Doggy Pics!

Posted on July 27, 2011 by JW

Rocky Boxer Pitbull Mix (Bullboxer)

Rocky (Pitbull Boxer Mix or Bullboxer) and Kasha (Cane Corso Mastiff)

Rocky and Kasha

Rocky at Work with me on "Bring your dog to work day"

Kasha (Cane Corso Mastiff) and a Great Dane

Kasha at the Dog Park playing with a great Dane

Kasha (Cane Corso Mastiff)

Rocky and Kasha just chillin

Rock Star

Rocky at work with me looking curiosuly to see who is out in the hallway.

Kasha just chillin.

Rocky (Pitbull Boxer Mix or Bullboxer) St. Paul Saints Game

Rocky playing with the mascott at the St. Paul Saints Game!

Rocky displaying a goofy face as only he can.

Kasha Showing off her puppy eyes! how can you resist.

Rocky (Pitbull Boxer Mix or Bullboxer) and Kasha (Cane Corso Mastiff)

Rocky (Pitbull Boxer Mix or Bullboxer) Goofy Face

Rocky's doing goofy faces again.

Most of the Photos were taken by my Girlfriend. You can view more of her work now on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/JC-Vivid-Photography/124109404350167

First post in awhile.

Posted on June 22, 2011 by JW

Hello World. lol

It’s been awhile since i have posted a blog post, been super busy with Riley’s Baseball and other things, seems like there isn’t much time for anything else these days.

Walk for Animals this year wasn’t that great, it was cold, rainy and pretty miserable. We did raise $500 for the event so that was awesome and thanks to those who donated. We did walk the whole 5 miles, all 6 of us. Cisco, Kasha, Rocky, Cassidy, Riley and I.

Riley’s baseball is wrapping up. He made Majors this year which was nice, he made some improvements and seems to be a lot more motivated then he was in the beginning of the year. I wish he could play more, but the League he is in only allows 9 manned teams with Subs, and now he is a sub which really is kind of a shitty deal, but what can you do, I told him if he didn’t want to sub he would have to step it up on the playing field. He seems like he enjoyed it for the most part. Hopefully he gets to bring home a trophy this year, that would be awesome.

Haven’t got to ride as much this summer due to schedule and weather. What a miserable spring/summer so far, storms and rain seem to be the theme these days. Hopefully get some riding in before the season ends.

Done a lot of Dog Park days with the dogs this spring, more then I have in the past. Here’s a Video of Rocky and Kasha Playing at Rice Creek Park.

Here’s one with Rocky(boxer/pitbull) and Kasha(Cane Corso) at Cassidy’s Parents place recently. Playing and having a good time with each other.

Riley got his first sportbike. it’s a Mini Pocket Bike. Thanks to the Francos, he enjoys it a lot.

Some Video of him Riding it.

I’ll try and post up some more, but that’s all i have for now. Thanks for reading.

-JW

MPLS Auto Show 2011

Posted on March 25, 2011 by JW

Some pictures Cas and I took at the 2011 Minneapolis Auto Show this year. I was playing around in PS a little bit with the Color Popping Technique. I thought it would work well here since there were so many people around it just made the cars pop out of photos. Plus I was excited that I learned something new and had to test it out a lot. Let me know what you think.

Random Thoughts of the Day.

Posted on March 21, 2011 by JW

I keep thinking lately of these great things I want to blog about when I am out and about, but by the time I sit in front of a keyboard, I completely forget what I was thinking about. It’s really annoying, but I suppose if it was really interesting enough I would remember. So I am sitting trying to think of something to write about and nothing really coming to me. So my plan is to just keep typing and see what comes out.

Lately we all have noticed the things going on around the world, Japan’s Earthquake / Tsunami, Libya’s war between its people and their government (as of yesterday, possible full out war with the Gadhafi and US/France/Britain/Others). The world seemed to be changing very quickly, I personally don’t remember a time where events like this have happened in such a short time. I am sure the religious peeps are going all gaga over the predictions of the Apocalypse possibly coming of age, and maybe they’re right to a point. I mean there does seem like there is something very serious going on around the world. Is it possible the world as we know it is coming to an end? Yes, it’s possible. I don’t think it’s how the people picture it though, not like the world would combust in one day, but I do believe with that the world is changing, with the Egypt people reclaiming their rights, Libya in disarray, the fact we are still in the Middle East doing god knows what, major Natural Disasters happening everywhere, birds and fish mysteriously dying in groups. I am not an expert in anyway on the subject, but I do know that there is a lot going on in the world today. I am sure there are tons of blogs and newspaper/online news about the subject anyways if you care to look further into it. Although I did read a lot about the predictions of Edgar Cayce, if you get a chance, I would recommend looking up his predictions, very interesting stuff.

Anyways, I hope we (United States) decide to get out of all this mess in the Middle East, but more than likely won’t happen. Just want to show my support for our troops over there. Also want to support the Japanese too, I mean if you haven’t seen the videos of what happened there, it’s pretty bad, and the aftermath isn’t any better.

Thanks for Reading,

My Son’s 12 Already?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by JW

Riley has turned 12 this past weekend. Crazy to think about, 12 years later and it only seems like yesterday he was wearing stinky diapers and laughing at goofy faces and trying to explore anything and everything he could. For his Birthday, My mom and her husband came into town just for his Birthday, she doesn’t live in MN, so it was pretty huge for her to come since she never makes it up here in February. The festivities started with dinner and presents on Friday night, and then Cheapskate with his friends and family. I think he had a really good Birthday this year. He got a lot of presents, hang out with friends and family. Not much more you can ask for.

Remembering back to when he was a baby, it’s been a long journey so far with a lot of ups and downs, but nothing is ever smooth in life and you have to take things head on with no regrets. He lived with his mom for his first 10 years, but I always knew he should be with me, and after taking custody of my son 2 years ago, I realized how much I didn’t know about him, here he was, 10 years old and I felt we were total strangers. He even told me that although I have been in his life since day one, he never really thought of me as his dad, I was more the guy who picked him up once in a while bought him cool things. Obviously that hurt and I realized I really didn’t know a lot about him, a lot of things that I feel that I should have been more aware of, but I was blind to so many things due to lies and hiding truths. I noticed immediately his self-confidence was really low, which surprised me since he was always such a lively kid. He definitely had a lot of trust issues, growing up in a family where he felt like an outsider the whole time would be hard for anyone. He has confide in me a lot that I wasn’t aware of, the lies that were told and the mental beat down that he had endured at his old home was evident to me after having him full time in short period of time. He told me the lies that he was told about me, things that were not even close to true. It just really upsets me to think this is how he was viewing his own father based on lies. It’s really sad, but as I teach him every day, lies will always show up as lies no matter what.

I believe playing sports have had a huge impact on his self-confidence. As much as I tried to get him into sports while he was living with his mom, they never seem to want to bring the kids to anything. Taekwondo is where I believe is started, after he first moved in with me, he participated in a tournament in Wisconsin where he won his first tournament. That was huge. Then that same summer I signed him up for football, which was his first played team sport. Watching him progress was awesome to watch as a parent. Now he participates in Wrestling, Football, Baseball and Martial Arts. Try to keep him busy J

Anyways, seeing him on his Twelfth birthday was very enjoyable, how much more confident he is today is awesome to me, although he still has a long way to go, I believe he is making strides compared to where he was at 2 years ago and I am hoping for more positive things to come to him as he deserves it.

I am going to end this here. I just wanted to say that I am really happy that he is with me and Love the kid to death. Thanks for reading.

-JW

Random Thoughts of the day

Posted on February 17, 2011 by JW

Where to start and how to end? Does that make any sense? I am really not much of a fan of winter, growing up in MN you would think I would be used to it, but I honestly can’t stand it all. I can’t wait for the spring and summer months to come, I even enjoy Fall as the Fall season always feels like my calming period or something. Anyways, yeah, winter just plain sucks. I am not one to enjoy the cold weather; some people like to do things that are “wintery”, but not me. I am not a fan of Hockey, it’s boring and I really have no ambition to freeze my ass off on the ice, so I never got into it. Skiing, which was once fun as a child, I just don’t want to go out and do it. Cold is my enemy, my enemy is cold….. It makes me depressed and uneventful and the dreariness is blah to me. So enough about the cold, it sucks and it will dissipate soon enough.

Completely random here, but I can’t seem to stop having dreams about bugs. Yes, bugs! It’s gross and it’s keeping me from getting a good night sleep. It sucks because they just won’t leave me alone when I trying to sleep. Reason I believe is we recently got two Bearded Dragons, if you don’t know what they eat, you probably can guess by now, BUGS!! So now I have bugs in the house, Crickets and Dubia Roaches at the moment. It’s ridiculously gross, but it’s what they eat and yeah I have to deal with it. Honestly when they eat the bugs it doesn’t really gross me out, actually it’s rather entertaining watching them eat, but it’s just the idea of having them in the house freaks me out a little bit. But I need to stop thinking about them before I fall asleep or I am going to go nuts, not that I really sleep that well anyways.

Anyways, I think I will close this one on that thought

Thanks for reading,

Walk for Animals Minnesota 2011!

Posted on February 10, 2011 by JW

I’ll be participating in the walk for Animals on April 30th, 2011 Golden Valley MN. This will be my first time doing the walk. For those that don’t know what it is, “The Walk for Animals is your opportunity to help the 35,000 companion animals that Animal Humane Society will care for this year. Make no bones about it, these animals need your help. Begin raising pledges now and get ready for the best stand-up-on-your-hind-legs-and-bark event of the year!”

We are going to bring the three pups with us, Rocky, Cisco(unless he is adopted to his forever home by then) and Kasha. Should be fun. If you would like to help sponsor us for the walk that would be awesome. Here’s a link where you can donate Click Here to Donate

I’ll definetly post pictures of when we go.

Thank you.

-JW

Here’s some pics of our dogs we will be bringing.

Kasha our Cane Corso

Cisco He's our Foster Pitbull Still looking for his forever home.

Rocky, Pitbull Boxer Mix

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