Summer is going by way too fast so I'll just catch up on the past weekend. We had a long fourth of July weekend. Our favorite part of the holiday for the last two years is watching the fireworks from our deck. Its amazing to see so many in the neighborhoods all going off at the same time. The video doesn't do it justice since it is only seeing one little bit of the panorama. Beware of the video though, there are a bunch of white old men running into a lake at the end of it!
We went to a BBQ with some friends for games and food.
We spent a few days camping with a ton of friends before the fourth. It was our own private campground! I took the boys fishing for Steel Head Salmon, but only caught some baby ones. We did some fireworks in our circle with all our neighbors. Caeden was a little scared of the sparklers.
This is what was left over after we thought we cleaned it all up in the dark.
Two weeks ago I took the boys fishing. It was pretty weak having done some serious fishing as a kid to only take my boys to a little pond with stocked fish, but they have been dying to use their fishing poles that they got for Christmas. The fishing was almost too easy, but Bex and Trey loved it. Caeden stayed home with mom :-(
I have tried to make sure my kids know they are eating what used to be an animal when eating meat. I don't want them to suddenly one day have the trauma of realizing they are eating the flesh of what used to be a living creature. When the fish were in a bucket Trey said that it is a little sad that they have to die for us to eat them. I gave him my usual quick reply of well every meat we eat is muscle from an animal. He said, "Yeah but hamburger is from a cow. They are stupid, you can walk up to them, stick a gun in their mouth and pull the trigger." Whoa! Maybe I taught that too well. Later talking to him we realized he learned that idea from watching Napoleon Dynamite! "Sweeeet."
Each boy caught 2 fish then we called it quits, gutted them, headed home and fried 'em up.
On Sunday Marisa had to go early to church. I usually get them together since I shower and get ready in about 5.73 minutes. This time with no mother around I got a little excited and decided to "do the boys' hair" my way....I have always wanted to shave Bex's head. Since I was in charge of hair that day 100%, this is the haircut that Bex showed up to church with. I put a lot of gel in Caeden's hair and greased it all straight back Italian Mafia style! Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of that. When he had hair we would usually do the faux-hawk on him. He loves "spikey" hair. So much now that he asked me to put his hair back on so he can do spikey hair again. The weird thing was that when we did it we thought he looked like shark boy. In the above pic he is doing half his normal smile and half his shark boy smile.
Here is a video of Caeden singing with Marisa when she puts him to bed. He always wants two songs at bedtime. I usually do my two (Families Can Be Together Forever, Love One Another) in Spanish, but he gets confused and just jibbers along, although you might say that is exactly what he is doing here with Risa....
A tradition I used to have before starting the business and getting to busy was to post the songs I had downloaded recently. Unfortunately I haven't done this since July 2008! I got a new computer since then so my "date added" information is not correct and I don't know what songs I have downloaded since July 2008 except for what I have done in the last couple of weeks. As you'll see from the list below we are still techno junkies. It was very nice during all those late nights doing things like designing the office and marketing materials. Techno has the same effect as caffeine! The ones in red have the video below.
Name
Artist
4ever
The Veronicas
Angel On My Shoulder
Kaskade
Around The Bend
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Audience Of One
Rise Against
Believe
The Bravery
Call My Name (J Nitti Radio Edit)
Morgan Page & Tyler James
Call My Name (Thomas Gold Remix)
Morgan Page
Chemistry (Radio Version)
Velvet
Day 'N' Nite
Kid Cudi
Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix)
Kid Cudi
Dead And Gone (Clean)
T.I. Ft. Justin Timberlake
Don't Trust Me (P.O. Clean Edit)
3oh!3
Electric Feel
MGMT
Feel Your Love (Original Mix)
Kim Sozzi
Handlebars
Flobots
Heartless
Kanye West
Holly Wood Died
Yellowcard
I'm Not Over
Carolina Liar
Imagination (Kaskade Club Remix)
Jes
Infinity 2008 (Klaas Remix)
Guru Josh Project
Kids
MGMT
Last Kiss Goodnight
Logan Square
Love Story
Taylor Swift
Ocean Avenue
Yellowcard
Rehab
Rihanna
Right Now (Na Na Na)
Akon
Secret Valentine
We The Kings
Shake It
Metro Station
Sugar
Flo Rida Ft. Wynter
Suppose
Secondhand Serenade
The Fear
Lily Allen
The Good Left Undone
Rise Against
The Motions
Matthew West
Who We Are
Ryan Calhoun
Here are some videos for a select few favorites...some of them are not the actual videos, but pictures put to the song because you can't embed the originals.
One of my favorite LDS artists
Great Adult Contemporary Christian song by one of my favorite artists of that genre
We went to a BBQ with some friends for games and food.
We did some fireworks in our circle with all our neighbors. Caeden was a little scared of the sparklers.
This is what was left over after we thought we cleaned it all up in the dark. 
