A couple of pictures

Kallsen and Parker enjoy a slip and slide on Kallsen's birthday.
Parker plays a game of 'guess who?'

Dodgebee

Many of you know that I am a flying disc fan...playing Disc Golf, throwing MTAs and playing any disc sport I get a chance to play. I'm so into playing disc sports I recently was the tournament director for the South Carolina Disc Golf Doubles State Championship.

Several weeks ago I traveled to Rock Hill, SC to pick up golf discs for the tournament at Innova Disc Golf's east coast distribution center. My sales rep. gave me a set of three Dodgebee discs to test.

Dodgebee is a game that is hugh in Japan but hasn't made its way to the USA yet. It is essentially dodgeball with a flying disc. The discs are very soft and washable. The large disc (pictured here) is about the size of an Ultimate Disc or normal catch disc, the medium size is the size of a Fastback and the small disc about the size of a golf disc.

Since receiving the set of three Dodgebee discs, I have played with my three sons and others. The game is an absolute blast. We played over the 4th of July weekend and at Kallsen & Joseph's birthday party this past weekend. I'm currently working with HeroDiscUSA to try and get the game implemented where my wife teaches school.

The great thing about the Dodgebee disc(s) is they don't hurt when they hit you and they are easy for young arms to throw. You're going to have a lot of fun playing this game and your kids are going to love it!

The discs are not available on the retail market yet. There's one place I've found online to order these discs...and that's the Japan company that invented the discs.

I've ordered a couple of more...just to have and I'm looking forward to some serious Dodgebee games in the future. I'll post some pictures in the future of the kids playing...maybe even some video.

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Kallsen's 4th Birthday

Today is Kallsen's 4th birthday. I found some of the pictures that I think tell the story of Kallsen. He is a very energetic little boy. He's had his challenges. Every challenge he faced head on and is stronger because of those challenges.

I really hope he has a good birthday.

Pictures of the boys

Here's pictures of the boys taken just the other day.

Big Truck

On Monday Sara Beth headed to her Mama's for a memorial service. On the way there she stopped off where her young brother DJ works to show the boys a big truck. This first picture is of Kallsen and Parker at the wheel...
Uncle DJ having fun with Parker...

Finally...pictures...

After two months of no Internet at the house and a little longer with a digital camera that doesn't works, we finally are back online and have purchased a new camera after several months of researching and setting aside some money.

These posts over the next couple of days (or even hours) are mostly for our parents and family and friends in Minnesota who haven't seen the kids since October in some cases and more than a year in other cases.

This first picture is of Parker doing his 'Speak No Evil' best as he can.

This next one is Kallsen with some nice lighting from the back door of our new house. Kallsen is really becoming a very nice boy.

This picture of Joseph was taken at the 'new park' as the boys call it this past Sunday. I take the boys to the park on Sundays to give Sara Beth some piece and quite for her to work on homework for her Master's program she began a few months ago.

We've capturer a lot of really nice pictures with this new camera. I hope to have time to not only get alot of good pictures but to also find time to post those pictures.

PS-These pictures are also for our family in Jonesville and across South Carolina.

Orange Mudd

We traveled to Nana and Papa's for the Independence Day Holiday on Thursday afternoon. Papa had the pressure washer out to clean the driveway and tables for their annual 4th of July Barbecue.

Once Papa was done pressure washing, Kallsen and Parker got to playing with the hose. Turning the water on and off and pretty much getting soaking wet. After the boys were thoroughly soaked, they decided to run down to the dog pen (Papa breeds Mountain Kerrs) when they saw Papa heading toward the pen.

After looking at the dogs, one boy scooped a handful of Carolina Red (dusty) Clay and poured it on the head of the other. I can't say who dumped the red clay dust first but I do remember hearing Papa say to the boys.."you'll might not want to be doing that..." as he walked from the dog pen to his shop. I walk toward the pen and I see my boys covered from head to toe in what now can only be described a reddish-orange sludge.

My wife says they looked like two giant walking cheese puffs. I only wish I had a picture to share.

A Happy Place

This picture of Parker was taken a couple of days ago. I took the picture because I loved the way he had curled inside of the boppy and was hugging his baby buddy. That's the name of the frog he is holding. He has another, bigger and older frog he calls buddy. So when he got this one he named it baby buddy.I don't have any real good recent pics of Joseph or Kallsen. I will attempt to get some nice pics of them over the next couple of days and post them.

Finally!

We are finally back online. Sara went to town today and set up our new internet connection.

We now have high speed internet through our cell phone plan. The cost was a one time fee of $100 for a high speed phone, $10 a month for an additional line to our plan and $25 a month for unlimited internet access. The connection is faster than dsl but a little slower than cable.

Soon more pictures of the kids and stories too!