It's almost Christmas

Well today was looking a lot like Christmas. We had 12" of snow today, the roads were slick and still everybody was out at the stores. CRAZY! yes that includes me. I had to go and buy stuff for our family Gingerbread house decorating project. So now that it is the evening I am watching season 4 of Mchale's Navy and Blogging. Not much else to do with the stores packed, birds wanting attention, work in the morning, and snow still falling. Here are some pix....

OK so the computer wasn't working so well so I had to shut it down before I threw it out. So I am now getting back to it.

Merry Christmas. It is Christmas evening and it has been great today. It has been so much fun to spend the time with family between working. The snow still hasn't stopped. It is heavy and wet and deep. Christmas eve we got together and made Gingerbread houses. Here are some of the pictures of what we put together.

Mine

Ash and Jared

The boy's

Jana and Chris

Christmas day pictures.

new addition to the Fam

Well as you can see from my last post I was a bit bored. That is the way it is when you are sick. Now that I am finally feeling a bit better, I thought I would add another member to the family. I was able to find a beautiful little girl online to adopt and bring into the family. She is about 10 years old and stand about 3 feet tall. She has beautiful coloring and peircing eyes. Her name is Nikki. Scroll down for some pictures of my beautiful new girl.

This is Nikki by Blue and Gold Macaw.

For those of you who don't know my other beautiful girl this is Bandit. She is a Jenday Conure.

dance?

Who says I can't dance.

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Haloween and such

Well today is Saturday. I just watched an exciting game of LSU and Alabama. I have been sitting in bed for the last few days because I work in a germ factory. (school) I have had the flu and I am so bored and restless. I don't feel like doing much but here I am sitting in front of the tv waiting for the Oklahoma and Texas Tech game. That one should be a great one. My team Utah Utes won their game against TCU on Thursday. I wasn't able to see any of the game but I kept up on the first half on my phone. My dad called and let me know what happened.

Halloween was fun. The kids were so cute. Here is a couple pix.

Me in my kilt. I wasn't the only one in a kilt this year

update

So it has again been a while since my last update. Ya I know I have no life but i still can't find the time to sit down and update. So here is the last month.
Me-
Things for me haven't changed much. I work and....well....that is about it. I don't want to do much else. I enjoy work.
Family-
It has been a great month for family. My parents are doing well and are a great influence and example in my life.
My nephew turned 8 this last month and was baptised. It was a good experience even though I had to give a talk.
Jana and Chris came into town from Missouri to visit and I was able to spend some time with them and my neice and nephew.
Ashley and Jared finally told us that they were expecting (5 months along already) They are going to have their second boy. Congrats to them.
Grandma and grandpa Mock came it to town as they were passing through and I was able to see them and have lunch with them. It was good to see them. It has been a while.
I was able to spend some time with nanny and reed for grandpa's brother's funeral. I was also able to help them in the yard one afternoon.
It is always great to spend time with family.
Freetime- I was able to vote today during early voting. That is about all the free time I have.
Work- Boy do I have alot to say about this one. The elementary is crazy right now.
I love my job, the people I work with, and the students. But some of the parents, some of the police force, and some of the city workers are CRAZY! One doesn't talk to the other even on joint projects. The city is telling us one thing to do, the fire marshal is telling us another, the police are ticketing every one they can (gotta meet the quota somehow) the parents are complaining about everything and we are trying to make it through this mess without losing any students in the process. Construction is progressing but still behind. I can at least see the walls going up now. The kitchen remodel is way behind and not progressing much mostly because the plumbers are being a pain in the plumbers crack. They just need to get off their crack and get moving.
The kids are great. They make me smile every day and make it fun to go to work. It is never the same and never gets boring. This week was red ribbon week. Yesterday was red day for anti drugs and violence. I of course dressed up in all red. Long red sox, red shorts, red shirt and red hat. The red clothing that I had all happened to have a white and black U on them. Most of the students prefer clothing that have a blue Y on it. It is a fun rivelry here in Utah. As I was walking around at lunch a whole table started chanting Utah sucks, utah sucks over and over again. I just had to smile and walk away.
I have a group of first grade students who have renamed me "Buddy" they are so cute. When ever they see me that start screaming buddy and running over to me. It just makes my day. You know I always planned on going back to the Jr. High when the head there retires, but I don't know. I love being at the elementary as well. It will be a really hard decision when the time comes.
Tomorrow is Halloween. I will be dressing up in my kilt and scotish wear.
Well I guess that is about it for me and my life for the last month. Sorry there is no pictures this time. Blogs without pictures are usually boring, but hey that is how thing go for me.
till next time......

You mean I have to do this manually?

So I guess my blog doesn't update itself. I have to actually go in and add my pictures and thoughts by hand. YA LIKE I HAVE TIME FOR THAT. Oh well. Today is a Sunday and I am over at my parents for Sunday dinner. Everyone went for a walk. I am a bit too stiff for that. Yesterday I played 3 on 3 football for 2 hours and then hiked up to Stuart falls and back. The hike is about 4 miles round trip. Needless to say my body doesn't like me right now. It is causing pain to course through by body with every movement I make. I had a good time and the only real injury is losing my big toe nail.

Here are some of the pictures of the fall colors up the canyon.

Nothing new really

Well it is the first week of school and with all the new construction around and the mess throughout the city with their new upgrades it has been crazy. Things are going as well as can be expected though. Any way since I am not the blogging type yet I'll keep this short and sweet so I can go and watch the Olympics.
Good night

Hike to Clyde lake

On Saturday the ninth some friends and I hiked to Clyde lake up in the Uintah Mountains. We started the hike at Washington Lake (near Trial lake) and hiked up the crystal lake trail head to Clyde lake. It was a beautiful hike through amazing country.

Then it started to turn ugly....the weather not the countryside.

And raining
But we kept fishing

Then it got worse and we hiked out. It REALLY came down the whole hike back.
Not only was it raining but it was also hailing. So much that it was accumulating on the ground.All in all it was really fun. I have spent alot of time in this area and love it. Next time I will be a bit more prepared though.

Family get together

Yesterday Aug 2nd was a family get together/reunion. We met at Barbara and Keith's place (thanks for having us over) We were able to have about 2/3rds of the family there. It was a ton of fun. Here are some pix of the fam.