I challenged Kati to pick up the blog again--

--and we'll see how she does. She's a bit more private than I. I have decided to get over my ideological hangups over electronic society and spend a few minutes a day sharing my wonderfulness with the world, and hope that my wife will do the same.

This is now Joe Buck's Blog

This Lord of the Rings theme was requested by my husband Joe Buck. I had nothing to do with it.

Mt. Timp

I hiked Timp yesterday, camped at Emerald Lake, and then we finished this morning. Never done it before. There was a herd of over 50 mountain goats in our camp the whole day. There were also millions of people at the top, and over half had BYU gear on. Only issue: I was wearing a Utah shirt. Everyone, for good or bad, made a comment as we passed on the trail. I felt guilty for accepting compliments, being a BYU guy. I guess I walked about 14 miles in someone else's shoes.

A few more...

Kati is never less than embarassed by me.
Jonas didn't exactly make it all the way to Timp Cave.
Ian is well on his way to accidentally giving out gang signs.

Updates

We have been doing a lot this year, so here's a little review...

Resurrection of the Blog

Kati did a great job on this for a while, but as anyone knows, posts have becomefew and far between. Here we go--I'm juicin' the sucker back up and supporting my wife a bit better. She's a great photographer, cook, art critic, and gamer, and she should definitely not hide those lights under a basket. Let it shine forth, baby. By the way, if anyone gets notifications, etc., about this blog, e-mail Kati and encourage her to pick this up again.

New Christmas Card

Tara, don't get mad I jumped the gun and put your card online! It turned out great!
I'm not really doing these this year, but for my family who can say no?

Once a year ain't bad . .

Even worse considering it is almost Christmas and I have a Halloween photo for you!

Just in case you thought we were dead. We're not.

Some Cards

I haven't really advertised my Christmas Cards this year, mainly because I just don't want to push them on people. So, when people came to me I was totally flattered. I'm going to spread Christmas Cheer and post a few of them here.






Okay okay, the last one looks a lot like my blog . . . go figure.

New Blog

Fact. My blog is boring.

Fact. I never post.

But, I will update the design anyways!

Sneaky Joe Buck...

I have decided to sneak onto Kati's turf and let you all know how freaking amazing my wife is. She is incredible, and in a very credible way.

Can you say "Footloose" without laughing?

If you can, don't watch the following.

A study in period photography

I was messing around on photoshop today - and voila! Suddenly I have a replica 50's photo. I think I have a photo of my dad that looks very similar from when he was a young pup. I have so much fun on Photoshop. One day I might take the plunge and go to a photoshop convention. Until I look at the registration price . . . then again, maybe not.

Things my kids will remember . . .

People who have known me since before I was married are pretty blown away by the way my life has turned out. I'm not complaining. I love my life. It's just one of those things. The main reason they laugh out loud is this . . . For the rest of my life - I am thrown back to high school. Not just any high school I might add. Yup, good old AFHS. I'm pretty proud of the fact that I am now over all of the dumb adolescent inadequacies from which I suffered so painfully. It even took a few years of going to these games to FINALLY GET OVER MYSELF. I think I am finally cured. I can sit at a game and not even hate the cheerleaders. :) (Cheerleader moms on the other hand . . .) ANYWAY - my sons are going to grow up in the midst of all of this. If they like it or not, they are going to be subjected to the football season. So far so good. Ian likes to help Joe Buck paint the field - he even gets to ride on the bus with all of the players sometimes. They have taken him on as a mascot of sorts. (You know how teams nowadays have their little downs syndrome kid - that is my son. Except, well, he doesn't have downs syndrome. Of course. Wait.)

Anyway - after this exceptionally long post I will spare you by only posting a few pictures.
HAPPY FOOTBALL SEASON

Happy Birthday Jonas!

Some kids get basketballs. Some kids get trucks. Not you, my son. YOU get glasses for your first birthday. I am so sorry. But, we all think you look SO stinkin' cute! We love you,Baby Jonas!

INSTALLING A HUSBAND

Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NASCAR 6.0, NFL 5.1 and Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.

Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed,

Desperate.



DEAR DESPERATE,

First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.

Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.HTML and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1.

Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)

In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck!

Tech Support

The Best thing I Got All Summer

I am a dork. Because I love my library card. I had a hard time getting my can into the library to get a card because if I read a good book I want to OWN it - I don't want to take it back to the library. Lame. Well, I asked myself, what about all of those LAME books you've read? Good point. So, library card it is.

The OTHER thing that makes this so great is
THIS is awesome because I usually have NO IDEA what I should read. When I was younger my Dad had a FABULOUS library of classics. So when I discovered I loved reading - this is what I read. I love the classics - but, I always wondered, what else is out there? I branched out a bit - only to discover books don't necessarily have ratings. And for my young innocent adolescent mind - lets just say I was a little violated. But with Goodreads I can see what my friends are reading and how they liked them. If a book looks interesting I hop over to my library's website - request a copy - and they have it waiting for me to pick up at the front desk.

Don't you love technology?

My goal this year has been one book a month. I know, this is not necessarily a lofty goal. One wouldn't even call me an avid reader. But, reader nonetheless. So far I have missed one month.

Tell me what books you love - I'll add them to my long list of books I want to read!

Breakdown anyone?

Okay, so I've been having a few more of these than usual lately. Don't get me wrong, I'm a pretty easy going chica. Yet sadly, stress gets the better of me. Such was today. I ordered some books from Amazon this week and they were shipped on the 23. This is me checking my shipped status like 5 times a day. Phoenix to Ohio (don't ask me why) to Salt Lake City to American Fork (yeay) to yet another American Fork (waiting!) I even get the delivery in progress. Then suddenly out of NOWHERE my tracking page suddenly shows OHIO again. This is very upsetting because I am leaving for the week and I really REALLY REALLY wanted these books before I left. So, I'm bummed.

Then THIS happens . . . . I looked EVERYWHERE for a Banana Republic gift card my sister-in-law gave me for watching her kids. (I told her she REALLY didn't have to do that because it was SO easy and I know she would do the same for me - but she KNOWS how badly I need new clothing and was SO kind in giving me this $100 gift card) Well, couldn't find it. Searched all day. Nope. Maybe Joe Buck put it somewhere. Called him at school. Nope. At this point I am hyperventalating. Why can't ANYTHING in my life just WORK?? My life SUCKS! (I am actually okay now, I realize that I over reacted just a smidgeon . . . well, maybe more than that. A lot more.) I just didn't want to function. So I went on a drive to Sonic and purchased my favorite tasty beverage. Diet Coke with Vanilla. What size you ask? Better make it the 44 ouncer. (besides, I have an eternal coupon for Route 44 - 99 cents. Quick fix o-rama) Joe Buck comes home in one of his I-can't-focus-on-anything-until-I-find-what-is-lost moods. This is no fun for me because I am totally feeling good from my Diet Coke happiness and I just want my happy husband to say - It's okay, we'll find it later. But, no. He says like 4 words the entire 2 1/2 hours that he was home. I nearly forgot where he was and what he was doing - when suddenly he emerged from the bathroom holding this . . .



WHERE did he find it, you might ask?? Well, our 3 year old son has developed a fetish with our shredder. Joe dumped the entire contents of the shredder (which was full) into a bathtub of water. Of course. And sure enough. The plastic surfaces in a sea of pulp. Magnetic stripping? Gone. Of course. But, the card number was still intact - with a little bending and guessing. And Ta-da! After checking the number on the website to see if it really was okay - we found the card to have not $100 - but $200. I love my husband.

P.S. My books magically appeared in the mail today. Stupid tracking program anyway!

Super Fun Blog . . .

This is one I found, forgot about, thought "remember that one blog?", forgot about, then found randomly again. This lady lives a life that I dream about. Well, one of the lives I dream about! To live on a ranch, hours from anywhere - ride my horses, watch my hubbie and kids play with the cows - tend to my thriving garden - see miles and miles of grass. She makes it sound like the LIFE! Check her out!

www.thepioneerwoman.com

Christmas Card Preview!!

I have procrastinated making Christmas Cards for so long. I wanted to start in July! Well, I finally bit the bullet this week and I came up with these. What do you think? Any suggestions? What do YOU want to see on a unique card?