More photos from CC Keggers softball!














My hair is getting crazy. I'm getting a "ben wallace" fro. i can't wear half my hats anymore, since they're too small. luckily, i can still bust out the visor for softball games.















Another successful inning is in the books for Keggers. No, not EVERYONE has the fancy jerseys yet. i think we all need to wear stirrups though...that's classy.

















I'm sure this jersey will be flying off the shelves by the end of the season

More photos from the weekend. Crikey! look at the size of this one! He was about 14 inches across.















Waiter..there's something floating in my beer! oh wait..it's a Blueberry wheat beer...those are actual blueberries. Not a good idea...yes, it tastes GREAT, but after you start drinking you end up staring as the blueberries go up and down and up and down and up....and down.....

We decided to take the whole family up to the cottage for the weekend. the plan was simple:

eat....get a tan...relax. However, when we all get together...it doesn't turn out that way.
















the ladies were hard at work in the kitchen .
















With my family...there's no such thing as a "relaxing weekend". Since we were all at the lake, it was time to BUILD A BEACH. Yeah... wooo. We brought in a truckload of gravel and started shoveling. if "shoveling gravel" isn't your definition of fun, then you shouldn't go to the lake with my family.















Carrying buckets o' gravel. Who needs the gym?















Peter pushed the gravel out, and Dad and I moved it around. Yep...this was how i wanted to spend my weekend away!















Dad and I taking a breather from shoveling!















After we finished shoveling, Ellie took a break on the porchswing.
















Oh! Hello there. A turtle decided to come up to the shore and see what all the commotion was about. Kinda alarming, since i normally float around this lake on a raft. I don't wanna' be a "turtle appetizer."

apparently, we ALWAYS have the same pose when we have our picture taken at dinner. Here's example 1....us having lunch in Baltimore.

and now number 2...us having dinner at El Rodeo..

Headed down to Baltimore's Inner Harbor over the weekend. Here's me, Angela and Peter (the in-laws) in front of the Constellation (that's the big black and green boat)

While we were waiting to get into the Aquarium, we checked out a few of the boats that are docked along the harbor. here's a WWII submarine

Standing in front of another boat in the harbor. However, you cant' actually SEE the boat because my hair is geting huge. trust me, there's a boat back there...somewhere

If you go to Inner Harbor, i highly recommend that you RIDE THE DUCKS. yes, it's 24 bucks each...but it's a really fun tour. they drive you around town for an hour, then turn down a side road and drive straight into the harbor. It's an amphibious truck! Nice. plus, the tour guides are fun. oh, did i mention that you get a cool "duck beak" that quacks when you blow thru it?? that's worth the price of admission by itself. it's hysterical to hear an entire truckload of tourists quacking at people on the streets!

OK, let's trim a few trees out of the hedgerow. oh wait, there's a lot of maple trees in this hedgerow, we need to take 'em all out. sooooo...now i have a PILE of trees in my yard.

It was absolutely SIZZLING this sunday. we spent most of the day out in the yard working. Yeah..that's the smartest thing you can do when it's 95 degrees. Even better, i fired up the grill and cooked up some steaks
































Yes...i'm serious about my grilling. Doesn't EVERYONE have a stainless steel case to keep their grill equipment in? They should.

You ever have one of those weeks? you know...nothing really wrong, but you're just "off" and can't get a grip on anything? yeah...well, that's my week. not bitchin', just writing.

Got home tonight and fired up the grill (again!). i've owned the new one for about 10 days, and we've grilled for 9 of those nights. i'm getting my money's worth out of it!

This weekend is going to be insane. Not only are ellies mom and stepdad here, but my parents are coming down along with my grandmother. we'll have 7 people and two cats in the house. i hope we have enough beds for everyone!

We got out first batch of pictures from softball today. Here i am, showin' off my Keggers pride.




















Go figure, she took the picture JUST AFTER the bubble popped.
















I HOPE this is a picture of me getting one of my hits in the game. I have a bad feeling that it's me hitting a long pop fly to left field though. Looking at these, i realize i've gotta get a hat that actually matches the Keggers uniforms.

Monday night, KISS FM presented "Saving Jane" at the Whittaker Center. Had a great time at the show. Here's me up on stage having fun with the crowd while we tossed out some t-shirts.

I love the micrphone..i felt like Steven Tyler with all the scarves. Now if i could only get Tom Hanks to adjust the mic stand and hang the scarves. if you don't get that, go rent the "best of mike myers SNL" on DVD.

OK...I'm cheering for England in the World Cup. I cheer for the US too...but i've got a cool flag for England. and no...i'm not explaining the difference between the ENGLAND flag (the red and white one) and the Union jack. If you're curious, Google it

A busy busy weekend as we welcomed El's mom and stepdad to town from England. they're staying for a few weeks. we wasted no time and got to work in the backyard.
















Jasmine made a runner for the door and got out back. Then she rolled around and covered herself in crap. great. luckily, she sleeps on Ellie's side of the bed, so i won't have dry grass and dirt on my pillow
















Once we got the cats back inside, it was time to rip up the old fencing in the backyard. Breaking stuff is oodles of fun.
















While she was in Mexico, ellie got me a new hammock. One problem, there's no where to hang it in our backyard. So, we had to put a pole in the yard. Peter and I were the "lucky" ones who got to dig a hole for the pole to hold the hammock. Yeah, this is JUST as much fun as it looks.

















We let ellie test the hammock, just to be sure the pole was in the ground securely. apparently, it was. whew.


















After all that digging, i was sweating like a panda bear in the desert. So it's time to kick back and relax in the new hammock! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

There are days that the gods smile upon you. I don't mean that "we're gonna zap you with vengeful lightning" smile, i mean a real...life-is-good smile. Today, i strolled into the Salvation Army to pick up a couple of t-shirts for the gym, and i found a lava lamp for sale..

...for 3 dollars...

...and it's hot pink...

...and it works!



life, as they say...is goooooood. My office is now officially listed as a fire-hazard, since i have two lava lamps, a neon sign and a "LOUNGE" sign.

We decided to finally buy our new grill today. woohoo! there is no better day in a man's life that the day he purchases his new grill. ok, his wedding day and birth of his child are important...but c'mon people, this is A NEW GRILL!!! for the first time in my life, i bought a NICE grill, not the Ghetto Grill (or ghetto grill 2.0).













There she is...40,000 BTU, electronic ignition and a side burner so i can boil corn on the cob while cooking steaks. oooh. now, here's the real fun part. Have you ever tried to fit a big grill into the back of a jeep wrangler? it's not a picnic. in the end, i took the lid off and bungeed the grill to the roll cage. luckily it was only a 1/2 mile drive home. once i got home, i realized the second issue. have you ever tried to lift an entire grill off the top of your jeep by yourself? rather than give in and call my friends, i risked life and limb and took it off myself.

mission accomplished.

now it's time to fire her up and break it in with a nice Delmonico. mmmmm

I've been looking forward to tonight. finally i can kick back...and do absolutely nothing...all night. ahhh

it's been wierd, because ellie's out of town until sunday evening. so i've had the house all to myself since saturday. when you're married, you forget how to live by yourself. so i'd come home and have to cook for one. most of the week i've had stuff going on, so i just grabbed food on the road. but tonight, i just wanted to relax at the house and do nothing.

i ended up ordering pizza and breadsticks. while it wasn't the best pizza i've ever ad, the breaksticks hit the spot. let's face it, you can't screw them up...i mean...it's BREAD, in the form of a stick. not exactly rocket science. so those really were good!

tomorrow...i'm on air and that's it. i should probably try and do something, but we'll see. ive done a bunch of little things around the house this week, so it's not a total waste.

i never really get a chance to flick around the TV on a friday night....there's not much on. it's mostly crap.

there's a show called "Honey we're killing the kids". it's about famlies who feed their kids loads of crap, and then wonder why they look like bowling balls. holy cow, how stupid is this becoming? these aren't kids with genuine medical issues who deserve our help and understanding...they're piggy kids whose parents are idiots.

they should test people for stupidity BEFORE they have kids. these people are saying things like "i can't feed him healthy food, he doesn't like it!" or "but lil' johnny LOVES his lard sandwiches, how can i say NO??" damn...i hate stupid people. if your kids are fat, it's your fault. deal with it. here's a clue...KIDS DONT LIKE THINGS! Yes, i know this is a shock, but it's true. Kids are whiny little bitchy beings who will attempt to get away with murder unless Mom and Dad step in and give them the occasional "verbal bitchslap" (not a literal bitchslap, that's just wrong).

when i was a kid, i hated lots of food...but guess what...i still had to eat it. wow! my slave-driving parents actully MADE me eat veggies...the horror. you know what happened if i didn't eat my veggies?? I DIDN"T GET DESSERT! Since i LOVE dessert, i quickly learned to shove veggies down my throat so i could have my Oreos. My love of Oreos caused me to eat veggies.

go figure...now i like veggies. and oreos...i love them too...mmmm.. in fact, i need to find a place that delivers oreos...

If you were to Google the words "straight pimpin" i believe this is the picture you would get. This is what happens when Jilly steals my hat and gets all gangsta'.

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