Take me out to the ballgame!

We decided to play softball this year on a coed team and it has been so much fun! I get frustrated with myself sometimes because I am pretty competitive. If if I have a bad game or can't swing the bat I get really angry with myself. I think I do OK for not playing any baseball or softball for 10 years or so....Erika is an allstar though. She's catching pop flies like it's goin' outta style! I must say that we look pretty good out on the field too. Enough about us though....
Jakson is playing soccer and he starts baseball this week too. Saturdays are getting crazy with all of his different games. He's a stud though! He's learning a lot about the game. I try to help him with soccer, but that's the one sport I never played. Xander is dying to get on the field and play too. Xander runs out on the field during halftime and plays soccer with Jakson team. He helps them during practice too. I can't wait to see both of my boys in action!
We have missed a lot of what's going on. Geez!I took a trip to Moab with the boys that was a blast! Rock crawling all over the place. We also took our annual trip to Bear Lake with Travis, Bev and fam. That's always a good time! On the way back we took the boys to lagoon and they had a good time there. I'm honestly not a big fan of hot crowded places. I'm more of a sit in the shade against a tree with a fishing pole next to you and relax kind of guy.
Also, Spencer is doing awesome in case anyone is wondering. I totally look up to him for being such a stud. He's probably pretty P-O'd that I haven't written him yet and it's been two months already. Erika does a good job of writing him at least once a week tho and of course Trav and Bev take good care of him in that way too. I'll get around to it...

Where did March go?

Well, Xander had a birthday. He's 5 now. Jakson is signed up for Soccer. That begins the end of this month. Erika and I have signed up for a softball team. that should be entertaining. Spencer left on his mission and is still currently in the MTC. These seem like pretty major events and you can understand how taking time out to post all of that information on our blog would be hard to do. Nevertheless I do want to try and keep this blog updated. The Gonzalez family has a fun and exciting Summer coming up and we are looking forward to good times and good friends!I got a new BBQ grill for my birthday so we are DEFINITELY going to be putting that to use. We are also building a firepit in our backyard to have fun with. We plan to do some camping, but when we can't, or just don't want to, leave the house for a weekend we can still make a fire in the backyard! Hopefully we will post up pictures of our good times and we hope a lot of you will be in them! If I could just get organized about this then it would be so much easier. I always make posts from my computer that doesn't have our pictures on it. Sorry about the lack of pretty things to look at. Enjoy the complimentary muffins and cocoa!

Days of '47 seconds of excitement!

Yes. Me. Joe. At the rodeo. For those who know me you know that you're about as likely to find me at a rodeo as you are to find a dollar in a dogs butt cheeks. I use that analogy because I actually did find a dollar on a doggy bum once. But that's a different story for another time. Erika did get me to go to the rodeo. Beverly is all bout horses and I thought it might be cool to see a cowboy impaled by a a bull horn. It ended up being a decent experience.
It seemed a bit overpriced and not quite as exciting as I was hoping. Nobody was even injured. Oh well. The highlight of the show was a cowboy getting a couple buffalo to climb on top of the his trailer. I'm sure it takes a lot of patience and know-how to accomplish something like that, but it's not the most exciting thing to watch.
The crowd was pretty entertaining though. I even saw one lady, er, woman entertain herself for the whole 2 hour show with what she could find in all of her different holes, crevices, and cracks.
I must say though, horses are pretty magnificent animals. Humans are very strange. Will I ever go to another rodeo? Most likely. I'm an easy-going guy and can find fun pretty much no matter what I'm doing or where I am.

Cupid's got me in a chokehold!

Last year Valentine's Day was not everything it was supposed to be. I told Erika not to expect much for V-Day because it was in the middle of the week and we were broke anyway. I guess this translates in a woman's mind to mean, "I'm really planning a surprise for you that you will absolutely love!" On Valentines Day 2007 I come home from work empty handed. Erika had scrounged up a few things for me and needless to say I'll never live that one down.

So, this V-Day is going to be better. We won't do much on V-day itself because Erika works late that night, but the weekend will be full of fun and games. And ince V-day is coming up I thought I'd throw some Love music on the Gonzalez Family Blog radio! Enjoy these cheesy, romantic songs that are loved by women and used by men only to set the right mood...

Jakson and Xander are excited for Valentine's, too! They got some sweet valentines for their classmates. Neither of them wanted to get a little sumpin special for their girlfriends. Xander has about 4 and Jakson only has one. I'm not supposed to know though. He only tells Erika about it. What a funny boy!