Family Fun night

Spencer and Connor brought home an announcement for "family fun night" last week. This lovely event was to be held at Morgan Elementary school from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. on October 9th. Being the ultimate participant in every community and school event that comes my way, I dragged making dinner out as long as possible, then headed over to the school at about 6 p.m. There were various games, relay races, a bounce house, etc. Of course, the boys liked playing on the playground best of all, and spent a little time "fishing", in the bounce house, and face painting. It was a lot of fun, for them, though, as cold as it was.
Of course, the boys had to get a car painted on their faces. This ended up being a great time for the boys to get out and do a little something different.
Kaden has had a pretty good month as well. His buddy wanted him to get a bass guitar. Kaden went to his buddy's music lessons, and checked out the music equipment while his buddy had his lesson. He then called Amy to ask if he could buy a bass guitar. We'd discussed this, and asked him why a bass instead of another type, and he had no reason, other than that is what his buddy wanted him to get. Kaden had put 10% of his earnings into savings, and paid tithing, so we didn't feel like we had much to say about how he spent the money he earned this summer. So, a REGULAR electric guitar, Peavy amp, cables, guitar case, and picks are now owned by Kaden. His guitar is some limited black and red number that actually sounds cool when he plays Ozzy's "Iron Man." Takes dad back to the high school days. Mabey I'll take up hunting animals again instead of legal violators. Just thinking of the old philosohpy I had, "If it flies, it dies." Wow. That same night, grandma Robinson stopped by with some plums. Apparently, someone in the house is having "issues." Oh wait, it's PRUNES that help with old folks tummy troubles. In reality, the plums were for jam, as Amy gets domestic now and again, and makes delicious jams and jellies. The peach jam she made is soooo good. You can see grandma likes it. I put it on some ice cream Sunday, and it was awesome. I look forward to having something made with plums. Better than tomatos.

Things at Amy's work are busy as ever. She was telling me that she is booked for appointments until the end of November, and has room for only one emergency appointment a day until then. She is so awesome and hot, it makes me realize how lucky I am to have her as my wife. Although she did try to get me to eat instant oatmeal that expired in 2003. "That's not bad, is it?" I made it, and the first bite made my choice pretty clear as to what to do with the cereal. No wonder we had tummy troubles. One bite shouldn't have been such a big deal. As for me, work is going great. I like working with the academy cadets. Here is a cadet workout for everyone to try. It's a good one that only takes 15-20 minutes to do. I use this as a test to see how my cadets are progressing physically.
100 Air Squats (For explanations, ask in the comment section!)
30 Box Jumps, 24" box
30 Push Ups
30 Lunge Jumps
30 Sit Ups
30 Burpees
Cross 50' by broadjumping
800 Meter run
50 Air squats
10 Pushups
50 Airsquats
10 pushups
Time yourself, and see if you improve from week to week. Let me know how it goes...