I Survived Another Olympic Day With My Kids

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Olympic Day

As another school year comes to close, my kids participated in Olympic Day once again. Otherwise known as Field Day. Or as we parents call it, the Stand-Out-In-The-Crazy-Hot-Sun-For-Hours-On-End-To-See-Your-Kid-Run-For-Two-Minutes Day. The school breaks all the students up into three competing teams; red, white, and blue. This year, both my boys were on Team Red. Thankfully they try to match up siblings to keep us parents sane. The crummy part was that K-2 competes in the morning …

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Happy Father’s Day!

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Father's Day Superhero

I’ve had a great Father’s Day so far, snagging some awesome presents and tons of hugs. For my 40th birthday earlier this month, I got the Lego Batcave, which I literally finished putting together last night. Today I switched to the Marvel Universe and got a bunch of Avengers Legos. Yeah, I already had to put Captain America together. Looking forward to spending the whole day with the extended family. I can’t believe I’ve been …

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Happy 70th Birthday, Dad

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Today is my dad’s birthday. He’s 70 years young. It’s funny, when you’re little, even hearing that someone is 30 or 40 years old sounds ancient. Fifty or 60 is crazy old, and anything beyond that is nursing home city. Now that I’m 40 myself, I don’t feel that old. I still feel young inside. And no way do I picture my dad as 70 either. Luckily, he’s still in great shape and doesn’t look …

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Wordless Wednesday: Sheriff Hulk Trooper and Boba Dragonoid

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Clone Trooper meets Hulk

This is my first Wordless Wednesday and I”ve already apparently blown it. But I’ll keep this short and just say that my kids rarely play dress up. We watched Iron Man 2 the other night and afterwards they were so wound up, they started playing superhero. Then they went to their closet to play dress-up. And well, you can see the results. Clearly they get their fashion sense from their Old Man.

I Found a Time Machine and I’m Giving it to My Kids

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Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

A few months ago, I was in my basement and came upon a box of glorious awesomeness. I knew it was down there but had forgotten about it for awhile. Inside this seemingly ordinary cardboard box was my old Atari 2600 video game system. And yes, it still works. I brought it upstairs, hooked it up in the living room and proceeded to pull out the 100+ cartridges I still had for it. I was …

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