Wednesday Tunes

Utah Man


I am a Utah man, sir and I live across the green.
Our gang it is the jolliest that you have ever seen.
Our coeds are the fairest and each one's a shining star.
Our yell, you hear it ringing through the mountains near and far.

Chorus:
Who am I, sir, a Utah man am I:
A Utah man, sir, and will be till I die: Ki! Ki!
We're up to snuff: we never bluff.
We're game for any fuss.
No other gang of college men dare meet us in the muss.
So fill your lungs and sing it out shout it to the sky.
We'll fight for dear old crimson for.....

Chorus:

And when we prom the avenue, all lined up in a row.
And arm in arm and step in time as down the street we go.
No matter if a freshman green, or in a senior's gown,
The people all admit we are the warmest gang in town.

Chorus:

We may not live forever on this jolly good old sphere,
But while we do we'll live a life of merriment and cheer.
And when our college days are o'er and night is drawing nigh,
With parting breath we'll sing that song:

A Utah Man am I!

Mini Drill

My sista is the drill coach at Brighton High School and they put on a mini drill clinic that little b and her cousin's danced in. Bryten thought it was the greatest thing ever she was dancing at Brighton. All the girls were so excited, the two nights before, on the way to and back from practice they were so HYPER!! I think they drove T and marcee crazy, laughing and singing silly made up songs, yelling and screaming. They were all so excited to dance on a "football field".



Cody and Gaven love to watch football on tv and we tackle all the time. They were pretty involved with the game for the first ten or so minutes then they were done. That was until the bengal walked by. Cody couldn't keep his eyes of the bengal and just about feel off the bench a few times.

He kinda looks scared in the picture but when we were there he looked more like he was sizing up the bengal and was thinking, "I'm tuff and I just might take you out, don't mess with ME bengal!"

Penny Pinching Parent

I know that most of you are young parents that read my blog. I found this site and thought that I would share it with you all! The Penny Pinching Parent. I haven't really checked into to much but it looks like they find some pretty good deals. We need all the deals we can get.

I have lots of things I need to blog, just need some time and I need to start taking more pictures!

Hope you all are having a great weekend! The weather is really nice.

T's Tumbling

T started a tumbling class today. She is using a local business, Centro Unico to hold the class. If anyone is interested it is every Wednesday from 3 to 6. T's Tumbling in Rose Park is really cost friendly, so if you live close by and you have children who would like to learn basic gymnastics, it would definitely be worth your time to try it out.

Centro Unico
910 West 1000 North
Salt Lake City, Utah

At Home

You know there's not much on tv during the day. Left work early yesterday because of stomach issues that have continued today. Spent most of the morning watching the history channel, not sure why they did show on "Life After People"? Like it matters! We're not here! Most of their graphics are pretty cool, but some of them, it's like they didn't know what to do. They are showing things, bridges, cars, roads, dams and such breaking and deteriorating. They start of all cool, then they just don't know where to go from there and so they ruin the whole thing.

Summer might be over but we are still busy. This upcoming weekend is going to be crazy. Seems like we should have shared some of this weekends activities with last weekend. We didn't do much for Labor day weekend, mostly just hung out around the house. I watched our kids and Haeli's on Saturday morning, Gavin and Cody are no longer allowed to play together, or at least they shouldn't be. They destroyed our house, dumped food everywhere, went room to room causing havoc, pestered their sisters who were playing really good and leaving me alone. Finally I had to send them to Jeremy's where they continued on their destruction spree. Jeremy finally put them down for a nap where they continued there damage, they dumped baby powder and baby lotion all over the floor. I hope this is just a stage that they grow out of SOON!

As for this weekend, the big thing is we are having Jonas's blessing. Meaning that we have to super clean the house, the yard and everything else that goes along with that. I'm going to the U game Saturday night, my dad needs my help fixing his fence, the Greek Festival is this weekend along with the
Greater Avenues Street Fair and the Utah State Fair starts.

There's not a shortage of events to keep you busy this weekend.

Wednesday Tunes

Bens Fold - Rockin' the Suburbs

All alone in my white boy pain!

Photography in the Parks

Canon is sponsoring a photo contest. The pictures have to be taken of a National Park. The contest started in April, I'm a little slow in finding out about it and it ends at the end of this month. So hopefully you were planning on visiting a park in the next couple of weeks or maybe you have a picture on hand that you previously have taken. First, second and third place win some sweet digital cameras. They also have photo tips on how to take better pictures, so if you don't think you are good enough to enter check out the site to learn some tips on how to take better pictures.

Back to School

I started back to school this week. Seems like it's never going to end and whenever it does I just keep going back. I'm in my second out of three year Master of Public Policy Program at the U. It's a two to four year program, those who are ambitious or don't work full time can do it in two years while those who need more time can do it in four years. I'm rather lazy and a little busy so I'm going for three years. I tried the two year program for one semester, yea, that didn't go over so well. So this semester I have two courses; Principles of Economic Development and Policy Evaluation. Should be a fun semester, busy but not pulling my hair out, ulcer creating busy.

Football started today! As hard as the Utes tried to loose they BEAT Michigan @ Michigan!!! Undefeated!

Wednesday Tunes

M.I.A.- Paper Planes

Paullette

This is Bryten and Zack's gymnastics coach at Hunt's Gymnastics. Paul did some great comedy routines. On Bryten's first day of class she was too scared to tell him that she had to pee and she had an accident right on the mat. He is a great coach. Bryten really enjoys her class.

Pizza, a Senator and the incredible INTERNET

Initially posted on my other blog thought that it would fit in here also.

I honestly love the internet. It's truly an amazing thing. I also continue to find the story of the Pizza girl and Senate Majority Leader very interesting. One of the most interesting aspects of the story to me is how the blog post was found and how fast it spread. The post first appeared on Monday the 18th, it apeared on the Utah Bloghive Tuesday evening on this blog, KSL Nightside project picked it up Tuesday night and by Friday KSL news did the story above. All this from someone simply posting a story on a blog that she believed very few people viewed. This story has been in both big Utah papers, digg, dailykos, and is being read in Europe, Australia and just about anywhere else.

There are lessons that people should already know by now about the internet, I believe two very important lessons that should be re-learned.

The first important lesson, in our web 2.0 generation anything you say or do CAN end up on the internet. Besides the famous examples of Paris Hilton and other celeb sex tapes, politicians who believe they are talking off the mic, there are probably millions of everyday story's of people who do or say something they thought was private that ends up on the internet. We should know and especially public figures should know this lesson. Of course we should be kind to everyone and act appropriately whether or not it will end up on the internet. Our actions shouldn't be determined by if they will end up on the internet but we should keep that in mind.

The other lesson, whatever is posted on a blog, sent in an email or in a text message is in the public domain. Here's a good explanation on how the post was probably found. Even if you believe no one is reading your blog, someone is. Think that your friend will not forward or post your email or the picture you text them you always have to think that they might.

Reading the comments on the pizza girl's blog, on ksl and other blogs who have posted about his story shows that this is a common thread in Senator Curt Brambles life and his dealings with people, especially people who he feels are beneath him. I seriously doubt that this will cost him the election but lets hope that it will cost him the leader position that he so easily abuses.

One of my favorite post on the story. I also like this post

Mom blogs

**UPDATED**

I don't know what I consider my blog. I'm not sure that I have to fit into a category of blogging, I'm not sure that I do. I read a lot of blogs, most just once, a handful every so often and a couple just about every day. It really doesn't matter one way or the other what I consider my blog, it's just that sometimes I think it would be great if I had a large following, sometimes I'm glad that I don't. My writing really isn't that great to keep strangers reading, 99% of my hits are from people I know and Thank you for coming back.

I believe that I most closely resemble MOM Blogs, though I think they should be called kids blogs or people who blog about their kids and life in general blogs. There are some dad blogs out there but they are less recognized and only hopping on the mommy blog phenomenon.

One of the original and most famous mom blogs is Dooce. She is very entertaining to read, is from Utah and is a non practicing Mormon. Her blog is so popular that neither her or her husband work other then on the blog. It would be strange to have thousands of strangers reading about your personal life. It would be kinda sweet to make money off the advertising on your blog. I wouldn't mind that part at all.

I really do enjoy that family and friends can easily see what we are doing and keep in touch. Thanks for reading!

Here are a couple mom blog directory's.
Ultimate Mommy Blog list
Top 100 Mom Blogs
Top Mom Blog List

**UPDATE**
I just found this new mom blog. It's a mom blog that makes fun of mom blogs, It's pretty funny. She is going to be on KSL Aug 26th at 4 and she was in the D-news. She also makes money from her site. One day!