Thanksgiving

Today is THANKSGIVING. Yeah. This is probably my favorite of all holidays. Maybe because it has a lot to do with food and football. Oh ya family too. We are going over to Dana's parents house like we do every year. Its a good time. Last night though their hood fan above their cook top popped off and came crashing down, breaking the cook top. Jerry went to 5 or 6 different places looking for a cook top that he could pick up right then instead of having it ordered. Well he came in with the only one he could find which was a floor model. If any one has ever had to pick a floor model up of any kind you know it doesn't come with any kind of instruction. Not to mention that it didn't quite fit the counter top that well. We were grinding away at his granite trying to shave off an eighth of an inch in some spots. The electrical was also a little crazy. Fun. Well it's in and thanksgiving can resume as planned. Dana has invited over a friend of hers from work that has just moved to Mi. Not too long ago. Her name is Jackie. I had to talk to her on the phone to give her directions. She seems very nice, hopefully we don't scare her away. Sometimes when the family gets together things can get kind of hairy. Not like Wills back but the other way, you know what I mean. Happy thanksgiving to every one. I hope everybody has a great day and I will pray for all of you.

P.S.
Last night Dana finally took me to her new favorite restaurant for our anniversary. The Melting pot. It was really good. I recommend to anyone who likes fondue to try this place out, It's well worth it. A little pricey but we had a good time.

Fantasy football

I love to play fantasy football. Every year for the last 4 or 5 years I have been involved in a league or 3. Last year I had my first losing season, and It seems as though this year isn't going to be much better. I'm doing better than last year but not much. I just can't catch a break. If I score well, the guy I'm playing will score just a little more. Maybe I need to pray to the fantasy gods and ask for some mercy.

Once in a while I will get on the computer and play Texas Hold em. My brother in law and I will jump on speaker phone for a bit and play for a couple of hrs. If you make yourself a cocktail and put some music on, its close to sitting in a garage giving money to Dave k. I had the intention of doing that last night. But I heard Dana watching , I think her name is, Joyce Meyers. She is a speaker that's on TV. I don't know what she is classified as: preacher pastor ,etc. but she is really good. I sat with Dana kind of for some support and kind of because I was interested. It didn't take too long for my eyes to close for the night. Wasn't too supportive was it. Anyway I'm going to play some poker this weekend(on the computer). So If anyone wants to join give me a call.

Talk to ya later

Halloween

Well Halloween was a fun night. On our way over to Jeff and Diane's house we stopped off at McDonald to get food for everyone. It was supposed to be pizza but the line was horrible. AND I have to say that the double cheese from McDonald's is one of the best burgers in the world. I just love those things. Real good for you too. We got the kids to scarf down some nuggets and fries before we met up with the tractor. This year the trailer that was used was decorated up with flashing lights and hay bales. Pretty nice set up. Erika was in her boots so she had a hard time keeping up with all of the other kids but she did a good job. Olivia on the other had was like a ping pong ball. She would hit two house to Erikas one. About half way through the ride. Erika wanted to go home. So Jeff called the girls to have one of them come and pick her and Ryan up. When Diane showed up in the van all four kids decided that they were done. Which surprised me. I thought that Via would go all night. At the last second Erika changed her mind and got back out of the car and wanted to go back out for some more candy. Auntie gave her another jacket and a pair of gloves and she was good for another 20 mins. Towards the end she just stayed on the trailer for the ride. I think she just wanted to hang out with me. I thought that was cool. We sat together on the trailer for rest of the night. They both ended up with a decent amount of candy. Nothing I would have been proud of. When I was their age it was more of competition. Get as much candy as quick as you could. My parents never bought my sisters and I candy so I had to get enough for the whole year. It was a good night in all. Dana posted some pictures on her blog for every one to see. Talk to ya later...

Good weekend

Friday night Dana the kids and I went over to Dana's parents house. We brought over some Mexican food from a place called Toro's. The place is a Mexican subway. You walk down the line after you decide on what you want and tell them what you want on it, and how much. Pretty cool. foods not too bad. Saturday I had the kids like I usually do and it was a pretty good morning. We didn't do too much. the usually, clean the house a little, hang out, try and get Olivia excited about her b-day on Sunday. Saturday night Dana and I went over to Bob and Ann's house for a Halloween/costume party. We both had a really good time. I think Dana had just a little too much to drink. She didn't throw up or anything but she had enough. Every body there I think was feeling pretty good with or without the the alcohol.

Today is Sunday my Olivia's birthday. She can be such a sweetheart sometimes. At church the whole mass sung happy birth day to her. It was great. Dana and I both agreed that we felt like we were part of a family as the song rang out. The service today was a good one, at least for me. it was about the bible and what it is all about. Kind of an instructional thing. Which I need.

Olivia received a few good presents for her birthday. A cool camera, a princess entertainment center(pretty much) from auntie. And a Baby alive doll from her papa Schultz that actually craps it's pants. yeah. I think she had a pretty good birthday, I hope. Wow they are all getting so big. I wish I had some pictures that I could post for you all. Take a look at Dana's blog and you will probably see some good pictures.

talk to you later

I want to be a super hero

I don't really know what I would want as a super power. There are so many to choose from. I don't know how many times I have thought about it. Would you want to fly or have super human strength? Would you want powers from a certain super hero? There are so many from Spiderman to Superman. From the X-Men to Fantastic Four. I personally don't have a clue. I think just having one power in my arsenal no matter what it is I would like it. The reason I brought this up is because Dana and I have started watching a new show on TV called Heroes. It has a pretty good story line but like all the new shows on TV these days it tends to drag on a little. Kind of like Lost, at least so I've heard. If anyone is interested in superheroes You might want to check it out. It comes on Mondays at either 8 or 9. I forget.

Last night I went to bible study for the second time. I find it to be (for the lack of a better word) interesting. I don't have a lot of knowledge on the Bible and the events therein. So it's kind of like sitting in history class. I don't if I'm going to be able to make every session but I think I would like to try. Anyone who is interested in coming with me(Jeff or Bob R.) give me a call I'll meet you there. You might enjoy it.

Talk to ya later.

How of ya'll been

I think I have aquired a new virus. It's called blog-neglectitus. I don't know what my problem is. I just find it hard to come up with something to post. It's not like my life is that uneventfull. I read Dana's religously and i really enjoy it. It feels like most of the stuff that I would put in my blog she has already done or done it better. She and along with a few other people have been giving me a hard time for not writting so I'm going to try and start up again.

I have had so much happen in the last few months I don't even know where to start. So I wont bother you with the details. Dana keeps a very nice blog and you can get any info from there.

My Olivia (that is now 100% potty trained) is turning 5 on Sunday. I can't believe she is so big. I feel old. I look back sometimes and try to remember some of the things that she did as an infant and it's hard. I love her sooo much and i don't think her and I have a strong enough bond. At least as strong as i want it to be. I need to take her out for for her doing a good job with the potty. This is going to be the first time in 5 years that Dana and I haven't had to purchase two sets of diapers. That is going to be nice. She wants a doll for her birthday that My dad has already purchased. Its called baby alive. You can check it out here. http://host.exemplum.com/hasbro/baby_alive_video This thing will actually take a dump. How nice huh.

I think I'm going to quit fantasy football. I love and hate it. In one of my leagues I'm doing pretty good i can't complain except that it's not a big money league. In fact we all talked about our league costing either 10 or 20 dollars a person but I dont know if anything was set. We were supossed to put something in but who knows. One of my other leagues with by bro jeff Im doing ok in also, middle of the pack, but the worst is my work league. I had what i thought was a great team. After i started the season with my qb getting neggitive pts and shawn alexander getting hurt. Im just very frustrated. Losing game that I should win is all.

Got to go

My brother in law and Madden

I have played Madden three times in the past week, all with my bro in law Jeff Meadors. I would like to start off by saying that I do enjoy playing madden. I enjoy hanging out with Jeff. But I don't like playing Madden with Jeff. He sucks. Every time we play I end up wooopin his ass. Yesterday he gave me the excuse that I had a high ranked team and that's why he lost. Well it just so happened that the very next game he ended up with was the best team in the game and I had the not so good Oakland Raiders. It wasn't pretty. What's worse is that his own wife was talking a little junk about how he's no good and that he just can't beat me. It was funny. It kind of reminds me of playing golf with him. ohhh I shouldn't have gone there. That story I will save for another day.

I saw this joke on line today. It's not that funny but I got a little laugh out of it.

The Tease

It's a beautiful, warm spring morning and a man and his wife are spending the day at the zoo. She's wearing a cute, loose-fitting, pink spring dress, sleeveless with straps. He's wearing his normal jeans and a T-shirt.The zoo is not very busy this morning. As they walk through the ape exhibit, they pass in front of a very large hairy gorilla. Noticing the girl, the gorilla goes ape. (No pun intended) He jumps up on the bars, and holding on with one hand (and 2 feet), he grunts and pounds his chest with his free hand. He is obviously excited at the pretty lady in the wavy dress.The husband, noticing the excitement, thinks this is funny. He suggests that his wife teases the poor fellow some more. The husband suggests she pucker her lips, wiggle her bottom at him, and plays along. She does, and Mr. Gorilla gets even more excited, making noises that would wake the dead. Then the husband suggests that she let one of her straps fall to show a little more skin. She does, and Mr. Gorilla is about to tear the bars down."Now try lifting your dress up your thighs and sort of fan it at him," he says.... this drives the gorilla absolutely crazy and now he's doing flips. Then the husband grabs his wife by the hair, rips open the door to the cage, flings her in with the gorilla and slams the cage door shut and says, "Now, tell HIM you have a headache."

Just another day

Hi all. Friday was pretty uneventful. I was given a swimming pool from a guy at work that I know. I haven't put it up yet It seems to be a pretty nice pool. Nothing spectacular. He couldn't remember if it was an 8 or 10 footer. It comes equipped with a ladder and a filter. so It's not like the crappy blow ups that we always get and then throw out. It will become a dead spot in my already dying yard. The kids should really like it though. I guess that's what really matters. We watched Lord of war last night. It was a pretty good movie. I started to fall asleep in the middle of it. I was really tired. Today I am going to my father in laws house to cut his grass. He is up in Wisconsin on his boat. I'm sure they're having a good time. Dana is going to be home from work soon and I still haven't picked up our mess from the day. So I'll talk to ya'll Later. exciting post today huh.

PINK

Pink is my favorite color. Pink it is so very pretty. I feel sexy when I'm in my pink shirt. I love to let everyone know that I have a soft feminine side by wearing pink. Sometimes I put my rainbow sticker up in my car. AND my name is Brad Jeffrey. This guy showed up to golf in his pretty pink shirt. It was all I could do to stop the other golfers from laughing at him. He said" I am comfortable with my sexuality". Well I wasn't. He gave me the heebee jeebee's the whole time. I'm, assuming he thought I was his friend from broke back cabin. WOW I can't get it out of my head . Scary huh.

What do you call a gay dinosaur?
mega-sore-ass

Or Brad with my pink shirt.

Dracula

I whooped Dracula up last night. Dana and I were sitting downstairs looking on the computer when she ran upstairs for my bible. Suddenly I hear her scream and she flew down the steps. "There's a bat, there's a bat in the house." At first we weren't sure if it were a bat or bird but sure enough it was a bat. We reluctantly went up to the main level wondering if it was going to swoop down and attack us. To our relief there was no sign of the bat or our cats, which wasn't a good sign. That's means it was up stairs Dana was the first to go (how brave she was by the way) up to our room where we saw our cool cat Bandit sitting on our dresser. We knew the bat was up in our drapes hiding, waiting for the right moment to strike. A we approached the window the tension grew. "Lift the drapes and I'll spring the beach towel trap" I said to Dana. "HELL NO" she replied. I offered to switch the positions but we couldn't come to an agreement. All of a sudden the bat dropped down out of the drapes, his fangs were glistening with the intent to kill. I moved to the left, moved to the right and with amazing bravery and pinpoint accuracy I nabbed the beast. It fell to the floor and with a frightening quickness the beast started to attack. His little claws were tearing at my skin. Taking off chunks at will. I was for a moment at his mercy. Until I felt a power from deep down rise in me like the power I feel when I'm whooping Dave K. In hold'em. I reached around the massive head of the beast putting him in the sleeper hold, rendering him helpless in the seemingly endless battle. Finally the task was complete. I took him out to our front yard where I released him unharmed. I wish I could have gotten that on video. It might not have played out exactly like I described but it would have been close.
Talk to ya later

I need a lawn care specialist

I have been having a hard time learning how to take care of a lawn. I was always told that if I cut it and fertilize it you should be OK. Just talking to people it seems as though their is alot more that one needs to do. Granted my lawn has improved over the years, but I don't think I fully get it. I fertilized last night, but instead of using the summer guard which is supposed to be good for insects. I used the weed and feed again because I have more of problem with weeds than I do with insects. Hopefully this will help a little. I've been told that I should air-rate my yard, which means i have to go and rent one from the depot. I just haven't had the money for that lately. At this rate my yard will be perfect when I have to throw a graduation party for Erika:)

We just got back from lunch at Armando's. This place is located in Mexican town and it puts on a buffet for lunch. They have a good selection and the food is great. I can't hardly move right now. I wish I had a camera on me so I could post a picture of my plate. holy shit am I full!!!

A little rabbit is running happily through the forest when he stumbles upon a giraffe rolling a joint.
The rabbit looks at the giraffe and says, "Giraffe my friend, why do you do this? Come. Run with me through the forest! You''ll feel so much better!"
The giraffe looks at him, looks at the joint, tosses it and goes off running with the rabbit. Then they come across an elephant doing coke.
So the rabbit again says, "Elephant my friend, why do you do this? Think about your health. Come. Run with us through the pretty forest, you''ll see, you''ll feel so good!"
The elephant looks at them, looks at his razor, mirror and coke, then tosses them and starts running with the rabbit and giraffe. The three animals then come across a lion about to shoot up.
"Lion my friend, why do you do this? Think about your health! Come. Run with us through the beautiful forest and you''ll feel so good!" The lion looks at him, puts down his needle, and mauls the rabbit.
The giraffe and elephant watch in horror and look at him and ask, "Lion, why did you do this? He was merely trying to help you."
The lion answers, "That little bastard! He makes me run around the forest like a f**king idiot every time he's on ecstasy!"

Talk to y'all later

Yummy yummy

Are you thirsty

Tasty on a hot summers day???

I had the best time with Makenna last night. I held her while I was on the computer playing different songs and clips, just watching her laugh and dance around. She is such a cute ass. Erika and Olivia from what I hear were good over at auntie's so i stopped off at Wendy's to get them their chicken and french fries(and a toy). Everybody was in a good mood last night. About 12:00 I awoke to hear Olivia crying in the hallway. I got up to see what was wrong and put her back in bed. She was OK but it kind of bothered me that she wouldn't talk to me. I guess you have to be a mommy at those times. Sometimes and I mean sometimes I envy mommies.

Hope you all like my video.

 

Testing 1,2,3 Testing

I want to put a picture of my three little girls on my blog. If you see a picture then obviously it worked. if not then obviously it didn't. Ok so I did it. I think that I did it the wrong way or at least not the way Dana showed me. There is supposed to be a couple ways to post a picture. Some take longer than others. Well I did it the wrong way. It wouldn't let me preview the picture before i posted it. This wasn't the picture that I had in mind. Oldie but goody though.


I don't know who is going to end up looking at my blog and that kind of bothers me. Let me start off by saying that I'm no saint.... I've been wondering what kind of stuff I shouldn't put on my blog. Example; Dana and i saw a picture of a naked chick (her backside) and It was worthy of showing all those who appreciates a women's body. The problem here, is that as of now the only people that know my address is my brother in law, sister in law, and my wife. Jeff wouldn't mind but the percentages are a little lopsided, besides who knows who else Dana has told. I could come off like a total perv and embarrass Dana. Sooo, sorry Jeffrey. Was a nice picture though.

This is the second time today that I have written in my blog. Pretty cool but I'm running out of crap to say. Maybe I'll post a joke of the day on my blog. I'll have to find a couple good joke sites and test that out. Anyway see y'all

Our first fantasy football meeting

We sat in our room here at work and went over the rules from last year. We no longer have three receivers it's now two. We changed the negative pts that a kicker would receive to -5,4,3,2,1. To even up the receivers and the running backs we are going to give receivers 1.5 per catch instead of 1. The trade dead line is moving up a week and a half. Last but not least we are turning our league into a keeper league which i've been wanting to try for a while now. I think this might be a little early for fantasy talk but once you start you cant stop.

Work sucks, as usual. I had a chance to get out golfing in an outing 100% paid for but i have prior engagments and It is hurting me right now. Tonight I have to pick my kids up at my sister in laws house, get them home, feed them dinner and put them to bed. It's always a little busy on Tuesdays. Thankfully They don't have school in the morning.

Because I am a rookie at this bloging buisness I would like to put some pictures or links on here. I just don't know what to do. After a while I'll hopefully get the hang of all this. Talk at ya all later.

My first entry

I want to let every body know what to expect while you are visiting my blog.
1. I'm not very good at typing so quite frequently you will see obvious mistakes.
2. I somehow someway lost most of my ability to spell and you wont always get whats correct.
3. I'm starting this blog partly because my wife hasn't stopped bugging me about it and because I'm a little interested. I don't know what is going to end up on these pages. So ya have to give me a break.

There is probably more thing to add but as of now I cant think of any. I will keep everyone up to date on my progress.

Now I'm stuck so I'll talk to you later.