Quick trip to Connecticut!

Erin and I flew to Connecticut to visit Jeannie for a long weekend. I actually had a parent association meeting to attend. It was so wonderful seeing Jeannie and her friends. We attended the Academy's musical on Friday evening, saw Jeannie play in a Dodgeball tournament on Saturday, stayed at this beautiful, old historic inn in New London on Long Island Sound and had dinner with her sponsor family. The weather was cold, but sunny and it was just great being with together with out sweet girls. 

Terry Tate!

An oldie but a goodie! What a great job :)

Snow Trip to Utah for President's Day

We went up to Utah to see Ian and Alana for the President's Day weekend. We had two great days of snowshoeing with Jessie and her family, watched the Winter Olympics from Torino and played games with friends of the kids, and went to the BYU Creamery with Valerie, Allyson, and Jessica Reeves for our fix of ice cream and chocolate milk. It was a quick trip but it was great to be with family.

Great Truths from SNL

If you are needing to teach a lesson on debt management I have a great video clip for you. You don't normally think of Saturday Night Live as being a great source of truth, but you really should watch this. I need to see if I can get a hold of a copy of this book. Click here to watch the video.

Check out this Rig

This is me and my rig. We were given the opportunity to drive an 18-wheeler and it was pretty much sweet. I got this baby up into eighth gear. It was pretty cool driving it as we were testing a new product that allows you to change gears without using the clutch. Sometimes I question my decision to attend school.

New Fridge

You may be wondering why we have all of our food out on the deck. Well we ordered a new fridge last week and it was being delivered today. So we needed a cold place to store it all. Megan had the brilliant idea to use the large "fridge" in the backyard. It worked very well, sort of makes me wonder why we bought a new Refrigerator :) No worries, the new one is now installed and all the food has found its new home.

Hawk Island

Megan and I went on a walk this morning around a lake (Hawk Island Park) that is a 1/2 mile from the house. The weather here in Michigan has been very strange, more like April than February. We are not complaining at all. The last time we went walking around this lake it was frozen over and now there are birds and muskrats swimming in it. When we left the park we met a group of people (about 70-100) that come and walk/run here each Saturday at 8:15am. We are going to try and fit that in to our schedules each weekend.

Hybrid Car Myths

I recently read and interesting article from Businessweek about myths associated with Hybrid vehicles. I personally learned a lot of facts about these little cars that makes them sound very appealing. If this technology continues to develop as it has I will be buying one when I can afford one (in about 10 years). Dubya even said in the State of the Union address that Americans are addicted to oil and I for one want to kick that addiction ASAP. Click here to read that article.