Noah & Jonas

I pedel

2011-02-09T08:27:00.000-08:00

With the change of seasons

in an average suburban garage

each cubitus grimy and permeating from a mixture

of soil and water displacement to the fortieth degree

Eponychium is outlined with remains of last years rides

as each groove and seam is cleansed, memories

of endless single track and technical down hills

are unearthed and levitate the amygdala

From the stable I take my place in the saddle

of this slender and now gleaming steed

pushing off, we begin our temporary escape

across this concoction of petroleum and gravel

The sound of links and cogs connecting

with crisp air as it passes my auricles

creating a symphony composed only for myself.

The remaining cold still clinging to early spring warmth

begins to crystallize epithelial cytoplasm and

raise erector pili, these physiological responses

I ignore,

instead, I pedal.

Merry Christmas

2010-12-21T07:50:00.000-08:00

Jonas was a little cautious of the big man.

From this distance he told Santa that he

wants Woody and Eyeball (bullseye) for Christmas.

Noah was just a little shy and told Santa that

he wants Henry and Toby (from Thomas and Friends)

Santa obviously traveled by using reindeer.

I do not know why this posted vertical

This was our peace tomato that we grew this

year. So Merry Christmas to all and to all some

tomato peace.

Happy Halloween

2010-11-16T13:10:00.001-08:00

Roasted pumpkin guts yummm! All of the recipes say

to wash the seeds. I don't understand why. The inside of

the pumpkin is pretty clean and pumpkins are edible. So

I just let them dry out over night and then sprinkle them

with garlic salt and roasted for 15 minuets at 350 degrees.

Noah wanted to draw Thomas the train.

Dad carved Jonas' into a skull.

His fastest Halloween carving to date.

Noah in the glow of Jonas' skull.

My wife with sunflower eyes

2010-11-09T08:33:00.000-08:00

(on our tenth anniversary)

I remember,

your sunflower eyes,

reminding me

to be the way I want to be.

I remember,

North Shore, the Poconos,

keeping our toes from dangling in Seneca Lake,

airing out a room in Escalante,

oh, do you remember what we did in Arizona?

I remember,

Ten years now

it has been you and I

thinking about what makes us.

Memories,

good more than bad.

I remember,

you and I became we

and we became the four of us.

So many similarities and so many differences,

like our numbers in bed.

So grateful for ten.

How to cook a catfish

2010-11-02T12:33:00.000-07:00

Pa told me once the best way to cook a catfish.

First start with a big blue cat,

like the one in your bucket.

Take time to clean it well.

Now leave the eyes in, that be the best part.

After you cut it from tail to lips

Rip those guts out real damn quick.

Find a few steaming horse apples and stick’em inside.

Wrap it with thistle and a little rosemary.

Bury it at the bottom of a small fire pit,

get it lit,

after about three hours put the fire out.

Dig it up,

unwrap it,

put what’s inside on a plate,

and throw the cat away.

Snails in the kitchen

2010-10-27T12:23:00.000-07:00

When I brought in some swiss chard from the garden I had a few

new helpers in the kitchen. I put them to work on the really tough

pots and pans.

This is our green house. We have been working on it all summer long.

With it we are looking forward towards some baby lettuce, spinach, carrots,

leaks and hopefully some garlic.

Yes we still have tomatoes ripening. Even the zucchini is still

fine even though the temperature was below freezing last night,

but no frost on the plants in the cold frame.

The aroma of the brain is something I do not mind

2010-10-12T13:19:00.000-07:00

While wisdom escapes from Rohgaar’s lips

imagine what lies beneath his neurotic apron

a mass of cells all teaming with organelles

come traverse through the sub arachnoid space

across soft gyri and linger in shallow sulci

visit such places as occipital, parietal, and temporal

have a seat in the stella tursica and observe

the ballet between the hypothalamus and pituitary

meander through and spend some time with suprachiasmatic nuclei

then get to know the putamen and caudate of the basal ganglia

slide along the corpus collosum and meet the fornix

on your way out don’t forget the four colliculi

and the lonesome pineal gland.

Don’t worry about me, I am going to stay a while.

For the aroma of the brain is something I do not mind.

As time passes

2010-10-11T14:27:00.000-07:00

These are just a few photos of what we have been up to. Our insatiable appetite for knowledge involving dinosaurs and trains means we spend and enormous time playing and learning about both.

Well well you look tasty, I promise I will only take a small bite!

Watching a beautiful scene of pterosaur soaring across the sky.
Evidence that some dinosaurs did have feathers.

The budding Paleontologists analyse a mysterious new species.

Neigh neigh pooh.

The ferocious and incredibly stubborn Jonasaurus.

Jen and the boys on the Dinosaur train at the Dinosaur Park.

2010-03-02T15:40:00.000-08:00

Well once again I have put off posting. We have been preoccupied with life. Jen has been working diligently on her master's project and should be finished soon. Noah is now 5 and excited to begin school in the fall. Jonas will be turning 2 in one week and I think that we should have given him the middle name of contrary. Even at two he is the most defiant kid. I am not looking forward to his teenage years. More to come soon with pictures.

Wow! Time sure flies.

2009-11-13T15:15:00.000-08:00

Well it has been quite a while since I last posted. Many things have changed, too much to just some up here. The boys are growing at an alarming rate and are polor opposites in intrests and attitudes. Jonas (with the shades) laughs at anything and everything. Noah (the budding paleontologist) loves to laugh but is much more serious. Jen has returned to teaching and I upon graduation have decide to become a stay at home dad. Where I struggle with all that is within my head and also try to keep these two from destroying the house. Hopefully I can start to be more regular with the posting.

Now with navigation

2008-06-29T19:12:00.000-07:00

"We are all boy's" says Noah.

Noah is the boy in the slugger shirt and he is a big boy. The other day I was out hard working and mom called me to tell me that boys come with navigation. Noah informed her of this by comming out of the bathroom from using the toilet like a big boy. He had is penis poking out of his pocket (mom could not remember that the fly in underwear is called a fly). Mom: Noah what are you doing?
Noah: Mom my penis tells me where to go.
Mom: oh really?
Noah: Oh, this way? Ok. Oh this way? Ok.
Noah: Mom my penis talks to me it tells me where to go.
Mom: Ok, Noah put it away.
Noah: Mom it can't see where to go if I put it away.

Maybe this is why navigation systems are so popular, men now can have something to direct them without embaraing their wifes.

We are boy's and we have tongues.

Noah & Jonas, we are brothers!

Jonas woke up with a scratch on his face and Noah shared his Curious George bandaid with him, he even put it on all by himself.

Look I am 31!!

2008-06-12T22:07:00.000-07:00

What do you mean I'm 31!!

Noah and daddy.

Jonas and daddy.

Can you believe that this guy was smiling and laughing before he was 2 months old.

He doesn't look at all like me.

LIfe gets in the way.

2008-06-09T05:12:00.000-07:00

It is amazing of how time continues to slip away from us. More posts will be coming, it is just hard with work, research projects, family, and gardening to keep up with a blog. So posts will be made but please be pateint with us. Here are some old pictures that I had on my laptop sorry there are no pictures of Jonas at this time.

This is one of my favorite images of Noah, he loved to suck on this ducks butt.

This is an example of how cheeky Noah is.

This is Jen and Noah at the harvestmoon festival in 2006 sharing a slice of cinnimon bread.

Noah at the zoo in 2006, yes I asked Noah to put his hand here it just makes a great image.

One day I was doing the dishes and one of the large bowls that I had just rinsed I picked it up to put it in the dishwasher and this is what it left. It was so amazing, freaking, and just plain cool I had to snap a shot.

I am my wife's husband/boyfriend and my kid's dad

2008-05-01T05:17:00.000-07:00

Here is a small list of things that love about being my wife’s husband/boyfriend and my kid’s dad:

Waking up at 5 a.m. to stretch and exercise, so that my wife is visually satisfied
Staying up late to finish one last load of dishes
Working and going to school fulltime, so that my wife gets to stay home with our kids
I love that the kitchen floor always needs to be swept, because it means that my family has food to eat everyday
I love that every room in our home is not always nice and tidy, because it means that my boy’s know that their mom is home and loves them
I love that I can drop everything that I am struggling to carry as soon as I walk through the door and catch my son who has just jumped from the top of the stairs, because it means that he trusts me
I love after 9 years of marriage (yesterday was our 9th anniversary) I still love my wife and it has grown everyday since
I love that my old friendships are not as close anymore; because that means that I spend all of my free time with MY family
I love that I occasionally get woken up in the middle of the night and be my kid’s dad and help relieve my beautifully tired wife
I love that I know that my wife and kid’s love, because it means I am successful

A week old today.

2008-03-16T19:52:00.000-07:00

Look at this perfect little guy.

Jonas is a week old today and he is doing better. He is still a little jondus but he is eating well and looks a lot better.

Can you believe how perfect this little foot is.

Mommy's boy's, Can you tell that mommy was using daddy's camera. She hasen'f figured out the whole shtter speed thing. There will be more photos like this since Noah dropped mommy's point and shoot camera.

2008-03-10T15:52:00.000-07:00

Yesterday (to kick off Brain Awarness Week) another wonderful boy came to be part of our family. Jonas Greg Hadley was born at 9:12 p.m. weighing in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. (much lighter than the doctors predictions, thank goodness), he is 20.5 inches long and has wavy blond hair.

Our boys, the stars of this blog, Amazing Noah & Spectacular Jonas.

2008-03-10T15:47:00.000-07:00

Having Noah come and be part of our family was the better than I could have ever imagined. It is just impossible for me to express how much I care for this little guy, but I strive to do that every day. I just love being his dad.

9 March 2008

2008-03-09T13:03:00.000-07:00

Noah Parker Hadley

13 Jan 2005