Happy Holidays from us!

So then I saw the opossum.

You're about to learn a few things about our house that you may not have know. For starters, our bedroom is not in the house.

Not that we are rich and have a fancy Queen Anne house, more like the main house is tiny. In the backyard there is an outbuilding. Thats a fancy term for a nice shed. Heated, insulated, and the largest open floor plan room in the "house". A few years back we moved the bedroom out there. It was a good move. More space for everybody since we all sleep in the same room. Us in our bed, the boys in their bunk bed, the soon to be arriving baby in it's crib. There is a cat door that allows our cat, Fezziwig in and out and the cat also has a food dish in the bedroom as well. So that's the set up.

Last night, after doing some blogging work and house work I was heading to bed late. The boys were sound asleep as I crept into the bedroom, using my ipod touch as a flashlight. I got to the bed, and shined the light on the bed looking to see if I was about to lay on the cat. Is when I saw it.

Opossum.

Course, it wasn't hanging out on a tree like this one. Oh no. It was sitting on my bed. Looking at me. I would like to say I was brave and dealt swift with the beast right then. But I wasn't. I ran out of the room.

I told Caroline of the issue and she said she had about 5 more minutes to finish and turn her homework. I grabbed a broom and a trash can lid and tried to sneak back into the bed room. Caroline arrived and I told her where the little bugger was. Under the dresser, hiding.

So with Mama with flashlight, broom and I with a metal bar on the bed. We started to coach the furry fella out. With a bolt, it shot out and ran under the crib and then took off out of the bedroom door.

Oh yeah, we had the lights on, I was banging on the floor with a metal pipe, Caroline and I had a..um.."discussion" over my tactics that may have not be so well thought out. The boys slept though. Totally slept. 

So, we clean up, took the bedding off. Oh yeah, did I mention that the dirty thing peed on my pillow. Not the bed, but my pillow. Just mine. No big deal though. 

Changed the bedding and then I tried to go bed. Caroline showed up and little later and we both tried to fall asleep. About 2am, Caroline "awoke" ( I am not sure she was asleep yet, I was half and half) to the sound of the cat eating its cat food. But she decided to check anyways. Night light turns on, she rolls over and says "God Damnit." I look up and there is the gray beast again. Nomming on cat food. I move, it bolts out the door.

So now we find the cover to the cat door and lock that out. But we're both a bit wired and we stayed up to watch Bones. So now we going to bed about 3:30am and today I am dragging. I have named the opossum Creepy. I told the story to the boys who thought it was funny and Ryan was concerned if the opossum was still hungry, much like he would be concerned about such things.

I would like to note here, that our cat, Fezz is a lazy cat. We don't ask much of him, but I feel that he should be on patrol for things getting into the bedroom and eating his food. This will reflect badly on his next review.

And that is the "so there was an opossum in our bed" story.

A Day At Golden Gardens

It's finals week next week for Caroline so she wanted me out of the house with the boys so she could study. It was a great day to take them to Golden Gardens Park. It's a beach front park, well beach as in Puget Sound Beach, so different from the "real" coastline. Lots of play spaces, fun sand water times and even ice cream!

Enjoy the pics.

First its the view of the Sound:

The Boys at the Playground

Beach Boys (not the band)

Ryan wanted me to take a picture of something underwater, He chose his foot,

Lunch

This was the best pic out of 4 tries.

Picture Time - August 2013!

A bunch of Pics!

Ryan in a stream

Rocker Ryan

Clyde under a table. He likes hanging out there.

Monkey Clyde

Clyde and a Ball

the Boys

Climbing Clyde 

Funny Hair Sliding Clyde

Zipline Ryan

Find Clyde

There He Is.

Snuggled with a sleeping papa and a bunch of stuffs

Sometimes you are so tired you fall asleep at snack time.

Serious Clyde

Happy Clyde

Clyde on a toy Shelf

Graduation Party for Eric! June 9th 5:30pm

Hello People!

I would like to invite you over to my house to celebrate with me on my graduation from 

Shoreline Community College.

The Details

When: Sunday June 9th at 5:30pm

Where: My house 

9533 3rd Ave NW, Seattle Wa 98117

Why: I graduated from community college

I decided that I want to celebrate my graduation by inviting a few friends and family over, having a few drinks, maybe eating something, and playing some music.

What I ask of you! Bring something tasty to share, food-drink-even both!

Also, hoping to do this outside, you might want to bring a lawn chair if you have one.

Here's some random pictures of me. I learned how to make webpages like this in college. 

No, not really.

The Boys and The Bones - A story by Ryan

Ryan has been on a roll writing creative stories and is having a good time doing it. His skills have also been increasing exponentially and we are most impressed. Recently Ryan wrote and illustrated a story and he read it on camera. I did some editing and we turned it into this cool little movie.

Enjoy!

Beard & Stach Fest 2013! Please Give!

Hello Family, Friends, and Readers!


It's that time again, a new year has arrived and with it comes the Beard & Stache Fest for 2013! The time for YOU to do the Right Thing and help support some amazing foster kids by donating to the Treehouse Foundation!

If you have donated before, you know how darn easy and safe it is. If you are new to this, heres some simple instructions.

If you want to donate and help me take home top honors as a Beard & Stache Fest Contestant you can do it two ways:

A. In Person: Haul your hungry butt over to Li'l Woody's over by Capitol Hill (1211 Pine St, Seattle WA 98101) and put money in the can with my Face On It! If you are too stunned my the amazingly good looking faces of my teammate, I am KILTED ERIC!  You are free to put any amount you would like into the can, I suggest large donations. :)

B. Online: Go over to www.beardandstachefest.com, click Contestants, and scroll down to my team, The Whisker Rebellion, and click on my face (YEP KILTED ERIC ONCE AGAIN!), you'll see a box to enter a donation amount (they suggest $10, I suggest $100 :)

You DO NOT have to do this only once by they way. Feel free to drop money into my can as often as you would like during the ENTIRE month of March. That's right, you have the whole month to donate and help me become the next major prize winner!

Thank you very much!

Yours
Kilted Eric

Clyde's two! Birthday Video!

2-8-13 - Clyde turned 2 years old and is very much the stereotypical energy filled little kid! Here's a video in 2 parts, part one is Clyde, Ryan, Caroline, and myself singing the classic happy birthday while Clyde blows out the candles. Part 2 is just Clyde being Clyde for your amusement.

Enjoy!

A couple of short vids

Here are a couple of raw (unedited) vids of me and the kids.

First it's Clyde just a running around Ryan's school one day.

This is me and the boys being boys.

A few photos

A selection of recent photos of the fam.

 Ryan working on a science project, measuring the soaking abilities of different types of paper.

Eating dinner. I have no idea why this photo was taken, but here it is.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

 Sick boy Ryan and his little brother Clyde

Ryan and a Christmas Camel.