Little Nephew...Giant Man

I want to send my congratulations to my little sister, for becoming a mother once again! It is a happy day for me, and a sad day for me as well. We were all aware that this little guy was not destined to live long, and after drawing breath, lived for just about an hour. I can say this, he chose his parents well, and My sister now has a Celestial son, somebody who 'made it' and will i know, be looking down on his family with much anticipation that they make it and be reunited with him. I never got to see little Tobi in this life, but I am sure I was his favorite uncle in pre mortal life. We all know he was a Giant of a man there, wiser and smarter than any of us, he 'proved' this by the fact that he only needed a brief time here to gather the necessary tools to move on. I am proud of him, and hope we can one day 'Whistle and go fishing in heaven"!

There are many things i would like to say, but let me just say I love you Becky and David, and hope you can both find peace and joy in the fact that you have a fantastic son who now can focus on paving a way for you, to be with him.

chair remodel

so Deena inherited a bunch (12) chairs from the endoscopy center waiting room if we wanted them. we always need chairs when company comes over so thought what the heck. when I saw them i wasn't too impressed. they were hard, the foam from the 70's was flat and the fabric was not real thrilling. i thought maybe we should take them anyway and try and sell them for a little extra change. then i had a second thought, lets see what it might cost to put our own fabric on them, and see if we can find them acceptable. we really could use some extra chairs for the deck and for when we have guests. deena found this fabric that she loved and we bought some extra cushiony stuff, i think the look awesome and now i am glad we have them!! Deena and i have done all the work in the mold of Rachel and Angie, we wanted to show that we too can do some things artsy when need gives inspiration.

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What i have been so busy with!

alright, it is time to explain what i have been so busy with the last couple of months. I have started my own business, and just hoping i can get it off the ground. there is so much involved with starting up a business that i really have at times been overwhelmed. Here it is. I would like to thank dad especially for all of his support and his letting me use him for a sounding board. there has been some rough moments but all in all i am ready for business. so wish me luck. my website will be up and running very soon so check it out in a week or so www.gbasphalt.com

Hard to believe but Abby is 1 !!

I can hardly believe that this little girl has been with us for an entire year now!! time flies! little Abster is quite a change of pace as far as girls in my family are concerned. she is just pleasant almost all of the time, she has a really cute personality that we are starting to see more and more of. she loves to show off and loves to speed crawl every where. she isn't real cuddly, more wiggley like sammy was but doesn't have the 'zilla' quality ...yet...we are keeping our fingers crossed.

everybody wish her a happy birthday!

WARNING! Not for the squeemish

Alright, this is a pretty morbid post, but i haven't posted anything for a while, and even though it is my slow season, i have been really busy, (more on that in forth coming posts).

last week i injured my little pinky toe (i am not sure how) but ended up with a hangnail. it was moderately sore (i have had these before) only this time it never healed. a couple of days ago my toe felt like it was going to explode, it was huge and very sore. i could feel my heart beat in it! finally after realizing that my neglect was not getting me anywhere i went to the doctor. The doctor made me see a foot specialist, the foot specialist said it looked bad. he said " i can promise you that you will sleep better tonight than you have in a couple of days, i can also promise you that you are going to hate me for the next 30 minutes). That was comforting. He produced some litocane to numb my little piggy, and he said it was going to be the most painful part of the ordeal. HE WAS RIGHT! Man that hurt! he spent 20 seconds with the needle in my poor little toe injecting all around the litocane. it stung like a mother! when that was done he said he was going to dig out my hangnail. he took turniquite rubber thing and clamped it on the base of my toe then started wrapping gauze around my toe very tightly, then all of the sudden my toe burst open, it was totally discusting! he unwrapped the gauze and took a scalple and punctured the skin beneath my toe nail, then he took some hemostats and inserted them in to my toe via the hole he had just made and started 'probing' for lack of a better word around then he clamps down on something and tears it out. it was a huge piece of Toenail that was causing the infection! it was totally unbelievable how large it was. then he could poke a stick from my toenail through the back end of my toe, all the way through?! that was trippy and i am certainly glad that it was numb or i might have puched his lights out. that was it! after some clean up, he wrapped my toe up and gave me some instructions regarding care of it, and i left.... but check out the pics. if you dare!

Spit n Fire

When you think of Rachel, or maybe I should say, when I think of Rachel, i always remember the 'spit n fire' of her personality, and I don't mean that in a bad way! My Samantha reminds me of Rachel when younger. Sammy is hard, but i tell her all the time, you are just like your aunt Rachel, and that 'spit n fire' will serve you like it has her. what do i mean by that. Rachel is super kind and always helping people, especially special needs people. she gives them the time of day, that isn't easy, and you get taken advantage of alot, but she seems to not mind, she is strong in her beliefs and will not succumb to vain temptations. she is artistic and what makes her art great ( and i am always floored by her creativity) is the fact she creates what 'she' likes. there is a sense of 'who cares' what anybody else thinks, and that makes her stuff whether singing, painting, or craftiness uniquely Rachel, and Rachel is unique! She wasn't fooled by the great looking guys that wanted to date her but were nothing more than great looks. She can tell if you are worth anything pretty easily and is not afraid to kick to the curb the ones that needed kicking to the curb. Rachel is strong, with a great sence of humor, she is a great mother, and you can tell she just adores her kids!

we love you rach, and hope this year is another great and happy one for you!! 29 pretty soon our parents will have 4 kids in their 30's!

Coolest Game i have ever seen!

alright, that title sounds dramatic, but I truly cannot think of a better sporting game i have ever seen in my life. (and it was Soccer for crying out loud). Real Salt Lake was in the MLS Championship game against the LA Galaxy, and from kickoff till the end, i was soo entertained. this was high action soccer! We (Real Salt Lake) were huge underdogs, and barely made the playoffs, but put it together when it counted and made our way to the Championship! LA Galaxy have David Beckham who is world famous (top 5 player) in the entire world. I wish i would have had the forsight to record this game. we were down 1 -0 at halftime, we made a fantastic score in the second half and out played LA the entire second half, we had numerous opportunities to score a winning goal, including the very last play of regulation and came up just short. these guys were gassed, you could tell they had given it their all, it was so neat to see a team put it all on the line. the game came down to penalty kicks. it was soooo dramatic. i was on the edge of my seat and sweating. you have to watch it for yourselves http://real.saltlake.mlsnet.com/t121/ then click the link for MLS cup 2009 penalty kicks to see for your selves how it turned out. this is the first major sports champiionship in utah since the 1971 Utah Stars... it was just soo entertaining.