The Camas High School Papermakers (no joke)

So my younger brother Nathan did this for his senior project. He painted a huge mural for our high school of our mascot, The Mean Machine (a paper making machine) and also of the old mascot from like the 1950s or something of Joe Papermaker. The originals of these two characters aren't nearly as cool. The mean machine is kind of boxy with a toilet paper looking cape, and Joe Papermaker is a little, scrawny character that looks like he should be in Popeye the Sailor Man. Needless to say I think this take on our pretty ridiculous mascots is a lot cooler. Go Papermakers! On the bottom of the mural it says "Meet Your Makers" which is also something Nathan made up. I though it was pretty cool.

Now who does this really happen to?

So I was sitting here tonight dinken around on the computer when I see these pictures pop up on facebook. I saw that one of my friends/co-worker had posted them and said that he was looking at this house burning. So britany gave him a call to see what was up. Now this is the cool part. He had just pulled 3 people out of the house. Now who really gets the opportunity to pull people from a burning building? What a stud. He said that it was two little girls 6 and 9 and an older man. The crappy thing is, he said there was an Idaho Falls city cop that just stood there the entire time and watched Tyler and his two friends pulling these people out. And when they asked him to help he took off after a drunk driver. I for one am glad that there are still good people out there who will put themselves in harms way to help others.

Not a nice puppy.

So last night I was going though doing all my checks at about 11:00 at night. I went outside to walk around the facility doing stuff like checking all the locks, and seeing if all the cars had been locked up for the night. I was at the north side of the camp and had just finished checking all the cars when I heard a dog bark. I turned around to see a 90lb pitbull running at me from the main road growling. No joke the dog was huge! For a moment I thought that I should try and get in the gates some how so I ran over to the closest one. But then realized it would take to long to unlock the gate and get the gate shut. So I did the next thing that came to my mind and sprinted over to the nearest truck that was about 30 yards away as the dog was circling a school bus. I jumped into the truck bed head first (Chevy 2500 fire truck) right as the dog got a hold of my foot. Luckily we were both moving too fast for the dog to hold on. So the dog slammed into the truck bed letting my shoe go, and I was able to stand up and call it into the control center. The dog at that time sat there and growled at me for a bit until it finally took off. Control then called the local cops to take care of the dog. I guess the local cop knew who the owner of the dog was, and went over to their house. When he got there, he later reported to us that he was standing on the front steps of the owners house when the Pitbull attacked him. The officer was able to pull out his taser gun and hit the dog with a good shock before any serious damage was done. At that point the dog got away. But later that morning they found the dog I am thinking because I heard the gun shot. I guess from what I was told the dog was used as a bear hunting dog. It would attack the bear so the hunter could shoot it. I am a bit smaller than a bear. And I guess I have never been HUNTED before. So I guess that is a new one for me.

big girl.

Baylee fit into this just a few months ago. She is already in her 6-9 month stuff.

what we have been up to.

The new dog. Baylee loves dogs so a friend of ours gave her to us. All she does is sleep and i love it.

Baylee found a way to make a hammer out of blocks. I'm so proud.

The first project, a pillow case. I picked the camo, britany picked butterfly's. Then we compromised on butterfly camo.

Baylee ripped into it, and then Britany couldn't wait. Sorry mom. Maybe you need to teach her though. It isn't hard for me to do but I am not good at explaining.

We found out that Baylee hate bubble baths. She spends the hole time frantically trying to get them off.

what we have been up to.

Laycee got blessed!

Keepen it G.

This is most of Baylees day.

Typical Laycee.

Nathan's Comic

I thought this was so funny. My younger brother drew it. My favorite part is the bananna machine gun! Um.. and i didn't plan this to go with my background it is just a coincidence... :)

funny story

So I found this on one of my friend's blogs and I thought it was funny, so I'm sharing :)


Subject: $50
I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.'Her parents beamed.'Wow...what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'But you don't have to waituntil you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.'She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight inthe eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?'I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.'Her parents still aren't speaking to me.