Back To Work

I just wanted to let everyone know that I will still be blogging and visiting as much as I can but I start back to work tomorrow. I've been off since the middle of August on medical leave for a fractured wrist. YAAAAYYYYYY!!! I'll finally be drawing a paycheck again. Love you all!!!

Tribute To My Dad: Part 1

I've been pondering for awhile now about how I want to write my tribute to my dad. So I am going to write stories he told me to best of my memory and stuff about him that I know from growing up with him. Hope you all enjoy this one as much as you did my tribute to my mom.

On July 2, 1944 Charles Albert And Charley Robert Urbain were born to Louis Frank and Pauline Francis Urbain. My dad Charles (Chuck) was born five minutes before his fraternal twin Charley. Charley was born breach and they were nicknamed the butt brothers because they were born butt to butt. HE HE HE! My dad and his other brothers were your typical boys, they played, rode bikes, helped out grandparents, got into trouble all the time, etc....

In this pic my dad is the smaller one with the curl up front. ( the curl was his trademark).

My dad and my uncles use to tell me that they would bully the bullies in school. They would fight the bullies for picking on other kids that weren't good at standing up for themselves. I guess one of their favorite games was frog where they would punch each other on the arms with a knuckle up and bruise each other on purpose.

Chuck ( Smaller one) & Charley Urbain



My Dad

I remember seeing a newspaper article once about a lad who grabbed a hold of a truck bumper and was dragged several feet down an alley. It had my dad's name listed but after questioning my dad about it he said it was his twin Charley who did it. He had a few scraps and bruises but he was fine.


I also remember seeing one of his report cards from school. He definitely wasn't a great student. He had a lot of D's, F's some C's. I had to question him about an F in homeroom. I asked him " How do you get an F in Homeroom, you don't do much in homeroom to get an F"
His response was " You do when you hit the teacher." Oh my! from what I remember he said another boy was starting a fight with him and he thought it was someone else who was getting involved and he swung and it turned out to be his homeroom teacher who was trying to break up the fight.

My last memory for this post anyway is a time when he was around twelve years old, on Easter he decided to stick a lit candle over a trash barrel in the yard and got his twin Charley to look inside and I guess the barrel had some kind of chemical in it they didn't know about ( can you see where this is going?) and the barrel blew up and the lid hit my uncle right between the eyes and knocked him out. I believe my dad also got hurt but not as bad. Both of them were fine. I guess boys will be boys.

To be continued..............

Christmas Lights

Monday after I ran a few errands I took the kids to a local city park that different companies around Terre Haute decorate shelters at for the holidays. All the businesses, schools, and other companies did a great job this year. Here are a few of those pics. Sorry if some them are difficult to see.









Here's a link for a better view of the pics http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u244/kasper794/Christmas%20Lights/





Also here's a pic of our Charlie Brown Tree


Enjoy the pictures.

Linky Linky Tag

Linky Linky Tag
This one is easy I was tagged by:Stacy and Crystal for this one

The rule: When you get tagged, you have to add your name next to the person who tagged you and by doing so you are letting the list grow.
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Blue Tea Meme

Blue Tea Meme

Here's another meme for me. I was tagged by Crystal SO let's see what I can do with this one. I really like doing these things they are so much fun.


Rules:-
It's more fun to be in classes with friends, so include one class from the person who tagged you that you'd also like to take. Tag five other bloggers. Write down 5-10 courses you would take to fix your life.

Okay, here goes…


1. I would take the self defense class with Crystal., it's just not as safe as it used to be.

2. I would like to take a photography class. I just love to take pictures of all sorts of things.

3. Cooking Classes-- I like to cook just not the greatest at it.

4. Writing Classes-- I always wanted to write short stories and other kinds of stuff, I just think I need alot of work to get there.

5. Business classes to learn how to be my own boss and make my own profit. It's always been a dream of mine to own my own business from home.

I'm not going to tag anyone for this meme but if you like it feel free to do it and have fun.