Surfing birds!

There's been all this talk about sharks lately. People have been spotting Great Whites, or what they think are great whites all up and down the coast in Southern California lately. Trails and San O in San Clemente have always been the spots where you see them, but Great Whites or any sharks for that matter aren't out to kill people. I mean, some guy did just get sawed in half by one in Solana Beach, but he was swimming in a pack of dudes that were training for the Olympics 100 yards past the lineup. What a retard, that's what pools are for. And then two different surfers were killed this month in mainland Mexico, but they probably had just eaten some Carne Asada, and everyone knows that sharks like meat and to stay out of the water at least 45 minutes after eating and at least 2 hours after eating Carne Asada. Duh. So me an Trev are gonna hit up San O in the morning and get some log time in, hopefully we wont see any sharks, but they're kinda cute anyway. Look at this one, looks just like Jonesy but a little darker. Same teeth. Same smile. They prob just wanna play in the backyard with a ball too.

Going get going.... going.... going....

I'm trying to get back in the saddle on this stuff... gonna try and write something at least once a week, maybe even once a day... don't get me started on promises I can't keep, I've already bitten off more than I can chew. Not really, but any more would be. Juli has been quite the momster blogger lately and that has kicked me in the butt to get this going again and keep at it. We'll see now won't we. I leave you with this album cover, via Ween's 'Chocolate and Cheese' cause it always makes me smile. And right now I am!

Vaughn wins the prestigious cutest baby in the world award!

So what if the only judges are the parents...

Vaughn has the best mom in the world....

Vaughn the Talker...

Here he is... We've moved up to video now...

Another famliy portrait

Here's a resent photo of the fam. Vaughn is sleeping while standing up and I look retarded, but at least Juli looks good, as always.

Australia on the wish list...

We really want to move to Australia. Anyone wanna help? I'd need a good paying job and a work visa. Willing to trade a four month old boy or a german shepherd mix and two cats. Please respond soon, thanks!

They all went to Mexico...

Easter weekend we joined the throngs of Mexicans at the beach in Ensenada, the weather was great... Vaughn is a champion in the car on long drives, and after the great weekend we had a Doug's house, it looks like Vaughn is going to be learning spanish at an early age cause we are definitely going back on a regular basis. Here's a pictorial update cause I'm sick of typing.

Grandpa Doug, Mom, Dad & Vaughnster

Me and the wifey after a day of sun and maybe some cold cervezas!

The boys being boys

Trevor finally started catching some fish and boy was he stoked about it. They did taste quite yummy. 

Update!

It's all about the baby! These are a couple weeks old, more are coming soon if I quite procrastinating like I say I will...

Update Schmupdate....

I did it again. Whatever. Check the photos.

It's fuckin' freezing here... Seriously!

So, this morning Vaughn was up around 6 am for his morning boob and Jonesy was whining to be let outside for a pee as usual. The last day or two, Juli has let him out to pee and told me about the frost on the grass in the backyard - but I didn't get out of bed to see it for myself even though she plucked a piece and brought it into the bedroom, I didn't think it was the entire yard, just a patch here or there. Now, this is Southern California and even though it has been unusually cold for this time of year there is no way a whole yard freezes in Costa Mesa, or does it? When I walked outside I thought there was something weird going on and with a little further inspection I saw that the backyard was frozen over. I ran inside to get the camera to document Jonesy tiptoeing across the ice to take a pee, and I even had to pick him up and carry him back inside since apparently he's a little pansy about getting his feet cold. Good thing I put on my slippers before wandering out. I'm wish I would have taken some video of him walking on the frozen grass, but I was a little too slow on the camera. I did, however get some good footage of Juli's left tater squirting a thick line of breast milk half way across our bedroom without even so much as a squeeze - but something tells me that she wouldn't be too stoked on me posting that video here.

It may be a white Christmas after all - even without Wade around!

Standing on ice in the backyard

Jonesy's weiner looked like a smoking gun after unleashing hot pee all over the ice field

Vaughn bites his way out of the womb

Again I went way too long without an update and wouldn't you know... Vaughn has pierced the womb and is silently sleeping in the swingy thing next to me right now. December 5th, 2007 is his birthday and he came out weighing in at 7 lbs. 12 ounces, which makes him a little small for the fried turkey pot, but hopefully by xmas the tater milk will bring him up to weight. We didn't get to eat the placenta, i think one of the nurses dropped it on the floor, therefore making it inedible, bummer! Here's some photos... expect more, hopefully by the end of the year.

The first official self timer family portrait!

Daddy's still working!

Vaughn looks like a tortise and I look like jabba the hut

Jonesy is going to make a great babysitter!

Apparently placenta tastes like filet mignon...

Or so I read on the internet somewhere. Juli said if I really want to, I can eat the placenta. Yummy. We're full term, only two or three weeks left till the placenta feast at our house. Yippe, make your reservations now!

Time Flies....

So, its been a while. Oops. Time sure does fly when you're having fun...

We spent a week in Kauai!

Weekend trip to Mexico!

So it has been a while since we ventured sown to Mexico, and we made the decision not too until after the baby was born. But then last weekend was a three day weekend cause of Columbus Day, so kinda at the last minute we decided that Juli, Jonesy and Vaughn could all handle a few days in Mexico and we hopped in the truck and made the trek. The traffic was light and when we pulled up to the house there was no one there but Doug. Weird for a holiday weekend, but we weren't complaining! The next few days were spent sitting on the back porch reading books, staring at the ocean, lounging on the couch in front of the tv, stuffing our faces with turkey tacos and chasing our tails on the beach (ok, that was only Jonesy). The weather was absolutely perfect, and the waves were small but fun - although I was kicking myself for not bring my longboard, again! We didn't even go into Ensenada, there was no need. Jonesy played on the beach and I picked him up and walked out to deeper water and dropped him in where he sank right to the bottom, then decided that he'd better start swimming and did the doggy paddle to the beach. All in all it was a perfect weekend of relaxing and doing a whole lot of nothing - just what the doctor ordered after the hell month of traveling and tradeshows from September. In between all that we managed to celebrate mine and Juli's birthday, so we've been busy and I have been slipping on updating this, so more stuff coming from back then.
Here's some photos:
You gotta have the handheld self portraits!

And you gotta use your camera's self timer!

Jonesy discovered that he really likes the beach and the water.

Yup, the belly button has officially popped out!

Juli sat in the sun and read the entire time.

And the sunsets were very nice...

Family in Florida

Here's a quick update and a photo of Grandma and Grandpa Old Moldy, with Auzie Suzy, Mama, Luke and Jessie. They came by the Expo on Saturday and Grandma didn't want to leave cause she was too busy watching the skate contest. I got more photos coming up of Juli's massive stomach and the other usual crap like the dog. Not too exciting, but that's what life has become.

I went to Florida to babysit

Just kidding, I went to Florida for another damn tradeshow, but did get to go out to dinner with Mom, Joey, Jessie and Luke. That was pretty much the highlight of my trip, and going back to the hotel room to change Luke where my sister let me hold him upside down by one leg for this photo. I'm was just practicing for what's coming out of Juli in a couple more months. Jessie also gave us a cool stroller that I had to take home and pushed through the airport with my luggage piled on top. Strollers make a great bag cart and since they don't allow bag carts inside the terminals but they do allow strollers it was perfect. I really think you could make a lot of money by manufacturing and marketing baby strollers for single people who travel so they can always have a luggage cart with them. There are so many fat and lazy people around that I really think you could make some serious money doing that. Anyway, I almost had to spend the night in Denver, but we made our connecting flight with a minute to spare and that was good. Birthday week is here, Juli is feeling good but getting fatter, and I'm off to Austin for another skate contest this weekend... so more posts coming soon as soon as I feel like it.

Damn good food

Last Monday I flew out to Las Vegas for Shaun White's 21st birthday party, we gambled, drank and I ate a huge steak for dinner. It was the best piece of meat I've ever had and best of all it was all free! Hooray for millionaires!

Labor Day weekend is for labor???

So it's Labor Day weekend, the first weekend of September and its pretty mcuh the hottest days of the summer around here, even though Fall is quickly approaching. Today I drove down to San Diego and surfed with Robbie in the morning, had a lot of fun, the waves were small but good and I love the beach in Encinitas, actually pretty much everything about Encinitas is better than Orange County. Anyway, came home and then the Labor started, we took the beast to the dog park, cleaned house, did laundry, washed both our cars, typical labor day crap. Juli passed out in the baby's room cause we put a ceiling fan in there and its now the coolest room in the house. Nothing too exciting but it was a fun day none the less. We got a birthday party to attend tomorrow, a couple of BBQ's, Seb and Nellie are in town from France, the surf is up, sun is out and there's two more days of the weekend left so some good things are sure to go down. Here's some random photos, more to come cause I got a new digi cam that needs to get some serious use.

Robbie, the oldest brother, going surfing.

Juli can sure cook a mean plate of Rice A' Roni!

The other wall in the babies/guest room - we (ok, mostly Juli) sanded and painted the crappy dresser and now its nice and even matches the crib!

This is Juli passed out in the baby's room/guest room

I just like this photo cause she's so cute. Six months pregnant and you can't even tell and she still thinks she's fat! Women, geez!

Howlin' at the Red Moon!

Last night I set the alarm for 3:30 am and woke Juli up to go outside and look at the red moon. I thought it was going to be stupid, but when I looked up into the sky I was amazed to see a huge, full moon in the sky that was glowing red. There were no clouds, so you could really see it nicely. It was a full lunar eclipse, it was pretty neat. So we stood outside in the backyard for a few minutes and then went back to sleep. What would have been really funny is if someone for some odd reason had been up at 3:30 in the morning and decided that they would peer over our fence, they'd have seen two naked people and a dog staring into the sky looking at a red moon. Sweet.