My day consisted of dealing drugs in Rexburg and Idaho Falls, and when I got home we took some pics of our "kids" in different costumes that we had picked up on clearance sales the year before. Lexah is a good sport about it and doesn't really care too much, but Aves is a butthead and apparantly has some semblance of pride and the ability to feel dumb when he looks dumb.

I'll put some more pics of our idiots at the end of the post. To come back to the cousin of the Giving Tree, the Stupid A-hole Attacking Tree, I learned from my Dad that its a chesnut tree. (My hippie Biology teach told me they are "buckeye's"... Now I understand what the Ohio State mascot is, a spikey tree grenade. Not sure why they're colors are red and grey, not green and brown, but I don't think they're as stupid anymore.) Back to my Dad though, so I guess he and his classmates used to wing those things at each other, with some even sticking in the back of kids who got drilled. He said it's a miracle that no one lost an eye. I say its a testament of how soft and weak kids are today... I remember the times me and my friends would throw blackcat firecrackers at each other or drill each other with Roman Candles. And I just randomly remembered something strange and scary...

When we first moved to Sugar, I was a 4th grader and Pace was in 2nd grade. We went over to Jess Butikofer's house and Jess was put in charge of entertaining Pace and I. We went out back and Jess brought his bow and arrows with him. We shot a few arrows in the dirt, then decided it would be cool to shoot them straight up in the air. Luckily, nothing happened and we thought it was really cool to see how they landed close to us. But I think of it now and shake my head at what a dufus I was. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, I just felt like typing it.

Anyway, the three things I'm going to end this post with are:

-Happy 3-11 Day in Vegas this year... got tickets this morning, Samuel had better work on Mom so she'll let him go, but if he can't it just means I can actually hit the casinos... So it will save me money if Samuel comes.
- I had a dream that I could make the most awesome car in the history of cars. An 80's Ford Taurus Wagon on a monster truck frame. And then I woke up and it was on craigslist in Rigby. I just see this picture and start giggling like a little girl cuz I don't understand and it's so ridiculously funny:
I'm sure someone is very happy to own this car, and I hope I never meet them after I've made so much fun of them, but I hope I see it driving around so I can point and laugh.
- The last thing, Happy Halloween! (See more pics of ridiulous looking dogs...)

Seriously, can anyone tell me what the %$#@ this thing is?

I'd love to know... and I'll tell you why in my little story to come: So I'm running a couple of minutes late to class, because it's in outer BFE, also known as Pocatello, which is a lovely one hour and fifteen minute drive to the armpit of Idaho and home of the polluting giant Simplot factory.

I dueled a couple of other cars for the last spot in the parking lot, and came out victorious and grateful I didn't have to park in Utah to walk to class from there. As I walked across campus, I decided it was much easier and faster the ignore the sidewalks and take a direct line to class. My walk took me under a nice leafy tree and at about that time I got hit in the back of the head by a sharp and heavy projectile. Which brings me to another question:

Why do I duck AFTER I get hit in the head? I know it's a natural reaction, but really, what good does that do after the fact?! Anyway, I angrily looked around to see who threw something at me cuz I was read to ditch class and pick up a felony battery charge against the perpetrator. But alas, I only saw an emo kid with the only apparent hint of anything remotely associated with athletic ability would be being able to get his fat arse in the 80's skinny chick pants. I'm sure that the only thing he was consentrating at the time was how long he could last without blood circulation to his legs... I digress...

After about 5 angry swearing-laced minutes of hatred towards anything and everything, I noticed a few things on the ground. They looked like the head of the Exorcist, except bright neon green. They were circular with a million sharp porcupine thingy's sticking out. And I came to the realization that one of those nasty bastages hit me. And sure enough, the tree was full of them and I just happened to walk under at the wrong time. There were some nut looking things on the ground that had come out of some of the attacking Exorcist spawns... I don't know what to google to figure it out either, flying green tree porcupines? Spiked round nut barers? Anyway, anyone that could shed some light on this anomaly of nature, I would appreciate it. And I've decided that I'm going to plant five of those trees at my next house and invite the Jehovah's over on a windy day... yeah, teach them to wake me up at 7am on a Saturday with their Lighthouse propaganda... Here's a couple more pics....















And here's one with my chapstick as a reference to the size and mass of the death ball...

Here's a video of my shower swimming dog, Lexah. This is also why we don't take her out in the rain.




And the next video is a WWE tag team match of Saint Avery and Lexah Lou vs. the vicious grey mountain lion, Pf. Yep, her name was Pf, pronounced pffffff. She's been adopted out to a nice family in Ririe, but not before some Smackdown.




I'm having quite a bit of fun with my Flip camera, so I'm sure there will be many more pointless and irrelevant videos that perhaps only I find entertaining, but it's my blog page so that's just the way it is.

We went to Pocatello today to watch Samuel play soccer against American Falls, it was a play-in game for going to the state tournament, and Samuel's team won 3-0! They all played well and it was actually a perfect day to be out and enjoying what I'm sure will be one of the last days of summer.


He's in blue, number 16. Yep, he's pretty damn fast.

We took the ding-dongs with us, and Lexah was actually well behaved on the way down and slept most of the way. We took them into the game and anytime one of the players would run by she'd growl and try to attack them... it was funny. Avery was bored and just flopped around on the ground, and towards the end of the game, the ball got kicked over to Melissa. One of the high school kids watching came running over to get the ball and I guess he surprised Aves and Lexah, as they both angrily tried to take him out... I think he was more scared of them than they were of him as they came running out from behind an umbrella to make him scream like a fat little girl at the Bon Bon factory. Wish I had film of that.





As you can see, Lexah is a little camera shy... She thinks it's going to take her little doggie soul. Anyway, it was a fun day to get out of Rexburg with the whole family, Grandma and Grandpa Frost even came. I guess this is what weekends are for when you don't have to work, I'll try not to get used to it as I know I wont have these so called "weekends" for some time to come. The only negative to come out of it all is that Lexah has an earache now, but I'm sure that's great news for the vet. At least I get the satisfaction of knowing that while she's at the vet, she'll try her hardest to bite him til they figure out they have to put the cat muzzle on her... Make them earn their check, this is for sure.

We made a new purchase... a Honda Element. I went to American Falls to look at a Mazda 3 and liked that car, but we (my Dad and Samuel) saw the Element and figured we'd drive it just for the heck of it... turns out that I really was impressed and couldn't decide between the two vehicles. After much deliberation, I determined two things: my head said the Mazda, my heart said the Element. And my Mom said the Mazda, so I finally chose the Mazda despite it not having cruise, or power anything. It was a good deal and I really didn't want my Mom mad at me and I know she's usually right about almost everything.

Well, I tell you what, it was about that time Samuel said the Mazda didn't have A/C... which we all scoffed at because what 2005 model of car doesn't come standard with A/C? Just for fun, Samuel and Dad went out and discovered that he was right, no A/C. This made my choice easy! The Element it was! The great thing is that it had a brand Honda engine and a brand new Honda transmission, so it's basically a new car.

I loved the functionality of it, it's massive on the inside and fun to drive. It's all wheel drive so that'll be nice in the winter and I'm very pleased about our purchase. I know it looks like a box, but I really don't care, I like it and it's a Honda... what more can I say?

The only drawback I have right now is that Avery doesn't so much like it... he doesn't know where to sit because it doesn't have a place for him in the back window. We'll have to figure out something for him, one of his great joys in life is riding in the back window of the car... we won't take that away from him, hippies or not.