Monthly Archives: August 2013

Look Who’s 8 Today

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As today is Mason’s birthday, I spent the day at his school being the “Watchdog Dad” and it was such a good time to watch Mason interact with everyone and marvel at how quickly he has grown and matured over the past few years.  I am very proud of the person that Mason has become and then as a reminder that he is still very young we were sitting in the office and he was watching a minecraft video on youtube when I heard the f word dropped.  I told him to turn it off immediately and said that it was one of the worst “bad” words that could be said.  His reply verbatim was “So fucking is worse than the s word?”  It was hard not to chuckle when I answered in the affirmative trying to ignore that he just used the word and furthermore knowing that he considers the s word to be stupid.

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Fashionista

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Here is the link from Cutler’s appearance this past Friday on the local ABC show, Good Morning Texas.

A funny story about it is that the segment is supposed to be featuring the clothes purchased at Burlington Coat Factory and for some reason we thought it would be a good idea for Cutler to wear the outfit to the show. About 15 minutes into the drive the little bugger decided it was a good idea to vomit all over his new shirt, supposed to be returned after the show. Fortunately we had a change of clothes, meaning the batman shirt that the host of the show focused on. Needless to say we now own a new outfit from Burlington Coat Factory.

http://www.wfaa.com/good-morning-texas/A-GMT-Fashion-Show-with-Special-Meaning–220845731.html

 

Burlington Coat Factory and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

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Here is Cutler’s clip from this morning.  He needs some fine tuning on looking into the cameras.  🙂

Burlington Coat Factory and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

More Live TV For Cutler

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For my Dallas area friends, Cutler will be doing to live broadcasts this week as part of Burlington Coat Factory and Light The Night segments for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The first is tomorrow morning on KTXD, http://www.ktxdtv.com/category/257849/d-the-broadcast, somewhere between 9am – 11am. I don’t know the channel for the different tv providers, but for direct tv it is local channel 47. This is the same program we appeared on last year. Naturally I will post a link to the clip as soon as it is provided for those interested.

On Friday morning, between 9am – 10am he will be doing a similar segment on the local ABC affiliate (channel 8 for the locals), http://www.wfaa.com/good-morning-texas.  Again, I will post the link when/if it becomes available.

As the Burlington Coat Factory is donating a % of proceeds on certain days to the Light The Night effort this will be a mini fashion show with Cutler and three other young survivors.  Should be cute.

Speaking of Light The Night, keep on the lookout for my annual effort to start raising funds…only a few months late.  At least we have until October to get some serious fund raising done.

Cutler Power

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http://youtu.be/F1rgznO3HVg

At Mason’s birthday party this past Friday (we celebrate early) there was a balloon artist entertaining those that would be willing to approach him. Naturally Cutler stepped up and was quickly convinced he had the power. What type of power is that you ask? Well as of this morning it was the power to make something light up, the power to help clean up the trimmed landscape, the power to get Rookie to sit, the power to pull me up from the floor, the power to…

Bottom line is Cutler has the power!

Different Worlds

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I took these two goofballs to the movies last night for a boys night and beforehand we were on the phone with grandma and grandpa discussing their major exploits for the day. Mason was bragging about his excellent play on the course and Cutler naturally followed it up with “At school I farted!”.

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On an unrelated happening, later in the movie there was a scene in Planes where it looked like the lead character, Dusty, had possibly perished.  The theatre was very silent until Cutler asked in a pretty loud voice, “Is he dead?”.  The movie was good, but I think this gave the audience the biggest laughter.

Introducing Rookie

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This past Sunday we made the decision to add another member to the team, a fun loving, trouble seeking, hopefully quick learning four month old black lab.  The boys are ecstatic to have him around.  I am enduring mixed emotions as I am constantly having to teach him what toys he can play with and what he can’t, yet he is loving enough at times to just lay by my feet as I work.  Melanie is experiencing a puppy for the first time, so I think she may be overwhelmed.  It definitely makes us miss Tau, but we are really enjoying bringing Rookie into the family.

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Another Tough Day At The Course

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Mason walking off to start another tough day at golf camp.  Yesterday he told me that he parred a par 3 and even hit one over a lake.  I didn’t believe him until I talked to the instructor today and he verified.  I am thinking it might be time to home school him and forget all other sports.  Spending six hours on the course per day should get him on the tour by 18.

Like Father Like Son

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This past week my wife was nice enough to let me fly to Alabama to play golf with my good buddy, Brian, and while I was there I had every intention of sitting down and writing some long overdue posts. What I quickly learned is that after playing 36 holes of golf in hot and muggy weather you tend to tire quickly. Despite not going out at night, I would sit down at the hotel room desk in front of the laptop and quickly find myself imitating my father as we often find him when he visits our house.

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