family and friends – JournaledTimes

I am not a pro when it comes to taking pictures, hell I do not even use a real camera. All my pictures are taken with my phone, so if you are looking for some high grade shit you will be disappointed. I had a really nice camera once, but someone decided I did not need it anymore and stole it. It was one of those 35mm FILM cameras too! -Side note: When I first met my wife, her family had drawers of undeveloped pictures. I started taking them to the Photo-mat to get processed. It is so strange now to think that was what we had to do to get pictures!

The below three pictures are of a truck that belongs to the father of a family friend. I swear if I win the lottery I am going to take this one and fix it! I love old cars/trucks. New cars are ok, but I really do not think people are going to have the same love for these plastic battery powered supped up go-carts as they have for the old 50s-80s cars .

1952 Dodge Pick Up

Spiders……everywhere spiders!

Here we have Seth, Lilian and Lucas. Nothing crazy or artsy fartsy just the family in the kitchen doing family stuff

We almost had to use this picture for a lost dog poster. He disappeared on Sunday, not sure how he got out but his dumb ass just took off. Luckily we were able to find him about a block away from the house. He is chipped but it is not a GPS, it will let anyone that scans him who he belongs to. Charlie, dont be stupid…..

Life is going well for everyone; Lucas has his cast off and will be able to start up his MMA classes again soon (He broke it falling off his bike), Seth has not runaway from home or been arrested for anything so his teen years are not that bad as of yet, all is well with the Wife Unit (That is the actual name I use for her on my Phone), and for me I have no real complaints. Work is still a four letter word but my workout is coming along nicely. About to head into month four or pumping iron 6 days a week, tomorrow is leg day….wish me luck HA!

Till next post; journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything.

Good friends, good food, good conversation and good drink. This past weekend we had a party at a friends house, kind of a combo birthday party for multiple people. It was a family affair, and we are part of this family…we are honorary Mexicans! Not really, but that is the running joke after about 15 beers and 4 shots!

These are the family(s) that took in some strange white guy from the east coast and treated him like family from day one. We are beyond grateful, there are no words to express our gratitude to the Mendoza’s, Vera’s and the Gonzales’s. No matter what the occasion these families have come through for us. It was their idea to throw the one and only surprise party for Lilian a few years back that actually worked! She had no idea, it was awesome.

We have had our share of ups and downs, but in the end we have always come together to celebrate as a family. I will someday post about the one person I can honestly say was more inappropriate than myself and is, and always will be, the topic of much discussion around a table made up of beer cans and shot glasses. But till then, lets just say he is the reason we all can say ‘We are all family here’

Good times were had by all, as much food as one could handle, more drinks than you should ever have in one sitting and laughs that never seemed to end. I would like to share some of the pictures that were taken that day, they are in no real order. Chaos is always the order of the day in my world, enjoy:

It all fun and games until someone……well you know

There is always one casualty of kids playing….at least there was no blood

If I have to tell you what is going on here I cannot be friends with you

Not much to tell here, I just loved these colors

To wrap this life in pictures up I want to just say one last time: Thank you for taking us in and making us part of your world. There will be more post like this to come, the summer is coming and I hope to go out fishing, and since I have no clue on how that works they will be my guides to my next chip in my manhood merit badge!

So till next post; journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything.

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