The GloryDayz's Are Going To Be Grandparents
 

Super-duper news from the older son and his wife; come November we're going to be grandparents... PBJ PBJ PBJ PBJ GloryDayz and Mrs. GloryDayz = Giddy!!!

Just think, in just under 11 years I'll be able to certify my own grandchild in SCUBA...

PBJ PBJ PBJ PBJ

Fantastic my good man. Enjoy!

Congrats, my friend.

I got engaged today.

What a time to be alive!

Congrats!

Great news! Grandkids are the best. Got one with me right now I just made get out of the tree and come inside and take a shower. He’s got that 8 year old boy smell going on…

Again, congrats!
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Great news on the Procreation front, congrats man.

gratz!

Most excellent news!! Congrats to you and your family.

Congratulations. There are few things more fun than spoiling your grandkids in front of your kids.

****ing awesome man.



Grandchildren are the greatest revenge to your kids. Spoil them.

LOL, I sent them this link and asked them if they had their appointment set... :LOL:

https://travel.state.gov/content/tra.../under-16.html

That is awesome. Middle child has given me 2. Enjoy them and spoil them.

Nice. I'll pretend to be your grandkid until your real ones are old enough to travel.

Nice. The next stop for me is the Bahamas (a liveaboard) for my youngers son's Grad gift, then I'm schedules for Cozumel for working dive trips in July then August. Good times... I love it...

Congratulations! :thumb:

Congrats dude!

Congrats old man!

Epic

Your gonna love being Papa (that’s what my Grands call me) like no other.
It’s truly a gift.
Congratulations

Congrats!!

Congrats to you!

Are you sure you're old enough?!?!

Tell your son congrats on the sex

Congratulations... Happy for you and your family...

:thumb:

Congrats Grandpa Days

Future Vezina Trophy winner on the way. Congrats!

Awesome man, congrats!

Congrats! As others have said, grandkids are the best!

Congrats, but it will be a while before you can enjoy grandkids.

Yeah, I don't get carded anymore... Well, some ask me for my AARP card!

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

Congratulations breddah! Grandkids are so fun! We just had ours at the house for a couple days while our daughter and her husband went out of town for her birthday. Had a blast, watched Gremlins 1&2, and ET. They loved them!

LMAO:thumb:

Grandkids are so much fun, I wish we would have had them 1st. Tell them stories, sugar them up, and send them home.

Don't forget to brainwash them early to be a Chiefs fan... Start immediately and be relentless. Congrats!

Will it be Pop Pop, Grandpa, Poppy, Granddad, Gramps

Hell, mine mostly call me by my first name anymore.
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Congrats old man! :)

100000%...

I've been told that I will be told when the decision is made, and won't be told who made it.

I don't care, I just look forward to having a name..

or the server verifies you are eligible for the Perkin's discount...

Congrats, always awesome to celebrate life.

Right on! Spoil them to death!

Congrats!

PADI or SSI?

Great news my brother! Give the family a snorkel for me.

Hey, hey, let's keep it clean fellas.

Congrats glory

it's a sweet gig.

That's crazy! We let our parents pick theirs. Although my mom became Meemaw whenever my kiddo couldn't say Grandma. My brother's kids called her Grandma growing up. My niece had her first child a couple years after my kiddo was born. Since he had started calling her Meemaw, that's what my brother's grandkids will call her.

Congrats!

Congratulations on getting one past the goalie.

Congratulations! Being a grandparent is awesome aside from the being old enough to be a grandparent part.

I think his son did that or do you have some insider information that we all aren't aware of?

Glorydayz is going to a father again Grandpa

We called my grandpa Grumps. ROFL

What position was used to conceive?

If I ever had grandkids, I would insist on being called Grandfather Rain Man, Sir. It's never too early to instill a sense of formality.

Huge congratulations!

Congrats!
We got our first grandchild during the first year of COVID. That little bugger has me wrapped around his finger.

Congratulations

Congratulations! :thumb:

Today, SSI. I moved from PADI to SSI recently with the business, so I've dropped my PADI status to Alumni. We don't have enough people demanding PADI to make the dues worth it, so only one of us keeps their PADI active to work with those people. If I move to a different organization that's PADI, a fee and a skills examination will put me back right where I was, so it was a no-brainer.

All good. All of these organizations work off of Navy dive tables with only slight deviations to NDL table calculations, and don't we all dive computers these days anyway? And, honestly, PADI looks to be taking SSI's lead on allowing instructors more flexibility in skills assessment timing because, well, SSI has been cutting into PADI's dominance over the past 5 years. Again, I don't care, I just love to dive and love to teach people how to dive. The only downside to SSI is that you can't be independant, you have to be part of a dive operation that's "SSI". And PADI is being pressured into the same by some of their larger organizations that aren't happy that independent instructors who are working out of their garage are undercutting their prices.

LMAOLMAOLMAO

That's a good point, I may have to tell them that if I don't get to pick my name, they have to agree that it's only one name used by all.

I got my cert in 2018 and dove in Turks and Caicos. Have not been able to go since then. :(

Congradulations

I'm 1000% blessed with the diving I've been able to do my whole life. It's a good passion and addiction. I can't wait to retire and revisit some places and, perhaps, add some bucket list places.

And, I'd recommend visiting Aggressor.com and Allstar Liveaboards and see if any of those trips are being offered at a discount...

Liar! You will launch a poll on CP to determine what you are called.

:D

Congrats. you'll love being a grandparent. It's so fun, you should do it first!

I would love to go more but being a solo diver and living in KC make it inconvenient.

That's the beauty of, especially, those liveaboards Aggressor, All Star (and many others offer). You can just take one bed in a cabin and meet new friends (and you don't have to worry about the tourist BS be being ashore (for at least as long as the boat is out)) - they'll fill the other bed. You can also take a non-diver with you and pay somewhat less and they get a week aboard a freaky luxury yacht. Check out this link to just one of Aggressor's boats..

And even if you go alone, or with your S.O. to a shore-based place like Cozumel's Wyndam Coz (formerly the "Hotel Coz"), they will put you on a boat daily and you will get a dive buddy or just dive with the Divemaster. All while the S.O. sits next to the pool and reads a book. Yuk! :Lin:

And, when I'm retired, since I like liveaboards, I'll hang on those liveaboard sites and snatch-up last minute deals that are CHEEEEAP!

I'll have to look into something like the shore based.

The wife gets sea sick easily so liveaboards for her would be torture. We found this out on first trip to the Keys on a snorkeling trip. Did you know that tarpons love regurgitated McDonalds? She was a trooper and kept snorkeling but had to stop and purge quite a bit. She had more sealife following her than anywhere else near the reef we were at.

Totally understand, my wife got SOOOOOOOOO sick on the boat ride (a freaking huge ferry mind you) between Utila and Roatan that she slept in a cab while my son and I went into the nature preserve to see the sloths... I totally get it.

But yes, hit-up places in Coz (cheap in/out and meant for diving) like:

The Wydham - https://goo.gl/maps/PcYCK5d4gYBASSMA8
The Allegro - https://goo.gl/maps/3m9EVsDEibevYDaw6
The Occidental - https://goo.gl/maps/v9UoctP5VqwgUF3U7

And look into their rates and also look at their attached-dive-operation's price to add diving while you're there.

And, if you're like me, sometimes I don't purchase a resort's dive package, I just dive with operators I like the best. It's a little tougher with the logistics, but often times it's better because those non-affiliated dive operations cater to people who don't mind being picked up and taken to the marina, taking their stuff to a dock to be picked up, or sometimes just hopping a cab to the marina to get on the boat. I've done them all, and I find it all very spectacular.

Brand new babies are fun. You get to lightly pinch their Michelin Man arms.

LOL, there has to be some YouTube video about that... :D

And just like that, the GloryDayzes are grandparents...

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That...wow early. Hope everything is ok

Yes, very early... And yes, everything is OK, 3.5lbs, so just a little NICU time according to the doctors.

Good to hear bro

Glad everything is OK. Awesome for you guys!

AS LONG AS YOU ARE FOR SCUBA, I AM APPY

APPY AS A IPPO

Let's get that lad some toddler diving gear!


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Yes, I have gear for the lad... The wife said, "that's odd, it looks like that gear you said you wanted for yourself!!!".

salute