The family that plays together stays together!

I wanted to post a tribute to our old boat. I took a little fishing boat and used it exclusively for wakeboarding and pulling kids on tubes. Last summer it died on me. I blew the little outboard up so I sold it. It gave me all kinds of problems during the last months of her life but we had a lot of fun and it got Linds and my kiddos hooked on boats and the water. Good times.











I told you Brandon had mad skills. This is the homemade tower construction.











Total concentration.











What the......how did that pic get in here? This is supposed to be a family approved site.















Already working on getting sponsored.











Annual fishing trip to Pelican.











Pulling kids on tubes = awesomeness.










Not a bad wake for a little 17 footer.














I wasn't kidding about making people get out and float for an hour or so.







Pre-homemade wakeboard tower. The infamous pole. It kept you on your toes knowing that those straps could break any minute causing instant death.











There is something about a boat that makes you feel like a real man.











If you look close, yes, it does say "Greg is a homo."

Test Run

We took Mariah out for a test run last Friday. She did pretty good. There are some advantages that this boat has that our last one didn't.

First of all it starts, which is a nice feature in a boat. You don't have to use primer and remove the engine cover and practice swearing in front of your kids while the line at the boat launch backs up. It also stays running after it starts which can come in handy at times.

It's nice and roomy and seats 10 so people may actually be able to sit in the boat while others are wakeboarding instead of going in shifts (Or making people float in the water like we did with Mike and his kids, sorry).

I can see people being more friendly to us with our new boat. For some reason I am not sure other boaters appreciated the film of 2 cycle oil and smoke that we would leave behind drifting into the clean white hulls of their expensive boats. I also don't think they liked the burning sensation in their eyes when I had to use a whole can of primer spray at the dock to get our little boat running. Maybe that's why no-one would ever talk to us.

The only downside I see is that I won't get as much exercise as I did with our last boat. When you are ready to come back to the dock, this one doesn't randomly shut off and refuse to run so there doesn't seem to be a need to paddle back every other time.

Either way, my kids smiled just as much with the last boat as they are with this one so we should enjoy it.











It has a nice tower that is just slightly better than me and Brandon's homemade one. Brandon has mad skills though.














I got Brandon to come out later and pull me around the lake. It was pretty sweet and I didn't lose any toes in the 45 degree water. No pics of that though.

Massiveness

This is my buck I got with my bow last Nov. It turned out pretty good. Lindsay wanted sooooo bad to hang it downstairs above the TV but I wouldn't let her. I took it to work to hang in my office. And no, I am not holding my arms out to make it look bigger, they are by my side. She did have to use the wide angle lens because it was so humongous.