Olli-E and Wall-E

I tired to post this a few weeks back, but only the picture made it to the blog. We are so happy that my parents live so close to us because their house has a soda fountain, a bunch of great hi-def TVs with all the Lakers games a guy in Utah can dream of and of course they are great baby-sitters. But Oliver has fallen into some horrible habits at "poppas" house which makes it hard to stop by. As soon as we go over, he grabs my dads hand and says "Comeeeer, downstairs" and pulls him into the theater room and begs incessantly that he put on Wall-E on the BlueRay player (like his father, Oliver prefers all of his shows to be in high definition). For those of you who have not seen Wall-E, it's not a short movie. And the fact that he also has to watch the credits in their entirety extends the minimum amount of time that we can be at their house. He also has to hold onto the DVD case every time he watches any movie. The picture above is of him enjoying the credits with the case in his hand.

Back to work

Well, my 3 month hiatus has come to an end. I fly out to Southern California tonight and start our first job in Lake Elsinore. My family and I did a lot of water skiing there when we were young. We called the lake "Smell-Some-More" because it was stinky and mossy and conveniently rhymed.

I try and make it a rule to not answer advertisements that are posted on traffic signs, or hand written, or misspelled. On the offramp to the local Home Depot there, I found a three-fer.

Corwin

I have to give Corwin credit for making the phrase "cat punch" part of my vocabulary.

What a game!

I love basketball, or as Oliver calls it, dickie-ball. I am on a high from tonight's game, so here's a post for the Lakers.

Man, it felt like we were already into the post season tonight watching the Lakers battle the Celtics in Boston. My dislike for Boston (besides the whole Lakers/Celtics rivalry) comes from two players that I want to cat punch. I wont say their names but they are both in the pictures below.

Kobe shot for crap tonight. Luckily it only made the game more interesting. This was by far the most physical game I have seen this season. Rondo challenged Kobe at one point with a nice big push after a call. This is Kobe telling him to knock it off.

This guy right here is my pick for player of the night. Lamar was by far the most consistent Laker on the floor tonight hitting two clutch free throws to put the Lakers ahead by one in overtime. 

I'm not saying that the Lakers never do it. In fact, I think Fisher does it a bit too much. But this guy flops like a fish. A fish named Divac. And as far as whining goes, I know Kobe does it too sometimes, and he has gotten much better, but look at this guy's stupid face. This is what he gets for his stupid face.

Kevin Garnett was said to have pounded his fists on the table shouting, "We are the champs!" during the post game interview. There was little to no contact in the final play where some dude shot the ball and Pau blocked it all over the place. But said dude ended up on the floor and looked at the ref with that same mentality as Garnett's aforementioned comment, expecting a call that wasn't there and wasn't going to come no matter how long he laid there on the floor. "Come in, Ray." 

Despite all the jibber jabber about refs and fights that almost broke out, Lakers pulled off a win by the skin of their yellow country teeth. Now if they can beat Labron James and the Cavaliers on Sunday...

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I meant to put these up a while ago. He/She looks like he/she's got balls for hands and feet. But still no sign of the balls that would determine the whole he/she issue.

Hide and Seek

I guess I should post something about Oliver for all of you since my last few posts have been pretty strange.

It has been so nice being home for the past few months. Oliver likes me a lot more since I'm no longer the dad who only shows up on the weekends. He loves to play hide and seek with me. Usually, I will run and hide and he will wander around the house saying, "Daddy, how are you?" until he finds me. I usually give him a few audible hints to help him out. If he has a hard time, Nicole will usually help him (which I still feel is cheating). When he finds me, I try and encourage him to run and hide, but he's only got one hiding spot.

And it drives Nicole up the wall since he pulls all of her clothes off the hangars.

He loves this spot so much now that he spends large amounts of time hanging out there, trying on Nicole's shoes and creating closet havoc. He often grabs a favorite book of his and brings it in with him when he is planning on spending even more time in there.

A Little Help Here...

So I shaved off my beard. I'm thinking of leaving it off. 

I want to have a mustache like this but Nicole wont let me. Please, Nicole's friends, tell her it is a good look. Mustaches are back in.

It's not like I am going to try to look like this. I can't pull this off the way my friend Monty does.