Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.

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                   So let's make it extraordinary with a velcro wall and a carnival!

Yep, that's me.  I understand it looks like I just walked up and fell into the wall and got stuck.  But I assure you that I ran and jumped and my feet are a few inches off the ground.
AND! He came home with a goldfish that is rightfully named Rocko!

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” -Anne Sexton

Indian Guides has officially begun.  It is a father, son bonding camping macho testosterone 

fest through the YMCA.  This is the opening ceremonies at camp something or other.

Gigantore tree slide

Zip Line+Ben with no fear= FUN!

Beam me up Scottie!

"Spock. This child is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do....spank it?" -- McCoy (Star Trek: TMP)

Last weekend Papa Phil was so nice and took us to Balboa Park to see the Star Trek exhibit at the Air and Space museum.  It was sooo cool.  We actually got to be "beamed up" and got to sit on the enterprise bridge (trek words for commando area of machismo)

Anyway, it was great fun. Ben and Daddy even got to go on a motion flight simulator.  

Linus: [furious] STUPID? What do you mean "stupid"? Just wait 'til next year, Charlie Brown. You'll see! Next year at this same time, I'll find the perfect pumpkin patch that is really sincere and I'll sit in that pumpkin patch until the Great Pumpkin appears. He'll rise out of that pumpkin patch and he'll fly through the air with his bag of toys. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him! I'll be there! I'll be sitting there in that pumpkin patch and I'll see the Great Pumpkin. Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him... 

We went to Bates Nut farm this weekend (in the farthest part of no where you could go) Also, so nicely referred to as Nates Butt farm.  It was pumpkin patch glory at it's finest.

Ben, Jenna and baby Kyle
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