An Amazing Man

"Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier."

What an amazing man. I am really going to miss his humor, and his great attitude about life! He will be greatly missed.

Chad's New Career

I think that Chad is in the wrong career. He says that he loves his job at TNI but I think that secretly he wants to be a used car salesman! He likes selling cars and a bit too fast sometimes. Back in September he thought that he would put his Civic up for sale and get him a dream car....anything with AC! So within minutes he had an offer on his car and was so excited he called to tell me the good news. I thought okay the car is 13 years old and has had a good run, time to pass it on to the next lucky person. Then as the day went by I realized that I have attachment issues with this car and don't know why. By the time Chad got home I was in tears and told him that we couldn't sell the car and he needed to call the guy back and tell him that is was a no go. He did and was completely embarrassed!! So again this weekend we got the bug to get a new car. So Chad worked his magic again and within minutes of him posting the add for my car on the internet he had it sold! This time there were no tears, I must not have attachment issues with my car like I do his. The only hard thing now is that we are down to one car and we have to go car shopping, and I don't think that I like car shopping, any volunteers??

Family Photos

Those of you that have been to my house know that I have needed to update my family picture, the one I have hanging on the wall Blake is 6 months old. We did have family pictures done this past June but Luke was 3 weeks old and looks like a little worm. So while my brother Ryan was here I had him take a few so I could get things updated. And of course I am a fan of outdoor pictures and January in Utah means snow..... so out we went!! My apologies to Ryan he is a warm weather man and I'm sure the high was 20 or so and we did have the wind to factor in. So pretty much we froze!! He is now suffering from a mild case of frost bite, but that is the price you pay to get good pictures. So thanks again big guy, and hey black finger tips are really in!

Holiday Fun!

Christmas morningLuke is not sure he likes Christmas
Bowling

Here is a look back at the good times that we had this holiday season. Christmas was so fun this year! It actually lasted longer then 10 min. It helps that we had another kid, and Blake is getting older and really understood what was going on, he was so excited about everything except for the clothes he got, he made sure to tell us that he never asked for that stuff and tried putting them in the garbage pile. Luke had no idea of corse, and was ready to have a nap half way through. We then spent New Years with the Cooks, Ryan and Shelley were able to come from California. We spent all night playing the Wii, we were doing so well at the bowling game that we thought we should go bowling New Years day, we realized that we are much better at Wii bowling then the real thing!