Our Retirement Plan

Make A Wish has struck again with another great outing for Cutler and myself, this time local.  In preparation for one of their biggest fund raisers of the year they are putting together a brochure of some of the recipients which requires a professional photo session.  Naturally, thanks to his good looks, Cutler was asked to participate and it was such an incredible time and experience.  Even better is that it was a super hero themed shoot where the kids would dress “normal” for some pictures and then dress as their favorite super hero for the second half.  As Cutler is in a huge Batman (the black one, Cutler’s words), this was his choice.  As they didn’t have a Batman costume big enough for him, they put him in a Darth Vader suit with the Batman mask and cape and my assumption is that they will edit the photos later to get rid of the Vader outfit on the front.  Fortunately they were there as this provided tons of entertainment for him when one of the assistants acted as if they couldn’t see him when he hit the “invisible” button.  Cutler was quite the hit with the ladies and now I am thinking if I work him hard enough we could get some future underwear ads out of this deal.  We have ordered the PX90 video set so he will have the abs ready when the agents start calling.  🙂

Once we get the final pictures I will be sure to share away.  For now you will have to suffer with my behind the scenes photos below.

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Cheap Labor

Is it a violation of child labor law if the children aren’t paid?  Are family?  This was my justification as I pulled an old Tom Sawyer move and convinced the kids that it would be fun to dig a trench for me to bury a downspout.  Actually the kids asked me if they could dig, after I had already finished the job, but I couldn’t help but feel like Tom as I sat there in my lawn chair watching the football game while the kids dug away.  Mason, as it turns out, was great at digging and was able to get the trench a little deeper for me while Cutler was great at following him and knocking the dirt back in from where it was just dug.

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We also discovered on this day that Cutler is not, as of yet, set to be the next King Arthur as he was not able to pull the mighty Excalibur shovel from the tight grasp of the earth despite his vocal effort.

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