Delta Wrestling

Ok, so i don't know if anybody has come across this or not, but my boss was telling me of his wrestling days and how he was a state champion. i told him of dad and the Callister wrestlers from Delta. i found this site from a city that is pretty proud of their wrestler tradition. you should check it out. they claim that Delta was put on the map because of its Wrestling program! they have all the state champion years and information on the start of the wrestling/boxing program. yes that is correct it was originally known as the Delta High Wrestling/boxing team. the first year shown is 1949 and you guessed it Sheldon is the star wrestler / boxer for the team. i guess they used to switch off wrestling and boxing every other match or something like that! you need to check the site out. www.deltawrestling.org

Believe it or not...I am here

I haven't updated my blog for a while...(thanks for the reminder Annie!). i have been out of town in Vegas for the last month. the weather was nice, and their churches are beautiful! they must have to really go the extra mile with their landscaping to counter act the...uh... other things happening in vegas! It is good to be back though! i found out that my wife really does love me.. she has been my phone stalker all month long. really everybody needs a stalker like that, i loved it! i shall make it my weekly goal to update the blog now that i am back.

josh

Concert

So Dan and I went to a concert last night and it was a lot of fun! We both agreed that there were too many opening bands and they guy throwing up all over the floor made for an unforgetable atmosphere. The band we saw was Clutch, and they just may be my favorite rock n' roll band ever! They wrote the song that you hear on my site that Daniel remade. Marc Webb was there and got Daniel in for free, i met up with one of my good friends and during the show Daniel and I bumped into Vince! that was kind of cool. He was excited to see us. Brief explanation about Clutch lest you think we're crazy. they are a christian rock band from West Virginia and they play a heavy hill-billy jug, auto-mechanic in coveralls, bearded preacher, bible thumpin type music that i just love! it was a good time, and hopefully Daniel made it back home all right after dropping me off. it was 1:00am when i got home

Of particular interest to Jake

I was going through my stuff trying to decide what needs to be put in my fireproof safe and what needs to just be tossed....i found some pictures Jake took of our Uintah's trip nie these 11 years...yikes can it truly have been that long ago.....first picture..this is the infamous proof that jacob caught this fish with his bare hands!! i found out later that it was almost dead though! the water picture...i know what you are thinking....he looks like somebody....well we had just completed a grueling few miles of hiking and it was warm...the water was NOT!! Jake only took the picture because i said i had lost my shorts while diving in. The snake picture just proves that Jacob can and will catch anything...i didn't even include the numerous salamanders he caught with his fishing pole.....good times!! we need to do it again little bro (both of you!!)

New First Presidency

I am soo excited!! i watched the press conference where President Monson and his counselors were introduced to the media. He is such a neat man! he looked in my opinion very prophetic, and you could just sense the mantel on him as the prophet. i know that Jacob is probably very excited about President Uchdorf, i have always thought that he 'glows', he just seems to radiate light and confidence. i think his talk last conference was probably one of my all time favorites! and President Eyring is my very favorite speaker, he wears his love on his sleeve and always has a great message of positive and optimistic living that must credit his parents and you can see that in all the apostles, i think Hinkley has rubbed off on them all!! i couldn't be more excited and optimistic about the future of our church.... what do you all think?

OOOHHH....Barracuda!!

Here are some pictures of our scuba dive on Buck Island. we were exploring a ship wreck at 50 feet. it was really neat. we got to get right down inside it and explore, we were under water for about 40 minutes each dive. Water was fairly comfortable as far as coldness is concerned. the reef dive was about 60 feet deep. The middle picture is of a Barracuda, that is Deena and I on the far right of the picture. i swam right past it and it stared at me with this evil stare the whole way!! they have a way of looking right through you that is pretty eerie. Top picture is the nurse shark at the reef. next picture is me exploring the ship wreck. bottom picture is me and Deena making our way over to the reef.

The Caribbean

Well, we are back! we had a really good time. the first couple of days in Florida were rainy but still warm. The highlight for me was the scuba diving trip we took to Buck Island on St Thomas. Yes it is THE Buck Island of pirate history!! there was a ship wreck there that we got to explore on our second dive and a reef that we got to dive on the first dive. We saw a reef shark and a barracuda, as well as many eels and reef fish that were very colorful and beautiful. Our Dive Master was a really cool guy who loved the history of the place and the wreck and made that dive much more interesting and fun for me!. we visited Princess Cays, St Maarten (france), and St Thomas (US Virgin Islands) as well as three days at sea in the Caribbean passing many beautiful islands that i have no idea what they were, with the exception Puerto Rico. Interesting culture on those islands, i bartered (not well) that really is Deena's specialty, picked up many 4 for $10 shirts, hats and a couple of trinkets. i found 3 sand dollars while snorkeling and saw some in shops for sale for $5 each..I took second in the Paddle ball tournament on the cruise ship and won a medal. Deena, decided much to my surprise to do the "battle of the sexes" tournament on the cruise ship and she took the gold medal!! i am pretty excited because Deena's dad had an underwater video camera and got video of our scuba dive. i can't wait to see that!! i will post some video as soon as i get it. we missed our kids alot, but had a great time together alone for the first time since our honeymoon! thanks to mom and dad for watching and taking great care of our kids while we were gone. Caleb can't stop talking about his trilobytes and the space museum!! sounds like they were pretty spoiled. The picture of Deena and I was taken on the Dive boat heading to Buck Island for our dive, and the other was an Iguana we came across while walking around St Thomas. i will post more later