Video from the hippy pool party

Vaughn and Juli are home! We celebrated by going to Cassidy's hippie pool party and Vaughn took a few rides on the swing out back.

Another blast from the past...

I was trolling my friend Jamie's Facebook page the other day and I saw this picture that said, "first grade - mrs. campbell's class" I thought about it for a second and then realized that I was in that same class... Yup, there I am third from the left. I think I was pretty ahead of my time, look at that red denim. Stylin' since first grade!

Comparing the past

My Dad emailed me this two photos. The one on the left is me when I was a baby, the one on the right is Vaughn from last week. Same dutch boy hair, though mine is much lighter. I think if we lived in Hawaii and Vaughn was outside a lot his hair would be a lot lighter too. That's all.

Vaughn got a haircut, I may need one...

So I thought that my camera was stolen. Turns out it was lost in my bag. So there will be some more photos coming soon, besides just shots from my phone like this one. Juli decided to go nuts on Vaughn's hair the other day and called me crying when it was done. Of course I took the opportunity to make fun of her, but as it turns out his hair looks fine. I wish she would cut my hair sometimes, but she refuses.

And I thought I had some bad bed head

Vaughn's got a killer case of bed head. I think it may be time to give him his first haircut... he's almost 18 months and has yet to get one, 'cept for a little trim of the bangs here and there. Juli just can't bare to cut those luscious locks just yet.

Vaughn points to his brain.

I just asked Vaughn where his nose is and this is what he gave me. He just figured out that he could stick his little fingers up those holes in his nose. Great!

I suck.

I do, I suck. I'm sucking right now at keeping up with this blog. Juli is now 6 months pregnant. How many photos do I have on here of her this time around? Oh yeah, none. This is my 100th entry here btw and it sucks.

p.s. I started whoring myself out to these awesome google ads you see here and there on this page. So far (i think its been about 3 weeks) I've made a whopping $1.03. Damn, I suck!

Have a beer!

Vaughn wants all of you out there to go ahead and have a beer. You're all going to die of the swine flu in the coming weeks anyway. Grandpa and I have been building a shed in the backyard all weekend long, and ice cold Coors in the only thing that is keeping me going. Come on swine flu!

Swine FLU!

SWINE FLU... you'd think by the news that hundreds of thousands of American's are dead from Swine Flu! Are people (news media) really that fucking stupid? We go to Mexico all the time, and I think this shit is hilarious. I hope I do get swine flu so I can take some time off work. Actually, I'm going to buy me some pork this week and make some good old florida pulled pork for all you swine flu-ers out there. I love me some swine flu!

Trying new things...

Today I went to get needles stuck in me. It wasn't that bad, a little sting here and there... This started about a week ago when I could barely move my neck. After stealing all my friends vicodens and somas, and it not getting any better, I figured I would have to do something about it. A few a my friends have been getting acupuncture/acupressure for a while and swear by it, so I figured it couldn't hurt. I made an appointment and it surprisingly worked! After the first visit I felt much better, and after a weekend of being up in Mammoth and taking it easy, I went back for more needles and a nice massage. Well now I totally feel normal and I can actually bend my neck. And the massage was kinda a treat. Anyway, it was nice to be a human pincushion and now it's just one more thing I can say that I've done.

More pics from Mexico

Here's the rest of the pics from Grandpa's House in Mexico! Good times...

I got DRUNK in Mexico last weekend!

So an occurring theme in our lives is that we do like to spend the weekend's or as many of them as we can down in Mexico. We have a nice little "house" (read: trailer) that is cozy and hangs over the Pacific, just a smidgen north of Ensenada, so you really can't get a better location. Anyway, last weekend was a scorcher. We played on the beach, climbed on the rocks, blew up a little pool for Vaughn, cooked a bunch of good food, and I got extremely drunk and obnoxious. There are more photos but I'll save them for later. Here's me midday, drunk as a skunk.

Vaughn being funny!

Check out Vaughn getting himself stuck in the bannister in the front yard. Most parents would run to help and get him out, stopping his crying and hugging him until he'd calmed from screaming. But we just ran inside to grab the camera and snapped photos while laughing at him. It actually was nice, he couldn't get out so he couldn't run into the street, so we just left him there for a few hours. Who knew wood made such a good babysitter?

And the baby is... A GIRL!

That's right, yesterday we went to Hoag and got the full round of ultrasounds... and it's a girl! Juli is completely over the moon... it's like she won the baby lottery. I'm stoked too, now the family is complete: one baby boy and girl, a couple of crazy cats and a dumb mutt. We are officially the stereotypical suburban American family. All I need to do is gain about 50 more pounds and start chain smoking Marlboro Reds and we'll be there...

Easter Day at the Marshall's

Yesterday was Easter and we had a great day in the backyard with the family... We ate a ton of food, drank a ton of beer, and hid a bunch of eggs for Vaughn, who had a nice temper tantrum right before dinner because we wouldn't let him eat anymore chocolate. Today we go to Hoag for more ultrasounds... and since Juli is 20 weeks, we will be finding out the sex of the new one! Ok here are the Easter pics:

This was just an excuse to drink a 12-pack midday...

Here are a few pics of the shelves we built out of $10 worth of cedar from Home Depot yesterday. It was a nice little afternoon project that Gramps and I did while Juli and Vaughn ran around the backyard. Not too shabby for a couple of idiots looking for an excuse to drink and cut things with power tools huh?

Today we get to go to a funeral - look really looking forward to that...

Naked fun in the backyard

So we've been doing a lot of fun stuff in the backyard these days... planting things like lemon trees & peppers, bbq's, Vaughn running in the sprinklers naked... with the dog licking his ass! pretty normal stuff actually. Today me and Grandpa Dougie built some nice shelves out of cedar against the fence so we could get the plants off the ground so both Jonesy and Vaughn will stop trying to rip them out of their pots. It was a good Friday on good Friday!!!

starting the day off with a smile

This is usually how Vaughn starts his day... wakes up and gets a big cup of milk in his Spongebob cup and spends a good 15 minutes chugging on it while watching cartoons on the couch. This morning I went and grabbed the camera and told him to smile... he slipped his prized cup under his arm and let out this big smile for the shot, then he started drinking again.

mommy vs daddy blog wars

After Juli totally made fun and me for making this blog (over two years ago) and then counterblogging with one of her own, we've now gotten down to almost full on blog war. Mommy vs Daddy. Basically I can't use any photos that she takes without her using them first... we have two digital cameras, so normally this would be easy to fix, but of course we both like to use the same one. So here's a couple of MY pics that Juli is not allowed to post on her Mommy Blog until after I do on mine. Basically, all we blog about is Vaughn anyway, so we really should just combine both the blogs into one... Anyway. More to come or click on over to Juli's to see the pics you're not allowed to see here yet.

trying to turn the brown thumbs to green...

This weekend in Costa Mesa has been one for the record books - early April, mid-80's temps, no wind, fridge full of beers, good moods all around= great weekend... throw in a baby shower, a few trips to both Lowes and Home Depot... we've really been getting in on the gardening/DYI lawn care... Last month I bought a lawn mover... yesterday I got a weed-wacker... In the last two days I've used them both and a hedger, trimer, chainsaw, fertilizer, multiple bags of miracle grow... we planted a bunch of flowers, a mexican lime tree... and about six different kinds of peppers: jalapeno, habanero, caribbean, serrano, cayenne and a couple others, along with rosemary, flowers, and some other crap... Fun stuff. We'll see how it all goes - Juli is the one that really inspired all of this, I think it's the whole "nesting" thing while pregnant... but whatever. I've been enjoying it cause Gramps is here he likes to help, but requires a 12-pack or two... so naturally I have to help him.