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!

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.

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!

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!