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My Fallacy

I have opted to refrain from commenting on the current election results hoping that I would be able to communicate effectively my feelings. Well, I think I may fail in doing this because I have a difficult time communicating all that is on my mind and getting my point across. Also my emotions are still high about our Pres-Elect. I also know that some who read this blog will not like what I have to say, so I apologize in advance, I still consider you all my friends. As a side note I have been working a ton more hours- Finally- so I haven't been able to post as much.
On Nov 4 I awoke at 5:15 am to arrive at the polling location(my daughter's elementary school) and arrived to happy faces. I have been a Poll manager ever since the last presidential election and have quite enjoyed it. I find it interesting the way people vote in my precinct because it is actually very balanced when it comes to Democrats and Republicans. This being the third election of this year we had a well oiled machine processing voters and making things as enjoyable as possible. The longest line was in the morning with people trying to get a head start trying to beat the lines, when in fact they had the longest line. I found this to be a funny irony. No problems arose during the rest of the day, I got to vote when it got slow. This is the first time for me to not vote for a republican, ya shocking I know. By principle alone I just couldn't vote for McCain because he was in favor of the bailout plan. What a fool our government is to effect our children and us with more debt. How does it make sense to try to get rid of debt by creating more debt? Hey I need a bailout, just give me the 2 trillion in bailout monies I would be way more effective than our government. Yes the total is almost 2 trillion with the bail out package and other individual bailouts, and who is going to pay for it we are, well our kids are.

Enough about the economy, so who did I vote for? Not Hussein Obama. This pic should tell you my feelings about him. I voted Libertarian.

Ya I don't like what BO has had to say, the policies he wants to implement, and the freedoms he is going to be taking away. Have you seen the movie V for Vendetta? That movie very well portrays the potential BO has with democrat control of White house, Senate, and Congress. One word summary, scary.

On Facebook I was invited to join this group that is very interesting. I am not going to cut and paste what is written because this post would be forever long, but please read this, America's Last Acceptable Prejudice.

That should do for now for politics, I'll post some family stuff laters!

Tiger Trout

On Thursday I went to Huntington Reservoir with the goal of catching a tiger trout, I have yet to catch one. Got up at 4am and went to a friends house by 5am to meet up. On the road to pick up another friend, then we where on our way, which turned out to be a 2 hour drive. Got there as the sun rose above the surrounding mountains. On the water by 8am on friends boat and started looking for the fishes using the fish finder. Well NOTHING was showing up on the fish finder, which was weird. So we decided to slow troll to see if that would work since we couldn't find the schools to start jigging to. Well trolling turned out to be for the best, after 15 minutes fish on yahoo! my first tiger trout 14 inch. The hardest fighting trout and was a blast to catch. I ended up catching 5 or 6, ranging from 13-15 inches, trolling using a Lucky Craft Pointer lure, my most expensive lure but glad I had it. I caught one that had an orange belly, the colors where way cool. This was an awesome day, perfect weather, clean air, great company, and we where catching fish. As we where about to land the boat a fish "boil" happen to occur near the ramp. A boil is when a group of schooling fish are feeding aggressively causing the water to turn looking like the water is boiling. We then decided to fish some more, well I got a night crawler on and stated catching 8-10 inch tiger trout left and right. They where small frisky fish, but fun. I was glad to make one last fishing trip before the lakes start freezing the next few weeks.

I am a slacker

Jeez a ton has happened and no blogs, shame on me!
Well our Durango got sideswipped a couple of weeks ago, so the money from the insurance we purashed 4 new tires, some nice michelin's, and a 10 foot swingset. The kids love swinging and so do we parents, so we thought it would be a great idea to get this swing. I got it set up, Julie doesn't like where I put it, but it may stay where it is, it's not easy to move. I have been pushing the kids on a regular basis every evening and having a blast. Well last wednesday I was swinging Jake and cousin Braydon and was swinging myself as well. That turned out to be a bad idea, as I was swinging coming back down I didn't lift my foot in time from hitting the ground. This crunched my toes and made a popping sound. My thoughts where oh ooo, I walked inside and laid on my bed, a few minutes laters my foot decided to puff up and hurt. 7 X-rays later I have a broken metatarsal, this break is called a Jones Fracture. I am currently wearing a boot, and have had quit a bit of pain. Hell, our whole family has been hurt this year, I will include Julie giving birth in this for the obvious pain that was there. Dang I just want to swear thinking about all the crap that has happened. Jake breaking his arm, Emily and her collar bone, Eli's birth and ER visit. What a shitty year, ya I just swore, deal with it. In pain my language worsens.
I also haven't taken time off from work, this hasn't helped, in fact it probably has made things worse. I just hope this will be over soon. So I am dealing with my first broken bone, a very bruised foot(even my toes are purple), and some moderate pain.



Emily taking her own pic

Snake River, South Fork Fishing trip

Saturday the 13th got up at 330am, yay the alarm clock did it's job. Jim came to get me at 415 am and then we where off on I-15 heading to Idaho Falls Idaho. To stay awake we talked about everything from politics to religion. Three hours later we exited I-15 in Idaho Falls and headed to Swan Valley. An hour later we where checking into the little cabin, and on the water around 10am or so. We floated the river for the next 7 hours finding fishing holes on the way. We caught mostly Rainbow Trout and a few Yellowstone Cutthroat trout, both very pretty, non stocked fish.

The next day was freezing in the morning so we didn't get on the water until 1030, but we where rewarded with even better fishing on the smaller stretch. Jim always catches more than me, but I was still catching them. The first hole we pulled in 8 fish, next few holes Jim slayed them and my worms where somehow inferior. Soon we made it to a covergance where several swift currents met together. We both caught a few, then I snagged a pretty big rainbow, it turned out to be the biggest fish of the trip.

This was a great time fishing and hanging out with Jim, we had a ton of fun. Fishing is just an extra when it comes to amazing scenery. We saw bald Eagles, Ospreys, rolling mountains. We where on the edge of Targhee National Forest.

Came home around 8pm suday night tried, sunburnt, and relaxed from being in some of the most beautiful country. Now for the next advanture, taking Jake!

Eli

Utah State Fair 9/4

Went to the state fair, had fun.

Sorry for no recent updates

Been working everyday this week, going fishing in Idaho this weekend will make a huge post when I return sunday night.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Brady is out for season

Feast or Famine

My job can be most frustrating sometimes. We are either super busy or dead. The only way I get work is people who need dialysis in the hospital. So do I start praying for people to get sick and have kidney failure? ;) Bad joke, but it's almost tempting so that I get provide what this family needs. I did work until 2am saturday night, but that was because of Doctor's not communicating with us.

Anyways I have a new game to occupy my time and for Julie to yell at me about. Warhammer online just started it's open beta yesterday and what little I have played it is pretty fun. Kinda like World of Warcraft, but not quite. This is an even more team based pvp type game, they actually call it RvR (Realm vs Realm).

Flesh Eater!

Eli has done something the rest of my children haven't, he sucks his thumb. My flesh eating son ravishes both thumbs, apparently has no preferences. It has help put him to sleep and to quench his thirst for man flesh. Otherwise my knuckles get worn raw, more like covered in slobber. He has started eating rice cereal and he loves it. He feels like he gains 5 pounds when he finishes his little bowl. Eli is a bundle of joy, he is easy to smile and if you are lucky even laugh. He already automatically puts any object straight to mouth if anything is nearby, including noses, fingers, and toys. I have yet to figure out where all of his slobber comes from though. He has such a small mouth and so much moisture comes out from it.

Jake started preschool this week, he loves it, so does mom and dad. I drop off the kids on the way to work and I have fun doing it. The other day I watched Emily walk to her class and was just so proud. She was walking confidently knowing that all was well. I am one proud papa!

Well here it is

After much downloading cutting and pasting I came down to this. So I hope yall like it, I will forever be making changes to it.


So I had the opportunity to work on Monday (Labor day) and my backpack was stolen. I walked away from it for 10 minutes came back and it was gone. I then hurried down to security to look over the tapes to see if someone walked off the unit with my backpack. Well we saw no one so I know my backpack was still on the unit. After looking for the 10th time in a clean utility room my bag was found in a garbage can hidden under crumpled paper towels. All the pockets where open and my wallet was missing. This was an incredibly frustrating day, yet I somehow kepted my cool. Since working in the hospital this has never been an issue. The unit I was on has never had something like this happen before. I still can't believe that it actually happened, in a hospital. This person knew what they where doing, so I am a bit suspicious that it is an employee who did this.

Luckily I had tuesday off to spend time at the DMV, on the phone with the bank, buy a new wallet( I really needed one ), and getting things in order. Due to a selfish jerk I have not had a very good week so far.

Laters Jon

Under Construction

Just playing around, messing things up, dang this is frustrating!

Give me a month hehe

Scouts camping and etc...

Took the 11 year old scouts camping Friday night to Saturday night and still in the recovery process. All in all it was a fun time, I guess. I wish I was a scout again and come unprepared and not listen to the leader at ALL! The saving grace was that the fathers had to come and they did do a good job watching their own child. I am very grateful they do not need another camp out, we did get all those requirements fulfilled. My body is very stiff and awkward because I do not have a sleeping pad to protect my back. The ground FYI is very hard and sleeping on it can be most difficult. Sleeping in my own bed last night was amazingly comfortable. Interestingly how funny it is that when we don't have something that we use everyday is how much we can miss it. So, before I go camping next time my requirement is to have a decent sleeping pad so that I will be able to sleep.


Now a totally different subject.....

My awesome neighbors today moved. You either hate or love your neighbors, well we loved our neighbor across the street. Jim and Sherie are great friends to All of us, kinda like grandparents actually. We have both made commitments to still hang out and have fun. In two weeks Jim and I are going to South Fork on the Snake River to do some fishin', and hopefully some sturgeon fishin' the end of October.

It was just fun to hang out and talk politics, religion, life, and whatever was happening in our lives. They are from back East just like I am and so we talk about how weird Utahns are, but we both still love it here. Ya know I just realized that my closest friends here didn't grow up here. My best friend since 11 years old live in the avenues, the Harris's are from Virginia and our now former neighbor's are from Pennsylvania. Also half of my friends don't belong to the dominent religion here, that's a good thing, weird but religion isn't something that gets in the way of friendship. Afterall people are entitled to their opinions, that's what make life fun and exciting.

A Little Political

Going a bit political here but I can't seem to help it. Todays announcement for McCain's VP was amazing! His choosing the Alaska governer of Sarah Palin is perfect. I have to admit I have not been very impressed with McCain and not impressed at all with Hussien Obama. Yet I was considering voting for the Holy Obama to give the republicans a better chance for 2012. Slapped myself to reality during Palin's acceptance speech, which was sincere, and reflects more closely the ideals that I personnaly have. My support now goes fully to the McCain/Palin ticket. The cliche that has been spread lately is, "we will be voting for the vice president" and this is definitely the case. I was bummed that Romney didn't get as far as I would have liked, and he almost made the VP ticket. Yet I believe this is an even better choice. As I watched the speech after being self slapped I felt that this is a woman who came from the ground up. She worked hard to achieve what she has and she knows even better than others that "hometown" life that we all can relate too.

Anyways going camping with the scouts tonight, I hope to survive.

Laters, Jon

1st Day of school

Today was Emily's first day of school and she survived, YAY! She had a blast, love's her new teacher, made a new friend and experienced school lunch. She is in 1st grade, oh my life is going to fast, kids growing up way too fast. I am a proud papa, she is a very smart, social, and loving young girl. *sigh* My wish is that I hope I can be a decent father to her, and teach her the things she needs to know.

Our Eli

Went fishin'

Woke up Saturday morning to take Jake fishing, woke Julie to say bye and she said she wanted to go as well. Way cool, so we all got packed up headed out to the mountains. Picked up Julie's dad Paul on the way, we had a decent start leaving at 830 am. The destination was Smith and Morehouse reservoir, a smaller place to fish but the scenery was amazing. We saw several Mule deer which Jake encouraged me to run over. We had a great time, caught a few rainbow trout, was hoping for a tiger trout, only an excuse to go there again.

5-Mile hike

As the 11 year old scout leader we went on a hike last Saturday to Red Pine lake up Little Cottonwood Canyon. After a few days of recovery for me I can say that we had a great time. The scenery was great, company fun, and miraculous healing. Levi, Harrison, and Steven with Levi's dad Brian and Harrison's dad Robert joined us for the fun. Since I am so out of shape I thought I would be the one to slow us down. I was pleasantly surprised that this was not the case. Enough said I will let the pics tell the rest of the story!

On the way home

Go speed Racer

Ahhh Bliss!

A perfect spot for lunch

Don't fall in

Lil' something to add to the scenery

Bugs ate us more than we ate lunch

"I have 4 satellites, we have 1,800 feet in elevation, 2.5 miles to go"

1st post of attempting to make a Blog

Hey guys Julie and I thought we would make a blog since we have been inspired by seeing so many of our friends blogs. So we are going to give this a try and see what happens. Hopefully we can be better at doing this than writing in our Journals.

Laters, Jon