Guy Blog Continued...

Heather has been buried with her new job and the pressure of keeping up in school. So I will throw in a few additional comments to keep the blog rolling.

Anthony (my brother) and I had a guys day out last week. We had originally planned on going up to the St. Anthony dunes near Rexburg ID and riding 4-wheelers (Yamaha Banshees for those interested) in the sand for a few days. But we found out that the area was closed until the first part of May. So much for those plans...

Since we were determined to get our speed fix we drove down to SLC for an afternoon and went to the FastKart indoor speedway and raced go-karts for a few hours. It wasn't two days worth, but it was still really fun. We did a 40 lap race against some high school kids there on dates. There were 8 karts on the track at the same time. Proudly, Anthony and I pretty much dominated the race and lapped all of the other competitors twice. But in the end Anthony ended up winning because I got caught up in lap traffic. Another 10 laps or so and I could have taken him (-:

Below are the race result sheets. Anthony was Kart 2 and I was Kart 15. The lap times in boxes are the fast laps.

Time for a 'guy' blog

Hi everyone, this is Robert. I think it's my turn for a 'guy' subject entry to the blog. Heather does a really good job with our blog, putting up pictures and assorted happenings with our family. But I know that there are guys from our family and friend's list that look at our blog too. So I'm going to try and put my 2 cents in every once in a while. Hope you don't mind...

The photo to the right is our 'commuter' car. It is a 1994 Saturn SL1. Actually this was Heather's car when we first met, so since it was paid for it has just sort of followed us around for the last 9 years. I have to force myself not to complain about this car. (As a guy, I want 300HP+, a manual transmission, and 18 inch forged aluminum wheels, etc) This car has 80HP, a slushbox transmission, and 14 inch steel wheels with stock hub caps. If you need to pass someone on a two lane road, you need to plan 15 minutes in advance. Oh, wait I wasn't going to complain was I...

So, the good part about the car is it gets 35mpg consistently, has very seldomly stranded us, and as a recent miracle, passed 200,000 miles.

Since we really can't afford a new 300HP 'commuter' car, I just decided to give the car a gift for turning the big 200K...

...a Sirius radio to keep me company during the commute. Logan has no decent rock/alternative stations since they stopped broadcasting 94.9 The Blaze up here. Now I can finally listen to all of my Hair bands from the 90's. I love channel 20 'Octane' and 23 'Hair Nation' and no commercials on the new radio. Anyway...

So, other blog moms, have your husbands' chime in every once in a while. I would love to read about anything guy related.

Easter

Two posts for the price of one!!

So I didn't get my pictures posted last week so I'm posting twice today. Aren't all of you lucky! Above you will find a picture show of the Easter egg hunt we went to at a friends house last weekend. While the moms and kids were inside making bunny ears and Easter bags, the dads went outside and hid the eggs. Each family brought 24 filled eggs. The kids all rushed outside when it was time and ran around like crazy. They LOVED it!!! Micah and Ellie had a blast! (Thanks Merkley's for inviting us over.)
Next you will find pictures of the annual St. Patricks day dinner. I host this dinner every year for Roberts parents, brother, and grandparents. It's always a big hit. I think next year I will have to cook two corned beefs. We didn't have any leftovers this year. The kids even loved it!

Post #2

These are a few pictures of our annual St. Patrick's Day dinner. I cook dinner for my in-laws once a year and yes I do the whole dinner. We have corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, soda bread, green salad, sprite with green ice cubes, and some sort of a green dessert. It's a dinner we all look forward to every year. I love entertaining. I should do it more often.
Notice our lovely green tablecloth. It was a regift from my mother. Can you believe someone actually gave her that table cloth?!!? It's ugly but it works for St. Pat's Day!
Grandpa Mike decided to spoil Micah and let him sit at the "big" table while he sat at the bar with Ellie.

Working woman!!

Sorry no pictures on this post but I will add another post this weekend so stay tuned. I just had to let all of you that I GOT A JOB! It wasn't something that I intended to do until fall when I am suppose to start my internship but I couldn't pass up this opportunity. It's really a very strange story. I have been thinking about trying to find a place for my internship which starts in October. Back in February our Relief Society had a marrigae and family therapist come talk to us about keeping love in your realtionship with your spouse. I wasn't going to go but thought I'd better go just to socialize with the other lady's in the ward. Well after the MFT was done speaking, I went up and asked him if he took interns. He told me no but his son was an MFT and was always looking for interns for a program that he runs. He gave me the number and the next day I called his son Mike. (This was all before my Grandpa died.) Well then I went home for Grandpa's funeral and was gone for awhile. On my way home (actually in the Phoenix airport) I got a message on my phone from Mike. We played phone tag for awhile and then I finally got to talk to him. The program that he runs provides psychosocial rehabilitation counseling to at risk youth in the Preston Idaho area. We go into their homes and teach them coping skills, communication skills, social skills, etc... and the best part is that it pays really good!!! I couldn't pass up the opportunity to have at least part of my internship paid so I took the job! (By the way I talked to Mike and Paul-he's really my boss-both several times on the phone, never in person, and they still offered me the job.) That is the easiest job I ever got! The good thing about the job is that since the clientele are all school age kids they can't meet until school is out for the day. So it's in the evening and I can decide how many hours I want to work and when I want to work. Right now I have one client that I am suppose to spend 6 hours a week with. I go up to his house two times a week in the evening and have two three hour sessions with him. Last night was my first night with him on my own. It went ok but I'm having a hard time trying to keep him on task for three hours. His old case worker had one five hour session with him a week. I couldn't believe that! Anyway, we'll see how it goes over the next couple of months. It's a good experience for me if nothing else.

V-day

As some of you may or may not know, Valentines Day is the one day of the year that Robert and I buy a gift for each other. This is a tradition we started when we got married. Why did we pick Valentines Day? I'm not sure. It would make more since if we only bought presents on our anniversary but it's always just been V-day. It doesn't matter how much we spend, it's the thought that we put into the gift. It's kind of our way of saying to each other "Hey, I have been paying attention to you and I know what special gift will make you smile." Some past gifts that I have received are an hour massage, jewelry, cd's and I have given Jazz tickets, a flash drive, and a new razor. I think one of my favorite V-day's was when neither one of us could think of anything and we ended up giving each other a card. I made mine and listed "98 things I love about you" and Robert wrote me a nice message about how much he loves me and gave me some chocolate. Well, here is what we gave each other this year. (I know V-day was a while ago, but I've been busy). Robert loves his helicopter and I'm afriad I may have started him on an expensive hobby. I have been wanting my own MP3 player for awhile now. I have just been sharing Robert's but he's got alot of music on his that I don't care for and of course, his doesn't have some of the music that I like. Problem solved!