{"id":831,"date":"2012-06-17T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T12:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2012-06-17T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T12:37:37","slug":"happy-fathers-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fathers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy day yesterday that started with us all getting up around 5 to head to the swim meet. Both boys did great either winning a race or two or coming in a close second. It was cold until about 10 but then warmed up. We finished up around 11 and made it home soon after.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest and I decided to go to the sporting goods store to get some shotgun shells as this morning he and I along with Matt (my hunting buddy) and Steve (another hunting buddy who owns a sports bar downtown by the Rockies Baseball Stadium) are all meeting at Kiowa Creek to shoot sporting clays. My Mom is always nervous when she hears anything about shooting. I guess she doesn&#8217;t remember Dad taking me duck hunting when I was 12. On top of that, I&#8217;m one of the most safety oriented guys you&#8217;ll ever meet when it comes to firearms. As I&#8217;m sure most of you know, it&#8217;s my passion and hobby and our kids have a healthy respect for safety and all firearms.<\/p>\n<p>After we went to a few stores with Matt meeting us, we headed down to Steve&#8217;s place for some lunch on him before heading home. The oldest chowed down on chicken tenders, some wings and most of my french dip. We made it home by about 3:30.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the youngest had a play date with his friend from swim team. We all just hung out the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Today as you know is Fathers Day. The day itself is just another day but being a dad is something special as is being a Mom. It&#8217;s really the single most important job I have and the one that means the most to me. We have a couple of really good boys and everything we do is with their well being and future in mind. We&#8217;re pretty lucky.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, the oldest and I are leaving around 8 for the hour drive to the eastern plains to shoot some clay pigeons. We should be home around noon and then we&#8217;ll all do something together as a family. It&#8217;s going to be hot today, they say in the high 90&#8217;s so we need to get out early. I&#8217;m running the sprinklers now as the grass is already getting brown which is not good considering it&#8217;s mid June.<\/p>\n<p>The boys just came down to wish me Happy Fathers Day. To my surprise they were holding an old antique single shot shotgun wrapped up! It seems our neighbor, Mr O Connell came over on his own yesterday and gave the boys this antique shotgun to give to me for Fathers Day! Now they didn&#8217;t go ask him or anything, he just came over on his own. It&#8217;s really old and has a 4 digit serial number but that&#8217;s all I can see so far. What a nice gesture from him to think of giving the boys a gun to give to me! The boys always take them trout whenever we go fishing and he knows we like shooting and hunting, I&#8217;m speechless! It&#8217;ll look good hanging over the mantle in a cabin someday.<\/p>\n<p>I normally try t0 stay away from politics on the weekend but just can&#8217;t. You can stop reading now if you like as here it comes. First off, I just can&#8217;t get over the President essentially buying 1 million votes with his amnesty program for illegals. He&#8217;s even letting criminals stay in our country instead of deporting them. Check this headline out,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democrats and Republicans sparred Saturday over the part of President Obama&#8217;s executive order on illegal immigration that allows some applicants to avoid deportation despite having committed crimes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>How can anyone support illegal criminals to stay in our country and on top of that, give them work permits and let them vote? This guy is something else, here&#8217;s a list of his accomplishments that are firsts for any President, pretty amazing all the work he&#8217;s done!<br \/>\nWhoever said that Obama hasn&#8217;t \u00c2\u00a0accomplished anything in his first term?<\/p>\n<p>WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS!\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then<br \/>\ndeny he was a foreigner.<\/p>\n<p>First President to have a social security number from a state he has<br \/>\nnever lived in.<\/p>\n<p>First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>First President to violate the War Powers Act.<\/p>\n<p>First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally<br \/>\nobstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>First President to defy a Federal Judge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s court order to cease<br \/>\nimplementing the Health Care Reform Law.<\/p>\n<p>First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a<br \/>\nthird party, a violation of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>First President to spend a trillion dollars on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshovel-ready\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs<br \/>\nwhen there was no such thing as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshovel-ready\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>First President to recommend changing our National Anthem as it<br \/>\nportrays and promotes violence and is warlike in its theme.<\/p>\n<p>First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer Breakfast and activities.<\/p>\n<p>First President to initiate a Cash for Clunkers Program to clean up<br \/>\nexhaust that adds to global warming, then extended it because it was<br \/>\nso popular \u00e2\u20ac\u201d wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of<br \/>\ncompanies to his union supporters.<\/p>\n<p>First President to bypass Congress and implement the Dream Act through<br \/>\nexecutive fiat.<\/p>\n<p>First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the<br \/>\ndeportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those<br \/>\nwith criminal convictions.<\/p>\n<p>First President to demand a company hand over $20 billion to one of<br \/>\nhis political appointees.<\/p>\n<p>First President to terminate America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to put a man in space.<\/p>\n<p>First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.<\/p>\n<p>First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law<br \/>\nunconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.<\/p>\n<p>First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke<br \/>\nout on the reasons for their rate increases.<\/p>\n<p>First President to tell a major manufacturing company which state they<br \/>\nare allowed to locate a factory in.<\/p>\n<p>First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath<br \/>\nto protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).<\/p>\n<p>First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been<br \/>\nproperly issued years ago.<\/p>\n<p>First President to fire an inspector general of Americorps for<br \/>\ncatching one of his friends in a corruption case.<\/p>\n<p>First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.<\/p>\n<p>First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half<br \/>\nyears in office, 90 to date.<\/p>\n<p>First President to pledge complete transparency while campaigning,<br \/>\nthen hide his medical, educational,and travel records.<\/p>\n<p>First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.<\/p>\n<p>First President to go on multiple global \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcapology tours\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights<br \/>\nand Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by<br \/>\nthe taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.<\/p>\n<p>First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year<br \/>\nat taxpayer expense.<\/p>\n<p>First President to repeat the Holy Qur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122an and tells us that the early<br \/>\nmorning Islamic call to worship is the most beautiful sound on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, a dog trainer on staff for $102,000 a year! I didn&#8217;t believe this one in particular so I did a little research and you guessed it, it&#8217;s all true. Wow that must be one well trained dog!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, you get the point, he&#8217;s not who he says he is. You have to peel back the fancy talk (as he&#8217;s very eloquent) and really look at his policies and things he&#8217;s done. It&#8217;s time for him to get a new job. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m saying this but where&#8217;s Hillary?<\/p>\n<p>Take care, God Bless<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy day yesterday that started with us all getting up around 5 to head to the swim meet. Both boys did great either winning a race or two or coming in a close second. 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