24th at Jordanelle

Well we got together with some friends and went to Jordanelle on Sundayto finish off the 24th weekend.

We met at O.C.Tanner at 10:30 a.m. and carpooled up to the lake.

The players were myself, Stefanie, Seth Larsen, Arron Hales, Mike Hatch, Jason Baker, Zhen Wang, Eric and Juanita Atencio, and Edna and Toby!

Seth, Stef, and Edna checking the water.

Mr. Toby was just dying to get in the water..he LOVED the lake.

So I took him for a swim, he swims so good, he swam from shore all the way out to me and just sat on my lap on the floaty.

Mike Hatch enjoying a delicious liquid adult beverage.

This is how Seth and Stef spent most of the day..in the shade.
It was a good day, spent about 4 hours out there it felt like a thousand hours, I fished (I sucked), we swam, Toby played, and we were smart and put sunscreen on so we didn't even get burnt.
It was a happy 24th, Happy Birthday Utah!

SEE THIS MOVIE!

That is all I can say about this film..Stef and I have seen it twice, we own the
soundtrack, and as soon as it comes out on video we will own the unrated, unedited, full VEGAS version.

Old and New and MY BACK!!!

Last Tuesday I took Stef down a bowl of cereal for breakfast and she said "The milk is warm?" so we went upstairs and the fridge took a dump on us. The freezer was working overtime, frost on everything, but no more cold. So we went out and bought a new one, YEA! The lady we talked to says "We can't deliver it until the 30th" WTF?!? So a week with no cold food..we had to throw out all our perishables..ugh.
Here is the old (1998) fridge, it came with the house.

But the new one came today!!!! And it matches the rest of our appliances (the stove is next, but have to wait till it takes a dump). It is so pretty and shinny!!

Also my back went out!! Well I had been jumping around on it for close to 9 weeks with my show Treasure Island..I could feel pain and numbness the whole time, but last week it became unbearable, I had an MRI Monday and the doctor said I had Herniated Disk between the L4 AND L5 Lumbar. So hopefully I can get this resolved soon, I have been taking it really easy and not doing any strenuous actions. I will keep you all updated.
(Check out my image I found it is written in Spanish LOL)

The Side of the House

Hi Ho Garrick here, Stefanie is spending her summer at the Hale Centre Theatre.
So I have started my summer projects, this is the first one, complete the South side of the house.

So I dug up all the weeds and grass that was on the side and laid a path of stones for Prince Toby to prance along (he is not so keen on walking on the grass, little girly boy)

After that I made a small box to lay under the hose to catch water and to frame the hose, redwood sides and river stones.

My mom and Roger gave us a great frog to put in our yard for a house warming gift and he fits so well in here, see him in the corner.


Here is the side with the sod laid in it turned out so well, if you look at the overhang my mom and Rog also gave us a windchime and it is hanging on the corner, it sounds beautiful.


Here it is complete, it was a lot of work and Stef was a big help, but we love how it looks.

The fam came to town!!

Well Treasure Island closed (Finally!) on June 6th and the fam made the trek out to see Garrick's last show. If you don' t know Garrick is following his dream and going back to school to get his Illustration degree in Comic Book Art and he has officially retired from theater life.

Aurora, Mom and Roger all flew in to see this show, it was so great. Grandma Joan, Mom, Rog, Quinn, Jodi, Stefanie and Aurora all went and saw the show together, and we had a great BBQ at the house afterwards...a mini family reunion.

Dick joined Grandma at the house and saw the show a couple days later. Q feeding Toby.

Q and G enjoying life.

Apparently something was happening to the right of us?

Garrick, Deb, Quinn
Can't believe she pushed out these two motley crew.

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Arrgghhhhh matey!

Garricks new show is "Treasure Island" at Hale Centre Theatre and he is so excited because he is playing the lead role. It's kinda a big deal to get a lead at Hale, but 13 years preforming there and he has finally got the lead. He is playing the one-legged pirate, Long John Silver. I went to the show last week and it was so good! Garrick does and amazing job. Be sure to catch this show!!

It runs April 27th - June 6th.

13.1 - What a blast!

Well, I survived the half marathon. And I must say that I enjoyed it. It was tough and kicked my butt! Other than waiting 10 minutes for the disgusting port-a-pottie and that adding at least 10 minutes to my time, I finished in the time that I was aiming for. So all in all, it was a great morning. Here is me and Nat crossing the finish line, she finished before me, but came and ran the last bit and crossed the finish line with me, it was fun. We sprinted the last 30 feet, it was a blast.

This is one that the SLC Marathon people took, this was at like mile 11 or so running down State Street... Running fro 9th South to South Temple was tough... the hardest part of the run it's mile 11 and 12.

Here are the girls that ran, Ang, Nat, my co-worker Anna, my cuz Maria and me. My dad and Denise came and got us all flowers, it was so great to have everyone there supporting us! THANKS Seth and Aaron and Blake for coming to support me too! I loved seeing you as I ran up to the finish line!

Here are the sisters, I'm still trying to get Beck to commit to doing the Moab Half next year. That is the one that me Nat and Ang want to do.
It was such a great experience and so glad I did it. Next year the goal is to do it with out stopping. Just running straight through the 13.1 miles.