Experiencing New Things

2 posts in one day! Can you stand it!? Obviously I have a lot going on....
So, I am all about doing new things. A couple of weekends ago me, my mom and my seastar (sister) went out to the Great Salt Lake for Learn to Row Day. Believe it or not they have a rowing club out there and it's pretty fun. It kicks your butt but that's why everyone that was there to represent the club looked pretty amazing. Now, you can't just hop in the boat and BAM! you're a crew-star. First we started on land on the rowing machines (standard gym fare). Then we moved on to the boxes with paddles. Once we made sufficient fools of ourselves we got enough of the hang of it to move to the water. Yikes! I would like to take some more lessons so that I can go out on my own or with my peeps. Plus my legs could maybe return to their glory days. Trust me, they used to look really good.

Gettin' Our Row On

Graduating to the Boxes

I could probably go a lot faster if my gut weren't in the way.....

Mom and Al rowing with the instructors.



Part Two of our Saturday of Newness: The Stihl Timbersports Series
Don't act like you don't know what I am talking about. Have you ever bee n cruising the TV stations and come across the Lumberjack games? Yeah....that's right, I got to see it in person! It was quite fun to watch and amazing that nobody cut anything off with the way all the sharp axes getting thrown around. Did I mention there was outstanding people watching as well?

Speed Climbers are Insane!

Really? I mean, Really?

Meet My Nephews

What's up Kiddies! I am not sure if all of you have met my super cute nephews. They just turned 1 last week and are currently weighing in at about 95 and 85 pounds. Bo and Buddy are crazy hyper and mellow fellows all at the same time. Oh yeah....they snore like it's nobody's business. Here are some pics from their first year.

Count Buddy on Halloween. I'm not sure how he feels about his costume.....

They loved to eat Santa hats. Look out Santa.....

Here are the "hotdogs" in their smaller days. They always have to be touching eachother while sleeping.

I was throwing snowballs. They like to chase and pounce.

Buddy in shades. He's cool. This lastest about 5 seconds.

Can you get any cuter than this?

Come Have a Ball...

The Modern Day Cowboys' Horse
in case your wondering, that's a bag of potato chips in the water
bottle clip.


Hey Peeps,

I am a little behind in updating my stuff so here it goes. Memorial Day weekend found me and the fam at the 8th Annual Testicle Festival. Our friends have a ranch and invite 80 -100 of their closest friends to come hang out, eat yummy food, brand the calves and yes cutting off "the balls" of the young bulls. Good Times.....

Check out what's in his left hand.

Where ya gonna put that Shelly? (don't worry, it's the calves de-worming medicine, it goes in their mouths).

Joel and my brother Tyler manning the tip table.

They have great caterers come and cook. It's just easier for everyone to chip in then to bring their own food trust me. So on Saturday night they roasted a pig. My sister couldn't eat it because prior to putting it in the roaster she and the deceased pig inadvertently made eye contact.

We also went shooting, 'cause why wouldn't we? I am shooting some pretty sweet guns in the pictures. I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty much a bad ass.......

Just me and my Assault Rifle.

My mom!!!