TEST 123, TEST 123

Just checking out if I good Mom's and Dad's "feed" set up on their new computer.

A greateful heart.

Well... Its that time of year to be thankful. It is way to easy to get busy with life (I tend not to have any difficulties to stay busy) that we forget to take a moment and step back and look at all we got:

• Grateful for my great family. I love them much!
• Grateful for the super cool nephews and nieces. Sorry boys... but them girls and flippin cute!
• Greatful to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ and his restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
• Thankful for my job! I enjoy turning to the right and don't forget... TURN AND BURN! I call it Black Opps... Getting drilling in the black.
• Greatful for a Father in Heaven that knows me and loves me.
• THANKFUL for all of you that read my BLOG!!! Thanks for leaving comments, it makes my day.

Until next time... keep it turning to the right.

Fall Time at the Pad

Just a couple of pics of my front yard.

Thats right Grandma... check out them pretty leaves. Can't see that in CASPER!! Because the wind would have blowed them away (with the gravel).

The Wall

Imogene Pass: Good times had by all

Well,

Padres came to town a bit ago. We had a blast! Took the toys up to Imogene Pass, out side of Ouray. Took a few pictures along the way...

Just getting started for the day. Mom and Dad on Kelly!

Starting off... Looking back down the canyon.

Enjoying the fall colors. (1)

Enjoying the fall colors. (2)

Another picture of the sexy couple, 0n top of Imogene Pass (13114').

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Dad and Mom on top, looking east.

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Looking down on Telluride.

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Looking down at the ski runs above Telluride.

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Who is that on the rock????

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HUBA HUBA!!

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Last but not least... I few pictures of the girls!!!

Well it was good times had by all. It was a beatiful day out with lots and lots and lots of pretty colors.

On top of the world

Grandma and Grandpa on top of the world...

The competition is on... bring it little ones (grandkids). Thats right, Uncle Ben can play a pretty mean game of entertaining Grandma and Grandpa!

Thats right, a weekend of no babysitting, no diper changing, and no getting woken up in the middle of night... It was a weekend of Mountains, riding toys, sleeping in, going to the gym, shopping, eating brownies and ice cream, waffle sticks, french toast, eggs, bacon, sasuage, and Taverna.

Keep up with that little ones!

New Roots!!

Well, if you hadn't heard yet, I got some new roots as of last Monday. I was suppose to fly up to Montana Tech on Monday afternoon, but had to re-schedule my flight because of an emergancy root canal. Friday night I made dinner with Ryan and Heighly... French toast, eggs, and bacon. A delisous dinner might I add. Was cleaning up, and all of a sudden, my tooth just started to hurt. Well needless to say the rest of the entire of the night was nothing but pain and more pain in my upper back tooth. Heighly went and got some Red Cross Tooth Ache stuff that worked partially only some of the time. I did find that mouth wash seemed to calm the pain... must be all the alcohol or something (Ryan wanted to go get some hard liquor for me). So finally morning came and I called the emergancy/on-call dentist (Thats right I actually called) and described my pain. By this time the pain had started into the jaw. He gave me some pain killers and wanted to see if we could make it through the weekend. So I started to thake the Loratabs, but by afternoon the pain was even worse, and the drugs didn't do squat! So by early night, I called back to the dentist again... The pain was through the jaw and started to give me a head ache by this point. So he had me taking a Loratab alternated by 600 - 800 mg of ibprofin. Needless to say a couple of hours later, I was feeling pretty good, the pain had seemed to mild down; but there was some side affects. Heighly was enjoying my loopy comments and slurred words. Anyways, made it till Monday and got in to the dentist. My nerves died, thats why the pain was so bad, and were dead by the time we got to them on Monday. Drilled out the old roots, put in some new cement ones. All I know is I feel great.

Its kinda funny, Woosley (a guy I work with) was just describing to me 2 or 3 weeks back about this crazy crazy tooth ache he had. He ended up getting his tooth pulled. He says he has had a hurniated disc in his back, and that don't even compare to the tooth ache he had. He doesn't know how I handled it... He finally took a loratab and a couple shots of wiskey to kill his pain.

But life is good. I'm no longer poping pills like a drugy (I downed more pills that weekend then I have in the past 2 years). The tooth is still sore just a bit to the touch, but I feel good.

PS... Loratabs make me hiper.

the bachelor pad

Ok... so check out my tomato plants.. or should I just call it a big tomato bush? It has gone crazy...

And a few other pictures from around the house...

my sweet rose bush.

Front yard... (my dead plant that was revived turned out pretty cool with the brown/green contrast of dead/live leaves...

oh yeah.. my broccoli.

My little patch of wild flowers and weeds.

Next time I now not to put the bird feeder around flowers/garden.

So I figured, the pictures of a garden at my "bachelor" pad, don't seem very manly... Maybe I should put a couple more pictures up to prove its still a bachelor bad.

Pictures....

Ok, so I do have some pictures from my trip home. SO I bought a new camera!!! Its pretty sweet. It has a panorama feature. This is me trying to figure it out:




Obviously I still have some work to do.

Work... Work... and Work

Well I have to apologize for not getting something up earlier. I have been pretty swamped at work lately.. days, nights, weekends, whenever. I don't really have any pictures to post up (I'll have to find one from my trip home). I took a few days off a bit ago, so that was nice.... I need to make a trip out to California sometime and one up to Utah!

HOLES... and the winner is...

CONGRATS NIK!!! There are 6 holes (2 of them can be seen in the shadows). You won 2 free night stay at Tolman Suites & Sweets! Located in the 4-corner region. Included is a batch of home made ice cream and ben's famous brownies.

Thanks all for playing... all that participated won 1 free night stay at Tolman Suites & Sweets!

And for the rest of you... Bahumbug!!!!

MOAB

OK, so those of you that guessed Moab, you was correct. Went up with Ryan, Heighly, and Ohio. We ended up doing a few trails. Poison Spider (minus the loop), Golden Spike, and Golden Bar (backwards). Went by Gemini Bridges. And came back to the truck by some old "grandma" trail. The grandma trail by far had some of the best scenery. It was a good trip. Everyone came home and nothing was broken!! Just a few pics...

Climbin a wall

Ohio

The end of "Golden Spike" and the start of "Golden Bar"

Going down the end/start wall shown above.

Sitting on top of the ledge just W/SW of Moab. (At least I think its on the west side)

Mushroom Rock... At least thats what I call it...

Mystery Trip

Ok, so several of you got random pictures last weekend. All of you asked where the pictures came from. So I just can't tell you... Maybe if I give a few more pictures here, it will help out..

Any guesses yet? Maybe these will help...

Ok so any guesses yet? I'll post some more pictures with the answer later.

GUESSING GAME: Also, Count how many photos have holes in the rock, and we will see who comes close.. look carefully!!!