learned so much and GREW leaps and bounds this year. He made some new friends and even liked his first girl ;) Miss Riley who my whole family asked about daily. and his reply was always she is good she had a pretty ____ (insert color) bow in her hair today. for some reason he loved her bows :) I totally forgot to get a picture with her today :( but I will scan in his class picture and point her out later.. :)

On our way to school


Look at how much he has grown just since September (this was on his way to his first day of school)



In front of his Class room being just oh so cute!!




With Ms Linda



With Ms Kristen


This is Bradyns Buddy Christian with the teachers


Silly Faces

ok serious

MIA yet again

So Yes I have been MIA again, partly due to laziness and partly due to these horrible headaches I have been getting. I have had a constant headache since mid April that gets HORRIBLE some days and other days just is there. been working with a dr and hopefully will get it figured out soon.
just about everyday I take my pictures of think oh I need to Blog about this or that and it has yet to happen. so hopefully over the next few days Ill get caught up with at least my pictures :)

Happy 16th Colleen and Caitlyn

I still cant believe Colleen and Caitlyn are 16 I used to baby sit these little beauties when they were Titus's age. My teenage years I was there second mom haha I love these girls so much and am so happy to still be part of their lives.


There parents threw them a awesome 80's sweet 16 today. Because I work so much better last minute last last night, I decided I was going to make all three of my boys MC hammer pants and I went on a quest to find the loudest most Florescent pattern I could find...... of course I couldnt find a pattern so I just swung it... First were Bradyns... I think they actully came out pretty good!!!

Titus and Bills well they were ok LOL Bills just had WAY to much material I think they looked a little clownish. either way we all came dressed the part and Bill even won best male costume!! :) This is the only picture I got of the three of them together all night and by this time Bills pants were broken and tied in a knot in the front LOL :(

I bought some material to make leg warmers for my girlfriend and I and had a TON left over so I made myself a dress real quick ;) I think it came out perfect!!

We all had a Blast!! Titus pretty much spent his evening on the dance floor the kid LOVES to dance.. I need to upload the videos they are hilarious



Bradyn hung out with his older girlfriend most of the night ;)

it was SO NOT fun washing my hair out after this but we had a blast and it was totally worth it HAppy Birthday girls we LOVE YOU!!!

BUGS BUGS BUGS

So my Boys are obsessed with bugs right now, Bradyn loves to go around outside looking for creepy crawlers and Titus is always a few steps behind. Today Londyn was right behind him too and they found a Caterpillar. Bradyn taught us all how it will go to sleep for a long time and wake up a butterfly :)







since it has been so long since I have gotten the three of them together for a picture I gave it a shot this day... this is all I could get haha they arnt as easy to picture together now days.

2009 Tour De Cure Bicycle Ride

Finish Line!
The Mad Start
Police escort up St. Vincent Thomas Bridge
Craig in on the Left and I on the right with white shirt
Craig and I again (i'm on the right in white)


Well starting last year, I have participated in the American Diabetes Assocation Tour De Cure bicycle ride. This year was much harder route in terms of hills to climb and difficulty in descent. It started in Long Beach at the Queen Mary parking lot and our team consisted of David Vandruff(Diabetes type 1), His parents, Harry, Sister Rachel, Kelly her husband and Craig - Boss. Craig and I did the 60 mile loop and the rest of the team did the 35 mile route. Our team raised over $3000+ to help find a cure against Diabetes.

We were the first cyclist to cross over the General and St. Vincent Thomas bridge legally and it was a cool site from up top! after our first rest stop, Craig and I found ourselves in the bottom of Anchovy street, a 15% grade 1/3 mile climb. Wow that was an insane climb and was able to stay on the bike (there were a few that fell off there's as they were going too slow - most walked it up).

After rolling through Palos Verdes and climbing higher in elevation, the weather turned into mist and clouds and we were getting wet, making it difficult to navigate the downhill switchbacks. We then we were given another 8% hill up PV and it was so foggy we could not see the top of the mountain. What a drag.

In the end Craig and I blasted down the hills topping 40mph back into Port of Long Beach. Craig, not paying attention, got his bike tire caught in a train track while turning, and kissed the pavement. Luckily he got up with no injuries and his bike intact.

We finished in about 4 hours and met up with the rest of the group and had a great lunch. Until NEXT year!

- BILL