Pumpkin carving and general fun
This weekend was a ton of fun. Saturday we invited my mom and sister over for some pumpkin carving, we do this every year and we normally do a lunch, dinner, or lupper along with cake and other festive treats followed by the pumpkin carving, and general goofiness.
This has become a great tradition now that we all have kids. Even our neighbor joined in on the fun. I truly enjoy just getting some time to hang out with them and teach the young ones how to carve up a pumpkin.
Sunday we decided to skip church since my mom was willing to watch the kids and allow me and the wife to have a date afternoon. It was a great time. Me and Jess never get to spend time away from the kids and although we love them to peices, having a moment to sit and enjoy a meal with your partner in life is a precious thing. However, you’ll probably laugh, we took our date at Chili’s and then went to Sam’s club to do the weeks grocery shopping 
Enjoy the photos.
Just Shutup and go to CarMax
Today me and the wife finally put an end to the constant problems we were having with our 08 town and country.
Back in May we bought an 08 Town and Country with very low miles and it was all decked out, power everything, navigation, leather… you get the idea. We lovd it and it was in our price range.
About a week after we brought it home we had non-stop problems with it. Check engine lights, tire pressure monitoring problems, doors jamming, seats jamming, and finally the sunroof started leaking. Since we had bought the car from Carmax I started to communicate to them through the store and twitter. They were so helpfull and after replacing the computer they said if you have any more trouble we’ll buy the car back from you and they did just that.
So last sunday me and the wife set out to find a car that will hold 6 ppl comfortably and within the same price range. I was looking to get all of those features back but since the wife is the one who drives it day in and out I decided it was best to just let her pick the car she liked and felt comfortable with. All in all we looked at about 7-10 cars, she liked some I liked others, and we settled on a 2011 Kia Sedona. It had very low miles, was brand new, but had very few features. So we bought it, added a DVD Player to it and now everybody is happy. Take a look at the pictures below.
Thank you CarMax you are truely a great dealership.
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Easter 2011
Everyone had a wonderful time this weekend. We had our nephew and niece over yesterday and let our nephew spend the night for Daniel’s very first sleepover. Then we had all of our family over for an Easter lunch which consisted of ham, mashed potatoes, green beens, homemade rolls, and banana pudding. We then hunted Easter eggs and let the kids enjoy the warm weather while us adults caught up on each others lives… I hope your Easter was half as much fun.
Thanks for reading
David Bates
Monster Jam 2011
Tonight we took Daniel and his cousin Zach to Monster Jam. They both loved it. It was loud, smelled like burnt fuel and had lots of cool Monster Trucks. IronMan was the truck that stole their heart as they both love the IronMan movies. I also loved the fact that about 20 minutes of the show was dedicated to honoring our armed forces and our country.
I plan to add to this post tomorrow with lots of pictures and maybe even a video, if they turned out ok.
Goodnight for now… Daddy is tired
Daniel and Santa’s Relationship
My wife told my son that if he didn’t start being good she was going to call santa and have his presents taken back. Right after that just by luck I happened to call her.
Daniel shouted “Oh God it is Santa, don’t answer the phone Mommy.”
Kids are awesomely gullible.
