My Family 11/07
Welcome to my Blog! This was our Christmas 2007 Family Picture! Meet my beautiful wife Lee, and our kids 6 and 4 years old.


Saturday, December 30, 2006

Christmas and more!

Christmas at my house was absolutely wonderful this year! Not only did I do the amazing and unpredictable, I bought my wife clothes....THAT SHE ACTUALLY LIKED AND KEPT! I have ABSOLUTELY no problem with her returning clothes that I buy if she doesn't like them...in fact, it's a rule. I save all my receipts so she can return anything that doesn't fit right or that I just did wrong on. BUT I actually got it right this year. So I'm very happy. The kids also loved the new toys and they even liked the clothes. Not bad for 3 and 5 year old kids.


Now that gun to the left is what my wonderful, beautiful, and kind wife bought me. Knowing that I have wanted one for quite some time, and thinking it would be a good thing to do with my friends in the Ward (since none of them fly fish). It's great, it is a Spyder Sonix Pro exactly like the picture except with red detailing. I love it. So....Super thanks to Lee!

With gun and hand, and CO2 Tanks full, I gathered with 24 other men today for my first battle in almost 10 years! It was frigid afternoon as we met in the open field full of sage brush and tall grass. With only a strip of duct tape on each arm to distinguish my friends from my foes, we separated to each side of field. The first two battles were "blood bath" rules, attack with the goal of having more guys from your team left at the end. I didn't make to long in this fight, I got aggressive and got picked off first in the battle. Alas, the taped team (my team) proved unable to dominate at this game... or was it that we were mismatched team 14-11. We balanced the team by taking one person and continued to Capture the flag. The next 4 matches were tight but we were able to dominate the field.

Being apart of the team as it completes the is amazing, but I really appreciated to time that I had to sit on the sideline after being shot out. It's really cool to see the team move through the field and work together to flush out stragglers and pick them off. It was true blast! Soooo... Once again, Thanks Lee for a great Christmas present!

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Merry Ramahanakwanzmas

Apparently Christmas is right around the corner!!! For those who read this, MERRY Christmas (or Merry Ramahanakwanzmas, for those who enjoy a more politically correct holiday greeting). For the first time in my married life, I will not be shopping for Lee Ann on Christmas Eve. That’s right, I finished a few days ago, and they are safely hidden from the snooping bug. Yep, she’s a snooper! If I ever made the mistake of leaving Christmas gifts around the house, she would sniff them out and actually look at all of them. So much for the surprise of the day. I actually know where she has hidden my gifts, and I leave them alone. I have to hide them at my work storage unit to keep them safe. She doesn’t have access to it, so it’s safe to let her know where they are. I’ve been hiding gifts at work for 7 years now, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to leave them in the house. Snooper!
Anyway, I hope that everyone gets a chance to sit back and remember what it’s really all about. Leave the stores and gifts where they are, and play with kids. Enjoy your spouse or someone special. And say a special Happy Birthday to our savior. I’m am very grateful to a loving Father who would send such a special individual who would set the example for us to follow and then one day, suffer and die so I might return to Him. If I just believe and try my best. What a special blessing!

Monday, December 4, 2006

My boy is growing!

My little guy will turn 5 this week. He lost his first tooth this morning. and it must made me want to stop and take a moment to breathe. It's happening way to fast. I must say though, he's a lot more fun at 5 then he was at 2, 3, or even newly 4. He has a great new vocabulary that actually works. It's fun to hear him discribe things so correctly, and so wrong at the same time. He really one of the the funnest little people in the entire world. Which TOTALLY makes sense because so many tell me that he is just like me... and I am fun too. SERIOUSLY I AM!!!

This year he learned how to ride a two-wheeler, and I thought that was prety cool. It took three sessions of about 30 minutes of me running behind him pleading for him to peddle and stop leaning to the side, and then he took off. It was a really fun day! It's very fun to have a great little like him in my life!

Friday, November 24, 2006

Season of Gratitude

During this time of Thanksgiving, I wanted to take a minute to express my gratitude for the many blessing I have in my life right now. There are so many things that daily bless my life.

I wouldn't be experiencing any of these blessing without the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The light of his restored gospel has influenced my spiritual, emotional, and temporal life. I'm grateful for the Church in our times I hope that I am worthy of the knowledge each day of my life!

My wonderful wife and family are on top of this list! Let me tell you something about my wonderful wife. While I was plugging through college, I worked full time (plus). For the first many years of our life together, I would work for 7-4pm, then go to school from 5-9 four nights a week. Needless to say I was home much. While I was gone all this time, the dear wife would be at home taking care of our two very small children (they are 18 months apart). While there were times of tiredness, and loneliness for her, she was always supportive and motivational to me. It is because of her support I now have a degree, and now a great career. In addition to this support system she is, she is very good to deal with my insensitive male nature. She puts up with way too much crap from me, and I love her for it. To top all these things off...She is incredibly smoking hot. I am very grateful for her in my life!

I have been blessed to work for a GREAT company that really supports a balance between work and family. I love my job and provide well for my family. I couldn't be happier in my work life.

I hope that anyone who has the opportunity to read this, also can take a minute to count a few of the blessings of your life. May the Lord bless you all!

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Thanksgiving at my house

Apparently my beautiful wife is a gluton for punishment. About 2 or 3 weeks ago, she decided that we would be celebrating Thanksgiving in our own home this year. So my folks, her folk and little sister, my sister and her clan of 7 would be piling into my house for a Turkey dinner that we would be preparing.
So all night (until 1 am) we were preparing a lot of the little things. and up at 6:30 to through the 26lbs beast into the oven. Anyway, it was fabulous. The Mable Butter Glaze worked great...in fact it was one of the best feasts I've ever been a part of. It was awesome. the company was even pretty good.
If there is in fact anyone out there reading this mindless crap... I hope you too had a fantastic holiday.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Summer Trip

In April, I moved my family back to out home town (my home town at least). Well in our new Ward at church we have made some incredible new friends, and we finally feel like this is a home we can stay in for quite some time.
One of my new friends invite me and my boy to go to California and run the Rubicon 4x4 Trail with him and his two boys. I was totally excited and we had a blast! It was about 12 hours driving to the Trail, and 3 days of incredible work that I didn't really expect. But it was an experience I will never regret, or forget.
My friend drives and Hummer H2, and as far as anyone could find, there are no reports of H2's clearing the trail, so him and a few online friends decided they would do it. Our caravan consisted of 5 H2's, 2 H3's and on Nissan Xtera (variety I guess). We Jeep and like sized vehicles have no problem winding though the very tight spots on the trail, but these wide H2's made it necessary to stack rock in tippie passes to prevent the sides of the rigs from getting TOTALLY TRASHED. but it was a blast. I even had the opportunity to help change a flat tire on a downhill grade at 11:00 at night. exciting...I think so.

Anyway, I thought I would include a photo!


Sunday, November 12, 2006

Intro to Geocaching

I have had quite a few people ask me what "GEOCACHING" is. And there are many very qualified ways to answer that question. But the best explanation that I have heard was described on my brother-in-laws T-shirt. It follows:

"I use million dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the forest. What's your hobby?" (or something like that)

Anyway... people hide caches, small containers with stuff in them, throughout the world. These caches can be big buckets, ammo cans, or even small plastic film container, Inside the cache is at least a log book, but many have "trading prizes" (sometimes cool item, sometime really crappy stuff). The Coordinates of the caches are then posted online for people to look up. With the Coordinates and an GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) Receiver in hand others can hunt the world for the caches. Sometimes they are easy, sometimes hard. But as of yet, Always fun.

From time to time I will be posting some pictures of places that this little hobby takes me.

For more information, visit http://www.geocaching.com/

Welcome to my BLOG!

My Beautiful wife Lee as been involved as a blogger for quite sometime, and I've been jealous. She has a bunch of internet friends that she chatters and has a lot of fun. I'm what I would call...An internet loner. I don't really have a purpose to blog about, or anyone who I plan on reading it. but hey, who knows what will happen. For my interests...I enjoy golfing, fly fishing, mountain biking, camping, and newly started geocaching. I though that this might be a nice way to share some of my interests with friends, and gain some new ones.
Well, that wasn't too painful I hope. I'm out for now!