Family is the Awesome!

This will likely be my last post for this month..unless something AMAZING happens in the next 3-4 days. I do want to take a moment and say that Family = the AWESOME! What a brilliant concept that we all exist in a unit together. I am SUPER lucky to have not only a great family, but a really good/open/honest/real relationship with them all. To be in a partnership with my soul mate and have a family of my own is also just brilliant. I truly feel like I had a tender bonding type moment with Brighton (my 5 year old). He is a fairly large fan of a silly video game called plants VS zombies, and he always talks about how he and his uncle Christopher play it on the PS3 out in Riverton. Well...I have an Xbox 360 which has the same version of plants vs zombies as the PS3 does. So the other night I decided to purchase it and download it to my Xbox 360. When I showed Brighton that we could now play it and play it together he was super excited! We played for about 1.5 hours and it was swell- He must have told me a dozen times that he Loved that we could finally play together. On the way home from Riverton he told my wife a few more times how happy he was that he could "play plants vs zombies with daddy."

I think that is one of the few times where Brighton and I were able to just have fun doing something we both enjoyed. There is a massive difference between us playing through in a co-op mode and him forcing me to play the game while he watches..  I can say that anyone who wonders why people decide to procreate and have children has not experienced the joy that I felt as Brighton told me how happy he was that we could play "together." I think that the key to this is that it didn't really matter what we were playing it was the fact that he, as a son go to play with his dad. I know I am getting a little soft on this post, but guess what? This is my blog and I can go soft if I want to. And the road I am going down right now leads to a very soft place. On a side note I may have found the solution to my flat feet issues. Kent is an Orthopedic Massage Therapist and seems to think he can take some of my pain away..I have a visit with him on Thursday and really have high hopes. He worked wonders with Eva so here's to the future :)

Glee...yes I am a Gleek-

Holy cow Blog-0-sphere! I was sitting here on a Friday night after watching the mid season finale of Glee and being completely burned out from a LOOOONG week at CSD and I had an a-ha moment...Glee is one of the best TV shows I have ever seen. Now some of you out there are laughing at me for openly admitting I am a massive Glee fan, that is fine- Do you want to know why Glee is the best? MUSIC!!!!! The music is brilliant- Right now I am listening to a mash-up from Tuesday night.  “Fly” by Nicki Minaj and Rihanna and R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly.” Was one of the most brilliant songs they have ever put together! WOW! There are always a few songs every episode that are simply the "suck." Yet there are others that are just incredible. Generally speaking the music makes me feel good. and that is really that! 
On another note- I had more to say but I am too tired to say them...so you will all have to wait, until I gear up and Blog again-

PS- I take NO credit for this sweet picture- It is awesome and I didn't create it, all the credit goes to Alexisneo?

Zachy is the suck at sleeping

By now, I have learned 1 thing about child #3 -> Zach has proven that he hates sleep! I don't know how this happens or what would cause a 19.5 lb 7 month old baby-head to think that sleep is a waste of his time. It's not like he has anything better to do with his time. He can't crawl yet, he cant's roll from his back to his stomach, so he is not what I would call a mobile baby yet. He scoots around on his can-can from time to time but rarely gets very far- so I ask you Zach...WTH do you have against sleeping? It is 8:34 pm and he hasn't had a decent night sleep in 4 days- I am SOOOO tired my eyes are burning while I write this blog. My head is pounding because of sleep DEPRIVATION. It's like my bed has a set time that it needs me to be in it sleeping and instead, because of the "taco-baby", I have to abscond from that meeting and stay up. Absconding from my bed is also...the suck. So...please Zach...I beg you with every fiber of my ever living being to sleep tonight. And if you choose to wake up..do so quitely so I don't have to wake up with you. If anyone out there reading my BLOG would like to take mercy on me and let me sleep somehow- I welcome it, I welcome you, I welcome not absconding from my appointment with my bed to sleep. That is all I want right now-just a baby that isn't a sleep H8TR!

Last Saturday was a FIRST!

Yes Friends... Last Saturday (Feb 4th, 2012) was a first for me. Actually, now that I think about it, there were a couple of firsts. How many of us out there have actually ever seen a Segway in person? I never had, until Saturday. One of the demo's was a test drive on a Segway. Even though I was merely providing tech support I decided to take a break and check the Segways out. For the first time in my life..I saw a Segway. That wasn't enough for me though- I wanted to ride on the Segway. I pretended I was in that session and I got in line. They had about 5 Segways and I got a turn to ride one. Holy Cow! Those things are crazy- It feels like the Segway is mentally connected to you as the movements to get them moving are very subtle. Lucky for me there was a teacher there that I knew and I asked him to get some footage of me riding the Segway- and now I am putting it on my BLOG :) Enjoy the video clip which I spiced up thanks to good old Windows Live Movie Maker and an iPhone 4- If you ever are presented with the chance to test out a Segway, I highly recommend giving it a try. Needless to say, you will NOT regret it. Good bye for now friends-

Zachary Ryan Neff

Yes.. I have 3 boys. Eva and I have not figured out how to make a girl.. Zachy is my little Tank child. He is 6 months old and weighs almost 20 LBS..He also is off the charts in height. He likes to cry, he loves his mom, he hates not being mobile, and he loves eating solid Foodz.. Indeed he is a real live Taco baby-

Austin "Jimmer" Neff

Austin James Neff is 3 years old and is also FULL of energy. He loves his older brother and his younger brother- He also enjoys pretending to be his favorite characters like Ratchet from Ratchet and Clank, Clank from the same game, Kirby, and a Zombie. One of my favorite memories of Austin is when he used to say sponge bob like this  "ro-bop"..it was EPIC!!

Brighton K Neff

I have 3 Kids... this post is a silly picture of Brighton Kenneth Neff. He is 5 years old and gets easily obsessed with things (mostly games). Currently he is in Kindergarten and he loves Portal 2 Co-Op, Plants VS Zombies, reading his books from school, and playing with his Brothers-

Welcome to my Blog!!

Dear World Wide WebERzz-:> I was reading in my mission journals and realized how much value there is in a written record of life/events and what have you. I looked at my last journal entry in my "book of life" and the date was SHOCKING!!! Ready? March 22nd..2009!!! yeah Almost 3 years has passed since I recorded anything to the world. So??? who cares? does anybody out there even care? Well one day, maybe..just maybe Brighton/ Austin / Zach may care to read about my life and who I was. Reading my mission journals has taught me a few things-
1) I was a paranoid schizophrenic Psycho-Hosed-Beast on my mission at times.
2) I wrote way too much CRAP about girls who are completely IRRELEVANT to me and my life as it is currently.
3) I also wrote enough good stuff that I can now look back and see how I became the man I am today. My mission actually did shape me into a semblance of who I am today.
4) Lastly, if I had not written those things down, they would be completely LOST for the rest of this earthly life.
All in all, I think blogging will be a good use of time when I am looking through my Steam games library and nothing looks appealing to play. (Like tonight) - I will never give up, What am I fighting for? There must be something more...for all these words I write, do you feel anything? Song Lyrics...why express myself when other artists do it without me having to actually think?

In the end (or in this blog the beginning) I will try and blog when I have time so that my thoughts are now part of the VAST expanse that is the World Wide WebernetZz--