HAPPY BIRTHDAY TARA!!!

33 years ago today the coolest girl in the world was born. My life has been so blessed because of her. Sometimes I let my mind wonder and I start thinking about where I would be if I hadn't met Tara. I'm not sure where exactly it is that I would have ended up but I do know that I wouldn't have this successful career, I wouldn't have four awesome kids, I wouldn't have traveled around the world, and I just don't think I would be as happy as I am now. I feel like she's my other half. She's what makes me me, and I appreciate her allowing me to be myself. So anyway I know this is her birthday but really I'm the one that got the present...hows that for cheesey! it's true though. thank you Tara! I love you.

Dear Captain America (Post By Tara)

To My Captain,

I need to tell you some things. You are the best thing to happen to me. You make me want to be better. Everyday I look forward to your emails or even better a phone call. I miss you and can't wait for you to get home. Our kids smile with your smile, they laugh with your laugh, and they can't wait to have you home either. I was thinking of you.....

love,

~Mrs. Captain America

another week another win 6-0

so another week has gone by and the much beloved UTES have won another game. its amazing! i know this. so our next game is against colorado state and if we play like we are capable we will get another W. what i'm worried about is the three weeks after the colorado state game because we face air force, tcu, and notre dame. the good thing is that the tcu game is at home and we usually do alright at home (i believe we've won 20 home games in a row...but don't quote me on that). the first bcs rankings also came out this week and the UTES are ranked 9th which means that we have a chance to go to a bcs game if we win out the rest of our season...tough to do...and if some of the teams above us lose. i believe if we reach the top 6 we will have a chance to go to a bcs game...but does anybody really understand how that crap works? i don't. anyway. i need to get going. there's work to do. have a great week everybody and with a little luck i'll be making another post next week with a still undefeated record. peace i'm out!

5-0

so the UTES are now 5-0 and will be facing wyoming tomorrow afternoon. currently the UTES have the 3rd best offense in the country and the 15th best defense. that's pretty good i think. another fun stat is that the mwc has three top 25 teams (Utah, tcu, and air force), if only byu would hold up their end of the bargain there would be four teams, but i guess everyone deserves a down year from time to time. my point is that we are supposed to be a weak conference. can you imagine next year with boise state too. that would be four or maybe even five teams in the top 25. that's just as many as the sec, the conference that most people agree is the best in ncaa football. but, alas my beloved Utes decided to jump ship for greener pastures. i wish they wouldn't have done that.

broc earned his bear rank

Well, all of my faithful followers will remember a posting i did about four or five months ago about how broc had earned his bear rank in cub scouts, if you remember that posting let hear you say "oh yeah baby". Well, this week they finally got around to awarding it to him. i've gotta be honest here folks, thats a long time for a kid to wait. but anyway. i am very proud of him. every once in a while something will come along that changes your life forever. for me that little something happened about 9 1/2 years ago in the shape of a little baby boy. i can't even begin to say how cool it has been to be broc's dad. i have had the best time getting to know him and i can't wait to find out more.

back in the crapper

so r and r is over now and i've found myself back in afghanistan. i had a great time with the family and i can't wait until december when i'll be able to stay for a little longer. since my return to work i have become what is known as "randum task guy". basically i get plugged to do whatever job needs to get done. wow! why'd they even have me come back if this was gonna happen? at least my Utes are 4-0.

r and r is fun!

so i got back a few days ago and we've been rolling dirty since. my arrival was met with a ceremonial crying out of the angels, and a few cabage patch dance moves. the following is a list of the totally tubular things we've done so far.

1-got a fixer up jeep (1980 cj7)

2-visited a beach house in topsail nc

3-took lots of family pictures...like the ones posted here

4-lady antebellem concert

5-fixed up the yard a little bit

6-temple trip

7-lots and lots of bikes rides and running

8-scuba diving...tara went with me and we saw five or six sharks

still on the agenda

1-augusta triathlon

2-temple trip....we're holier than though ya know

3-breathe

2-0

wow! the Utes are 2-0. hmm? i'm not so sure how i feel about jumpingfrom not ranked to 20th last week and now 14th. i think that might hurt us in the long run. oh well, as long as we beat byu i'll be happy.

1-0

so the other day my beloved UTES layed yet another smack down on a tea, that gets too much respect. funny how we keep doing that but yet we never get any respect ourselves. hmmm? so if you didn't hear about it yet the mighty UTES beat up on the university of pittsburgh. the score was 27-24, but the game wasn't even very close. if you were to look at the stats you'd have thought that Utah had won by 30 points. our problem were turnovers and and closing out the game. in the final 5 minutes or so we gave up 10 points and allowed pitt to get back in it. oh well. next week we have a tough one against a good unlv team.

family time

okay so we took this picture on one of our last family outings before i left. my unsolicited advice to all of you is to take the time to do the things that really matter. don't waste your life playing video games or watching t.v. get out and live life. you could buy a boat and experience the ocean, or rent a motorcycle for the weekend and take your lady friend for a wild ride, or my personal favorit, go scuba diving. maybe try something that you've never done before. anyway! peace and love to all my homies! can you tell which one of the kids wants to be a superhero when he grows up?