Can I get a "Here, Here"?

Well, I think that it is about time Keith and Kim got a blog, and Don and Sara aswell for that matter. I have provided a special link (a waterfall) for my father and mother and it will remain there as a link to make your own blog until they decide to create a blog which I can link to. I know that the family pastor and the now Great Grandparents can handle this. The Binghams got one, y'all don't want them to be cooler than you, do you? Oh, for your link Grand-dad, I was going to use a large screen HDTV but it wouldn't fit on my screen so I'm still working on that. Anyway, I think the rest of the family will agree that y'all should both get blogs!! If you're worried you won't update enough, all we ask is that you update slightly more often than Kyle (hint, hint). We love y'all and just want you to be cool like us!!!

By the way, from what I hear, Grand-dad's tv puts this thing to shame.



Size and picture!! Don't forget to make your blogs!!!

Too much work, too little play, makes a man feel like he's melting away!

I am working two more days of overtime this week and then hopefully one day for Brenda's grandparents. I think that will make our Christmas funds come back to where we want them to be. Next week we are going to Disneyland so I am going to be exhausted with like 52 hours of work followed by a trip. Anyway, I am hoping to take the week after that off (other than my regular scheduled hours) and then I think I will feel more rested and less like I've been beat up everyday for a week! I'm not complaining, just looking forward to a week off!!!

We had a nice Thanksgiving. We ate at Neil and Alicia's house (for those who don't know, that is Brenda's sister and brother in law). It was nice and we had a good time. The next day we went to the muddy snow to get our tree. There was only a few inches of snow so we didn't find anywhere that we could get our trucks stuck, but we had fun anyway! As you can see from Brenda's blog Neil's truck is certainly more built than Jame's and mine, but except for the the tires, I do have all of the parts to build mine. Someday maybe!!! Here is a pic of a truck that is pretty much set up like I plan for mine to be.

I think he's running Detroit Lockers and I plan to run ARB air lockers. I also still need to find a 4 runner so that I can build it and then take people with me. Who knows when I will get around to that though??

Happy Thanksgiving

Well, Happy Thanksgiving to all! I have been busy this week, I worked my regular 3 days and then two 8 hour days of OT for a little Christmas money. I got most of my computer stuff from UPS yesterday, one more shipment comes today and then I am expecting my video card and power supply on Monday. I pray that everyone has a great Thanksgiving! I would like to add to Aunt Denise's blog, please pray for the family of Craig Lawless as Thanksgiving will be very tough for them this year especially, but also for many years to come. We wonder why God allows these things to happen, but His ways are not ours and we cannot understand. All we know is that all things work together for good for those that love Him and I know that Craig's family does indeed love the Lord! Thank you Lord for all that you have given us to be thankful for!

A busy Day!!

Well, today was a fun day for me. I got a lot done and I bought a lot of stuff. I ordered all of the pieces to build a PC (computer) on Tuesday, well, almost all the pieces. In all of the excitement I forgot to order a case, so I ordered that this morning. Anyway, a lot of the other things that I ordered came today. Here are some pictures of them.








For anyone interested I will give a quick rundown of what I ordered at the end of this post. I also bought a desk which you can see in the picture of the monitor and speakers. I used the iMac that I have here right now to test the speakers and monitor, both work well althought the iMac will not display in full resolution on the external monitor. I also got a chance to work in the garage today. I spent most of the time unpacking boxes of tools and other garage stuff and putting the tools on my pegboard. Here is a picture of everything I have up there right now.



I still have a long way to go, but at least I am making some progress. I sure am glad I went with the full 8' pegboard instead of doing 6' like I considered!

Alright, here is the rundown of what I bought.

• Cooler Master Centurion 5 Case


• DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra Motherboard


• AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU


• Radeon X600 Pro Video Card


• 2x 512mb Kingston PC3200 Ram


• Maxtor 300Gb SATA Hard Drive (16mb cache)


• Maxtor 80Gb ATA 133 Hard Drive


• Ben Q DVD RW burning drive w/lightscribe


• Lite On DVD Rom Drive


• Sabrent 42 in 1 Card Reader


• Logitech LX 300 Cordless Keyboard and Mouse


• Logitech X230 Speakers w/subwoofer


• Westinghouse 17" LCD Monitor

I am excited to get the rest of the pieces so that I can put this thing together and start learning about PC's. I bought this so that I could go to school and hopefully earn a degree in computer networking and that type of thing. I am excited to start learning!!

Video Trouble

Well, I had some problems with my video and it was causing my computer to freeze up and stuff. Some other people also mentioned that they were experiencing some wierdness with my blog so I chose to eliminate the video. For all of you who are wondering where my picture was taken, I don't know, I found it on Google Images. If anyone is bummed that the video is gone, don't worry, you can still download it right here. You have to click on these words to start the download.

I bought a new tv with the some of the money we recieved as housewarming gifts. Thanks to all who contributed!!!



I got the one with a built in DVD player so now we can watch movies or tv in bed. I also bought one of those brackets so I could hang it on the wall. It took me some time to get it up, but it looks good now! Thanks again for the money!

Wow, two posts in one day!!

Can life get any better, I submit that it cannot!!

Well, I decided to post again because I have some more information that may as well be shared. I took some pictures of the things that are most important to me and I will post them here in that order.
 
 



That's right folks, my garage is primary, followed closely by my sweet shoes and then the turtles, I mean Jayden and then my laundry!!! Ok, not really, but I am excited about all of these things. The shoes I bought as a joke, they were on sale for 9.99 and they were so ugly I couldn't pass them up. Anyway, they have been a lot of fun. I wore them to youth group last night and the high schoolers all thought they were cool.
Dad, I posted the pics of the garage for you. The one is a picture of my peg board and my workbench and the other one shows the carpet that I put down so our feet would stay clean and warm when working on that end of the garage. There is only carpet in the front 10 feet of the 24' garage. I put the picture of Jayden up here because I thought it was cute. Oh, I nearly forgot, this story is absolutely hilarious. You have to listen to it. To my Beautiful wife, I love you very much and you are most important to me!!!!

Winter inspired Icy Blue Video

Well, I know that many of my readers have seen this video in the past, but I decided since winter is coming quickly we would all do well to see this again. There is a chance it will even inspire us to be slightly more intelligent on the slopes this year. I suppose though, that there is also a chance we will all be inspired to try even harder after watching this and we may all end up injured as usual. I intentionally made this video poor quality so that it would load quickly. For the same video in much better quality please download it here. It is a 5Mb video, so it could take a while to download depending on your connection speed. Good Luck!

By the way Bean and Stain, congratulations on the house!!! I am very excited to come down there and help y'all with whatever!!! We love you!

In other news, I bought another sucker fish and a Tiger Barb for my aquarium the other day. I am still attempting to get the environment to stabilize so that I will not have a bunch of algae growth. I have chosen to name the new Tiger Barb Dori, I wish to stick to the Nemo theme. Plus, she seems to follow my goldfish everywhere he goes. Hence his new name, Marlin. Anyway, I haven't got names for the two sucker fish yet, any suggestions??

Went to Vegas and it was great!

Well, we got to go into Vegas yesterday and we had a fabulous time! First we went to this big outlet mall and I finally got some new shoes (which were desperately needed). After that we all went to Applebees for dinner. Next my parents knew of a place to park behind The Paris hotel and casino. We were able to walk through the inside of this cool building. They have it set up so you feel like you are walking through the streets of Paris in the evening, that was very cool. Next, the highlight of my evening, we went outside to see the fountain show in front of the Bellagio!!! It was great! The fountains spray in sync with the music that plays over the many speakers that are set up all around the fountain. I absolutely loved it and I can't wait to take Brenda back there with me for some more excitement.





Neither of these pics really do the scene justice, especially considering the lack of accompanying music. As you can see however, it is a very impressive view.
This next picture shows a view from above the pool and allows you to get an idea of how massive this show is.



Anyway, if any of you ever get a chance to visit Vegas, go see the fountain show, it's AWESOME!!

Shrimp, tickets and family

Well, for those of you who haven't heard, I made a surprise visit to Pahrump to see my entire (immediate) family. (That is to say Kim, Keith, Katie, Caleb, and Lauri.) I am having a great time so far!
Last night Mom made Dad and me some shrimp creole and we enjoyed it immensely.



See, she even set us all up with the fine china and what not! She's just great!
On the way down here I was pulled over for speeding (as I got close I got excited, I never speed other than that). I was very thankful though because the sheriff did not give me a ticket. In case you're reading this Mr. Nevada Sheriff, thanks again!!
I am so thankful that God made it possible for us to all hang out for the week. I love my family and am having a wonderful time! We're going into Vegas today so I will have more to tell later.