Greetings from the Bowels of America

Well, seems the blog has changed posting procedures, but will see if I can get it right. We sure enjoyed having Steve and Joe and David and their families home for Christmas (after the fact) for a few days . . . and we really missed seeing you all then but are so grateful to you all for spending Vet's Day with us.

Gramma and Grampa Shaha send their love. Pat got to spend a week with them while he healed up from some hand surgery. Remember them in your prayers if you can--they're looking forward to the Reunion which is reportedly 20-22 July at Draper--let's hear it for Draper Days! (more to come on the Reunion)

  While there I got to visit Shea and Katie and Natalie and Jack--all are well and it was great seeing them. Also got to spend time with Steve and Stacy but neglected to get photos. Also called Bob and word is Karlie is getting married 19 May in Mesa Temple--more to come, I think.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And today we zipped down to harrass Joe and Bethany for lunch--we had a great time catching up and chasing Lucy and Hailey around the shoe store. Sometime in the near future Nancy and Pat will be ceasing work and initiating sloth and travel pursuits.
 
Love to you all, and you're all always in our prayers. And Caroline, I have a cast on my arm too! Love, Grampa

Demotivators

Hello family. I still feel like a Robinson Crusoe of sorts out here in Fort Campbell, but optimism has come back into the swing of things and I'm looking forward to getting out of the Army and am doing all I can to transition smoothly back to life outside of active duty. But for now, here's my contribution to the family blog...enjoy.

This next one is in honor of the re-release of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast."

Weekly Demotivators

I apologize for not having a more witty introduction for this batch, but here's the latest weekly dose of Demotivators. I hope all of you enjoy them, and remember that I always love to read comments.

I wonder why Dante didn't include this next bit in Inferno.

Happy New Year

Here we are in 2012, as the Coen brothers once penned "old big daddy Earth is getting ready to take another trip around the Sun." To commemorate the beginning of Big Daddy Earth's latest trip, here is a quintet of Demotivators to ring in the new year.

I think this next guy partied a little too hard on New Years Eve.

Katie's old Douglas Fir thing could be related to this next guy.

This is the real reason Dad is so averse to Facebook and social networks in general.

Hello family. I hope that all of you are either having a wonderful holiday break with family and/or friends or gearing up for said holiday festivities. Here's an early Christmas present from me to all of you, five good Demotivators. By way of explanation for this first one, Ben asked me if I've seen "Breaking Dawn", and after I retched at the thought of seeing that movie I thought of this poster. Below is the only way I'd voluntarily see that movie, or any other Twilight for that matter.

Those Greeks are sitting on a gold mine and don't even know it.

UPS should have a guy like this.

Hey family, I'm sorry for the delay in this post but I received an important assignment on Saturday from Mom and Dad during the FAMILY CONFERENCE CALL THAT THE REST OF YOU FLAKED OUT ON!!! They asked me to go to The Muppets and tell them what I thought of it. Incidentally all of you should go see The Muppets as it's very entertaining and a real treat for anyone who ever watched and loved The Muppet Show. That having been said, here come the demotivators.

This one sure brought back memories.

Have a Laugh on Me

Hey all, I hope you enjoy the latest batch of Demotivators.

This last one may very well be my new all-time favorite.

one more

Dave forgot one picture

Steve Jam

Thanksgiving!

Hey guys! So Thanksgiving was pretty awesome this year... second Thanksgiving that is. Here are some of the highlights.

1. Mom and Dad: It's always awesome to see them. The grandkids were pretty stoked.

2. 5k. It was a lot of fun. I smell a new tradition. Maybe we could make our own course next year or something. We took some pictures beforehand. Here is Dad "jumping." I think Bethany got him at maximum altitude. This was in the parking lot before the race started.

Here's a good one that Bethany took of the rest of us. Joe is closing his eyes and our shorts are super shiny. Notice how closely Steve's pose resembles that in the next picture.

So this might be one of the all time great Shaha pictures. I kind of want to put it up on the wall.

3. Union Station. We made the annual trek down to the awesome Union station to check out the trains and stuff. Wendy and Oakley and I posed for our first pseudo-family portrait thing. I thought it turned out pretty well but Wendy didn't so it was vetoed. Here's Wendy with the local station master... very profesisonal.

The whole crew... sans Dad behind the camera.

It was a lot of fun. We missed the Ben and Katie contingents. Hope you guys had good Thanksgivings too.

Dave