Belated Thank you!

When I blogged several months ago asking all my family and friends for prayers for my beautiful wife, I was overwhelmed by the response of all my family and friends across all different religious beliefs.  All those prayers were answered and the biopsy on her thumb came back negative.  She has a clean bill of [...]

Prayers Wanted

A couple of weeks ago, my wife did a blog entry on her Friday Phone Dump (pictures she took from her phone that week).  At the bottom of those pictures is a picture of her thumb nail.  It has a brownish line stretching the whole length of her nail.  She finally decided to do some [...]

Precious Moments – Mowing

The last year Jack “helped” me mow the yard.  Lauri captured this moment perfectly. Seriously, is there anything cuter than your son “helping” you work?!! I have always wanted to be a father.  As long as I can remember, that has been the case.  However, there was a long stretch in my life when I [...]

Amateur vs. Professional Photographer

I’m having a hard time putting this post together, because I’m still laughing thinking about the night this picture was taken.  You’ll need to visualize Lauriann and I just sitting together on our back porch enjoying an absolutely beautiful lightning storm one fine Sunday evening (on 8/15/2010, to be exact) as the sun was setting [...]

Precious Morning Ritual With Jack

About a month ago, Jack would see me getting ready to head to work in the morning and go camp at the door to the garage, waiting for me to leave for work.  Since then, he has perfected his routine. There are very few variations to his routine.  As soon as we say our morning [...]

AWESOME Riding!!!

I went riding with one of my best friends, Scott Livingston, just over a week ago.  We rode in the mountains just west of Garden City, UT.  That area is called Bear Lake.  My cousin, Jeff Wakefield, also rode with us.  It’s always a good ride when you’re riding with friends.  I still haven’t gone [...]

Sad, but funny, too!

LaMond and I were driving home from work one day to go do some Jolly Jumps.  As we approached the intersection of Atkinson and Country Club near my parent’s home in Roswell, NM, we saw this car that was smashed into a cinder-block fence. I was driving, so it wasn’t easy to get my phone, [...]

Great Evening!!!

For the 4th of July celebration, I went to my church social event.  We had ice cream and cake and watched the fireworks from the city of Roswell from the fields at the church.  For such a small city, the fireworks were pretty impressive.  Even more impressive was Mother Nature, who had a break in [...]

I’m Going To Miss The Snow In Utah

It snowed a little on Monday, so that put a nice smile on my face.  It didn’t stay very long, as it melted fairly quickly.  When I woke up this morning, I noticed more snow on the ground.  I didn’t expect that much snow by Wednesday morning, so I was pleasantly surprised. I know it’s [...]

Our First Flight With Jack (to get Lauriann home to family)

We got to fly with Jack for the first time this last week.  These are the ticket stubs from that flight.  More specifically, these are the ticket stubs from the second flight that helped us get home sooner (over 3 hours sooner).  I was really hoping that our first flight with Jack would have been [...]