there comes a time when you need to accept the fact that you know the differnce between a good family experience and a bad family experience...
last night we dyed easter eggs with the boys, and max was a riot...all the pink eggs are his...and a few of the blue ones, just ask his hands....
then of course there is the goofy little Ben we love so much, unable to dye eggs at his young fragile age, we took the following picture instead:
yes, he is practicing his gymnastics moves, LOL.
the differnce.
yeah, family is a total fabrication of "proper family" is just irritating to me, have i mentioned i am going to visit good 'ol wisconsin....uh huh, well i have had my good family time for the next week probably, seems the only one who wants me to to visit is my little brother, and he wants to go fishing...everyone else, leaving town or does not care...
and here back in kentucky...i will be thinking about how max says my name, and ben giggles when ever i make goofy faces, it will make it easier to muttle through, who knows maybe i will come back early to be able to see them. to fish with keith, and watch tv with allyson and erika.
what a wonderful dream...oh wait that is my life...
well it is easter weekend, and while i am known for saying i dont like kids, there are a few i just cant get enough of!
case and point, take a look to the right, yes folks that is little Ben, yes, he is in a play pen, and yes that is erika and i's house, yes we have set up our spare bedroom to be not only kid friendly, but it is just for the kids!!!
yes Max, Ben, Lillian, Grace, John Wayland, and all the other little ones, you have a new place to play and yes folks they love it!
It is decorated with names, and the pictures painted and drawn by little hands, all neatly hung and displayed with pride by this very pround aunt, i have been very blessed with the knowledge that there are little lives out there that love coming around and love playing at our house, just as we wished for....
the laughter of children in our home, the joy of smiles and juice (um Max and Andrew love the fresh apple juice we make with our juicer...thanks jack lalane!)
and we have even had max ask to come play at our house, proud moments abound, yes we love having them around and we love the fact that they love being here...
summer here comes the sidewalk chalk....
easter here come the colored eggs....
kids....welcome to a place where you can get away with almost everything...and anything....look around...
the sign on the door now says kids welcome aboard...choo choo....no need for the blues....
have i mentioned that i have a thing for the eater bunny is coming to town!!!!
enjoy the clips all...........
hope this doesnt date me too much....but they just dont make em like this any more.....
i am once agian embarking on the journey to the center of the universe and of course my own personal hell;
i am of course speaking of the two or three time a year trip i make to wisconsin... this time i have a saving grace...
WE ARE TOTALY GOING FISHING!!!!!
AHHH HAH!
you thought this was going to be some serious depressing post didnt you...
well no i am planning on my trip to wi to be some of my best fishing this year, wonderful water sunny skies and fish...now i mjay have to go with my brother, however, i think i will make due as we go on the hunt for the big ones!!!
There has been a lot of debate lately of the depth of which fishing can save a soul...well i am here to tell you that it cant, but it sure can make the days and nights go by a lot nicer.
Yes my friend and i have been loyally fishing now twice a week for at least the last month, the current forcast calls for trout...
a lot of trout.
and the ever elusive catfish we so lovingly and enduringly go after time and agian? you may ask and i'll tell you you see this weather front coming in from the west over here? well it's going to continue to bring in cool moist air that is going to make fishing for the damned cat difficult, but i see big cats in the future...
dont worry...max we will be having fish for dinner agian real soon you have my word, and if we dont catch them... there are pleanty of these for you to work on....
Isn't it interesting the rallies and protests that befall our society to keep the GLBT part of society from marrying? the daily onslaught of televangelists who parade their righteous beliefs of hatred and unconditional love for their kind and their kind alone?
Ladies and Gentlemen enter the recent breaking news from Washington DC, the corrupt Senators and Governors, Diplomats to our society that are elected by us to uphold the very values that are set in place to help keep our DEMOCRACY SAFE...
Enter C STREET COMPOUND, WASHINGTON DC...Home to 5 to 7 our nations elected officials who refuse to give the right to marry to GLBT people in this country, who live under the delusional state that they can have mistresses and extra-marital affairs on MY DIME AND YOURS...fuck the hypocrisy in that my friends, forget it!
Please watch the following:
Now think about what you have seen, and heard...they preach to the powerful MEN only to HATE yes HATE their wives...how the fuck does that work...they equate Jesus Christ to Hitler, Osama Bin Ladin, and Lenin...UMMMMM....let me think about this for a minute...
We the people voted for these men...we put them in office to hold up the constitutional values of our country...please! Like the values of Hitler are the values the members of my family have fought and spilled their blood for? Have our loved ones and friends fought and died to defend the ideals of dictatorships and tyrannical leaderships that follow codes of conduct; that follow the suits of men who fall like dominoes when the power they so desperately seek falls away when the lattice they poorly construct crumbles beneath the weighted bastardly intentions of their own egos? These United States were built for religious freedom from oppression, I will be the last person to oppress another persons religious beliefs. If you want to follow a Third Reich Sect of Christianity, fine, as is your right to do so, but DO NOT hide behind a facade of falsehoods, and become elected on the principal of "Family Values" you do not hold to be evident in your life!
Do not lie to your constituents to become the leader you long to be. if your faith and your followings are the truth that sets your hearth and soul at ease why do you hide it in a closed society and shy away from it? if you are truly the ones who are following the Bible the way it was meant to be followed then you should be telling the world, not hiding this truth. would you send even your own families to be scarified to save yourself from the damnation of you God? Your Religion...or is it the damnation of your Group...your peers...
Yea Virginia...even Senators and Governors can succumb to peer pressure!
And still, to hate ones own family, to not befriend ones own wife, i sit here and am left to ponder this, and here i see the following, and wonder if there real truth does indeed come from the mouths of babes...
As Always My Friends... May Peace Be With You...and May the Force Be Strong In You... Angie
Blogging...ahhh the insufferable challenge we all face when trying to express our day to day life on the electronic screen.
Yes people, the one or two who ever read this blog, I am actually going to start Blogging again.
It makes one think of all the things we do in life that allow us less and less time for other things, however time is the one thing i seem to have a vast quantity of right now.
the source of such time, laves nothing to my imagination, and yet i am left to deal with the reality of it. so until i feel the time is right, i digress...
there has been a flood of things happening, birthdays births and life to live galore, and yet i have not put the proverbial pen to page for quite some time, so here is the last six months in pictures:
Many of you may remember (many of you LOL, those of you who actually read this damned thing) the "sunscreen" video i posted on here long ago in a galaxy far far away, however, i light of the birth of Ben, whom you see above, and the upcoming Births in Erika and I's families to come, i would like to share the video with you again... so here it is...
I will write more again sooner than the last time, and as always...
I am a simpleton. I live a simple life. I have a few people in my life whom I cherish above all else. I love Boxers, the dogs, not the people. I can take or leave most people, however, I will go out of my way to tip a waitress who is having a bad day and still manages to keep my water glass full. I also believe shivalry is not dead, it lies dormant in the hearts of the romantics, I am one of those. I love my future wife, Erika. The sun does not revolve around her, however my world does. I have three nephews, Max, Ben, and John Wayland, I also have two nieces Grace and Lillian and I love them dearly, Keith, Allyson. Dary, and Mitchell are wonderful people who I consider my family, a part of my world revolves around them too. I am a work-aholic,(or trying to get back to being one) though I am trying to remedy this by being home more for my bride to be, and my family and friends. You can teach an old dog new tricks, simply, hand comands, a treat, and a little praise. Like I said, a simpleton, a simple life, a simple person, a simple out look, simple views of the world, simple optimisms.
there comes a time when you need to accept the fact that you know the differnce between a 
good family experience and a bad family experience...
well no i am planning on my trip to wi to be some of my best fishing this year, wonderful water sunny skies and fish...now i mjay have to go with my brother, however, i think i will make due as we go on the hunt for the big ones!!! 
