So it's getting close to bowling time again!!! September 6, and this year it's looking like we will be combining teams with Dean and the Kirkhams. The top two teams coming together may just spell trouble for the rest of the league. In this pic John is probably coaching me on how fix something and he always regrets it when we are competing against each other because we seem to whip em especially when it counts the most.

Anyways it is always fun and I can't wait until it's time to start rolling the balls again. Kim wants a new ball and shoes for her birthday and she will be ready to rock. More pics to look at from the championship game.

Dave showing Dean how incredible he is. Dean rocking out with the thumps.

The WINNERS!!!!! SECOND PLACE(the losers!)

Kim and I and Dean and the Kirhams are ready team up and rule the alley! Looking forward to the good times. That night was fun as it always is with this crew! Now what should our name be. Can anyone come up with a great name? Peace out folks!

So father's day was a little bit ago, but hey I haven't been one to update this thing much so you get what you get. I know this blog started out to be a dedication to Arod, but hhe got hurt and well he has had to many problems with the divorce, mistress,and Madonna(ech!) Still an awesome player(and playa, i guess). Anyways, back to the father's day thing. As most know I am a huge McGwire fan and my Father in law Dean knows this as evident by this cool bobble head to the left. He got for a chrsitmas gift but couldn't wait to givre it to me so I got it for Father's day. COOOOOOL! Now If I could get back to bombing away in softball and I can have those little kid dreams of being like my hero!(without the roids though people) I know some of you will say he took roids so i'll just say, I don't care! I don't condone it and I am disappointed but hey I know he feels regret, why else have we not seen him the past few years. I forgive him so should you. Mcgwire for the hall fame!!!!!!!!!! Can you guess how I would vote?

So it's tuesday night, two days after arriving back from family camp and I am still not fully recovered from it. Allergies are real fun let me say that! I'm sitting here late into the morning (since it's now a pattern set from camp) listening to jakob dylan and gavin rossdale's new music via the zune, and reading my wife's blog and some friends and family blogs too. You know last week has shown me that I have a great church, great family, and great friends! Just wanted totake time to say thanks to one and all who are a part of my life. Leaving Sunday to go to work was very hard to do. It meant leaving my wife and daughter behind, and Mikayla going back home to mommy. Man was that hard! I suffered seperation anxiety and pretty much cried on my way to work and a little at work too. Well Just wanted to say my life is not what i expected but I have so many great people around me that I wouldn't change a thing!
Peace out y'all!

Where have you gone Mark Mcwgire

The season's don't have fire

Like they did before you retired

and now you're gone

What will I do

It's not as fun without you

woo woo woo

Did you do steroids? I don't care

I Miss the red hair

And bombs that make me leap from my chair

The season is about to start

The game misses your heart

Other wish they could have a part

Like you did

Make me feel as though I am a kid

Where have you gone, where have you gone?

(this has been an tribute to the greatest home run hitter in the world. He didn't just hit em he put em in the next hemisphere! Amazing to watch and I was lucky to see him live on many occasions. The tribute was done to the tune of Mrs Robinson. And many of you now know that I am a nut, so your suspicions were true after all pat yourselves on the back! To my wife's family you are stuck with me! At least I am fun!)

Midnight Wiffle Ball!!

(image borrowed from wiffleball.com official site for your wiffleball needs)

So I was reading my sister-in-law and brother-in-law's awesome website and I just had to laugh about their experience playing skillet ball. They had found an old cast iron skillet and Greg being silly decided that hitting a tennis ball with it would be fun(and I wish I would've been there). Soon it blossomed into an impromptu game with rules and terminology. The funny thing is I think I have done that before. No wait I know I have done something like that before. My neighbor and best friend growing up(David) and I turned an alleyway into a wiffle balle field. We grabbed a hoe and made a pitching mound, baselines, and marked off barriers for homeruns, doubles and triples. We even had days when we would actually run bases, and we turned the field into first base, second base, and home. We played incognito(in the wide open really, but only when my Dad wouldn't know), because I wasn't allowed to play, because it would ruin my swing and I wouldn't make allstars and would embarrass myself. By my count I think I did OK, but don't tell my Dad. David and I also turned our two yards into our own mini golf course, using stairs, driveways, and rocks as our obstacles. We played soccer in the street. Sounds normal but wait! We both used the width of the street and telephone poles as our goals. we didn't move from our goals which were about 100 to 150 feet apart. We kicked the ball as high as we wanted or as hard as we wanted in trying to fool or trick our opponent. We used a hanging wire over the street as a crossbar to kick fieldgoals. And last but certainly not least we played basketball in my driveway using a part of the roof top that jutted out as our basket. There was no basket but we played. I miss those days. We were creative, and just had fun! I think he was doing his best to entertain a kid who was three years his junior and I thank him for that!

So comes my junior year in highschool, and of course I am to old to play silly games like that anymore right? Well no, of course not! Three of my very good friends from church and school(Garet, Jake, and Lee) had another way of having fun. Again it is wiffle ball. Not to out of the norm, but we had a new twist. We were all hanging out at Garet's house one night and we got this idea to play wiffle ball, but of course it was dark being midnight and all, so where can we play that won't bother anyone and have light so we can see? Almost in unison we all said, the church parking lot! Garet's dad was our pastor and their home was litterally next door to the church. There wasn't a lot of light but we played anyways. We set rules, had set teams(me and Lee, against Garet and Jake), and we played that first night until about 4am! Notice I said that first night. We sort of made it a ritual to play some midnight wiffle ball on random Saturday nights. One night we played until the sun started to come up and we barely made it back to the house before anyone found out. Yes we still got up (or stayed up) for sunday school and church service. I miss those days! Does anyone else have any fun games or things they did as kids, when there wasn't all this computerized stuff?

This is the Oakley mothership the inspiration to the OCrew name! I have been here and it is a cool office. I hope to go back again someday but it might be awhile. I would love to take the whole crew and go into the employee store and get all decked out in nothing but Oakley stuff! And Yes this the headquarters, and yes Oakley does do things a little diferently than just about any one else. To the Crew, to the place that has inspired us to wear the best, so we can play our best. Let's get it going this Sunday and just bring the pain for the coed league. And as always remember to have fun and smile all the time. This is a friendly reminder for all(esp the coach). God bless you all!

Softball is here! It starts this Sunday! I will have our schedule tonight! I am the Coach and i like to pretend that people actually listen to me! Why am I using exclamation points!!!! Maybe because I am a little excited that it's just about to get rolling!

The O crew