My Beautiful Wife

Here is Andrea my beautiful sweet wife. Andrea is not just beautiful on the outside she is also beautiful on the inside. Andrea is a good wife. The best wife in the entire world. Andrea is always fun to be around. Andrea can always make you laugh. She also loves to laugh until she cries. Andrea although very compassionate, loves to laugh when others fall or get hurt. She says she can't help it. Andrea loves her family so much. Andrea loves making sure I don't embarrass myself. Andrea loves a good snuggle and a good back scratch. Andrea cannot have enough earrings, purses, and of course shoes. She loves to sleep in on Saturdays and she loves to sit in front at church on Sunday. She gets really sad when the other team loses. She loves trips and sunflower seeds too. I think everyone would be better off by having Andrea in their lives. The very best part about Andrea is that she loves me right back.

In case you were wondering...

I have been asked a lot lately about my new job. So far so good... I really enjoy working somewhere where I know we are providing a great product that people really enjoy. The last couple of weeks have been mostly training... so nothing too exciting but it is a lot to remember and I have to test on all the info on Wednesday. I am not a great test taker so cross your fingers for me. I am actually sitting in the living room with the lights off typing right now so I feel a little like Doogie Howser.... at the end of the show he always sat at the computer and typed a recap of what was happening... Andrea thinks I am weird... I think I am a boy genius! Anyway... so if I have been hard to get a hold of... its because I can't talk at work... what a shame... but its the price I pay for working with a good company. Peace out.

Oh I need some feedback on my birthday card to Andrea... There are two couples on the front with horse heads... the one couple says, "Why yes we are horse people too... our boots must have given us away!" I stood at Target and just laughed at the card... I died when I gave it to Andrea too... she didnt think it as funny as I did... but come on... the boots? As if they couldnt see that they also had horse heads! I need to scan the card and post it on here... I love it! Maybe I am lame... ok... now really.... peace out.

Happy Birthday Andrea

Andrea and I had a really fun birthday weekend. On Friday night we went to a play called "Kiss me Kate" at an outdoor theater. A friend of ours Jake Bryant had a part in the play so it made it more interesting for us. We also went out on Saturday night for her birthday because her birthday fell on a Sunday this year. We went to the Texas Road House Grill. We love that place! Sunday we went to Curry and Melissa's to have dinner and dessert for the birthday girl. We had a fun weekend together!

Provo Fire

Here are some shots of the fire that we could see from our place. It progressed a lot more but by dark it was contained.

Glam shots by Brad

Bart came over for a quick photo shoot. I think this one will work out nice...

Are you even kidding me?

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. Does anyone else think it sounds like it all about the money?

Starburst Fruit Chews are exactly as their name would indicate: chewy. But one Michigan woman says the candies are so chewy, they should come with a warning label.

Victoria McArthur, of Romero, Mich., is suing Starbursts' parent company, Mars Inc., for more than $25,000 for "permanent personal injuries" she claims she sustained after biting into one of their yellow candy in 2005.

"I don't know, maybe about 3 chews and it literally locked my jaw … and it just literally pulled my jaw out of joint," she told MyFoxDetroit.com.

McArthur's lawyer, Brian Muawad, says the candies caused her to develop a condition known as temporal mandibular joint dysfunction. McArthur says she has had trouble chewing, talking and sleeping since the incident.

Muawad says McArthur offered to negotiate a settlement with Starburst's insurer to pay for her rehabilitation, but the company said no way. A spokesman for Mars refused to comment.

McArthur says she just wants to make sure nobody else meets the same end she did when she decided to indulge her sweetooth.

"I don't want to see anybody else have to go through what I have gone through from eating a piece of candy that was supposed to be soft chew," she said.

Me as PC

I just figured out how I can email my pictures from my camera phone to myself so I can post them. This is a picture of me in my Halloween costume dressed as PC from the Apple computers commercial. My friend Jeff was Mac and we were a hit. We won second place to a guy who dressed up as a hooker nun... any guy who is willing to do that deserves to win.

Silly Putty Face

Here is one of my Silly Putty creations! I wasn't trying to model after anyone in particular... but hey... when you don't have anything else to do at a job you have already quit... what do you do? Our AC is broken here... thus the shine on his face.

Facial Hair

So I am not a huge fan of growing facial hair... I sometimes let it grow out a little farther than I should just because shaving is such a hassle. Andrea didn't think that I would actually leave a little on my face in the form of a goatee. She wouldn't even look at me before I shaved it completely off... but good thing I have a camera phone! Its not much I know... but its not really my thing either.

Deep thoughts by Brad

I was thinking on my way to the bathroom at work... man I sure wont miss this building. Then I thought... why do we call it a building when it has already been built... we should call it a built. I work in a built... I live in a built...

I am tired of saying 'flip flops'... when did we switch to that anyway. I wasn't done calling them 'thongs'. Its so much easier to say thongs... there should be no confusion with the other word 'thong' because typically you only wear those one at a time thus the singular usage. So the added 's' means they are thong sandals. Starting now... they are 'thongs' again!

Does anyone know why the word cool has stayed cool? Other words like tubular or radical have not stood the test of time. Cool is like the ultimate word to use to express how 'cool' something is. Cool really, if you think about it has bridged together generations of people who use this word. Anyway have a cool summer.

I was watching the news this morning and the guy they have as their "funny reporter" (who is not normally funny) was actually funny this morning. He was reporting live from some western days carnival or something and he was sitting on one of those pig slides that have where you all race down at the same time. He said "they actually named this ride after my college nickname" and they panned out to show the name of it. It read "Flying Fanny". I was dying! Who names a slide that.

Join me later for more thoughts by Brad