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Wake'n with the dads

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Originally uploaded by Andy Kleitsch.

Sure, we invited a bunch of single guys to join us... but they thought we were crazy! "who gets up at 7am on a Saturday to go wake boarding?!" Definitely not my single friends. Only a group of die-hard-dads... I had a great time, and caught my first air!

tooth fairy in business

After dinner tonight I took the kids to the local tennis court. While hitting a few balls with Karsten (and Britta chasing them as the ball-girl), I could see Karsten pushing his bottom tooth in and out... for days we've been anxiously waiting for his first baby tooth to fall out. With the tennis court as my operating room, dad-the-dentist went to work... one swift pull - and pow! - Karsten lost his first baby tooth. He was extremely happy, and proud.

"Dad, look! Blood!!!"
"yeah, baby teeth bleed sometimes. it's no big deal."
Then, feeling very inspired, Karsten grabbed the tennis net, clenched his tooth in his fist, lowered his head and launched into a center-court prayer...
"God... I don't care if the tooth fairy is real or not, I just want a lot of money under my pillow. amen."
"amen to that."

The rest of the night all we heard about was the tooth fairy. On the way home I asked Karsten to sing a tooth fairy song... I only remember bits...
"late at night... the tooth fairy wants to steal my tooth... tooth fairy, bring back my - tooth fairy, bring back my - tooth fairy bring back my TOOTH!"

im crack-blogin from wes's minivan, on the way to OMG kinda wind. we have big smiles. thank you jana for watching the kids so i can get my wind fix. ;-)


... Wind Advisory remains in effect until 8 PM PDT this evening...
A Wind Advisory remains in effect until 8 PM PDT this evening.
Winds will continue to increase today across the Kittitas Valleyand become very windy in the late afternoon and evening.Northwest winds sustained at 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 50 mphcan be expected from noon today to 8 PM this evening.
A Wind Advisory is issued when sustained winds are forecastbetween 30 and 39 mph or gusts ranging from 46 to 57 mph. Windsof these magnitudes can make driving difficult... especially forhigh profile vehicles. Minor property damage may also occur. Foradditional weather information... check our web site atwww.Weather.Gov/Pendleton.

Wake'n with Alex

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Originally uploaded by B-TownMom.

Alex took me and the kids wakeboarding last night. It was perfect! Warm water, cold beer & big wipe-outs. This is a photo of Karsten with the flag and Alex behind the boat. Woo hoo!

old-looper

For 20 years I've wanted to loop. every windsurfer dreams of it.

When I tell people i windsurf, they ALWAYS ask "oh, do you do that loop thing?!?!"

My head hangs low and i mutter... "ahhh, not really. no. that's scary."

15 years ago in the middle of Mexico i worked up enough courage to attempt 15 loops. total disaster. i don't even know what went wrong. shit blew up. i limped for a few days.

Fast forward to now... i'm a mid-aged guy, wife, two kids... i windsurf a handful of times a year, but I want to loop now more than ever. i'm obsessed with looping. and now i've decided i will live my life by one simple rule, and one rule only: LOOP OR DIE.

That's right... DIE!! Just as samurai believe dying in battle is a good death - i too believe that dying while looping would be a GREAT death. i'd hate to die while washing the dishes, or cleaning the bathroom, but to die while looping... that's fine with me.

So... on to the good news... I came CLOSE to looping / dying today!! The first few attempts were horrible. big crashes. but the 5th attempt was soooo close! I slapped the back of my legs on the water - the rig totally flipped - I'm closer to death now than ever!!

Oh, I also tried 3 duck jibes and 3 vulcans. all disasters.

I'm in pain.

Big dreams and small pools

Silicon Valley is full of big dreams, big companies, big wallets, big budgets and the worlds smallest pool. Super 8 really splurged on this one. :-)