Posts Tagged ‘fun’
2nd Birthday Blowout!
Holy Cow Folks! The party just ended! I had to finally kick the grandparents out after 3 weeks… No choice, the house is falling apart. We’re still finding people passed out under piles of Sam’s toys. We had kids swinging from the chandelier and adults on all fours. We had two birthday cakes that absolutely demanded we eat at least one piece from each. I found a policeman’s holster, no gun yet, and there’s a goat locked in the upstairs bathroom. There’s two strangers living in my car and something has been making funny noises from my shed. The turkey baster has been used, but the two toilets haven’t. There’s also the rotten smell coming from the basement and the neighbor is missing, but I am sure those two things aren’t related. I do have some good news! The mystery meat in the buffet turned out not to be my aunt’s cat as we found it in the microwave…
So all in all, it was a typical Irish 2 year-olds birthday party.
Back from Holidays!
Hey everybody! No the blog is most definitely not dead! Yes everyone is doing just great! We were just away from our online lives a little bit for the holidays! And now that those depressing, dark and long January days are now here, it’s time to shut out the real world once again, and delve back into our digital persona’s to help make us forget the cold outside.
Since I didn’t do this before the holidays, Melissa, Sam and I hope you all had the best of holidays! We can, however, still wish you all a very happy, healthy, successful, sexy and rich New-Year!!!! You can re-arrange those characteristics in the order of your preference 
So, check back in soon, for some Holiday Hijinx as I am waiting on my bro to get me the pictures he took over the holidays! Come on brotha!!!
Until then, here’s a family pic we took in our pyjamas one night in front of the tree. Ahhh, cozy winter nights, snuggled with my loves! Nothin’ beats it folks! Nothin’ I tells ya!!!
Village People
This past weekend, we packed up and headed to my parents house to spread a little Christmas cheer. We were a whole 5 days into the month of December and my parents had not put up their Christmas tree or their Christmas village, which I look forward to every year. Now folks, this is an injustice. My family has been pretty adamant about putting up decorations for the season since my youth: I’ve been tempered in the tradition of kicking off the seasonal cheer as close to December 1st as possible. Now, It was our turn to step in and get their house ready as they have way too many decorations for two people to handle. We got the tree up pretty quick as we all chipped in and got it done. And folks, leaving your lights on the tree from the year before works. Saved us HUGE amounts of time, which let me be free to work on my favorite piece: the Xmas village.
A Christmas village doesn’t seems like a big deal, but my Dad was a pretty heavy collector of the Dickens Village, Heritage Collection by Department 56 back in the day… well most of the nineties. Which means his collection has grown to the point of near insanity. It took me a marathon 6 hours to set this puppy up, and that’s with some help from Melissa and my parents… Oh! And Sam’s occasional mad dash to grab a piece. Some of these pieces are priced in the hundreds as the amount of hand painted detail is pretty crazy, so it was constant vigilance with Slippery Sam sneaking around! So check out the slideshow below and see if you can find what Melissa and Sam were doing while I was playing mayor in Christmas town at 11pm… All I can say is that they sure do look comfortable! ;)
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Getting Ready for the Fat Man
My little Xmas Elf!
Well we are now in December and the season is upon us and so far, Sam has not disappointed. Melissa and I really get into the spirit of things, as you can see on the left, and we love the goodwill that flows this time of year… Too bad it’s not year round eh? Now I realize that this isn’t the first Christmas we’ve had with Sam, but this year he is much more aware and active than his younger self was last year. This is a huge difference for us, not only the way it brings us back to our own childhoods and the innocent wonder of the season, but also on a level of parent alertness that was previously, seemingly, dormant. Take for instance, the Christmas tree… Continue reading here…
Last Halloween… Before It’s Too Late!
OK folks! I know it’s almost December and we ALL KNOW what happens in December… But before we get into the the jolly fat man season, I submit to you, a final, last ditch effort of fun and recognition to my favorite holiday: Halloween! Yeah, I know I’m pushing it, what with the shopping malls all decked out in the holiday cheer with their music, Santas and sales! Some of you might even have the tree up, if that’s your thing, I know we do So please bare with me for this post, I got lazy and it took a while to throw this vid together, but I guess it’s better late than never!
This is the definitive Ingrid Witch video, I’ve put in some Halloween night footage of what the kids see when they opened my door, I’ve got some day footage as well to see more detail and finally, I’ve got some uncensored footage of Ingrid in the buff! That’s right people! Get and eyeful and see sexy Ingrid without her witch’s robe! Boing!!!
Anyways, it’s is a little long, but I wanted to put everything in as I wanted to give anyone else who might be inspired by Ingrid to have a little insight on how to build their own. After all, I too was inspired by a somebody else’s stirring witch prop, so it’s only fair to pass on what I’ve done!
Enjoy and Merry Halloweenmas!
Some Ingrid Stats / Shopping list:
- 2 motors (car wiper for the stirring and a rotisserie for the head)
- Over 18 feet of 1 1/2″ PVC piping
- 6 feet of 1/2″ PVC piping
- 3 feet aluminum stock
- countless nuts and bolts and screws
- 1 ping pong ball (cut in two for the eyes)
- 1 styro foam wig head
- 1 cheap Walmart witch mask (or mother-in-law likeness)
- 2 red LEDs with a 9 volt battery in the head
- 2 stings of orange LED lights (cauldron embers)
- 4 cans of Great Stuff expanding foam ( embers, cauldron overflow)
- 1 voodoo skull (but any skull will do)
- 1 string green LED Christmas lights (inside cauldron)
- 1 55 gallon drum (that’s the cauldron)
- 5 cans of spray paint (flat black, copper, brown)
- 2 pool noodles (arms and stirring stick)
- 10 plastic Bic pens (the fingers)
- 10 feet of Chicken wire (body cage)
- 30 tie wraps
- 3 meters of fabric (shawl and robe)
- 2 monster mitts from walmart (her gnarly hands)
- 1 computer power supply
- 1 CD payer (yes they still exist, thanks Norm!)
- 1 set of speakers
- Estimated 60 hours of trial and error, shopping, and work!!!
- Oh! and 1 witch hat!
- Estimated cost… Ummm about… Oh I’m guessing… carry the five… about: NONE OF YOUR FREAKIN BUSINESS!!!
Just trust me on this one, you don’t want to know! But she was worth it! Now, what to do next year? Hmmm….
Most importantly, however, a caring and understanding girlfriend, that knew when to help and when to walk away leaving the mad scientist to do his work. Thanks babe! *Smack*
Couch Fort & Wrestle!
Boys will be boys! I’m guessing that’s what Melissa is thinking every time Sam and I pull off something like building a couch fort!!! Couch forts RULE people! They absolutely dominate any rainy day, indoor activity not involving electricity you can think of. The possibilities are endless as to all the fun ways you can blow through a cold, wet fall afternoon! Sam was obviously delighted at my little genius idea and I think it’ll be something we’re gonna have to do again soon!
End of Summer
We are a couple of weeks past the official end of the summer season, which brings with it mixed feelings. On one hand: summer is awesome. The weather, overall, wasn’t that bad and we had some good times with family and friends in all sorts of place and all sorts of situations. On the other hand: Fall is awesommer! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am a Halloween nut! Slowly but surely I am indoctrinating Melissa into the ways of All- Hallows-Eve, and hopefully Sam will be into it later on… Melissa and I are currently working on a couple projects for our Halloween display, which gets bigger every year. So Fall is a fun time for us but before we welcome those chilly nights, and leaves rustling in the wind, lets say goodbye to another summer with a smattering of pics that I’ve neglected to post.
I Don’t Think So Sam…
Sam’s getting his hands into everything nowadays, and this time he got his mitts on a calculator. Funny thing: as soon as he saw the number buttons on it, well… He thought it was a phone! We had such a good laugh!!!
“Allo? Allo! Allo! Allo?”
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Sam Park’s It
A sure fire staple of toddler entertainment for summer has got to be the neighborhood park. Hands down, the easiest, cheapest and quickest of the available activities with which to keep your youngsters happy. Parents love them for the previously mentioned reasons, and kiddies love them for the slides, swings, monkey bars and the sand! Bloody sand that gets everywhere! Being rookie parents, our first visit to the park was end capped by us arriving at home, hauling an exhausted Sam inside, sitting him on the couch and removing his sandals… that were full of sand! 
Sam Gets Into Summer
I want out! Take the screen off or I'll go through it!
While you can’t tell by the questionable weather we’ve been having lately, the calendar says summer is only days away. As I type this, looking out the window, sitting on the living room floor, I see nothing but gray, dreary skies and wet pavement. This is, assuredly, a spring-time climate. But come on already! It`s freakin` June 18th and I want some sun dammit!
Ahem… Pardon the outburst, I guess I’m vitamin D deficient.
We do get a nice day now and then. Sometimes we even get two or three nice, dry and sunny days strung together.
"I wanna touch... you!"
But that happens tops… tops once every three weeks. That is not enough! Is this global warming? Well I can’t help but feel a little disappointed if it is! When that sun does shine it’s glorious beams of loving warmth, we get outdoors and have some fun! Sam loves being outside. He loves it so much in fact, that every evening when we arrive home after work, we unpack him out of the trunk and bring him into the house to eat supper. As soon as we cross our front door threshold, he loses it! Big tears roll down his reddening cheeks as he throws out a finger pointing back outside and gives one of his best “feel sorry for me” frowns. He doesn’t want to eat now, he wants to explore! Sam loves the trees and plans and flowers that make up our little yard and it’s as if he has to walk around to each one and say “Hi!”.
Oh! And I was kidding about the trunk comment, he prefers the roof a lot more… He gets a nice breeze up there.