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I have a friend who told me that he frequently reads my blog. I yelled at him for not commenting. I feel like I have no one reading my blog and it makes me sad. my friends suck sometimes. (I hope you feel guilty and will post now!) :)

FINALLY

For about the last....FOREVER, Lee has wanted a new SLR Camera. She has been debating for quite sometime which one she would want, and she finally found one that was "reasonably" priced, and would do everything she could possibly need from a camera for quite some time. So I finally got absolutely tired of talking about the different options, packages, and pricing of the camera that I've wanted to get since the beginning, but she couldn't decide WHICH ONE IT WAS. Well, she decided, and I bought it for her yesterday.

It's the Canon Rebel XTi. It's pretty sweet, and with the competitive pricing between Best Buy and Circuit City, I was able to get it at a good price.

So, Lee has her camera, and I have the satisfaction of having got it for her when she wasn't expecting it. That is always a bonus. And a great story. Yesterday, she had a Doctors appointment that I sent her off too. While she was gone, I told her that I would be buying a new collar for Sage (our older yellow lab) at Petsmart. while doing that, I would go next door to get the new camera. Well, she got the Idea that I was going to get it, and got all excited. When she came home, she had the stupidest grin on her face all excited for her new camera, and all I could give up was the Collar. I even managed to have the kids stick to the Petsmart story. After a while she broke my son. He gave up the story, but he kept saying that the camera was on the counter. The other night, a friend left her camera at the house. So I explained that she had said enough about the camera, that the kids knew that she wanted one and got confused. So we ate dinner, and put the kids to bed...all the while she's walking around looking in every corner of the house for a camera, and proclaiming that I was up to no good. What a silly chick! finally at bedtime when she had calmed down and accepted that she wasn't going to get the camera, I gave it to her. She was happy. I'm happy. That's my fun story. Lee, I love you!

Passage to Zarahemla

I'm a huge "Tennis Shoes Amound the Nephites" Fan.

For the first number of years after Chris Heimerdinger began writing them, I was quite the sceptic. I didn't even read one of the many books in the series, before classifying them as dumb, and without point.

Well on my mission, I had a companion that had one of the books on tape and we listened to it. That was the end of my days as a sceptic. They are absolutely amazing. And with that talent, Chris Heimerdinger has written another book, with the purpose of it becoming a movie. Passage to Zarahemla. It's a very different concept than the "Tennis Shoes Series", but its great. And here is the trailer.

You can learn more about the Movie: Passage to Zarahemla.

Over the weekend, we had the great opportunity to the kids to the monster trucks here. They had a great time, but here are a few quick clips to show what the kids loved so much!

MLK Day 2007

What a great holiday! MLK! this year my company started giving us the holiday. So I had the great blessing of spending an extra Monday at home with the family. We didn't really do all that much, yet got much done at the same time. It was great the hang out and get everything done. Despite have the day off, I had a little paperwork to get done in the morning. Then we took to Costco, and a million other grocery stores.
With that all done, we were ready for a little recreation. So I grabbed my brother-in-law Seth and we headed for the "mountain". It's actually just a great big hill, but it's called Candy Mountain in West Richland. At the top of the "MOUNTAIN" there is a geocache. The listed Log/Lat place you at the bottom of the hill along a service (4x4) trail to the top. Using a few numbers of landmarks and a puzzle, you can figure out where up there the cache is located. We tried taking the Impala up a little ways but quickly found that the road was to steep, and loose to take it all the way. So we parked "Vader"(my black Impala) and started hiking up to the top. Along the way we didn't get some of the landmark clues that left us without the complete code if find the cache. Needless to say, I wasn't going to go down and come back to find it. We did the best we could, and found it in about 7-10 minutes. It was a very chilly 26 degrees before we began, and must have dropped below 20 while we were headed up. but it was great hike and loads of fun! I'm going to start photo'ing some of the great places that caches take me so I can show off!