Diggin' in

I'm sorry Jared, I didn't think that it would come to this. I suppose its best that you know now. You had long hair as a baby and .. well .. we just couldn't stop you sometimes.

My favorite neice

Hahaha!

From A Family of Runners!

Now that's dedication to her training routine ... which is why Skinny Lynnie won the bronze medal at her first official 5K!

Baby Hope

Hope at Valley Forge, showing solidarity with the Revolutionary forces.

Don't tell mom ...

Funny Picture Contest

Can it be a motion picture? If not I'll find another one, but here it is!

The Alternative Title is: My First Kiss

Help Me!

Hello, I know I've been bugging a lot of you about this but I'm kind of worried about it. I am going to the American Idol concert in Salt Lake on July 14th. Mom and Dad and Jared are all leaving for Jackson on the 12th. So I am looking for a way to get up there, hopefully on the morning of the 15th, or even very late the 14th. I would just like as much time up there as possible. So if any of you are planning on driving up on Monday (14th) or Tuesday (15th) of that week PLEASE let me know, because right now I'm not sure how I'll get there. Thanks!

My picture for the competition

Well, I guess it's all about Jed when it comes to funny pictures. I too am waiting to whip out the real big guns though... All I can say is bring it on because I have some mighty fine ones!

Things here are good, we are all very busy packing, cleaning, and being tourists. We've been doing a lot of "lasts" lately. Which is always sad. We are excited for Jackson though, and Jared and I want to go to Disneyland this summer as well.... so if anyone is interested, let us know! It is a lot easier to leave a place when you have lots of things to look foreward to.

I may be quite busy this coming semester seeing as I have one job already and I'm possibly going to pick up another one. This job is 5 days a week 9-10am, as a music/piano teacher at a high school for ...basically teenage girls with babies. I would really like the job, even if it means that I can't ever fake sick and sleep in! So between that and 2-4 hours a day of RESEARCH, and school... I think I am going to be pretty busy. I'm about to sign up for 2 or three EASY online classes to complete over the summer. I thought about doing jogging online... sounds easy haha. But really, I'll take a few classes online, now I'm just rambling since I think I ran out of things to say a while ago. Ok good bye.

New blog ideas & pics

I've made a few changes to the family blog. I'm trying to get more interactive links, but my blogging skills are not that good yet. I'm calling for a family funny picture competition this month. This is my first entry - "Jed in Irag", later on I'll pull out the big guns. Everyone share your favorite family pics on the blog. Also, let me know if you have any ideas for family polls, etc....
As for me this week, I'm a batchelor again. Carrie flew to California last night to visit her sister. On Wednesday she is off for Utah for another Sister's wedding, then its off to Idaho to help her parents get ready for the wedding reception. In the mean time, I'm going to work like crazy, trying to get through my summer classes and get ready for Fall semester. I do get to join Carrie in Utah this weekend for the wedding, so, I'll see the Utah crew then. Good luck with everything and keep on bloggin'.

Oops ...

Well, school is out. I finished cleaning out my room yesterday. I was offered a position next year. They gave me a raise, which was nice. So, yesterday I was out gardening, pulling weeds and watering. We have a REALLY mean bird that swoops down at us like it is going to attack is. So, I stayed out as long as I could before I thought the bird was going to kill me. It had a little baby fall out of its nest yesterday and I was running in the backyard to turn the water off, which I will get to in a second, when I saw the baby and the big mom bird swooped down at me and I could feel and hear the wind from the swoop as it brushed across me about 1-2 inches from my head. I know it is just protecting it's babies, BUT it is still a little frightning!! Anyway! So, another funny thing happened yesterday. After I finished weeding and planting in the garden I decided to put the sprinkler on the grass. I went in to take a shower while I was doing this. Well, as you can probably predict, I forgot about turning off the water and I left to work at school and run some other errands. Well, about 6 hours later, I remembered that I forgot to turn off the water. So, after about 6 1/2 hours, I raced home to turn off the water. Our yard was pretty flooded. The big problem is that there are water restrictions around here and I went WAY over and watered during the time of day when you are not supposed to. So, anyway! Our water bill is definitely NOT going to be a nice sight. Jacob, being very nice, said it was kind of funny. So, hopefully he'll still think its funny when we get the bill. Well, anyway! I better get going.
Have a great day!!
Carrie

Texas Tech University: Jacob!

Texas Tech University :: APS :: Division of PFP Look! Jacob is on the Internet! I was just looking through iTunes at the Texat Tech Uni and then I clicked a link and it led me to a photo of my Brother! Exciting eh? Although I'm sure that a bunch of you all are on the internet, but it was just cool to see that. I'll write more later.