Another Happy Birthday

From your big sis this time. Hope you all had excellent birthdays and that you each have a great year. Wonder where you will all be and what you will be doing this time next year? Remeber to keep it all in perspective, take mistakes as learning lessons, enjoy each success in your heart and Carpe Diem. I love all you guys and cant imagine life without three cool brothers. Stay safe, be happy and get laid. lol. I do have a small gift for you but have been too disorganized to get them out.... one of these days you will get them. Katie and Rob send their happy birthdays too.

happy birthday

Very happy birthday to three big losers. Just kidding, hope you guys all have wonderful birthdays. You sure are getting old. Doug-25 thats a quarter century. The dreded hill is approaching. Can you see it? Geoff- no longer a teenager-no more excuses, your now a full fledged adult, time to grow up..........haha. dont ever grow up. And little Buzzy, I guess you are verry far from buzzy now- more like shaggy. I hope things smoth out for you this year. Have fun, relax,party, try not to get arrested. I'm very proud of you for graduating. Now its time to have some fun before life gets started. Well guys enjoy this year, live every moment to the fullest and dont ever look back. Happy Birthday

my great day

Hello to all, well on saturday april 21 I had a great day. Kaylee is now one month old and i know the worst is over. She has started on a regular sleep pattern and is only up once at night. So saterday morning I woke up to Emilys smiling face as she came and curled up with me. To my suprise kaylee had slept through the night. Well i got up and enjoyed the sunny morning, then I left for the spa. Geoff thank you a hundred times over, Every woman needs a christmas present like than every once and a while. So i enjoyed a steam, then a half hour massage, then a hair shampoo, scalp massage and I got my hair done. So now its noon and I feel like a million bucks. I make my way home to find a happy family.Emily and Corey are making a fort in the basement out of cardboard boxes and kaylee is sound asleep. Life is good. I truly hope that every one of you finds that feeling that I had that day. True happyness, it's hard to explain but when you get there you will know it. Thank you to all of you, for being there when I needed you and helping me make the right choices that Have gotten me to where I am. You are all amazing people, and I am truly blessed to have such a great family. I love you all.

From Jen

Holy crap... I havent checked our blog for a while, you guys are awesome. I loved reading everyones stuff.

Here is Ross teaching Katie how to skateboard at donna's with the board ava gave her.


Ross, I'm sorry things are tough - I too remember being in that "I dont know what to do" stage. It sucks.I can remember hanging out in Kamloops with Rob and Vern all talking about what we were going to do with our lives and none of us having a clue. As for the car thing I would still advise just waiting before you get into payments - easy for me to say with a new truck now, but if you can swing Ashley's car for a while then once winter comes and if the job is still good, and rent inst too much and snowboarding doesnt make you want to not work then get a car. Its so easy to get into debt and way too hard to get out. trust me.

Geoff - I have no advice on the women part. Enjoy the fact that you will never have the doubts I did with Rob where I wondered if he was the one cause I hadnt been with anyone else. My friends Gary and Retha met in thier late 20s and had both been single players who just never found the right one to settle down with. They met, it clicked and they never looked back. Rob asks if you've checked out gay pride? lol.

Doug - ya school sucks and I too cant do chemistry - my peanut gallery is reading this while I type and says he thought school was a career move for you - just wait till you hit med school. Hang in there, this will be funny to look back on in a few.... well, ten years. lol

Ash - im sooo not having more kids. I will try to send you some energy via telepathy. They are cute though and ya it will be totally worth it in a few years.

mom- good luck with the lising. the house looks awesome, thanks for coming up the hill with us on saturday, i had a blast. Im still watching westjet but no sale on yet. im very excited for you to see where we live - keep driving around the city thinking of things i want to show you.


So here is a pic of my truck - its not a great one and i will try to take some nicer ones tommorow. It is great and is so easy for me to drive- except the clutch weighs a ton!!! Katie loves it too - as does rob. it really is a great family vehicle for us.



This is what rob came home with today - a mini quad for katie. yeah I know - we're spoiled rotten and y'all hate us. but shut up - its so cute! We took it out for a rip down the street and through an empty lot. Katie was squeeling with delight - soaked her dad with mud and had a blast. Its a 70cc, made by pantera which i hear is a sub company of artic cat (i thought it was a satanic rock group) anyways we may have convinced our friends down the street to buy one for thier friends too so we can all get together on the weekend and drink beer on thier porch while the kids ride in the field behind thier house. life is good.


one last bit - we ripped to the okanagan for easter and hit the camping gang up summerland on saturday. All the dads took the kids out quading together. Made me happy, proud and a bit sad. They are all such lucky kids and the dads all real men with true hearts.

From Mom

Hi All,
I haven't had time to get on this blog for a while as i'm slow at doing all of this. I just read the last few entries. I know that winter was tough this year, for me too. I've been trying to decide where to move to to get work soon as an elementary teacher, not subbing in the high schools and not living in Williams lake or farther north - though it has been tempting to go north because there are jobs. I have decided to go to Abbotsford and try to get on in one or two of the districts around there and see how it goes for next year. I may not move until the summer because I need to be sure I have EI for next year so if I don't get hired I'll have to wait until the year is over.
I like the idea of a family camping trip this summer. Ashley and Jen and I talked about it and thought that around 100 mile house would be a central place to meet and there are lots of camping places. Doug said that getting together on my birthday last year was fun so what about a weekend near my birthday for this year's camping trip?
Sorry I haven't got my pictures off my camera yet but I will be finishing the last few things around the house this weekend and Shannon is comming over to list it on Tuesday so I'll get som pictures soon.
Spring is here so I hope everyone is feeling good. School is almost over, try to focus for a few more days then you boys will be done for the summer. Congratulations on all you have accomplished this year. Jen and Rob - Thanks so much for your generosity in giving your car to Ashley and Corey, and to Ash & Corey for passing yours on to Ross.It is great to see how you are all helping each other out.
Love to you all, Mom

Ashleys blog

Hey guys, Jen I agree about the pictures, lets see this beauty. Mom I am also still waiting for pictures of your house. Well jen you got me going on this blog thing and I have been getting pesterd for pictures of kaylee from everybody so I starded a blog. I didnt want to give people this address to see picures. I am still an amature and it is prety plain but it's there. The address is http://corashem.blogspot.com Good luck on your exams guys. hope they go well and I that you can find some time to have fun and relax this summer. Take care all Ashley

New truck

Jen.. throw some pictures of the new truck up when you get the chance doug and i want to see how she looks!

Because the sun will rise

Well i'm procrastinating from studying for my exam on tuesday i just can't seem to absorb anything right now so i thought i'd take the oppertunity to reply to everybody. rossifer i'm sorry to hear that love is still in the pooper but things can only get better right! and on a funny note i'm pretty sure i have some psychological problems when it comes to girls.. i'm not sure and i haven't figured it all out yet but i think i have commitment and relationship problems, not just because it's been so long but i tend to only like girls i can't have or there is some problem with a relationship and then girls i can have i find a problem with or just don't like them or even pretend i don't know what they're talking about when they imply that they want a relationship. i should probably see a shrink before i'm 45 and still single but for now i like being single without anything to worry about. i think i might have mentioned that in my 100's but i've started to think about it and figure things out a bit more. Ashley i'm sorry to hear that your baby isn't much fun but at least she's not stealing from you and saying she hates you yet! jk i'm sure your girls will be good kids as they get older cuz you and corey seem to be doing a great job. Doug i know we live together but i don't talk to you much so i'll address you here.. i totally know what you're talking about with school, i just can't get into it this semester and it doesn't help that two of my classes are like watching dry white paint continue to be dry and white. and as far as money goes you'll all probably be suprised to find out that i acctually ran out of money at the end of march.. i think it's from all the partying i've been doing but basically i had drained my bank account and even my savings but got by with the credit card for a couple days before i got paid.. but i kinda got an understanding of how it feels to be broke. Jen i haven't talked to you in a while i hope everything is going well up north, sorry i wasn't here when you came to visit, turns out i planned 5 things for that weekend.. oops. mum hopefully everything is starting to work out with the job situation and moving down here or whatever you end up doing. basically i wanted to write to you all to try and cheer you up.. everybody seems like they had a long bumpy winter and i'm starting to do better now that the weather is better and i can play frisbee but hopefully we can all take my lytton experience as an example to make the best of any situation (sorry about all the swearing ash) and even if today doesn't go right as tom hanks on cast away says.. "..because the sun will rise, and you never know what the tide will bring.." love you all.
geoff

Loooong Winter

Hey guys it's Doug.
I don't know about the others, but it sounds like Ross and Ashley have been going through some ups and downs lately and I just wanted to say that I understand what it's like and I'll always be here for you guys. It's been a long winter for me I think, had some really awesome times and some tough times but I am really excited that winter's over (on the coast anyways hehe...) and summer is just around the corner.

I don't think I've felt as stressed out in my entire life as I have this past few months. School is the biggest part, it's been so hard. Chemistry is ridiculous and I just simply don't understand it, I have another class called Biomechanics and although the material is really interesting, the professor is terrible and it's killing my marks. I just never know what he wants on tests, I understand the topic and know the correct points, but somehow it's just never quite what he has in mind and it drives me nuts.
And the other hard part is that I have no motivation left for school, I just don't care. I am so ready to finish, work hard over the summer and just enjoy myself as much as I can. One week of classes, finish exams on my birthday and then that's it!!
Money's been really weird this winter too, like I think I'm doing fine and then the next thing I know I'm broke again and I don't know why.

But anyways I know we all have our own stresses in life so I just wanted to share a bit, and let you all know that although I think this has been a tough winter, we've all made it through and get ready for a great summer!!
I am really excited to go camping again, another brothers trip will be awesome but if it's possible to organize it, a whole family camping trip would be fun too!

Take care and see you all soon!! We better try to all get together again for Mom's birthday this year, that was an amazing memory last year.
Love,
Doug

bumpy road

Hello all. Ross all though it is of no help to you it is refreshing to hear that life sucks when your 18. I dont think it matters who you are that transition time from teen to adult is about as though as it gets. There seems to be no light some days but I promise that it dose get better. I may not be an expert on women, you know only being one, but my only advise to you is to live your life, do exactly and only what you want. If its ment to be it will work, but the most important thing is that when you look back in 5 or 25 years you have no regrets, you enjoyed every stage of life and can find something to smile about. I get the whole car thing. I spent so many hours in my truck, just driving, or parked thinking and crying, or out 4x4ing and having fun. But with that fun comes responsibility and expenses. lots and lots of expenses. I spent to much of my teen years working so that I could afford to have my truck that I missed out on a lot of other teenage stuff. It sure is cool to have so many differnt people to turn to, I think our family is awsome. Thanks jen for the encouraging words about kids. I forgot how much I dont enjoy babies. They dont do anything! They just lay there and cry and eat and sleep. It is hard trying to find time for both of them. Mom you are a saint I dont know how you ever did it. Please tell me your secrets. Things arnt going to bad. Besides the lack of sleep. I am really looking forward to when they are older and we get to do cool family things like camping and waterslides and tobaggining, and letting my daughters teach me how to spell. I really thing we need to do a whole family weekend this summer. It would be really cool to see you all. Oh by the way geoff nice story. That must have really sucked. Souns like you guys made the best of it. All tough with every second word being fuck or shit I'm not sure I fully understood half of it but it was interesting just the same.Well I gota go I'm baking muffins, ha I am supper mom, well not even close all I did was add water but I'm baking just the same. Hope you are all doing great,and if not than make the best out of a shity situation. Love lots Ashley

hey-o

Hey guys, i havn't blogged in a long time, right now im having a hard time, life is way harder than i expected and it's taking it's toll on me, stuff with ava has been fucking shitty to tell you the honest truth, just alot of stuff happening and it sucks, were broken up now. I really need a car, soon, i love cars and it will not only be good to be able to go places, i love messing around with it and just spending time in my own car. soo yea i need one. well, i've been talking to doug alot about girls and what not and it's been a big help because im not O.K right now, thanks for all your help doug! well i dunno just wanted to blog and let you all know whats up, my life isnt all shitty, i have a cool job and i skateboard all the time so that part is pretty fun. well im off to bed early morning of work tomorrow. I love you guys so much! good night.