More, More, More!

So, I have been getting many requests to update the blog since the last one was done a little while ago. And I figured that a little Billy Idol in the title could do everyone good this Christmas season. The Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons are a time of year I like to reflect upon the things that I am grateful for, and one of the things that I am most grateful for in my life is my wife Bobbie. I am also grateful for the fact that she is pregnant with our first child!

Bobbie and I are not fans of doing things the easy/conventional way, we also have a tough time keeping exciting news a secret. We would have been able to hold out for a while but Bobbie was so sick that people at work were finding out, and we didn't want our families to be the last people to know. So we set out to decide how we were going to let people know our exciting news. One night as we sat racking our brains of a clever way to let the fam know, lightning struck our collective brain (thank you Mr. Smee)! Because of the proximity of the news to Halloween we thought it would be fun to dress up. Bobbie transformed into an oven and I became a lovable chef. We called upon the creative juices of Nancy and while my Dad and I went to Priesthood session for General Conference, Bobbie and my Mom created a masterpiece!

Genius! Bobbie was an oven in which we put a bun so that there was a "Bun in the oven," and I was a Chef so that I could be involved. Again, Genius! Or so I thought.

This post will now take a different direction which may call for a post of its own but I choose to discuss it here. Now I thought "Bun in the oven" was pretty telling but I was shocked at the lack of comprehension that we encountered on our journey. Really the only person who caught on immediately was Brandon Smith, either I underestimated Brandon or over-estimated everyone else. Linds you caught on quicker than others but everyone was a lot slower than I had anticipated. I wasn't shocked when Bobbie's little brother Troy gave the "I-don't-understand-why-others-are-laughing-so-I-will-chuckle" laugh and when Krystelle (Bobbie's aunt) asked when Bobbie was due he said "that's what that means?" But I was really disappointed in everyone else! Especially Zo who prides himself on being so clever probably took the longest to get what was going on, though it was funny enough to watch him figure it out that it was worth it. Sub par performance people!

There you have it folks another post. Enjoy it for the next few months =)

Da Perm

So, due to certain (justified) complaints about lack of posting we figured we should post our next blog. A couple of months ago my hair was getting a little long and I had a desire to shave it, but did not want to give it up. So I called Bobbie while she was at work and asked her if she wanted to perm my mop, and obviously she was more than willing to be involved. So when she got home we threw in an old classic The Great Outdoors, and she spent the next few hours putting my hair in curlers. After the curlers were sufficiently secure the solution was applied. The are a couple things that I learned about perm solution today... 1) It smells terribly (that smell is accentuated when the solution finds its way into your nostrils) 2) It really burns your eyes when left in your eyes long enough, or really if it touches anywhere near your face and 3) if left in contact with skin long enough it will remove the flesh from your face (no joke). Due to the above mentioned lessons that I learned I decided that the perm had to be kept for longer than just the couple of days that were initially planned. Due to the pain that was inflicted I needed to keep it longer. Thank you for reading.

Beautiful Curlers

Wrap it up in plastic




Let the splendor be unleashed!

GRADUATION DAY!

Jeff's Graduation Day was a very exciting day for all of us. As you can see above. :) Though he still has a few more classes and finishes in August. Both Jeff and Andy graduated so Jeff's parents took us out to lunch to the Olive Garden..(so good) and then we went to the ceremony. I was kinda dreading it cause i though it would be a few hours and boring talks but it actually wasn't too bad. It took about an hour and a half and then we got to take lots and lots of pictures. YEAH! love pictures. And then we got lucky and my parents took us to dinner. Yeah free food day.

Jeff's favorite professor that inspired him to go into IS (something to do with computers, I don't really get it) Jeff and I. I am so proud of him, he is such a hard worker. And is so smart I don't understand what he is saying most of the time when he is talking about school stuff.
The two happy Graduates! Andy also graduated and is getting ready for medical school. he is another smarty pants.

We are truly grateful for our parents and all of their support. Especially Greg and Nancy for the financial help, we wouldn't be in the postion we are in right now without their love and support.

Jeff's second go at racing

So Jeff and Andy decided to do to the next big race in Laramie, WY
they left about 7:30 Friday night and got there at about 1:30 in the morning
they stayed at a super 8 motel in a room with six smelly boys. When they woke up
they found that it was a blizzard out side and with a wind chill of 8 degrees. Needless to
say they didn't race. So they drove the five and a half hours back home. So he was a little unhappy about that but at least they made it home safely.

Jeff's First Cycling Race

Jeff and Andy getting ready for the big ride

Mark..get set...GO!!!

And the Warriors Return

So Jeff and Andy had there first big cycling race. And Bri and I got to be the super great wife's that support them even in the cold. So we got them all ready and sent them on their way. And we were out in the middle of nowhere and it was freezing, so we decide that we would wait in the car where it was warmer and they had told us that it would take them about two hour to finish their race which was about 40 miles. So we decided that we couldn't fall asleep even though we had to get up extra early on our day off cause if we did we probably wouldn't wake up in time to see them finish. So we sat and talked for a while and we might have fallen asleep for about ten minutes and we decided that we would go out to the finish line just in case they got done early. We walked over and couldn't find the finish line, so we asked some one and they showed us where it was and as we were walking over, Andy came up from behind us...we totally missed Andy coming across the finish line... SORRY ANDY.. But we were able to see Jeff across. We were so proud of them for finishing. And Bri and I were glad we finally got to go home and take a rally long nap... GOOD JOB GUY!

SPRING BREAK

Jeff , Raney, and Ty at the baseball game.
Jeff and I

Big Gulp hu...

Jeff and I hiked up to the big whole in the rock

So Jeff and I went to warm AZ. for spring break and it was AWESOME... it was so warm, i didn't want to come home. We went down with our friends Ty and Raney, we stayed with Ty's family. We went to a spring training game, hiking and just spent a whole lot of time together. Ty's family was so nice. We played scum one night and I was scum just about the whole time, it was great. We also got to spend Easter morning with them. Thanks Stevenson Family..

All about us

So Jeff and I finally decided to to join the blogging world. So a little bit about us..We love spending time together, with family, and friends. We love being out doors whether its cycling, climbing and camping. We have been married for over a year and half now and we still love it so thats good. Some of the things that are going on right now in our life is.. Jeff will be graduating this summer. Yeah.. We are both training for a triathlon, and Jeff is starting to race with Andy for the U's cycling team. Other than that we are pretty boring. So thats us in a nut shell.

HI GUYS!!!