Where do I start?

It has been some time since my last post - been busy with

Mackenzie's Softball
Ashley's Gymnastics
Vacation
Work
School

and if that is not enough stuff going on, Nicole and I are expecting kid number 3 in January, and it has been confirmed with three different ultra sounds that we are indeed expecting a boy! I love my girls dearly, but we need some more testostorine in the house.

The end of July I found myself driving to Beaverton, Oregon with Mackenzie and Ashley. Mackenzie had a softball tournament (Western Nationals). The team played well and end the tournament in 25th place out of 95 teams. Nicole had to work, which is why I was alone for the drive. She met us in Oregon and after the tournament we did some camping in southern Oregon.

Camping was alot of fun, no TV, DVD, etc. Just us - great family time. Did a little fishing, some swimming, some driving around to see the sites, and on the last full day we had, we went on a Hellgate Boat ride - these are very low draft jet boats that can run in as low as 8 inchs of water. I highly recommend this activity - way fun.

From there we drove the 199 through Cresent City to Eureka to lay some flowers at grave sites of some of Nicole's relatives. Day not being over, we finished driving to Monterey Bay where we had dinner at one of my favorite places, Bubba Gump's. Peel and Eat Shrimp is Awesome!

The next day we went to the Aquarium and I got a bunch of pictures with my new digital camera, I will try and post some later. While at the aquarium, the girsl tried scuba diving, that ended up being snorkelling with scuba girl on. It was a neat experience for them, and they both want to do Real SCUBA. I have signed up Mackenzie for SCUBA lessons and will do the same with Ashley when she gets old enough. Hopefully I will now have a SCUBA partner - Yea!

From there we drove to Morro Bay where we meet up with the rest of Nicole's family. The weekend was dedicated to my late Mother-in-law Sharon and late brother-in-law Andrew. We all had dinner that night together, sans Sharon and Andrew. The next day we chartered a fishing boat to dump both Sharon and Andrews ashes into the ocean, we also dumped Yoggis ashes. Yoggi was my sister-in-law's cat that she had cremated and the ashes have been sitting in her house for the last 6 plus years.

To end the 2 week journey I got to drive home, on my birthday, oh yea and I was hungover from drinking a bottle of Makers Mark with Andrews brother Bruce! And not the small bottle either, the Costco size bottle!