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2011-09-06T18:34:00.001-07:00

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New York 2011- Part One

2011-06-17T14:58:00.000-07:00

So I had a trade show in NYC this month and Jen was lucky to come along and make it a workcation. We had a lot of fun and there is so much to see that we didn't even scratch the surface. We are glad to be home though!

Our hotel was in Time Square and this seems great but every time we walked out the front of the hotel there were a ton of people and also guys trying to sell you stuff. Next time I will be staying off Broadway. (although I did a little dance just so I can say I performed on Broadway!!)

This was my favorite part of NYC, Central Park. It was so nice and you didn't even know you were in one of the biggest cities in the world once you stepped inside. There was a ton to see and do. We spent two hole days walking through the whole thing.

Jen is sitting on one of the huge rock formations in the park. This is what the landscape would have looked like before the city and this foundation allows them to build all these huge buildings. This is one of the few pictures Jen would pose for, but she is so beautiful I had to get one.

We went looking for the temple and at first we couldn't find it right away because it seriously blends in with the buildings around until we saw the Moroni right on top. Right below it and to the left of the picture is an art gallery.

This is a statue that was in the plaza of the twin towers. When they came down they went in to the plaza and it was still sitting there. It has damage but mostly its still the same so they moved it to a park and lit a flame. It was pretty cool.

April in Utah

2011-04-08T05:50:00.001-07:00

I thought that since everyone was sharing their spring pictures I would share a picture from this morning the 8Th of April just to show off our lovely spring.....

Valentine cookies

2011-02-23T09:32:00.001-08:00

So for Christmas Jen got a cookie machine that you put the cookie dough in and then put a shaper on the end and it squirts out certain shape cookies. Well she decided to make heart cookies for Valentine's day and some came out great....
The some came out shaped differently, in fact they seem to resemble something else that can be attributed to a Male's body. (pic below)When I came home Jen thought it was the funniest thing in the world, I cant seem to eat one though. Its just wrong!

Rome part 2

2011-01-26T23:26:00.000-08:00

The second day in Rome was a half day, we needed to catch the train to Milan at 3pm and honestly the trains here in Europe are wonderful. We went to the Coliseum (which we could see from our hotel) and the forum. This was so impressive and I really wish I could see it when it was at its peak.

I tried taking two photos of the area and put the together I overlapped some but you get the idea

The side of the Coliseum the holes are where they chipped the exterior away to use for other buildings mostly in St Peter's square

this was the floor those ruins were put in 10 years after it was originally built before then it was hallow and could be filled with water to reenact ship battles.

Closer look at the ruins under the floor

a view from the top of the Forum

This was called "The Arena" not sure what it was used for.

I thought this ruin was cool looking

one of the buildings from the forum

AWW Roma

2011-01-24T01:41:00.000-08:00

Italy part 1:

This week I had a meeting in Italy for my work, the meetings were in Milan, and so we decided to fly into Rome before taking the train into Milan. Rome is Aw some!!! I have pictures of the Vatican below, there will be other parts coming later.

This bowl is made up from a stone that no longer exists on earth it costs over 100 million dollars (saying this with my pinkie at my lips)

This was stolen from Egypt well taken I guess the Vatican cant steal.

Yep this is a dog feeding kids, I think it is a symbol of Rome of Cesar I cant remember my college class.

This was the palace of Stalin

I loved this ceiling, it was covered by paintings

The blue stone from this floor is from Haily's comet

This casket is made up from the same stone that the basin is made from.

This is a figure of the battle at Troy, this guy tried telling the Greeks that the horse was a trap and was dragged down by snakes sent by some god.

This is Apollo he had a bow originally, he has been castrated by one of the popes when he was offended by all the nudity in the Vatican so he took a hammer to all the male models

St Peters square, the square was built with stone from the coliseum

Mayson's baptism

2011-01-09T13:52:00.000-08:00

So my oldest girl turned 8 and that means it is time for her to do something special in our family, get baptized. She was so excited leading up to the day and then when it arrived she was jumping all around. Our time spot was the last at 4:00 pm and an unusual occurrence she was the only one from our ward getting baptized so it was a very special day. Thanks for all the friends and family that made the trip, you made It very special for Mayson.

This is her pose, so grown up.

This is with Jen's grandpa and father with all the girls.

Both great grandparents, Mayson is lucky to have two Great grand fathers and two great grandmothers still with us.

I like this picture.

A neighbor made this cake for Mayson, it tasted great too.

Getting her first scriptures.

Opening her presents, thanks for everyone that got something for her she was so surprised.

Jordan with Aunt Becky and Uncle Craig.

My grandparents talking to Jen's dad.

We had a full house, it was so much fun.

My wife can throw a party

Coast Rica

2010-11-08T06:43:00.000-08:00

Last week Nelson Labs did a seminar in Coast Rica and I decided to go. Most of the time was business but we did have Monday free so we all went for a zip line rain forest canopy tour. It was amazing and I would recommend it to anyone. Coasta Rica is an amazing country and worth a visit. Once you get to the base of the mountain the climb is in two parts, the first half we were in this old suburban and then you finished with a pretty steep climb through the forest. Once on top you gear up and then the fun begins.

There was a very long and steep hike through the rain forest to get to the zip line this is us at the top getting ready

Some times its not good to have a big greengo head

This is what it is all about

half way through the fog came in making it even more fun riding through the mist.

This was the steepest and fastest one coming out of the forest.

new picture

2010-10-05T10:27:00.001-07:00

Mom took this picture while she was out and let me post it, my goofy fam!

fam

2010-04-13T07:54:00.000-07:00

Wouldn't you want to be with these 4 girls forever, I know I do!

Moab Madness

2010-03-22T06:13:00.000-07:00

So this last weekend we went to Moab for my first ½ marathon. We arrived at Uncle Ken and Aunt Jan’s house late Thursday and we are so grateful that they had us over. It was great staying with them they took suck great care of us and Ashlynne became Uncle Ken’s best friend, she wouldn’t leave his side. Even when we were at their home and he was playing cards she would be watching TV right beside him. Saturday was the day with the most action. I woke up early and caught the first bus for the starting line. The buss dropped us off around 7:30 am and the race didn’t start till 10:00. It was about 32 degrees so I had to stand around that time freezing waiting for the race to start. I wish I would have brought the camera with me on the race and took some photos because almost 4 thousands runners together is an impressive sight. It took me 2 hours and 18 minutes to run the 13.4 miles. My goal was 2 hours and 15 minutes and I was on track till mile 10 when I hit this big hill (who puts a big hill at mile 10 anyways) this delayed me some but all and all I am happy with the run. Kory I’ll call you alter I have some advice with things I learned. Then I took a couple hours to shower eat and take a quick nap and it was back to the arches. We were going to hike delicate arch but there were too many people so we decided to hike landscape and double Os. The total hike distance was just over 4 miles and with three little girls needless to say daddy slept great that night. Below are the pictures enjoy I know I did.

Ashlynne by Uncle Ken

Mayson and Jordan enjoying the view

A rare picture of elusive beautiful wife

The view from the top..breath taking

This is my fav arch landscape they say it will fall in my lifetime

The girls at the windows

I look beat, but you try running 13 miles

trail up to the arches

Doing my civic duty to help maintain the park

Me and my girls

Picture Spew

2009-11-04T16:01:00.000-08:00

So we have had Ashlynne's birthday, Halloween, and pumpkin pickin. Below is evidence if you don't believe me.

Ashlynne turned 5 and that makes her mom and dad feel really old!

This is the haloween it was funny because the whole night Jordan walk around saying Argh walk the plank.

Jordan with a pumpkin bigger then her head!

The Rumble is Sin City!

2009-10-28T06:21:00.000-07:00

Ok, so everyone is curious about this story with Jen at the concert, so I thought I would do a blog and explain the story. Jen has a favorite band called Brand New, that are a Indy band that I’m sure you have not heard of. (Unless you have guitar hero 5 which they have a song present) Brand New just came out with a new album and tour dates and one of those dates was here is Salt Lake. So the day that tickets went on sale Jen got us some. She was so excited to see them but the night before the concert the cancelled it because the whole band had the flu. Jen was devastated, she felt like she lost her chance to see them. Well it just so happens that they were also playing in Vegas a couple of weeks later. So I used my skyline miles and Hilton points and planned a secret trip to Vegas. I put the tickets in a box and gave it to her the day before we left. I had her mom in on it for babysitting and I worked very hard to keep the secret (something I’m not good at). Well she was shocked and we flew down to Vegas to enjoy the show.
We got to the show very early and got very close to the front. We enjoyed the opening two bands without too many issues and even though I have shrunk in size I’m still a large chap and get crowded easily and the closer it came for Brand New the more crowed I became. Then the time came when Brand New appeared on stage and Jen got into this nirvana state with a please grin on her face and that made me very happy to see. Then they started to play and their first song starts off slow and then they change the pace to intense. Well when this happened there was a black girl and her white friend that decided that they wanted up front and plowed past Jen. My sweet wife reached up grabbed that black girl’s hair (not something that most people are brave enough to do) and got her in a head lock. I was stunned, frozen in place. Then the black girl reached back and elbowed my wife in the eye and that broke me out of my stooper. I reached across Jen and lifter the other girl and not so gently placed her behind us. She then started to pound on my arm as I was holding her back. The bouncers started to flash their lights at us but quickly saw that I was just holding back a psycho and escorted her out. My wife turned back to the stage and started to grin again as nothing happened. The show was great after that and we had a great time being together just the two of us. It does make for a great story and now you know why I love my wife so, she has layers like Shriek.

Thor Thoughts

2009-09-11T06:43:00.000-07:00

I have a new blog http://thoughtfulthor.blogspot.com/ that I am using just to brain dump. You can check it out if you want, if not I don't care......sniff.

Ashlynne cut her hair!!

2009-08-13T20:25:00.000-07:00

Ashylnne cut her hair to donate it to Locks of Love I think it makes her look so much younger.

Brown, Porn Porn, Warrior

2009-07-29T06:04:00.000-07:00

When Josh and Sally came to visit we took an afternoon to visit our local aquarium, the cost of a year long membership is just double a daily pass so we went ahead and bought a year membership. Well yesterday we decided to go back and visit to make out money worth it. Well Mayson had one of her great quote days. At the aquarium there is a boat that the kids can pretend to drive. There was a Latino family at the boat when we first arrived and Ashlynne was trying to jump ahead and Mayson tells her in a very loud voice "Ashlynne we have to wait for the brown kid first" Yep that was fun. Then we went out to eat at a Chinese restaurant. Mayson is learning to read so she wanted to order for herself. Our Oriental Waiter came up to our table and she looked up and said "wow, are you on ninja warrior". For those of you that don't know ninja warrior is a Japanese obstacle game show we watch. Well after some explanation she proceeded to order. She looked down at the menu and said "Ill have your Porn Porn". Now she meant the wonderful dish of Pon Pon but for some reason she put a "r" in there. (I promise mom she does not hear this from us) So anyways it was a quotable night for all.

Friday night pary

2009-05-20T18:57:00.000-07:00

So this last Friday night we had a little mocktail party at our house. We invited some friends from work over and they brought their favorite mixers fro drinks. Inspired by our trip from Cancun we had bahama mamas, dacaries, sunrises, mojitos, and many more. (all virgin of course) I BBQ kabobs and then we watch Cocktail outside in our backyard. It was a good time. Thanks for everyone that showed up!

This shows some of our good time.

Me getting my drink on (notice the collar it was in 80's style)

After everyone passed out on the lawn.(just like a real cocktail party...no puke though)

One of those days!

2009-05-04T19:54:00.000-07:00

Have you ever woke up from a long night on

the town and cant explain what happened? Josh you know what I'm talking about. Just kidding this picture made me laugh so I thought I would post it.

2009-04-28T19:03:00.000-07:00

So Mayson is playing soccer again this year, (she's the tall one) and she is doing much better. She is actually running after the ball instead of trying to hold hands with the other team. The only thing I don't like about soccer in Utah is that its always so cold on spring mornings.

We keep Jordan warm with lots of blankets and food to work those jaw muscles!

Elder Holland

2009-04-06T06:56:00.000-07:00

I know that this is a place for pictures of children and funny stories for family separated by miles can still stay in touch but I wanted to share something that hit home this weekend. For some reason conference snuck up on me this spring and I even forgot about Saturday morning session and didn’t feel ready to absorb any messages. Then Elder Holland’s Sunday talk happened and it was like a breath of fresh air. The sentiment and feeling portrayed through his words I would recommend anyone listening to it again. It was exactly what I wanted and needed.

http://broadcast.lds.org/genconf/2009/04/40/GC_2009_04_409_HollandJR___eng_.mp3

Finally nice weather

2009-03-03T15:33:00.000-08:00

Well we have finally moved away from Mr. Winter and into what resembles spring like trends. The kids were jumping to get out after being snowed in most the past months and this is the outcome. Enjoy (mom)

SNOW!!!

2009-01-06T06:47:00.000-08:00

Ok, I hate this picture (I don't want to have anything reminding me of what it looks like outside) I hate the commute in snow. Yesterday it snowed and it snowed alot right at our drive home. Beau drove and did a good job keeping getting us to the mall safely. It took about and hour and forty five min to get to the mall where we meet for our carpool. It then took me about 30 min to get to the mall to my house. A distance I run all the time and do it in 25 min! I know we need the water and I don't want to complain but I looked at my golf clubs the other day and almost cried. :(

Christmas season

2008-12-29T04:52:00.000-08:00

I don't usually like to write alot with my blogs, as I am aware that the more I do the more opportunity I have to demonstrate to the world my biggest faults, but this Christmas season some things occurred to me that I feel I have to share. It started the day at work when we handed out gifts and the feelings that came when each of us received a thoughtful gift from a friend. That feeling continued to Christmas day when my lovely daughters were more excited to watch their sisters opened a present then to see what they got. I know that this time of year has been over commercialized but that doest matter to me. I felt the true meaning of Christmas this year and I hope you did to. If all you were concerned about was the value of the present you received then you really are missing out on the most valuable present of all, the gift of charity. Now please excuse all the faults in this rant I just felt like I needed to share my feelings this year. I know that most of you come here to see the pictures of the beautiful girls so I have included some. I love you all and hope that you have a great 2009.

Good Cause

2008-11-13T06:29:00.000-08:00

Some times in life I think about how blessed I am and wonder why? Why do I not have more challenges? I think the answer is that someone has to be in a position to help others. On the right side of my blog is that opportunity, there is a family where the husband died from cancer and now the wife needs help. My sister-in-law is trying to help and we need you. So take a look at your life and think about what you have and realize that you are in a position to help.

Ashlynne's Birthday

2008-11-04T14:52:00.000-08:00

On Monday we celebrated Ashlynne's birthday, my little girl turned 4. That morning she woke up and went around telling everyone "happy birthday" it was cute. Then when I put her down I kissed her and said happy birthday Ashlynne and she said "happy birthday too daddy", don't you wish they would stay young. She was very spoiled and loved the presents and the cards she got from Grandma and Grandpa Rollins, Aunt Stacey and Uncle Jason, and Uncle Beau and Aunt Mellisa and her cousins.

2008-11-01T08:14:00.000-07:00

Our Hallowen pictures and notice the pumkins I bet you cant tell which one Jenn made.

Party

2008-10-27T06:55:00.000-07:00

A couple of weekends ago some friends of ours invited us to a Halloween party. Even though it was a trick to get us to visit their home in the middle of nowhere J/K Lori :) we had a great time! I stole these pictures off Lori's blog thanks for posting them Lori. It was a great time and Jen's door prize was a whoopi cushion that my girls really love.

Here is Jen as my cow girl He Haw and this is me as General Electric (I know shocking)

pumpkin picking

2008-10-19T18:43:00.000-07:00

This Saturday we went to a farm where we got to take a hay ride to a pumpkin patch. The kids picked out two huge pumpkins and Jenn and I get two and took them home. It was a good time and the kids are excited to start to carve them. You might have noticed that Mayson’s hair is real short she cut off a foot to donate it to Locks of Love, she looks so much older.

Busy Mayson

2008-08-26T06:21:00.001-07:00

These past couple of weeks has been pretty busy for Mayson. She started soccer on Saturday and after went to get her ears pierced. Then on Monday she started school, below is a visual representation of these events.

My cute girl going to school

She looks so much older with her ears pierced even though her face doesnt show it she was so brave

Off to school off to school to prove to dad that I'm no fool

Duck, Tooth, and Missionary

2008-08-21T08:01:00.000-07:00

Well I will start off with the tooth, Mayson lost her first tooth this week and it was funny how it happened. It was very loose but she would not let me pull it (I was going to do the dad thing and say I would do it on three and then pull on twoJ). So she was eating a carrot and ran to me and said “Dad my tooth is gone and I ate it”. She was upset because she was looking forward to putting it under her pillow. Jenn had her draw a picture of it and put that under and low and behold the fairy did come. Then for family home evening we decided to go to the library (Beau, a library is a place you can borrow books for free just in case you didn’t know) well there is a duck pond there so we had fun feeding them. Then lastly Jenny’s brother JC came home from his mission and the girls were real excited to see him until they actually did and then things were overwhelming for them, but it was good to see him.

Jordan ate more bread then the ducks!

Camping

2008-08-11T06:12:00.000-07:00

Well Mayson is 5 and Ashlynne is 3 and I thought it was time that they experienced camping, so I brought the idea up with my friend Bryan and with three of his kids we all went camping. We left work early on Friday and got packed up and headed up to Mantua. I was going to borrow my in-laws tent but it was nowhere to be found so I bought one before heading up. When we got to the camp ground it was a nice place although the camp was really packed and it felt crowded. All in all it was fun though as we did all the things I did when I was young; smores, cane fishing, bows and arrows. The only down falls were the tent and that night. The tent was impossible to set up Bryan and I were pouring over the picture instructions all the time trying to keep an eye out on the 5 little kids, but we got it in a tent form and then I realized that I’m too old to sleep on the ground eeek.

Commute

2008-07-30T06:23:00.000-07:00

So I thought I would blog about the joins of commuting, see I live 35 miles away from my job and this is usually spent as 35 min on the road in mine or a fellow carpooler’s car. However yesterday was a little different, we left work slightly late but nothing that would have delayed us. I was driving my car and when we got down I-215 the signs said “right lanes closed at mile post 314 expect serious delays”. This is something that we have seen through the construction season that is summer in Utah and thought great it’s going to take another 15 min to get home tonight, boy we were wrong! Just after the sign 215 stopped, and when I mean stopped I mean we were moving as fast as kiddy ride in Disney Land. We made an educated decision to get off at the next exit and try an alternate road Redwood. When we got to redwood the cars were lined up all the way north to a point where we could not see an end. Trying desperately to hear on the radio what was going on we headed back south to try to make our way to I-15. We got to I-15 and it was stopped to. One hour and a half since we have left work we passed the reason things were so bad. An oversized tanker had flipped off its truck and slid to block all of I-15. It was amazing to see but the three hour commute was not a great price to pay for this show. (Although to see Beau’s bare feet hanging out my back window didn’t help either)

tulum

2008-07-18T09:16:00.001-07:00

These are pictures from our trip to Tulum, It was my fav place we visited.

This was an aqueduct imagine that its not just the Romans.

A view of the main temple.

Real Mayan hand prints look at the color after all the years.

One of the lookout towers.

Cancun Part 1

2008-07-14T06:16:00.001-07:00

Okay, if there is one thing I have learned in my 31 years of sustained breathing on this rock is always listen to two people, these two people are your wife and your mother. So in response to my mother’s pleads to put some Cancun pictures and to do more blogging I present the following, please enjoy!

This is the view from our hotel window, yes it was as wonderful as you think.

This was one of my favorite buildings in Chichen Itza (see if you can find Josh)

Jenn and I infront of an observatory this whole place is awsome!!!

In front of the famos temple there.
They have some fascination with skulls.

Tagged from Lori

2008-07-10T13:00:00.000-07:00

1. Thor, 2. Italian Blue DS Decapotable, 3. Green River high bridges, 4. Green Womble House, 5. jared letto lo amoo (L), 6. Bahama Mama!, 7. Pieces of Europe, 8. Raspberry - Swirl Cheesecake, 9. Potentially so rich, practically extremely poor, 10. The Calvo Family - Holidays, 11. World's Largest Truck, 12. Buck Shot w/ P.D. Blank template

1-Thor 2-Italian 3-Greenriver high 4-green
5-Jared Leto (This is for my wife..if you can't beat them join them) 6-Bahama Mama Sin Alcohol 7- Europe 8-Cheesecake
9- Life Rich 10- My Family 11- large 12- Blank.

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3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
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11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name. (kid version: favorite animal?)

Our Film Festival

2008-06-05T05:59:00.000-07:00

At my job every year we do a film festival, this year Bryan and I were asked to be incharge and we even did our own film. This is the trailer we shot for it, enjoy.

2008-05-27T06:58:00.001-07:00

Okay wow what a long weekend it started when Jenn and I went to The Cure on Friday. Most of the friends I went with have already blogged about it but I’ll put my spin on it. I mostly went for my wife who is a bigger Cure fan then me. I do like most of their songs and know a fair share of them. I went in excited but I was blown away by them. They are an older band each close or at 50 years old (sorry mom and dad but that’s old for a rock band). They played for over 3 hours. That’s right boys and girls they were amazing. If you get the chance do yourself a favor and go. This is not to mention that the lead guitarist was wearing 6 inch high heel boots for all that time.

Then on Saturday I took Mayson, Ashlynne, and Jordan on a hike with Bryan and his brother kinda of a daddy daughter hike. We went up this canyon call Adams Canyon and it’s not a super easy hike but all the kids did great. I had to carry Jordan all the way so it wasn’t super easy for me either. The hike was gorgeous I have never seen the canyon so green. It was like Oregon stopped to say hi to Utah. Everyone had fun and the girls are asking when we can go on another hike. It rained all day on Memorial day so I just ran and we cleaned the house.

This is Bryan's brother I just wanted to show The kids

some of the hike was difficult

49 things

2008-05-22T07:13:00.000-07:00

Ok I got this in an email and I thought I would post it for fun
49 ODD Things about you! If you opened this, FILL IT OUT! Learn 49 things about your friends, and let them learn 49 things about you!
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> 1. Do you like blue cheese? Yes I do
2. Have you ever smoked heroin? Lol I would have to smoke a cigarette first it think
3. Do you own a gun? Yes
4. What flavor do you add to your drink at sonic? I add vanilla if I ever go
> 5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? Only when they are taking something from my head
> 6. What do you think of hot dogs? If its braughts then mmmmmm
7. Favorite Christmas song? O holy night
> 8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? MILK
9. Can you do push ups? Yes every day
10. What do you order at Starbucks? Carmel apple cider its delicious
> 11. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? My watches
> Favorite hobby? golfing
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13.How do you eat your eggs? Scrambled
14. Do you have A.D.D.? Well I don’t know see sometimes I do seem to Im sorry what was the question ok yeah ADD I thought its now called ADHD I mean that’s what my therapist says and shes a nice lady doesn’t talk much I love talking, talking is my favorite
15. What's one trait that you hate about yourself? My grasp of the English language
16. Middle name? Sheldon
17. Favorite book? Wow I don’t know probably right now harry potter 4
18. Name 3 things you bought yesterday: sammies, a mouse pad with kittens on it and weed killer
19. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink: water, diet mt. dew, and milk
20. Currently worried about right now? About the work flow in my job
21. Current hate right now?? I don’t hate much I think it’s a waste of time
22. Favorite place to be? Home with my fam
23. How did you bring in the New Year? Drinking sparkling cider with my wife
24. Where would you like to go? Cancun
> 25. Name three people who will complete this: Why is this question asked??? Its pointless( I just agree with T)
26. Do you own slippers? Nope my feet are too big it looks funny
27. What shirt are you wearing? Blue sweater
> 28. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? Never have so cant say I guess so though
29. Favorite Movie? Don’t have one
> 30. Favorite color? blue
> 31. Would you be a pirate? Of course but I don’t think I could swing to the other ship very well
> 32. What songs do you sing in the shower? What ever song was on the alarm
33. Favorite girls name? Mayson, Ashlynne, Jordan, and Jennifer
34. Favorite Website? ESPN
35. Any Tattoo's? Nope almost though
36. Last thing that made you laugh? Talking with my wife about gay pirates and mermaids and then coming up with a new alcoholic beverage name (fruity piraide) Don’t ask
37. Best bed sheets as a child? My star wars ones
38. Worst injury you've ever had? Either my torn quad or back
> 40. How many TVs do you have in your house? 4
> 41. Who is your loudest friend? Im pretty loud
42. How many dogs do you have? 0
> 43. Who do you hope has a crush on you? Jared Letto so I could make my wife jealous J/K
44. Who is your favorite author? Don’t have one
45. What is your favorite candy? Im more salty so the question should be fav snack and its pretzels
> 46. Favorite Sports Team? Da Bears
47. What is your favorite song? Raisins by BNL (that’s for you T)
48. What were you doing 12 AM last? Drooling
49. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Really??? Im glad its still dark at 5:15

Trip to Zions

2008-05-19T05:56:00.000-07:00

Okay this is my first blog and it took a trip to Zion national park to make me do it. This story started about a year ago when 3 of my good friends (Bryan Brezoff, Scott Dimond, and Chris Buckman) wanted to hike Narrows. (for you that don't know the narrows is a slot canyon that you hike up stream with some parts of the canyon being about 10 feet across.) Well we were all ready to go and Jenn got sick. She still wanted me to go but I decided to stay home and the other three went without me. They brought back pictures and bragged about how much fun it was. So this year we decided to go again but do two hikes Angel's Landing in the morning and the narrows after.

So Friday after work we load up and head down to Hurrican Utah. The next morning we enter the park around 7:15 and head up to the trail head of Angels Landing. I have to give a little background on Angels for those of you not familiar with Angels. It has been called the most thrilling hike in the National park system and they average a death every other year on the hike, but that happened last year so the odds were with us. :) It is only a 5 mile round trip hike but in those 2.5 miles you rise 1800 feet. The first part is up the a gentle incline till you get to your first set of switch backs that go up the side of a mountain. Then you enter a small canyon called refrigerator canyon. this is because the temp is always 10-15 degrees cooler inside. After existing the canyon you are confronted with a part called Walter's Wiggles and only the picture can do it Justice. They are steep series of switch backs that really gets the heart pounding.

Once on top of the wiggles then you get to a flat area called scouts point that has a great view and where the faint of heart stop. The next 1/2 mile is where you take your life into your hands. You climb a thin fin up to the landing that in some parts is only 3 feet wide with a 1200 foot drop on one side and a 800 foot drop on the other. I never felt like I was in danger but there were times where I looked down and thought is was crazey to be up there. They do have chains to help hold onto and even footholds in the really tricky parts but the hike is well worth it beacsue the view is amazing. Chris put it best when he said "Is there any wonder why prophets went to mountain tops to talk to god."

Then we try to go throught the Narrows but the water level was too high so once again that little slot canyon has foiled me but I vow I will have the last laugh.