UFC in Sac Town

Here is a picture of Randy Couture, current UFC Heavy Weight Champion. My friends and I went to the weigh ins to see if we could get some pictures with some of the fighters. Too bad we didn't realize the sport is soooo popular now that you have to practically camp out early in line to get the chance. Still, I managed to get an autograph picture of Randy, a photo and actually shook his hand. This guy is a stud, let me tell you.

Here is one of the friends that came with us. His name is Shawn. I would tell you a little about him, but I think the picture says enough.

It was a little sunny outside so when he found a pair of sunglasses for free...I think you get the point.

Shawn figures on being a MMA fighter someday. I don't know if he actually gets a sponsorship from Tap Out (click on the picture to see it bigger) by writing their name on the sunglasses with a sharpie, but that fighting stance just might! Randy (above) is one of his idols.

Boating with the Carruths

We hadn't seen our friends the Carruths for a while so we decided to go boating. I think the time the kids enjoyed the most was just getting out of the boat and swimming. They also really loved the tube. I was driving, otherwise I would have gotten a great photo with Jesse on his brother's lap with a giant giggle mouth. That was how he looked the majority of the time that he was out there.



The kids liked it when Scott would throw them the rope and then pull them in real fast.







This is the view that I had every time that I stopped the boat and moved to the back to either help someone or go swimming. This boy LOVES the water. Any chance he gets, he goes in. It is fun watching him trying to keep up with his older siblings. He will actually fall in face first off the side of the boat, about a two foot drop, because he sees his older brother learning to dive in. He always comes up lauging.


When I stop the boat after they are done tubing, he will quickly head to the side of the tube and drop in.


I don't know how these adrenaline junkies ever get started. Hmmmmm.

Cowgirl and Cowboy

We were shopping at a Safeway at Tahoe when Cece found the hat rack (schocker). She does look very cute even with the ketchup on her face still. Blake not to be outdone shows us how rugged he looks. After the picture, Cece says, "Dad, can we put that on our blog when we get home?" Well, here you go girl.

Nostalgia

I was buying fireworks at this parking lot when I spotted this boat out by the stand. What memories this image brings, however, ours was more of a disco orange color and later instead of brown and later it was closer to fire engine red. Even the trailer is the same. Notice the flat bottom on that boat. That made it super bouncy on the lake. Kidney belt anyone?




Take a look at the inside. We had an "eight ball" gear shift knob and our pedal had an outline of a bare foot. AWESOME.







See that? That is not a propellor, that was a jet boat and there was lots of bubbles coming out of there. Not the smoothest skiing to go behind, but it still was fun. You might notice the small bump where the engine was. A Chevy 454 that was so loud that we were always noticed. We even went fishing with this boat once. No trolling motor needed. Did we catch anything you ask, well no. guess that proves that fish are scared of loud noises. I think the other fisherman already knew that and were very glad that we left.

Blakers loses his first tooth...make that teeth

Blake called me at work at the end of June and said, " guess what dad, I have a grown up tooth." Sure enough, when I looked into his mouth I saw that he had his new tooth coming in. Too bad it didn't come up under the other tooth since that meant he had to have it pulled. Although, now the dentists don't pull teeth, the wiggle them. When he went to the dentist they could see from the x-ray that the one next to it was also having a problem dissolving the root, so he might as well wiggle them both out.

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Before

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The tooth fairy came and took his teeth and left some pixy dust behind. Apparently she gave Blake a kiss because there was pixy dust on his cheek.

After

Cecilee's pretty dress and Clown Jesse

Cece wanted everyone to see her fluffy dress.

Can you guess who got into the markers?

Baseball Blake

Blake had a lot of fun with baseball this year. Ok, maybe it was a long season with a lot of games and not a whole lot of action during innings, but at least he got a trophy like Porter, or as Blake calls them Troophy.

Cece with her friend Josie. Josie's brother Andrew played with Blake on the team.