Picture perfect

Now i've seen many different blogs and i've felt like ours is seriously lacking on the photo side. So here we go!

This is a photo of friend from the past and the present. On my left is my friend Doug Argyle from first grade. We lost contact during high school but tracked each other down a few years back. The friend on my right is Dan Soderburg. He's a best friend from my mission.

This is Ebby and i on a hike up Adams canyon.

This is another great shot while inEnsenada, Mexico.

Birthday-Boy Blog

We all can see how often i participate in this blog page. Well i figured it's my birthday i need to pimp my day today. 25 years ago at 10:38 pm that cute bundle joy was born in Twin Falls.
Now most of you that already know me, know that i'm a child at heart. However, this birthday was the first time that i felt age catch up with me. This morning i woke up to my presents from Halley and one in particular put me in a whole new age bracket. This present was a brand new IPOD nano, now how cool is that? I love it, however the moment i connected it to the laptop i realized.... i have no idea what to do now. All the many years of knowing what to do was just flushed down the youth toilet. I had to call my little brother-in-law to figure the dumb thing out and he's 15.
Thanks for the calls and great birthday wishes. Especially to my gorgeous wife who made this day one of the best birthdays i could ever ask for. I'm saying that now cause i know she's going to see what i wrote after i'm done.

---AARON

No other choice

Due to the recent lack of blogging by those of you who's blogs I am a frequent visitor of, alas you leave me no other choice but to update my own blog, which is not nearly as fun or as interesting to me as reading others. So here's what going on in our lives this week... or as I so affectionately refer to it as "The Mad Dash."

Friday 8/1 our lender called us and informed us that we would be closing on our loan on the 15th of this month. Five min. after that the contractor called and said that the framers would be there on the 20th of this month. We were ecstatic with this news of coarse for approximately five min. and the reality set in and we realized that this gave us exactly two weeks to do the following
#1. (and probably the most important) Find and alternative place to live while our house is torn apart for the next 3-5 months.
#2. Find a storage shed for all of our stuff
#3. Pack up all of our stuff and sort out what bare essentials we can take, and what needs to go into storage
#4. Move all of our stuff to two different locations!
#5. Demo ALL of the interior walls, and everything in the bathroom and kitchen, and rip out all of the flooring

All the while trying to close on a loan, keep tabs on your contractor (who sadly is now in possession on the #1 speed dial spot on my phone), and trying to decide all of the almost mind numbing details that going to building a house.

However I must give a huge THANK YOU to my Mom and Dad for helping us out with problem #1 and saving us from having to pitch a tent in our own backyard. So thank you, thank you, thank you for taking us in!!!