New Cannon Beach Skatepark

I took William, Alberto, Pierre and John to the new Cannon Beach Skatepark on Sunday. We arrived about 10:30am and there weren't that many skaters. Since the skaters were little guys, my boys took over the bowl within a short timeframe and had the little guys in awe. here are a couple of pics of the guys in action.

Will, of course, was the first to jump something! My quote for this bowl is it tiny but mighty because I think everyone fell at some point. The bowls are tight with lots of good turns and plenty of grinding space.
About 12:30 the bowl started to get conjested so we hit the road and went to Seaside. By that time, the marine layer was burning off and we had sun for another couple of hours of skateboarding. Seaside wasn't as fun after Cannon Beach.

By 3pm we were back home - the best bowl! I dropped the guys off at the park and when dad went back after 5:30pm to pick up Will - he showed him some new tricks and dropped in the deep (12 foot) end of the bowl!

Boy's Road Trip to Las Vegas

Bill and William headed for Las Vegas on June 27th to attend the Beatle's convention. Before they left, I asked William if he could e-mail me pictures of the trip and I could post them on the blog. Well, I only received one from the actual convention

. . . and it was set up not really the final booth!

The Beatle's fest wasn't all we hoped it would be, expensive to get in and the venue wasn't easily assessible in the hotel. Leason learned.

The boys did have a nice stay at the condo Lois outfitted them at - thanks Mom/grandma for the nice digs! William decided the master bedroom was his for the stay. Both enjoyed time at the pool.

Here are a couple of other pics going to Vegas (notice they are mostly Oregon sites)

The guys hit Six Flags in San Jose on the drive home. That was a complete success! Thank goodness, because I haven't lived down that Six Flags in Dalles closed because of flooding when William and I visited 3 years ago!

Bill took William to a skateboard park in San Francisco and William got to try a different skateboarding experience (oh yes, the skateboard was one of the first items packed for the trip!). Bill said that some kids tied their jeans around their butts and left jockey shorts for the top half showing (sounds lovely) and that they called themselves little gangsters! Glad that isn't going on in Astoria!

John had the boys stay over in Napa with him and they enjoyed a good evening of barbeque and (I'm sure) stories of their youth.

Boys arrived home July 4th at about 7:15am, tired but having had another grand adventure!

Catching Up!

Okay, I am terribly behind . . . I know, I know!

I've hired a new accounting clerk and she started last week! It was hectic but I made it through a month doing double duty.

Paul Lee flew the coop a few weeks back. He was determined to get out and did. He wouldn't answer Bill and left on a fairly rainy day and that evening it was 49 degrees over the evening. I was not hopeful of his return, but Bill kept searching for him. No Paul the next several days and Bill finally placed an ad in the newspaper in case Paul decided to cozy up to someone and was just awaiting a "LOST" ad. The ad ran for a week, no word! Paul had been gone for 2 weeks and the weather was awful - mostly raining (and raining hard) weather never reached 55 during the days and the evenings were in the mid to low 40's. The day before Bill was ready to haul off the cage/home, he received a call . . .

Yep, Paul is back! He flew uphill about 3 blocks to a constructions site for Randy Stemper's new home and was wandering around on the roof. Eventually he saw this guy that kind of looked like a younger version of Bill and decided he needed to go down and be on that guy's shoulder. The guy took a liking to this very friendly and strange bird who just hung out with him the rest of the day and they went home together. He bought a small cage and kept Paul safe, warm and fed. This guy doesn't get the paper so he didn't see the ad Bill placed but a buddy of his did and so the day after the last ad ran, he was told the owners were looking for the peach faced lovebird. Paul and Bill were reunited and Paul has been catching up on people food, green chili and coffee since arriving back home (he was on bird seed while on his walkabout!).

Baseball!

I don't think that we have ever had such a rough baseball year! The weather has been extremely uncooperative. We had one game prior to May 3rd and then a double header Saturday morning. Pictures are of William at bat and behind the plate. His position seems to be catcher this year. We managed to get in a game last night as well (home after 9:30pm - Yawn).

I believe we a 1 win and 3 losses for the season. Been tough to get any practices in as well. We really haven't had more than one practice a week. The other Babe Ruth team seems to get them in like clockwork. Teams are pretty large for Babe Ruth with 17 and 18 on each team. Makes it harder to get playing time.

Garage Sale !

Yep - we had one on April 27th. The weather cooperated for the most part. We originally were going to have it on Saturday (which was sunny and beautiful - the 1 day in the last 6 mos) but William was supposed to have a baseball game in Seaside right in the middle of the sale. Well, the game was cancelled but we had an ad in the paper. We did alright with most things selling. William worked the sale throughout the day and we told him he could have most of the proceeds but he had to work it and setup and cleanup. Most of the items were his to begin with. The boys are looking at selling the Kawi's. Willia wants a laptop

and will use the money from his bike to purchase one. Bill wants something street legal (it is specific but I don't know exactly what make/model/year).