For our 19 year anniversary, Bonnie and I have gone to the Marriott Shadow Ridge in Palm Desert. We had the kids for the first few day's over fathers day and then Bonnie drove them back to Monrovia where Nana was waiting for them. Thank you Nana for watching them. Scott and I played a round of golf on Saturday and then Bonnie and I played a round on our anniversary. We had a lot of fun but despite the 105 degrees weather. The pool was refreshing and the poolside virgin lava flows were Wonderful.

Yea... It's Megan's 12th Birthday and she requested tortellini with cheese bread for lunch today after church. And guess what, I didn't burn the bread this time.

Yep. I burnt the cheese bread for our wonderful after church spaghetti dinner. I was a little upset but Lizzy wanted to comfort me. She said, "It's OK daddy, you always burn the bread, this is nothing new."
Thank you Lizzy. That made me feel better.

“To laugh or to Cry”
This morning Bonnie was getting ready for the day when she said out loud, “ I don’t want to go today”. Lizzy asked Bonnie, “ You don’t want to go where?” So Bonnie gently told Lizzy about going to the Dr. to get an annual Mammogram. Bonnie gently explained to her what a Mammogram was. With a funny look on her face, Liz said, “OK” and turned and walked away.
After school Liz came up to Bonnie and said, “Mommy, how was your Dr. boob thing today?” Bonnie trying to get Liz to use proper terminology said, “They are called breasts and it hurt when they squished them in the machine.” “Liz looked Bonnie over for a second or two and then said with a very straight and serious face, “they do look smaller from all the squishing.” Bonnie didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but in the end we all had a good laugh.

We were sitting at the dinner table enjoying a nice home cooked meal and Bonnie was reading a scripture to us. It started a discussion about angels which lead into Megan asking a question, "Why does the devil have so may names like, Satan, the devil and Christopher?" Bonnie and I looked at each other and started laughing. Then Megan said, “ and who would name their kid after the devil, I don’t get it.” After we stopped laughing we explained that its Lucifer and not Christopher.

HAPPY EASTER!




The Card Family wants to wish everyone a wonderful Easter. We dyed some eggs on Saturday and had a great Easter at church. We are hosting an Easter Dinner at our house and wish that everyone could come. After Church we went and visited Scott Alan Card's grave site as well as my great Grandma and Grandpa Smith. The kids left plastic Easter eggs on both sites.

Baseball is now off and running after this mornings opening ceremony. I had to cook pancakes and sausage and Scott was asked to carry the Flag. Baseball is all that I'm going to know for the next few months. We have 3 games per week plus practice when we can fit it in. We play teams from several other cities, Duarte, Rosemead, Covina, West Covina, Baldwin Park including the other Monrovia Pony team. I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

I wanted to go golfing today but its raining like crazy so I’m enjoying an old western, “Support your local Sheriff” with the family. Liz was kind enough to go and get my slippers for me. Bonnie’s making me update the blog because she doesn’t want everyone to see nasty feet. Here’s a picture of my feet in slippers watching a western on a Lazy rainy Presidents day.

While I was watching an old Brady Bunch TV show with Liz on a lazy Saturday morning a commercial came on advertising the “Ped Egg”. I looked at Liz and said, “What in the world is this all about?” Liz said, “you know Dad, you use like a cheese grader on your feet taking off all the yucky stuff, you know like Nana has on her feet”
Sorry Nana, now everyone knows that you have “yucky stuff” on your feet that could use a cheese grader devise like the Ped Egg.


This is NOT a picture of Nana’s foot.

While we were at a wedding reception, Bonnie received a phone call on her cell from Liz. She left a message for Bonnie, "Mom, this is an emergency, I need you to go to Target on your way home from your wedding and buy me another ballet outfit. The one I'm wearing is giving me a major wedgie."
As Bonnie was listening to the message, once she heard, "This is an emergency" our hearts jumped and then both had a laugh as we found out that it was all over a "Major Wedgie".

Our family decided to go on a little hike in the Monrovia foothills to the waterfall. We all enjoyed the wonderful hike seeing different kinds of vegetation and animal life with the exception of a Crazy Killer Evil Squirrel. I took a picture of him just before he tried to attack. Megan said, "He's just protecting his NUTS"

Bonnie received a box of Sees candy from one of her ESL students. Liz said to Bonnie, "I love candy, I can't wait to have some" Bonnie, who loves Sees candy, giggled and said," Sorry Liz, this is for just Daddy and I". Megan who was sitting next to Liz looked over and said," It's OK Liz, We'll be the skinny one's in the family" I guess I'll be happy eating Sees Chocolate and NOT be skinny.

Well, It's been raining for the last several days here in Southern California. I went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Card and I found her wearing some "Grandma" special rain shoes. Yes, If you look closely she is wearing socks, sandals wrapped in plastic bags and rubber bands to keep it all together. How, "innovative?"

Grandpa Card broke his other hip after tripping over a box. At least that's the cover story. I heard that he was chasing grandma around the house trying to pinch her bottom. What ever the true story is, he is doing very well and should be out of the hospital by the beginning of next week. Now he has two new hip joints. He's almost bionic.

As a Family tradition, we always set up our "FAKE" Christmas Tree thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Allen and their "Real" Christmas Tree fire many years ago. The girls were acting up all day and we had finally had enough. We decided to punish them by sending them to their room to work out their problems. We also told them that they would not be able to participate in setting up the Christmas Tree. If they were good, we would allow them to put the lights and ornaments on the tree the next day. When we were finished setting up the tree, we walked up to the girls room to talk to them and we found this sign taped to their door. They always find ways to make us feel like bad parents.

My friend ED wanted to show me what a Chinese Turkey (Duck) looked like. Yum. I think that it's smiling at me.


The Nokia theater at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony.


Go Kings Go. Staples center after an LA Kings game.

Well, Megan is our first child to get railroad tracks across her face. Yep. Brace Face. She chose blue bases. What ever happened to just plain metal? I sure hope the blue color didn't cost me anything extra. Not that I don't want my little girl to look good because it's obvious that I do, otherwise I wouldn't put braces on her to straighten her teeth out. I just don't want to pay anything more then I have to. I had even thought about moving to England where Megan's jacked up teeth would be accepted or even celebrated. I soon discovered that that would have cost me more money to move the family then just putting her in braces. Sorry Megan. Daddy loves you.

Megan has become quite the photographer. She is improving with every pictures she takes. I just wanted to share a couple of pictures that she took over the summer. Megan entered a photo contest and won first place. Her winning picture was entitled "Just Straight Chillin" If I can ever find it again, I'll post it for everyone to see. I'm glad that she's artistic like her Nana.