rest of visit

the rest of the visit i had to work so gina took them around town and they would come up to work and have lunch with me.the jeep's starter decided to act up and we had to beat the crap out of it to get it going a few times. dad bought us a new starter.the kid felt better by end of visit.Dad went back this morning. we had to have him in ephrata to catch the train to Seattle at 4am or so,then he takes a plane to long beach.i hate that the visit went by so fast. it sucks to say goodbye to your loved ones.

the visit day3

The 3rd day we stuck around town.We went to the thrift stores which dad loves doing. we went to the garden(dad jumped right in there and started helping us work the garden which was nice),mont lake and a few stores around town. the kid was sick the next few days and stayed in the motel. heres some pics from this day

mont-garden with dad,kid

the visit day2

Day2:
We took a drive out to the coulee dam.along the way we stopped at soap lake and dry falls.On the way back we also stopped along the rode and enjoyed the lake,skipping rocks that kinda stuff.
When we got to the dam we went and had a picnic near the bottom of the dam.we were going to do the glass elevator tour but the elevator was broken. so instead we went to the casino across the street and played the slot machines for a little bit. Here are some pics from the day.

dam,falls,soap

The visit-day 1

Dad left today to go back home, the kid is going to stay for a few weeks.Heres how the visit went

The first day they where here we took a drive out to Leavenworth and the wenatchee river.We stopped at the antique mall, and this 50's diner called Studebaker's. Dad really liked the mall, we spent two hours in there and he enjoyed looking at all the toys he used to have as a kid. we stopped at this mercentile/general store called smallwoods.then we stopped alongside the rode and walked down to the wenatchee river and took pics and stuff like that.heres some pics from that day.

wenatchee river

antiquemall,smallwoods,studebakers

Its dads last day in town and where am i?at work how much does that suck

Day 1

Enjoyed day one with dad and the kid. we will write more later just wanted to share a couple of pics.

camping videos

Vidoes from the day we went camping

friday

We pick dad and the kid Friday night after work.they have been having a fun time in Seattle the last few days.today we got a text message from the kid saying I'm texting you from atop the space needle..which he thought was really cool..

disney in the clouds

Look at this picture.Doesnt it look like micky mouse on the left peaking over and doesnt it look like the Matterhorn on the right??

Camping

So we went camping yesterday with the forkers.It was pretty cool.WE have never been camping before and didnt really know what to expect. I'm glad we did it. The campsite was cool. it was on the other side of town( about ten mins away) and we had a site right next to the forkers and together we shared this caul-de-sac area of the campgrounds,We were right there next to the lake. you could get in and swim(if you dared).There were a lot of people boating, jet skiing and stuff like that. we are at the one end of the campgrounds next to this fence(chain link) that showed where this guys private property started, The Canadian geese took up home there(i was certain the geese where going to try and pull the tent or one of us through the fence.like in that video where the polar bear tries to pull that lady through the bars of the fence..lol..) and a whole bunch of squirrels. We saw a squirrels nest to. kinda neat. Then we started a fire in the pit thing.John started it, and no he didn't blow anything up or singe off the hair on his face or anything. we roasted some turkey dogs over the fire for diner.The later we made smores.Then the sun went down(nice sunset) stars came out(lots of them).johns wife and daughter decided to go home and sleep.we stayed(first time camping you got to sleep outside in a tent right)John and his son shared a tent and gina and i shared a tent. had a hard time sleeping.With the noises from outside,and the uncomfortableness of sleeping on the ground we didn't get much sleep and where up by 4am. Which in retrospect wasn't bad because we did get to see the sunrise,and just nature waking up..it was neat. We liked camping.Would we do it again...yes.. Heres some pics

camping

crazy wilson

The other night after having a few shots with the forkers we were all hanging around the living room talking. While we were talking one of their cats (boo boo) decided to stick his paw inside the cage of one of the forkers pet mice(the lid to the cage was open.A/c is broke so they were trying to cool him off).As boo boo was gently trying to pet the mouse.The mouse, what looked like to us,grabbed a hold of boo boos paw and wouldn't let go.So boo boo pulled his paw out of the cage and started to try and get the mouse off his paw. boo boo was flaring his paw left to right and up and down.Just then the mouse flew off boo boos paw and while in mid air we swear it did a few head over heels rotations.The mouse then landed spread eagle on ginas shirt.Gina didn't even flinch just looked down and said ok..it was like that kinda of stuff happens all the time. It was one of those moments you had to really see to believe,with the paw flaring and mouse rotations and ginas cool reaction..lol.I wish one of had a camera going I'm sure that would have been a youtube hit..lol..

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Well dad and the kid are in Seattle right now visiting with our dads friend..they will be here this Friday..Cant Wait for them to get here.

I have the next three days off from work,which is nice. Last night i worked till 11pm. i lost my name badge(which i use to clock in and out with) it was there when i started to throw cardboard in the baler and then it was gone when after i was done..guessing its in the baler somewhere..lol..crushed.they told me to wait around and they would show me how to clock out on the computer..i said fuck it and went home..i'll clear it up on Friday when i go back to work..got to figure out how i'm going to clock in to work too...then these kids decided to rip open the bags of chips scatter the chips in the aisles and step on them..so i spent a portion of my night cleaning up after these punks..i was glad when the night ended..

The garden is coming along..the weather is being brutal to it tho. 100 degree heat for about three weeks now..we have 4 pumpkins that are a decent size now.we are going to go do some weeding in there today and kinda clean things up a bit.with this heat the weeds grow like crazy.

Tomorrow the forkers and us are going camping by the lake. we have never been camping so this should be interesting. we will take a bunch of pics and put them up here later this week.

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work

ok so i clock into work and no more then 30 mins later i hear over the intercom.."due to circumstances out of our control all associates and customers must evacuate the building"...i'm thinking sweet!...there was a natural gas leak..as i was heading towards the doors a manager( one of the ones i don't like much) stops me and asks me "aren't you going to tell people they have to leave"...fine, first person i go to i tell them they have to leave and why and they bitch well cant i check out first...wtf...i said go ahead and try...i turned around and got out of the building..didn't stop and tell anyone else.i was one of the first few people out..the one thing the pond and Jim G. taught me was my safety first..if these people want to get blown up thats fine but i was getting the heck out...

4th of july

kinda wish we were back home in the backyard with our family having a bbq and sitting there watching the fireworks go off.Hope you guys are having a good 4th, we miss you guys and love you too, most of you..lol..

Work

It sucks to work where i work on a holiday..its been crazy packed in there the last couple of days.it was nice today i get there and they say you need to help out in produce or dairy..i took dairy..Its been in the 100's here the last few days so going into the dairy cooler and stocking milk and stuff, i didn't mind..lol..at one point i looked down at my hands and they were really red and felt numb..guess it got to cold for them..it was funny they decided to put out in front of the store all this soda, chips and stuff like that that was on sale i guess, to try and get you to buy it. well after a couple of days of 100 degree weather the soda cans started to explode..lmao..it was funny watching them bring back into the back room all this soda that the tops had popped off..

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RB-Ball

Here a couple latest pics of the rubber band ball.

cool pic

We took this pic the other night,the sun was coming down..its kinda cool we think..

July 1st

As of today we have been living in Moses lake now for a year..This year went by fast..most days it feels like we just got here and other days feels like we have been here a year or more..lol...