Mayson's baptism

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

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

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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.

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

fam

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

Moab Madness

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

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!

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.