When we lived back in Champaign, my dad and his best friend used to hang out all the time...to us kids he has always been known as "Uncle Baldy" because he has always been bald!! haha. He is such a great guy and so much fun to be around. He always has some type of joke up his sleeve. Uncle Baldy has been a family friend since I was born..he has given me the nickname Gator..and it has stuck...I dont think he has ever called me by my real name. Now he and his family live in Iowa, so we dont get to see Uncle Baldy that often anymore..but he and my dad still keep in contact. Since he has moved to Iowa and his family has about the same number of people as mine, we do what is called the Lauchner, Smaha Challenge. There is even a trophy that goes from house to house when one family wins so many consecutive games in a row. We do every bracket out there against the Smaha's...we just finished up basketball and now we are moving onto baseball. Its so funny to watch my dad and tell us how far up ahead we are or how behind we are against them. So my point to this is that Uncle Baldy came across a pictures from a special event he attended with my dad with us kids...and you will never believe what that event was...
...It was parents day at my school!!! They always took pictures of the kids and their families that attended...and my mom was working so my dad brought Uncle Baldy...haha...I never realized it for the longest time...but if you didnt know that this was a long-time family friend..you would assume that I had gay parents. This is one of the many times that my "dads" attended things together with us.
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