Stupid Village Inn

Well, what ever the waitress at Village Inn hocked on my breakfast on Sunday has made me sick. I came home yesterday not feeling well and today I am still not feeling well. Sure wish I had some sick time I could take.

Stay away from Village Inn 9400 South 2000 East!

The plot thickens

Just as soon as I had blogged about there not being too many houses for sale in our neighborhood, the people 2 houses up in our circle have a for sale sign out in their yard. We had heard they may be moving up to the Pacific Northwest but there wasn't a for sale sign until Sunday. I think this will actually be a plus for us, it will drive more traffic up into our circle and people going to see their house will need to drive right past our for sale sign.

Other weekend happenings:
Went boating
Saw Tropic Thunder with Kim
Went to the neighborhood party
Had great BBQ at Joe Morley's
Watched Be Kind Rewind
Installed a brake controller in the truck
Watched Football (pro and college)
Cleaned the garage
Washed all the cars
Washed the boat
Fixed the leaking fuel line in the jeep
Had Brunch with Kaylee
Had our food coughed on by our server
Found strange items in our food (plastic, other unidentifiable thing - could be a toe nail or an overcooked hash brown, I convinced myself it was a hash brown)
Laughed at the manager who had tucked his shirt into his jockeys and they were riding up past his pants
I guess brunch could have been a post all its own.

Well here goes another week.

Update on Life

Life around here has been quite busy that last few weeks. I am sure you can tell by the lack or posts on our blogs.

Here are a few things we have not mentioned.

We listed our house for sale this last week. The yard sign was put up last night. Homes for sale are fairly rare in our neighborhood. It has been funny watching people drive in to the circle to see who is selling their house. Well it is us. Kim and I were at a movie last night and we had a call that someone wanted to see the house so we ran home did the quick 5 minute clean up and took the dogs over to the park. I guess that is how our life is going to be for the next little while until the house sells.

Right now I am looking out the windows as a black truck does the slow drive by.

We went boating yesterday. I checked the water temperature online to how cold it was at Rockport the it said 74. Sounds good, well when we got there the air temperature was about 60 and windy the water was 64. We stayed for a couple of hours and headed home it was a good time and Spence even wake boarded. Can you say shrinkage.

Two weeks ago we bought a new truck. We traded in the old one and ended up getting a 2008 Dodge Ram 2005 Mega cab Diesel. It is still black so most people don't even realize it is a new truck. It has a ton more leg room in the back. More towing capacity and right now it is filled with 100% Bio diesel.

Today, we may go out boating again, or just try to finish up all the small things around the house that need to be done. I think the list of things to get done in the house is down to 2 and a half pages.

We do have a couple of fun things coming up. Kaylees birthday is in less then 2 weeks. She wants rockband 2 but our xbox 360 broke a week ago and we had to send it in for repair. Hopefully it will be back before then. We are going to go see Cats at the Capital Theater on Sept 19. There is a Monet and Picasso exhibit up at the U that we want to go see. The waterfowl opener is in less then a month. I think I will try to find a guided goose hunt to do this year. Should be a blast. And finally we have the Metallica concert on November 3rd. We have really good seats and it should be a ton of fun. This will be Kaylee's first Rock concert. She seems a little worried about how loud it will be (she doesn't like loud things) but we are going to have her bring ear plugs.

Wow what a rambling blog. Hopefully I will be able to keep up on this a bit more now things are starting to slow down.

Blolacker

I know I am a blolacker. Is that a word? It is now. Blog + Slacker.

Men's Tag

Alright. I have seen a bunch of "Tags" and have even been tagged before. I want to start a men's only tag. This may be short lived (I only know 3 other male bloggers) but what the hell.

Here are the rules:
Answer all the questions (honestly but preferable humorously).
Then tag any other males that blog.

1. How many guns do you own? Not enough, I think 14
2. Ginger or Maryann? Maryann
3. Do you change your the oil in car or does Jiffy Lube (or other oil changing place)? JiffyLube
4. Riding mower or push behind? Riding, but I have someone else doing my lawn this year
5. Favorite drink? Vanilla Coke
6. What is the size of your TV screen? 51"
7. Favorite Professional sports team? Utah Jazz
8. Would you jump from an airplane? Yes, especially if it was crashing
9. Yard work or working on a car? Neither
10. Best Pizza? Dominos
11. What was the last animal you killed (on purpose)? Duck
12. If you could play one professional sport, what would it be? Golfer
13. Last CD you bought? Disturbed
14. 3 favorite TV stations? Discovery, Travel Chanel, ESPN
15. Lazy boy or couch? Lazy boy
16. How many pillows do you sleep with? 2
17. When was the last time you were at Cabela's? about 3 months ago but I will be there within the next month
18. Favorite car you have owned? Jeep
19. Do you have a DVR? What size? Yes, 80 Hour HD
20. Boxers or briefs? Briefs
21. Work out or watch sports? Watching sports is a workout
22. Do you have any dead animals hanging on your walls? Yes
23. Do you have to trim your ear hair? On occasion
24. Tattoos? (Optional) None
25. Ever been arrested? (Optional) No, not yet.

Brit, Nate and Scott have now been tagged.

Olympic Observations

Here are a few of my observations from watching the Olympics over that last few days:

When did swimming become exciting?
Russian Synchronized diving - hard on the eyes
Norwegian Beach volleyball - easy on the eyes
Can we all stop with all the hugging
The Chinese really like American music
Chinese temples are cool looking
Chinese air quality sucks
Don't high five or slap 5 when you miss or loose a point
There is no way the Chinese gymnast are 16

Here are a few of the sponsors I have seen:
McDonald's
Coke
Budweiser
Do they want us to believe that the greatest athletes participating in these games consume any of their products? We are not that gullible. Are we? Boy, I sure could use a Big Mac and a Coke right now.

I have to go now, the swimming metal match is about to begin.

USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!

New level

I have moved to a new level of Nerdom. I am updating my Blog with my new Ipod Touch.

So Cool

East Canyon

Last weekend we had a great time boating and camping up at East Canyon State park.

Brit did a great post on the happenings. You can read them here. I just wanted to hit a couple of the highlights and post some pictures.

On Friday we went boating with Kim's Mom, Tim, Brett and Kim' Grandmother. Later that night Bryon went out on the tube and ended up loosing his shorts. It was very funny at the time until we realized all his keys were in his pocket, then it was even funnier.

After boating we had a great dinner of steak, crab, corn on the cob, watermelon and rice crispy treats. Thanks to everyone for helping and bringing stuff. Why does steak taste so much better in the mountains. Here is the view from the yurt at dinner time.

Saturday was spent on the boat and at the beach. Everyone had a few turns on the tube and by the end of the day only 3 people had not fallen off. Taylor(Brit's Friend), Shanae and Bekka.

On Sunday we decided we needed to have a "Tube Off" for the 2 older kids that hadn't fallen off yet. Here is a photo of Shanae holding on for her life

She fell off first and came up screaming for a rematch. Here are photos of the rematch:

This is on the way up

Airborne while we get past Tawni's head. Down in back!

Impact and Taylor coming off the tube

We had to call it a draw

Becka rode after them and she ended up skidding across the water like a skipping stone. Sorry no video of that.

Kim even wakeboard for the first time this year!

We had a great time and no one got hurt too bad. A lot of sore muscles but every one's chiropractor will thank me.

I am still working on how to convert video from the new camcorder so I can post videos on Youtube. Once I figure that out I will let you know.