here are all the pics from our big bear trip, hope you enjoy!

big bear part 1

big bear part 2

big bear part 3

big bear part 4

big bear part 5

hahaha, check out the picture video i made

we are back at home. we actually got home really fast took about 1.5 hours. i figured it would take atleast 3 hours thankfully we left today and not sunday otherwise it would have taken 6 hours fighting all the traffic.

heather is asleep, her back is hurting. i have been fighting with the kids nonstop, my head is hurting(nothing a couple of beers won't cure :]). i don't know what their problem is but they will not leave me alone, not even to go to the bathroom... i'll show them, lol. just wait.

i think i am going to watch elf now. it has been on tbs all week but i keep catching the end of it. its one of my favorites. tomorrow we have to pick up the dog and i think i am going to put up the christmas lights. or i may just lay on the couch all day, i'll let you know tomorrow.

we all just got home, this being our last night we went to the movies. we saw deck the halls. i thought it was a great christmas movie, although its hard to watch anything with matthew broderick without thinking of ferris bueller . the best part is when danny devito sync'd his christmas lights with music using an ipod mixer. good stuff.

we are now back at the cabin watching numb3rs. i am editing all the pictures, cameron and joey are doing magic tricks with a deck of cards, heather is playing nintendo ds (which she has been doing the entire trip, i have lost her... again) and vicky just got back from gramma's cabin. we have the fire going strong, enjoying our last day in the mountains. not looking forward to tomorrow packing and cleaning. back to reality.

thank you mom for a wonderful trip. its been a fabulous week with lots of great memories.

literally, why is there so much static electricity in the mountains? i can't walk 3 feet with out shocking or being shocked. its not fun or pleasant, it freakin hurts!

happy birthday katrina, you are getting OLD!! hope you have a great day

happy thanksgiving everyone! i just got done stuffing my face and i can barely move now. we had all the favorites: mashed potatoes, green beans, fruit salad (yummy yummy), some very scary looking candied yams, ham, bread, butter and of course smoked turkey. next up pie, pie and more pie!

i am thankful for many many things... one, my wife and i have a very strong and successful relationship. we are very connected and i love that. things have never been better between us and everyday it gets better, she is the woman of my dreams. i am thankful for my three wonderful children. that they are very healthy and strong. that they are doing very well in school. i am thankful for my mother and how she keeps us all together, i love you very much mom. i am thankful that things are just going so well right now. i pray that god looks over us and keeps us strong.

well i guess i should go see if there is anything i need to do, like purge myself to get ready for pie. happy thanksgiving everyone, i hope that your day is as great as ours.

today we woke up late got ready and finally headed out to go fishing about 11:30. we must have tangled our lines about 20 times, we scott spent more time untangeling the lines then we scott actually did fishing. none of us weren't patient enough to keep the lines in the water and after 2 hours finally gave up not catching one fish. oh well, it was an experience to say the least.

afterwards we went to the grocery store to buy food for a bbq. chicken, steak, corn, potatoes, salad and some hot dogs. dinner was great, the hot dogs were the best! i am such a great chef. mom made margarita's and pina colada's. afterwards we made cookies and played the new yatzee game where katrina won, heather won but joey was the biggest winner winning three times! cameron, trevor and vicky all slept at gramma's cabin. i slept with joey in his room. when we woke up he said dad they're all liars you don't snore! maybe its a conspiracy.

again we woke up to a cabin full of kids. i snore to much so i have to sleep on the couch :( its so damn hot because the heater is in the living room and my mouth dries out to the point where i can't barely swallow. poor me.

we went shopping today and got old time pictures taken. we did this the last time we were all in big bear together about 6 years ago. we must have been in the "studio" for 3 hours where i had to hear every story our photographer had about clint eastwood and the series bonaza. i think we were the only customer this guy has seen in a long time. it wasn't easy to get 10 people all in costume and for everybody to keep their eyes open. i was the problem twice! bummer. oh well, finally finished. afterwards we went to k-mart to buy fishing poles so scott, the kids and i could all go fishing early in the morning.

today is my 31st birthday, we just arrived in big bear where we will be staying for a week with my family, my sister's family and my mom. didn't really do anything exciting today except drive up the mountain, stop to let heather puke her brains out and eat lunch at burger king, mmmm.

took some cold medicine about 4 the next thing i knew it was 10 o'clock and very very very cold outside.

today i started working out again, 1st time since before we left for miami. i can't put my arms over my head. it feels like my arms weigh 100lbs each. im hoping with each day it gets easier or hopefully the endorphines kick in soon. im weak!

steve sent me a link this morning, link, that got me thinking back to my childhood. i can't think of a better time than when i was in 4th, 5th and 6th grade. before stupid girls and hormones screwed you all up. life was just great. i can remember playing with lego's for hours and hours building the death star or having wrestle mania with the junk yard dog and andre the giant as the main event.

my favorite toys must have been transformers, you know: transformers, more than meets the eye. transformers, robots in disguise. haha... its weird because my kids are about this age and they aren't into anything like that. they listen to their ipods, play on their computers but none of them sit down and play with action figures or transformers or even lego's. when i try to get them to they get bored with them so easily. it seems like kids now are growing up way faster than i did and it really sucks because thinking back now those were some of the best times ever.

hahaha, k-fed used to live by us in yorba linda, lol. (via thesuperficial)

thanks will, this is the best part the warnings:

Jumping just before the elevator hits the bottom is not a viable alternative. Just do the math; if the lift is falling at 100mph, (figures are not accurate example of speeds of falling lifts) and you were to jump up, at the exact right moment at a velocity of 5mph, your total downward velocity is 95mph!

wikihow.com

don't ask why i think i was looking up the McPizza but here are some failed McDonald's items:

Hulaburger: A Ray Kroc invention, it featured a slice of pineapple instead of meat. Originally intended for Roman Catholics who were not allowed to eat meat on Fridays. It flopped when it was test-marketed in 1963.

Big Xtra: (U.S. version; for International variants on the Big Xtra, see Big N' Tasty) A three-eighths pound hamburger patty with optional American cheese, served with ketchup, mayonnaise, onions, three pickles, leaf lettuce, and a tomato slice on a sesame seed bun. Discontinued in the 2001 in favor of the Big N' Tasty.

Chili cheeseburger: the standard McDonald's cheeseburger, but with a no-bean chili sauce in place of mustard or ketchup. (2002) Test marketed in southern California.

McDonald's has also attempted pizza at various times, with an apple-pie-like McPizza and more conventional McDonald's Pizza.

i think they need to bring back the hula burger!! here is the whole list.

awesome! purely awesome!

on my way home from work, on my way to meet my family at my son's school fall festival i get a call from my wife. "do yo know what your son did?", asks my wife... what now!? (earlier, i got a call from heather letting me know that he was at detention for talking to much in class.) both my son's go to the after school daycare that is provided at the school, well this particular day my son decides to leave campus for 15 minutes, which he has never done before. his story, he was asking if he could go home with one of his friends, which he knows he is not allowed to do. his punishment, he doesn't get to go to the festival.

since they were already there heather let him play until i got there, in which i took him home. he swears that he was only gone for 5 minutes in either case he shouldn't have walked outside of the gate for 1 second. now i feel like a horrible person, was the punishment to much? i hate second guessing myself. hopefully he learns to never do this again.

jericho has anyone else seen this? this show is great, i can't get enough of it... the actor's are perfect. its the new lost

damn, its already november... where did the year go? this month is going to be a hectic one. birthday after birthday after birthday, then MY BIRTHDAY then thanksgiving where we will be spending the week in big bear! should be lots of fun, if i can make it thru work for the next few weeks.