Madi's Softball Team The Bobcats

Madi's Softball team won their final tournament game 9-8, this allowed them to go onto state. GO BOBCATS!!!!

Independence Day 2009

Ryan, Buddha (Heitiare), Malia and I went to the Provo City 4th of July Parade at 8:30 am. We walked to University Ave from our homes on 850 West. We lasted until 10:30. We got drenched in a five minute rain and then we were sweating to death because it was so HOT out side. The combination of the moisture and heat made it very humid. The girls had a good time looking at the floats and running after candy.

Indiana 2009

Ryan and I flew to Indiana on Thursday the 25th. We went to visit John and Ginger Maddox in Connersville Indiana. I taught John on my mission in the summer of 2003. He was baptized in September 2003. He was sustained as Bishop of the Connersville Ward in April of this year.

John and Ginger are like parents to me. It has been awesome watching my Harley riding, leather wearing, Burley Biker friend and father figure grow in the gospel. John and Ginger are amazing people. I am so blessed to be a part of their lives.I am greatful I had the opportunit to share the gospel with them and help them become an eternal family.

Ryan and I spent four days with them. We went swimming a lot. They have a pool in their back yard and it was so much fun. The water was between 85-90 degrees every day. It felt like bath water. It was wonderful to just relax and spend time there. Ryan and I returned home on Monday the 29th of June.

Wasatch Back-Ragnar Relay 2009

On June 19th Casey, Me, Sarah Verhoef, Liz Watts, Lauren Shaw and Susan Greer loaded up in a Honda Pilot and headed to Liberty Park in Liberty Utah to meet up with the other six relay members(who were co-workers of Susan and Liz) who would run 1-6, 13-18, and 25-30 legs of the race. They started at 6am and ran 36.8 miles for their first six legs of the race. Our six would run 7-12, 19-24 and 31-36 legs of the race. Together our team ran 188 miles total in 33 hours 57 minutes and 47 seconds. Sarah Verhoef ran 12.4 miles, I ran 18.1 miles, Casey ran 15.1 miles, Liz Watt ran 15.2, Lauren Shaw ran 18.4 and Susan Greer ran 13.4. The difficulty on each leg ranged from easy, moderate, hard and very hard.

After our first 6 legs of the race a total of 21.3 miles in the heat of the day, with our legs ranging form easy to very hard, we got a five hour break which was from 5-10 pm. We tried to sleep but most of us were unable to. We then ran between the six of us 41.6 miles in the middle of the Night from 10:15pm-6am the next day. We then headed to the next exchange point in Heber Utah where we went and slept on the floor of EWS (Casey's work place) for 2 hours because the other half of the team only had 25.5 miles to run all which were easy legs.

We started the third leg of the race at 10:00 am and ran 30.7 total miles in four hours and 58 minutes all but one of the legs was hard or very hard. All of us only had a couple of hours of sleep in that 34 hours. I can hardly believe we made it. We did great. Our six team members averaged a 10 minute mile. It was hard and there where times I thought I was goign to die but I WOULD TOTALLY DO IT AGAIN IN A HEART BEAT! I'm going to do a half marathon next! I don't think Casey will be joining me for that one.

Our NEW Home

Casey and I are building our OWN HOME. We thought it would be years before we would be able to buy a home, let alone build one. We are excieted and scared at the same time. It just happened so quickly and fell into place. I guess it is ment to be!

Post Season Tax Get-Away...or So he said

Casey flew me to San Diego for a "Post Tax Season Vacation." How convenient that the Cubs just happened to be playing in San Diego against the Padres'that Same weekend. Three games three nights. We did get to see my neice Tammy and her husband Brad (Casey's BFF). We had a lot of fun. It was a nice break after a grueling tax season.