The day after elections, it's really hard not to talk about politics, so with this post try will try to refrain, but I do have one thing to mention that I will get too. But first a couple of funnies.
Yesterday Emily and Jake got a ride to school, well Emily did and Jake rode his bike as our kind neighbor followed. I was already at the kids school working the polls and Julie was suffering from being prego, she is so exhausted. Anyways Jake got to the school safely and started to get his bike lock off, as he was doing so he was telling my neighbor that the code to his lock is very secret and he will never divulge the "secret code". In the process of getting the lock off and locking the bike the "code" got scrambled and was having difficulty getting his bike lock back on. The neighbor offered help, Jake then yelled "the code is 3141". So much for a secret code when half the parking lot heard what it is!
This I posted on Facebook today, My father in law bought an old wood chipper, the blades are chipped and very dull, so he decided to call the 1800 number for service and parts that was on a sticker and got a phone sex hotline instead. He is a bishop in the LDS church, bad bishop bad! This has made me laugh since I heard about it last night.
Lastly I will not mention politics why sour this post with that garbage.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Another Sibling dropped off at the MTC
This has been a crazy week. Jason my little bro arrived to Salt lake City monday morning to report to the Missionary Training Center on wednesday. When he landed we started off running, did more shopping that one day than several days worth of shopping. We where able to gear him up for the upcoming adventure. Tuesday Jason and I went to the Salt Lake temple, which was amazing, been a while since I have been able to go, and I am very glad we went. The temple is always worth going too no matter how hard it seems at times to make it there.
Tuesday afternoon was the time to BBQ and get the smoker going. Made very yummy burgers for lunch, smoked some beef jerky and for dinner cooked some amazing New York steaks. Had enough meat to last me the rest of the year. Then the snow fell that night, Jason was very happy to see it snow. Then at 11pm the adventure began, the carbon monoxide detector in the basement started to alarm, I changed the 9v battery, but it continued to alarm. Since it continued to alarm I called 911 and we where told to leave our house, so we had to get all the kiddos out of bed and got into our Durango and waited for the fire dept to show up. Five minutes later they arrived and monitored the CO2 levels in the house, turned out that the battery I replaced the old battery with was also dead, ARGH!!! After a new battery that was confirmed to be fully charged the alarm no longer made ear piercing sounds. For the prompt service of the fire dept we gave the guys some apple crisp Julie had made earlier that night and some of that beef jerky that was declared smoked steak ;) We seem to always have an adventure of sorts at the oddest of times. Jason got to experience the craziness that seems to befall us. We all got to bed very late, this was not good since I had a test to take at 8am the next day. Surprisingly I did better than I thought I would since I had very little time to actually study. On this same day we drove Jason to the MTC, he was expected to report at 1245, he got there on time. It was really neat to see the new way these new missionaries are welcomed. Back when I was reporting to the MTC it was hard, felt lost. Now when dropped off the new missionaries are welcomed with the road lined with missionaries welcoming and assisting these new missionaries. We said our goodbyes and hugs exchanged and Jason was welcomed by 4 or 5 missionaries leading him as to where to go and that was the last we saw of him. Jason was welcomed into good hands and it was great to see the support that was given.
A great thing living here in Utah is that I can be there for my siblings. I was able to drop Melissa off at the MTC as well several years ago, what a great opportunity! I will miss Jason, but he will do well, he is in good hands, and I have faith that he will be successful and be able to learn the things he needs to learn to be a great missionary and whatever is in store for him throughout his life. Love ya Bro!!
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Tuesday afternoon was the time to BBQ and get the smoker going. Made very yummy burgers for lunch, smoked some beef jerky and for dinner cooked some amazing New York steaks. Had enough meat to last me the rest of the year. Then the snow fell that night, Jason was very happy to see it snow. Then at 11pm the adventure began, the carbon monoxide detector in the basement started to alarm, I changed the 9v battery, but it continued to alarm. Since it continued to alarm I called 911 and we where told to leave our house, so we had to get all the kiddos out of bed and got into our Durango and waited for the fire dept to show up. Five minutes later they arrived and monitored the CO2 levels in the house, turned out that the battery I replaced the old battery with was also dead, ARGH!!! After a new battery that was confirmed to be fully charged the alarm no longer made ear piercing sounds. For the prompt service of the fire dept we gave the guys some apple crisp Julie had made earlier that night and some of that beef jerky that was declared smoked steak ;) We seem to always have an adventure of sorts at the oddest of times. Jason got to experience the craziness that seems to befall us. We all got to bed very late, this was not good since I had a test to take at 8am the next day. Surprisingly I did better than I thought I would since I had very little time to actually study. On this same day we drove Jason to the MTC, he was expected to report at 1245, he got there on time. It was really neat to see the new way these new missionaries are welcomed. Back when I was reporting to the MTC it was hard, felt lost. Now when dropped off the new missionaries are welcomed with the road lined with missionaries welcoming and assisting these new missionaries. We said our goodbyes and hugs exchanged and Jason was welcomed by 4 or 5 missionaries leading him as to where to go and that was the last we saw of him. Jason was welcomed into good hands and it was great to see the support that was given.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Added stress but I will take it...
Consider this to be the official announcement, since our children and a few friends already know. The fourth child is on the way. Personally I was hoping to keep this hush hush for a while since we just found out 2 weeks ago, but news travels fast, and I was hoping to have some fun with the announcement. But that wasn't meant too be, but I will try to make the best of it. We had decided let's take our chances back in June of this year. We both know we need to bring another little one to this world of ours and now would be a good of time as any. If we planned things right the baby would come in summer time when I do not have school to worry about, and it is looking like that will be the case. As a husband and father I find pregnancies very stressful, so many worries with the infinite amount of things that could go wrong. My love for my sweet wife in immense, but with the hormonal shifts that a pregnant woman has it can be a rather challenging for the husband, the future father. It is my goal to be able to cope better, you would think that I would be getting better at this being the fourth time around and all. Julie may just be a few weeks or a month along, but we have much to look forward to, and too get ready for the little one to come into our lives.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
The sky is falling, a new post!
What a new post, gotta be kidding me!! Ya I know, I am a major slacker when it comes to posting on the blog, I mean gosh blogs are so over rated now and so 2005. Being 2010 I am catching up to the times and blogging only a few times a year it seems. It all comes down to laziness or not even thinking about writing here, I mean who reads this anyways?? And not to mention the craziness of life with three crazy children, being in nursing school, and trying to continue to do fun things. Oh and too top things off I have a recently new calling working with the young-men, well if you consider late June to be recent. I have also taken on a new website, a forum actually, and I dare say the topics are rather controversial, discussing everything political and religious. Good things for great mods to help control the masses, well the very few who continue to post. It seems easy to get burnt out from politics especially with all that is happening, so difficult to keep up.
Life is crazy, Julie has a way of putting things on her Facebook account that paints quite the picture of my little family, let me first say that what she does post is very little to actually what happens, I wish I could get her to contribute here and expound on some of the things we experience as parents of some very unique, intriguing, bundles of energy. Hopefully she reads this soon and takes the hint....
Some recent examples of Julie's Facebook posts
Some recent examples of Julie's Facebook posts
Last night Emily broke a glass in the kitchen. As I was cleaning that up Eli was throwing up all over the living room. As everything else was happening the cookies were ready to be taken out. All I can say is I was very glad that Jon was home to help!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Being sick
Well my excuse for not writing is that we have been so sick this winter. Mostly with the kiddos, but we have had 4-5 rounds of strep, ear infections, vomiting, and the common cold this winter and we are sick of it. (Pun intended). So with weather warming up and spring on the horizon we are hoping the winter of illness will shortly be over. The grass is starting to turn from brown to green, there are buds on the trees, and my itch to BBQ has grown tremendously, season of change is here.
The only other thing to report really is the we had signed Jacob up for wrestling. He absolutely loved it, it was so much fun to watch him learn from the coaches and to see his progress as he learned new moves every week. Jake was soaking up the time he had to learn by doing everything asked of him and doing it well. There where four tournaments one of which we missed due to a sickness, but he only had one loss. It was very fun to watch him apply what he learned in the tournaments. I will upload pics and video when I get home tonight from work.
The topic of school, well I have to retake a couple of classes, I am currently taking Pathophysiology, and it's going much better this semester, the teacher is actually teaching, a rare concept it seems. I am happy with school this semester, no complaints, so far, all is good.
The issue of politics with the healthcare reform bill being passed yesterday has me rather upset, and having a hard time to express my disgust in appropriate words. A few profanities come to mind really quickly, but after those are said in my mind I am at a loss for words at how express my feeling towards our politicians. In the end what I have say matters very little, so I may just keep my mouth shut after-all. Well that's all I have to say for today, I do plan on writing on this blog more and not neglecting it so badly. Besides there are only a couple of you who read it anyways, but thanks for reading!
The only other thing to report really is the we had signed Jacob up for wrestling. He absolutely loved it, it was so much fun to watch him learn from the coaches and to see his progress as he learned new moves every week. Jake was soaking up the time he had to learn by doing everything asked of him and doing it well. There where four tournaments one of which we missed due to a sickness, but he only had one loss. It was very fun to watch him apply what he learned in the tournaments. I will upload pics and video when I get home tonight from work.
The topic of school, well I have to retake a couple of classes, I am currently taking Pathophysiology, and it's going much better this semester, the teacher is actually teaching, a rare concept it seems. I am happy with school this semester, no complaints, so far, all is good.
The issue of politics with the healthcare reform bill being passed yesterday has me rather upset, and having a hard time to express my disgust in appropriate words. A few profanities come to mind really quickly, but after those are said in my mind I am at a loss for words at how express my feeling towards our politicians. In the end what I have say matters very little, so I may just keep my mouth shut after-all. Well that's all I have to say for today, I do plan on writing on this blog more and not neglecting it so badly. Besides there are only a couple of you who read it anyways, but thanks for reading!
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