Pendleton, it's a hell of a town!

This past weekend Bree, Riley and I drove out to Pendleton to see some of the in-laws. We chose Pendleton because it's pretty much int he middle of Portland, Boise and Kooskia.

We were planning on a 4 hour drive, but even with a stop in the middle we got there in about 3 1/2 hours. Riley was good the entire time. We arrived in Pendleton with plans to meet up with the family at a Mongolian Grill for some lunch. However once we arrived we found the grill to be shut down. So we decided to hit up a Mexican joint close by. Bree and I spent our time eating and chasing Riley around the restaurant, luckily they were not busy and she did not cause any mess for anyone.

After lunch my brother-in-law and I went to play some golf at the Casino's course, Wild Horse. Before the game began we decided to place a friendly wager. The loser would have to place a $20 bet on the roulette table for the winner. The bet had to be placed on one of the "third" sections. Bob started kicking my butt from the first hole and did not really let up. Luckily for me we only decided to play 9 holes, however I still lost by 14 strokes, ouch!

After my embarrassing loss we headed to the Casino so I could pay up. I hit the ATM machine for $40, hey if I'm going to gamble I'm going to gamble for me. I got to the table and had to slip in right next to the wheel. there was a rather large lady taken up a couple spaces. The dealer asked me if I'd like to have half chips meaning instead of $1 chips my chips would be worth $.50. This allows me to place more bets. I guess $40 is not what it used to be. I put Bob's $20 on the second third. And put down a few chips of my own. I forget what number came up 5 or 9 I think, anyway Bob lost his money. I had a bet placed on the first third and doubled up that bet. I proceeded to bet for the next 20 mins or so. I got told by the Bit Boss twice not to lean or stretch oer the wheel. Finally after the large lady moved, he made the table slide down so I could sit in a proper position. Before I slide down I asked Bob to pick a number, he picked 24 and I could not reach it so I put it on 14, of course 24 came up, felt bad about that one. The dealer changed out and we kept playing. I was right around $20 win I placed a $2 bet on 29 and a $4 bet on black, and yes I thought about Wesley Snipes as I did it. Anyway, 29 hit and I was up big. My $2 bet turned into $70 and my $4 bet turned into $8. Or at least I thought that's what would happen. Once I won I told the dealer I'd like to cash out. She started with my bet on 29. Remember I was playing with half chips, but this was a new dealer and did not realize that. I knew something was off when the first chip she pulled was black as in a $100 chip. She pushed a total of $144 my way thinking that my $2 bet was a $4. While this is going on I was still trying to figure out how I'd won that much in my head. She then took the chips I had on black and the chips I had left and asked a second dealer to help the second dealer realized they were half chips and corrected the issue but never mentioned anything to me about the $144 I had already gotten. I took the chips walked to the cage and cashed out. I'm now considering myself as one of the few who has taken a casino. Yes I did it for all the little guys!

We met up with the rest of the family at the hotel. They were all in the swimming pool. We marched in told them the news only to have Bree say "Dinners on us!" After everyone got out of the pool and got dressed we headed to Hamleys Steakhouse. It was supposed to be a pretty nice place, of course I spaced on packing any long pants and donned a pair of basketball shorts, t-shirt and slip on shoes. I walked in to find a lot of cowboys, hats, jeans and cowboy boats. Oh well I thought I have Riley and she'll keep the attention off my attire. We waited for about 10 mins and got a table. After ordering we were sitting around and talking. I was playing with the Riley and noticed a familiar looking face behind Bree. This lady had an uncanny resemblance to Julianne Moore. After staring a bit to long I'm sure I decided it was her. I asked Bree is that Julianne Moore sitting behind you? Bree turned and looked, then turned back to me and said "I believe it is." She seemed to be eating with who I assume are her children and husband. Dinner was good and everyone enjoyed their meal. Which was good since we did pay the entire $154 bill. So long house money.

The rest of the weekend went well. We hit the Casino once again, this time I lost $40 and Bree won $8. The next day we played at a park where Riley climbed a bunch of stairs, then we had lunch at Abby's. We took off for home with one extra person my sister-in-law Amber who is spending her spring break with us.

Celebrating Roofball

Last night I was able to attend two Roofball events. First KPTV came to RFA headquarters to film a feature on the game that will air Sunday 9.13 at 11:00 during the sports segment.

After the camera crew left we headed inside for the RFA decade awards to celebrate the first 10 years of Roofball history. In all 17 awards were bestowed on a few select individuals who over the years have had a great influence on the game. The biggest winner of the night was Dan O’Reilly, who recently appeared on Portland Men on Sports, who not only took home a Builder award but also received the Roofball Player of the Decade Award.

All in all it was another great event for Roofball.

Just another day

Got up about 8:30 this morning and threw on some crummy clothes and went to fill in at practice for the sand volley ball team. Not has fun as you'd think because the sand was more like dirt. But it was ok, got some exercise which I'm in desperate need of.

Afterwards I drove past the newly opened Pita Pit. I love the Pita Pit, and now there is one on the west side. I stopped in and got one for me and Bree. I came home and hung out with Bree and Riley before Bree had to go to work. She had to take some time off this week because Riley was sick and could not go to daycare. While she was gone Riley and I ate, played around on the floor and had some good rattle shacking time. I put Riley down for her nap, and she slept for about 3 hours, good kid. While she was sleeping I watched some TV including a Sci-Fi movie Ogre, terrible but that's what I was looking for.

She woke up and we played around some more. Bree called and we decided to meet at Costco for some shopping. I put some jeans on Riley and a top that I thought looked good, only later to find out it is a top for pajamas. Anyway while at Costco I found the new release of Punch-Out. One of my all time favorite video games has been updated and rereleased for the Wii. Good times.

We got home and I called in an order to the Olive Garden. I stopped by Target and copied some pictures of Riley, and then picked up the food.

Right now we are watching some Due South episodes (a Bree fav) and digesting our Italian food.

Teeth

Kid "Uncle Moe this soda is too cold my teefff hurt."
Moe "Oh your teefff hurt, well THAT'S TO FREAKIN' BAD, AND I'LL TELL YOU WERE TO PUT YOUR FREAKIN' SODA AS WELL!"

So Riley if teething right now. Her first one is on the edge of popping through right now. Poor kid, she normally sleeps through the night from 8pm to about 5:30am. The last few nights she'd been getting up at different times. Last night she woke up about 2:30 and we could not get her to go to back to sleep until 5ish.

Logo's

Lately I have been feeling very busy. I generally have something to do after work everyday, sometimes it's a fun something sometime it's a must do something. Anyway not sure why I started the post that way but I'm mostly here to deliver some good news, well I think it's good or exciting anyway. Perhaps mostly to me than to anyone else. Last week I received my first shipment of Bookie Productions shirts, and today I received our new finished logo for Portland Men on Sports. I've posted it below. Carlyn who I work with designed the logo for me. You can reach her at carlyndesigns@mac.com. I hope you like.

First post and all

So this is first post of our new blog. I say new because I currently write a blog on my myspace account. But I'm trying to get Bree to be a bit more involved. She is keeping a pregnancy journal, perhaps she will post some stuff on here. I imagine that most of my posts will be normal everyday stuff I do. Anyway I'll update often.