Fastforward 22 years

and here we are 22 years older..

The rest of the motley crew..

Here is the rest of my siblings.. From oldest to youngest.. Matt, Tammy, Dan, and myself.. All I can say is that we were ahead of our time in fashion. Matt.. I am digging your shirt.. showing off some of your manly chest.. Tammy.. I'll let Matt tell you..

As promised..

This is the picture I spoke of before.. Here Dan and I have no one to blame but ourselves for our cool outfits.. We were styling.. Oh yeah.. Notice Dan has his pants pegged..

Well this is me and Dan as youngster hanging out on the school bus our Mom use to drive.. Here you can see why so many people mistaked us as twins. Dan and I posed for a picture similar to this as teenagers. But that will be for tomorrow.. Our outfits were just about as cool as the ones we are wearing here.. Nice pants Dan..

The Brother just before me..

A little tribute to the brother I call Dan.. I thinking about dedicating a week of posts in his honor. Todays picture comes from my wedding night. I am not sure who snapped this picture but as you can see he loves him some sparkling grape juice...

Updates..

Finished putting the car back together on Monday night. (half day at work). Man is it nice. If you have ever had a bearing go bad you know how loud they can get. But it is as quite as the day I bought it. (except for the bad tires..) Working on a car is like climbing a mountain. They both seem unattainable (fixing/getting to top) but with alittle hard work, taking a break and rethinking, you can get to the top. The feeling of self accomplishment is also similar, atleast for me...

Well the house deal fell through. They countered our offer and we counter thiers, they rejected. So we are back at square one. That one wasn't meant for us.. God has a plan. Well I have a quiz tomorrow so I better look over the material..

BBH

The struggles of working on a car....

Man.. I thought.. I would get up early and get ahead start on the day and replace the passenger side front bearing today.. Everything was going pretty smooth. I had loosened the hub bolt. Gotten the tire off, removed the caliper.. But try as I could... I could not get the rotor off. Tom came out and gave it a try.. I heated it up until almost glowing. 20 lb sledge. Still wouldn't budge. So we decided to contiue with the job and work on removing the rotor off the car. So loosened the ball joint.. Start to loosen the strut clamp bolt and pop.. Broken bolt.. What to do now.. Remove the whole assymboly with the strut attached.. Actually not that tough.. Cut the strut off with sawsall. Work on getting that rotor off. While banging away it breaks loose. But it took the hub and the outer race of the bearing. Still need to remove rotor.. Tom balance on it with both feet and driving a 20 lb sledge between this feet.. Quite a funny site if it wasn't so frustrating. He takes a break. After squiting it with super penetration fluid for the 20th time I work on it with a 5 lb sledge. It pops free.. Yipee.. But wait the race is still stuck on the hub. I come to work.. Use the press to remove the old bearing from the knuckle. Press the new one in.. easy.. I drilled alittle bit of the broken bolt out. So it is snowing now.. I still haven't got my car back together, I haven't figured out how to remove the race. No machine shop/auto shops open on weekend.. Looking forward to Monday..

This for my brother..

I have not worked out in over a month. Still tipping the scales at 190 lbs. I want to work out. Dr said that I should really start more because my lipid profile shows that I will develope diabetes just a matter of when. We have it coming from both sides.. You should have yours checked too.

Heres to a better diet and more excersize..

Prayer matter... Amy and I just wrote an offer on a house in Adrian...

Schedule changes

Well. Because the class that I am taking is in the middle of the morning.. I've had to change my schedule at work.. I am now @ work from 1pm to 9:30pm. Stinks.. I lose the whole evening. So I haven't had the time to do much at all.. Including posts to the blogs. Sorry Russ. (and I know that you haven't stopped checking my blog.. just limiting yourself to one visit a day.. And I understand.) If I can get adjusted I might be able to do more. Until then... you don't need to check every hour..

BBH

Cupcakes

Amy made cupcakes yesterday.. HMM HMM GOOD.


disclaimer: Not a pic of the cupcakes Amy made.. Her cupcakes are cooler