Just time for a quick note...

Hi everybody! It's been a long time since I've logged on and that is mainly because we've been so busy around here lately. :hehe: It almost seems like Halloween time is busier than Christmas. Anje invited the girls up to her school carnival so they took their witch costumes and went trick-or-treating last Friday. Last night was Taylor's last day of baseball camp. She was cute and I think she had fun and learned a lot. Tonight, we are getting ready for our Ward Trunk-or-Treat party. I like to do this but they only announced it Sunday and so I am big on ideas and short on time. I am trying to come up with something quick and easy. And of course, Friday is really Halloween so we are getting ready for that as well.

Taylor has a big field trip on Thursday which I am chaperoning. We are going to visit all the historical sites around St. George. The kids have been learning about history and grandparent and the ends of life cycles. Ha ha! I tried to get Scott to take the day off and go in my place since I went on the field trip last year too, but Taylor made noises about wanting me to come and I think he felt bad after that.

Shaylie also has dance today, which she loves and is getting very good at. I haven't heard when they will be doing any kind of recital but I will post it when I do. She is so cute and most days we can get her to do some of her moves around the house

I've been extraordinarily busy with PTA and it's not even my year yet. I want to be involved as much as I can this year so that I know what I am doing next year, but I'm going to have to start cutting back a bit as it is so time consuming. I did have fun making a Christmas Tree ornament for the PTA tree for Jubilee of Trees. And we just finished our school fundraiser...Thanks to everyone who bought from Taylor, she earned over $100 for her school.

Well, I guess this note hasn't been so quick after all, but the little boy I babysit on Tuesdays just arrived so I had better get going. His mom watches Shaylie when I go to the school on Wednesday so it works out well for us both.

Love to everyone! Talk to you later! :hehe:

Together again

Tonya and the girls made it home a little after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. After that, we raced to get the girls ready for baseball practice. Shaylie was the most excited, as she has a big group of friends to play with at the practice, and the fact that those girls bring a LOT of toys with them. Taylor had one of her best practices, fielding a ball on one hop at first base and getting the runner out. She also hit a ball into the outfield grass, which in her age group is a pretty impressive hit. Then they all went down to the batting cages to get more hitting practice, where Taylor did very well.

That night was a very special Dora the Explorer on television, where you meet Dora's cousin, Diego. As the girls' wanted to see that, they were very good at getting ready for bed, they both showered and were under the covers in time for the show to start.

All in all, I am glad everyone is home.

Together again

Tonya and the girls made it home a little after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. After that, we raced to get the girls ready for baseball practice. Shaylie was the most excited, as she has a big group of friends to play with at the practice, and the fact that those girls bring a LOT of toys with them. Taylor had one of her best practices, fielding a ball on one hop at first base and getting the runner out. She also hit a ball into the outfield grass, which in her age group is a pretty impressive hit. Then they all went down to the batting cages to get more hitting practice, where Taylor did very well.

That night was a very special Dora the Explorer on television, where you meet Dora's cousin, Diego. As the girls' wanted to see that, they were very good at getting ready for bed, they both showered and were under the covers in time for the show to start.

All in all, I am glad everyone is home.

Home Alone

I am all alone in St. George. My family is up in Park City at my mother-in-law's time-share condo. I have been very busy at work though. Microsoft came out with 4 patches for windows XP and 5 for windows 2000 so I have been going around getting all the computers patched so that I never (hopefully) have a virus again. In fact, I patched all of my Cedar City computers from home.

The Cubs blew it last night. That was frustrating to watch, although it was not unexpected, the way they lost game six. Baseball isn't as much fun when there is noone to watch it with you.

I miss you Tonya, Taylor, and Shaylie, be safe.

Another Fair

A fair came to town this weekend. This was the first time that Shaylie got to spend the whole day at the fair. Both girls had a very fun time, although Shaylie did not like the kiddie coaster. Taylor rode everything at least 5 times, including a new spinning ride that she probably rode 10 times! Shaylie even rode the 100 foot tall ferris wheel! :) It was a very fun day.

Another Fair

A fair came to town this weekend. This was the first time that Shaylie got to spend the whole day at the fair. Both girls had a very fun time, although Shaylie did not like the kiddie coaster. Taylor rode everything at least 5 times, including a new spinning ride that she probably rode 10 times! Shaylie even rode the 100 foot tall ferris wheel! :) It was a very fun day.

An interesting talk

Taylor and I were walking to the fair at the mall (more on that later) and we saw a baby lizard. Then Taylor said, "I wonder where its mother is? Maybe it died. We have been studying life cycles is school, I like life cycles."

Then to make me feel wonderful, she says, "You're near the end of your life cycle, aren't you?"

Our Cable's back!

We finally got our cable back on this morning. A truck got tangled in the wire a couple of days ago and took out our electricity and cable, which includes my internet access. The wire was only 12 feet high in a place where it was supposed to be 15' 5" inches high, so they better do something to make us happy. It affected about 4500 houses in our area, which is a VERY BIG area.

We picked up the pool last night, and there was a HUGE area of black underneath the pool and it smelled terrible. We sprayed mildew cleaner on it, and it started to go away, although this morning it still smelled like a dirty cow pasture. Hopefully we will be able to get it cleaned up today.

Shaylie is going to spend time with me at work today. I hope things work out ok.

Halloween decorations

We had a busy night last night. First, it was decided that it was time to drain the pool. So I opened up all the holes. You should have seen all the worms come out of the grass! At least we know our lawn will be well nourished. Taylor played with the worms while Shaylie wanted to get as far away from them as possible.

Next was baseball practice. Taylor went and did ok in that, although she wasn't playing as much attention as I would like.

Then we came home and decorated for halloween. We put up our ghosts and our huge pumpkin and all the little decorations we had. Shaylie found her old ladybug costume and wore that all night, even though it is now way to small. She looked like a martian with her little antenae :D

Today, I am picking up a U-Haul and driving to Enterprise and collecting all of DWS's stuff from that school and then going over to Pine View. Hope the school's have a big problem with us showing up!

A whole new week

I am back! I found my pager (the battery was dead) I got to work early, listened to all the messages on my phone, although most were deleted due to the fact that they were so old. I have to setup four machines this morning, so I will be extremely busy. Also, Microsoft released two new patches over the weekend, so I set the servers up to install the files, and emailed everyone else that need it. Tonight and tomorrow I will install it on the job connection computers.

Taylor has baseball tonight and then we are going to decorate for halloween (Taylor has been begging) We are also going to take down the pool tonight. I am sad :(

Updated Web Page

After 3 years, :doze: I have finally updated Taylor's webpage. Taylor came up with all the text on the site. :cool: Make sure that you stick around on the page for a while and look at all the pictures of Taylor through the years!

Next up, I have to update Shaylie's page. :crazy:

I'm Home

Mom, this is for you, I am home :P

Panarama's 1K Run

A while back Taylor and I ran in the Panarama 1k Run. One of our neighbors gave us this picture.

Panarama's 1K Run

A while back Taylor and I ran in the Panarama 1k Run. One of our neighbors gave us this picture.

Last Day of Training

Today is the last day of my class :D I am extremely happy that I soon will be home with my family. I have been missing all of my girls. Class has been ok, although it has been a little long on lecture.

Visiting mom has been nice. We even got grandma to go with us to Applebee's :satisfied: Mom and I went up to the cemetary and changed dad's flowers. We also went over and visited Auntie Roxy and Uncle Lloyd. Turns out that I don't need to do my family's geneology, it appears that they have done it already.

Now I just need to take some new pictures.

Test of New System

Wouldn't you know it. The second I finished getting everything working, a new version came out! :) I am testing it now. Look! :D We now have emoticons :cool:

Back in Business

As you can see, I now have the web site back up and running. I still don't have pictures on the side, but everyone was complaining about how old they were anyway, so I figured that I would just start over with them. I am still in Salt Lake at the Training. I miss my family lots. I heard Taylor had a good time at camp.

I already have work to do when I get home. I computer that I just redid has been messed up. I had just redone it on Friday, that has to be a record. But I guess I have to be nice to the person, or I will get another "He's not very nice" on my performance evaluation.

Oh well

As you can see, I blew up our web site. :( At least the pictures now work! :confused: I will be working on getting everything back up and running as soon as I can.