Howdy Everyone

Hello everyone,
Its been a while since I wrote on here but there isn't too much new going on. School is going well so far and I seem to be doing better with my organizational skills this semester. I'm taking 17 credits and should be finishing up my generals this semester while taking mixed courses of science and criminal justice. I quit my job at Telos because I just couldn't fit it into my schedule but still have my job at Macy's working 16 hours a week. Its not much as far as pay goes but it definitely helps get us by. Janna and I now have two callings, we are the Sunday Program Maker's or whatever its called, and we just received a calling to be on the Stake Sports Activities Committee. Janna is still working at Telos and they love her there, she does a really good job. Apart from that we're both just doing p90x and trying to get ready for race season. In case anyone didn't know, Jeff and Donald are doing p90x also, Donald is a bit ahead of Jeff, Janna, and me though.
That's really about it though, nothing else really happening. Just so everyone knows though, we are still planning on doing HOOD TO COAST in 2011!!! So far only Laurie and Dad have really told me that they want to do it for sure; if anyone else wants to, let me know fairly soon because I'm going to start recruiting for it in a few months so we can kind of get an idea of how it will work and who will be doing it....assuming we get drawn for it that is. Sign ups for 2011 will be sometime in early October if I'm not mistaken but I'll have to check on that, point is though we do plan on submitting a team and I'd much rather do it with my family than a bunch of people I hardly know. So once again as of right now for sure I've got:
Me
Janna
Laurie
Dad
...which means that really we have 8 open spots (4 girls & 4 guys)
Thanks guys,
Tom

The cake

Gosh Laurie, way to beat me to it! Here is one of the monster and her cake...

Sophie is 1

Here is a picture of Sophie that I stole off Breein's facebook page, thought I'd share it. Looks like she had a happy birthday. Hope it was great fun guys. Too bad you live so far away.

Sophie's big day

Just thought I would take a minute to remind everyone that Sophie will be turning 1 next Tuesday. Breein, let us know what you are planning and Happy Birthday to Sophie :o)

Happy Birthday (a few hours early)

Just wanted to "publicly" wish dad a happy birthday (yes I know it's tomorrow). Thanks for helping to keep this blog alive. I hope you enjoy your day. Love you.

HOOD TO COAST 2011

All right guys enough screwing around. I really want to do the Hood to Coast relay before I die and my knees aren't getting any better! 2010 is already out of the picture; they've already drawn teams and all that but I really want to get some people thinking about doing the race with me in 2011...assuming that we get picked. So I really want to get an idea of who is even interested and if anyone is even going to be available? So if you could spread the word about this thing to the rest of the family it would be good. Leave your comments with questions or if you can do it. Thanks guys.

The Christmas tree diet

This diet has many steps so follow carefully.

1. Go into the mountains to look for a Christmas tree (don''t bring any food)
2. Walk around in two feet of snow for an hour looking at mangy trees
3. Get truck stuck
4. Almost run over husband and get even more stuck
5. Jump in bed of truck for a half an hour trying to get free again
6. Successfully get free and continue to look for a decent tree
7. Go down a snowy road but you have to turn around because of down power lines
8. Try your hardest to make it up the snowy hill but make sure to go off the embankment
9. Call a tow truck, but be prepared to wait for at least an hour
10. The tow truck will then winch you out, only to get stuck themselves
11. Watch the tow truck try to get unstuck, but instead they hit a tree and end up at the very bottom of the hill
12. Then proceed to follow the tow truck by shoveling and then driving in 3 foot increments
13. Get an arm workout by supporting yourself as you pee while holding onto the bumper of your truck
14. Wait 5 hours and then the fire and police department will show up with a bobcat
15. Someone will then take sympathy on you and bring you a PB and J along with some baby food. You can eat all of this and it will be the best thing you have ever tasted.
16. Wait for another hour while everyone gets situated and the road gets plowed
17. Wait for the tow truck to get out
18. Get out yourself and meet at the rendezvous point.
19. Pay tow truck people $112
20. Say goodnight (it should be about 10pm) and go home

I've lost 3 lbs on this diet in just one day! Oh, and don't expect to get a Christmas tree out of the whole deal. I didn't.