Shannie's school update

Just in case you haven't heard, Shan has gone back to school full time. She is going to finish up her bachelors degree, so she can teach elementary school. We are so proud of her, and she has taken to it head on. So she gave her first presentation last week and nailed it. She showed us her "chalk board", which was an author study. "Shel Silverstein" was the author. The balloons have different activities for different subjects, it's all put for interactive reading. The picture doesn't show how great it really is. Shan laid it out on the dinning room table. It was so cool. She used a lot of resources to make her presentation, and she intends to use it in the future for her classroom. The art work is really unique, and all her ideas tie it together. One of her class's is psychology,..?!?!()!? Oh boy, I know she will have me on the couch confessing to something I didn't do.

"10" Babys

Secretly Shan and I must have a death wish, because we had a big maamma jamma sleep over last weekend with... Yep, 10 boys total. It was a reward to the boys for doing so good transitioning back to school. Each got to invite a buddy. We had a great game of flag football, it was really fun and the weather was great. Even some dads played. The boys played hard and ate good too. We had to move some of the furniture out of the great room upstairs to make room for them to camp out, and have a movie night. The next day it looked like a bomb hit. Shan had the waffles going in the morning, and the boys talked about their story's. All and all, it was a lot of work but, super fun, and they have already asked to do it again. Oh boy!!!

I caught Jake

I caught a snake. Yep, "Jake the snake" got some human interactions today. It is not every day you catch a snake. He was a Oregon State fan, sporting black skin with an orange strip. I was alone at the house doing chores, and saw him on the RV pad. He scared the crap out of me, and I'm not found of snakes. I had to try to catch him for the boys. Got a bucket in front of him, and took a shovel behind him, and scooped him in. "Got him." I sent Shan a text right away with the news for the boys. Of coarse they wanted to hold him, Shan too. Luke was the brave one, picking him up first, and he got to release him back into freedom.

Halloween fun

The boys have been busy decorating the house, in and out, with the Halloween deco. I can tell Its going to be a super fun month. The boys are really into the spirit this year, and were going to see Michael Jackson, A gorilla, Star Wars fighter, and a Bleeding Dead Guy, that actually pumps red blood. Shan is doing a great job customizing all the costumes. The "boys", are so funny how they decorate the house. Found a beetle on the toilet seat, a plastic rats in the water fountian, and even I, put a rubber snake in Parker's bed.

Our last day on the boat for the year

It was a bitter sweet last day on the water, because after about an half an hour on the river, Nick started feeling bad, and felt hot. So Shan took Nick home and Parker went too. Missed them for sure, also it was the last time to board this year. Sweet, because we rode all day long, none stop, and killing it. We put in at our newest place we like to go,Newberg, Oregon on the Willamette river. We love it there, almost ten miles of river to find some butter and ride or just hang out. It is only half hour away. Robbie, Lukas, Cody, & Chris, and I have been riding better with every run the last 4 times we've been out. It was the same this day too. Chris landed his first 360, a sweet one. Robbie and Lukas were just killing it on the knee board. Cody strapped on the knee board too, for the first time, she layed it down. We shortened up the rope a lot on they're last run, with them hitting the wake harder, and catching air. Lukas' wake boarding is so much fun to watch, that little man can ride. As for me, I had a great last ride, doing my tricks, and yes, my Nemesis's trick- "cuffed"- that is the one I crashed so hard on at Koppert lake, squashing any dought about that trick, no crashes today. We video taped the action so we could show Shan, Nick and Parker. The boat is in the garage and the season is over, it was a great year and we don't want it to be over... bittersweet.

We got tunes!!! "Disclaimer."

OK, now that I know how to play music on our blog, here's the disclaimer."don't read into the words,or try to match it up with our camp." I'm only going to play music that we think is cool,sounds good, or jam with. I'm gonna let the boys pick out their favorites too. That's gonna be good. I'm hopeing you will enjoy. And thanks Amy for the help,really!

Koppert lake, novice open

OK, so Shanie,Lukas,& me,Rob, competed at the Don
Koppert Memorial Classic wake board contest. Boy, what an experience that was, and can hardly wait to do it again. I will get back to that in a sec. Lukas absolutely killed it. Everyone is so proud of him. All the riders, all the classes gathered around, while they announced the podium finishers. "In third place, Salem Oregon, Lukas Jensen"!!! We all screamed and yelled, as he got up on the podium and got the bronze - metal was placed around his neck. Shanie was next finishing second, and receiving the silver metal. Me, well.... got fourth. No podium for me. But I so want to do it again because I messed up. Had I not have, I probably would have metaled too. What happened was I planned out my run in my head a thousand times and knew what tricks I was going to do, and when in the run I'd preform them. I started out, felt great,got my first trick in, switch 180, and saw the judges in the boat score it, "I could see them write it down". That pumped me up even more. I was in front of the crowd and cuffed up (riding backwards, facing away from boat), I was going to hold that move past the announcer, then!/?^%#!:!!(crash). The boat rubbed the bottom of the lake witch made the rope jerk. Worst wreck ever for me. I think I blacked out for a sec, and swallowed most of the lake too. Getting pulled over backwards onto your head hurts. I remember the boat driver saying the "wedge", (a part in back of boat the sticks down the give bigger wakes) hit bottom. I told him to put it up. And resumed riding. don't remember much after that. my hole plan went out the window. So next time NO WEDGE. Had it happened on any other trick it probably wouldn't even mattered, just like taking a roller from another boat. So now you can see why I have to do it again. by the way ... it took me 2 weeks to recover and i think I'm an inch shorter.