My Mom and Sister Cyrie Came to the Big Apple!

Check out the big "JUICY" in the background. I always wonder how many stranger's photos you end up in when you are hanging around Time Square...hopefully none looking like that!


My mom got to see the Naked Cowboy...raaar. She saw him on the news in Utah just before she came. Why does he get so much attention?


The Broadway Mary Poppins was wonderful. We all enjoyed it very much!





The inside of the Trinity church was amazing.


Elmo!


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We had a good time but I am sure my mom was glad when the time came to leave the Big Apple!

WE ARE PREGNANT!

Well technically only Julee is. What a Blessing! We are both so excited. The due date it April 14th. The blob int he picture is our little alien.

Sometimes she is worth listening to

For over two years now Julee and been telling me about this funny movie called "Pure Luck". She would start to tell me about something that happened in the movie and then start laughing while I thought to myself "that doesn't sound very funny". So I have put off watching the movie up until last night. It just so happened that we actually had time to sit down and do nothing but had nothing to watch. We started to look through the movies on netflix that we could watch instantly through the internet and were loosing hope in finding something good. Finally Julee suggested we see if Pure Luck was available and it was. I Laughed through almost the entire movie. I loved it. So if you haven't seen it, or haven't seen it recently I suggest you check it out. Let me know what you think.

Is it stress or am I getting old?

So there is a mirror hanging on my closet door and on the opposite side of the room is Julee's jewelery box that also has a mirror on it. As I was getting something out of the closet I noticed something on the back of my head as I looked through the combination of the two mirrors. I went in for a better and look and This is what I saw...



So I guess it is safe to say that I am loosing my hair, here is my reaction...



Luckily I have been growing my hair out and think that I will be able to do a pretty good comb-over. Ironically my hair is longer than I can ever remember it being and at the same time I have less then I ever had. I guess it might be time to cut it short again to keep me from actually doing the comb-over in the future as the disease progresses.

Coast to Coast

It has been two weeks now since I have been home from Oregon and thought it was finally time to blog about it. Julee and I both went to visit family in Oregon. Julee stayed for the first week and then went back to work while I stayed for the whole two weeks of the vacation. I know what you are thinking... "what a jerk for staying on vacation while your wife had to go back to work." Well, She has done it to me several times and so I didn't feel any guilt. In-fact while she was gone I was I able to get some serious playing in with my Dad and Brother that I haven't been able to do for a long time.

The first week my parents Julee and I floated the Yumkua river in western Oregon. Never herd of it? Neither had I. It is a coastal river and so does not get much water from snow making the water really worm (for Oregon). It was a fun trip, tons and tons of bass, some fun canoeing, and beautiful scenery.





Before Julee left we also made a quick trip to the coast and had some long romantic rainy walks on the beach. We also played around on some cool rocks.



The second week Ben my Dad and I climbed Mt. Jefferson. At 10,500 ft. it was a really fun mountain with an exiting summit. I have never climbed it before and had a lot of fun. Words can not give credit to how incredible it is to climb a mountain, and pictures can never capture all the eye can see but these will have to do:






After climbing my Dad and I were sore enough that we decided to go fishing instead of climbing something else. Steel head fishing is fun, and really fun in you catch something. My Dad hooked one and then let me reel it in. I am not afraid of fish (as it appears in the picture, the fish was wiggling and I didn't want to loose it).


It was fun to hang out with family and enjoy an Oregon summer.

Razor Kick Scooters

We have a friend at church and her daughter that ride these things to get around where they need to go much faster. I decided I needed to have one so I bought one from amazon.com for 40 bucks. Matt thought I was crazy...then he took it for a scoot and decided he needed one too! It cuts our traveling time in half. They are very fun and a little dangerous. Matt has had a few scuffs with some old ladies yelling at him. I have crashed a couple of times and Matt once too. All in all they are a great way to get around. The best thing about them is that they fold in half and are very light so they go where ever we go and don't get stolen. We mostly ride them to the subway or bus station, store, church...
You can get adult sized and more sophisticated looking scooters but with our height(or lack thereof) and all we went with the cheaper kid scooters. Matt rides a cruiser scooter with a wooden base and bigger wheels and mine is an A3 model which is all metal. We are mostly the only adults I have seen riding these around (besides our tiny Asian friend and her daughter).
Ya, we are pretty cool.