Happy Birthday Adam!

Our Warehouse

It is not entirely finished and a little messy but here are a few pictures of the zerofriends warehouse.

Adam's Taughtme Video

Adam this is incredibly awesome, but when the character gets to the point where he starts throwing small children, um.. was Riley the inspiration for this? Is this what you do with him when we leave you two alone? Should I be worried? But really, this is seriously great. You are so talented. :) Love you!

Simpsonize Me!

Adam, here is what you would look like if you were a Simpson's Character. :) Enjoy! - Heather

San Rafael

Our lease ended on our house in Rohnert Park and the landlord sold our house so we were forced to move. For a while I thought we were going to be homeless, but a week before we had to be out of our home and on the streets we found the perfect place in San Rafael. It is a 3 bedroom townhouse that big enough for Alex, Darren, Cw, myself and all of our junk. Oh yeah, and our back yard in the bay!



This is the view from our back patio



And this is the view from my bedroom.

I Left My Heart (& a whole lot of money) In San Francisco

MAY 3 2007
DAY 1

On May 3rd Mom & I along with Ned & Fayrine ventured off on a trip to San Francisco. I guess we were hungry for Adam & sour dough bread. Here we are at the Salt Lake Airport. It was cold, rainy and miserable that day. We began to wonder if the weather would ruin our trip since every trip we have planned this year so far has been plagued with cold weather (St George for the 1/2 marathon to celebrate Mom's birthday & also Las Vegas to celebrate Rachel's Birthday.) None the less we girded up our loins and the other parts of our anatomy that have started to sag and forged ahead.

We arrived at the Oakland Airport and Adam was there to pick us up. We all piled into his Mazda and headed to his house in Rohnert Park. It was about an hour drive but we made it there in good shape. We hauled all our luggage into Adam's house and then went to an Italian Resturant for dinner. It was really good food. Adam is such a great host.
MAY 4TH

DAY 2

The next morning we got up and headed into San Francisco for a fun day of sight seeing. Here is the Golden Gate Bridge as we were crossing over into San Francisco

Adam took us on a little tour of the city and then took us down Lombard Street. What fun. Of course when we got to the bottom we had to get out and take pictures. Geez I'm sure we looked like a bunch of tourists but we didn't care. We were having too much fun.


Next we went down to Fishermans warf, parked the car and had a look around.

There we saw a whole bunch of seals that moved into the warf after the last earthquake and have stayed there ever since. The seals are the ones on the rafts. That is Adam & Mom on the left.
A quick trip to Ghirardelli Square for some chocolate and Mom was in 7th heaven.
This is a picture of the legendary "Bush Man Of Fishermans Warf." He sits on a bucket in the middle of the sidewalk holding some bushes in front of him and when people walk by he jumps out and scares them. It was a hoot to watch.

Here we are at A T & T park.......home of the San Francisco Giants. This made us think of Ryan.
On the hill behind us is Coit Tower. Erected in honor of a Mrs. Coit who left her fortune to the San Francisco fire department. It was built to resemble the end of a fire hose.

This is the entry way to Pier 39. Here you will find nice shops, resturants and fresh produce with strawberries about the size of apples.
A drive through Golden Gate Park and then a quick stop at the beach and our day was pretty well done.

May 5th - Day 3

Adam had to get some work done today so we took his car and ventured off to San Francisco on our own. We basically drove straight to Fishermans Warf parked the car and got out and kissed the ground. We had booked tickets to go to Alcatraz Island. Here is Ned and Fayrine & Mom on the ferry waiting to go to prison.

Here is a shifty looking in mate we ran into at the Prison. She tells us that she's inocent. What do you think?

This is a view of San Francisco from Alcatraz Island.

After the tour of Alcatraz we came back to Fishermans Warf and did some power shopping. Later that afternoon we got in the car and drove up to Gearry Street where the Curran Theater is located. What an expierence. I was driving Ned had the map and was navigating. Lynn & Fayrine were watching for stop lights, stop signs and one way streets & screaming about every other minute as we climbed up the hill and then shot down the other side. We finally made it and we ate dinner at this cool bar just down the street from the theater. The play was wonderful and over too soon. We made it out of the city and back to Adams alive, so I guess we did ok.

May 6 - Day 4

Adam took us back into the city and we rode the Trolley cars up to China Town.

We strolled down through China town. Here are Adam & Mom at the gates to China Town.

This is a view looking down the street of China town. Kinda cool huh.

After China Town we tried to jump back on a trolley but because of some kind of problem they were temporarily out of order so we walked back to the Warf and had lunch. Then Adam took us back to Airport and put us on our plane for home. What a great trip. Thanks Adam - we love you. Dad & Mom

Flashback Friday

It's Someone's Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADAM! WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH! RILEY AND I MADE YOU THIS SIGN TODAY SO THAT WE COULD WISH YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I HOPE YOU HAVE AN ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL AND FANTASTIC BIRTHDAY! IF YOU HAVE NOTICED THAT I AM EXCLAMATION POINT CRAZY IT IS ONLY BECAUSE THAT IS HOW MUCH I WISH FOR YOU TO HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY!
LOVE YOU! - HEATHER, REED, RILEY

The Secret Is Unveiled

Twenty four years ago today, in a galaxy far far away, on a putrid moon that was used as a garbage dump by the inhabitants of the surrounding planets, arose a torrent of unbearably loud and horrific grunting sounds that could be heard blocks past the borders of the lunar hills trailer court. At the source of this blood curdling cry, in a dilapidated double wide, a five breasted, three eyed, alien mother gnashed her countless rows of teeth and, with a hearty push, pooped a gelatinous lump of a baby out of one of her nine blemished space butts. After a short recuperation period and a pack of Newport cigarettes she placed the vile smelling newborn in an unaddressed mail pod and launched it off into space (kind of like in superman but, this planet wasn't being destroyed or anything, that alien bitch just didn't want to take care of her baby). Off into the endless firmament the little one was shot floating aimlessly into the blackness of space. After countless days of sailing through the vast cosmos, the pod steadily approached the blue and green planet known as earth. The perpetual spin of the discarded pod quickly came to an end as it made a turbid and fiery entry into the planet's atmosphere. With the earth's gravity beckoning the pod nearer, it exponentially gained speed, spiralling downwards toward the planet's surface. 3.... 2.... 1.... Impact! With the force of a tidal wave, a thunderous boom radiated outwards as the vessel came to a screeching halt in the back yard of a humble home in the quaint town of santaquin Utah.  The impact and accompanying explosion emitted a blast of radiation that violently shook the unsuspecting walls of the nearby homes. Unfortunately, the radiation caused the families that lived close by to develop mild brain damage as well as some severe physical mutations.  Amidst the slew of the families adversely affected by this tragic event, (ie. the Parsons, the Walkers, the Stranges, the Allens, the Strongs and the Shepherds), there was only one family that was fortunate enough to escape the negative effects of the foreign chemicals released into the air from the crash. Behind several layers of lead based paint, which were usually kind of a tacky color like a peachish pink salmon color, and dense piles of keepsakes and accumulated junk, sat a small attractive family of five known as the Peterson's. After their riveting game of Yahtzee was so rudely interrupted by what would have been an ear piercing blast but due to the muffling effect of the piles of unneeded junk that surrounded them, the noise was reduced to a small yet irritating rumble. With the instincts of the greatest detectives of our time, (Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys), the family, though in the middle of what is still considered to be possibly the most intense Yahtzee game ever played, quickly decided to investigate the faint yet intrusive racket. The family emerged from their home to find the neighborhood in shambles and their once brilliant neighbors gripped by a stupor that would not release its' grasp. The Peterson's studiously explored the wreckage only to find amidst the debris littering their neighbor's lawn a small mangled pod containing a badly injured infant alien baby. Due to the obvious fact that all of the other families in the neighborhood were left unfit to raise a cabbage patch doll, let alone an alien baby, the selfless Peterson family, not unanimously but still by majority, voted and decided to help the poor wounded alien child. At first they were unsure if the baby would survive due to all of the severe cuts, burns and scrapes covering its' body, but slowly the woulds healed. There was an enormous amount of scaring that left the baby looking nothing like the alien race which heartlessly cast it aside. Surprisingly, the deformation and scaring made the baby look identical to a human girl, and a quite attractive one at that. What are the odds? Seriously, an ugly alien baby gets horribly burned, mangled and deformed but the deformations make the baby look like a pretty human girl. That is not likely to happen again. As time passed the effects of the radiation waned and though never completely, the neighbors slowly regained portions of their wits.  The radiation effected each resident of the block differently, some developed physical deformities, (Russ Strong's eye that can see through cheese and Steven Parson's unrelenting libido), while others were effected psychologically (the Stranges), yet there was one family who tragically suffered both physical and mental abnormalities (the Walkers). The radiation entirely destroyed the Smiths home to the south, which became a fertile ground for creepy neighbors to grow marijuana. For the next few weeks there must have been rogue pockets of radiation floating through the air causing minor lapses in judgement. One of the Peterson daughters actually suggested to name the human-esque, yet certainly alien, child orange juice. After a slight pause, to see if she was joking, the remaining four sound members of the family quickly slapped her for seriously suggesting an absolutely horrible name for a child as beautiful as this. When the momentarily retarded daughter regained consciousness, the radiation induced lapse of judgement had passed and the family was ready to announce, that although she was once an ugly alien lump, they were going to adopted her into their family. From that point on her earth name would be Andrea Peterson.

Happy Birthday Andrea. I love you even though we adopted you from aliens.

Your human brother,
Adam