Sunday, March 27, 2011

My Boys Love their Mom

Hali is a cub scout leader, bears actually, and last week she had them all make toolboxes.  Amazing woman she is.  Here is a picture of the boxes she had my boys do.  They are already filling up with tools, and I am quickly losing mine.  My boys love their mom, they also want to be like their dad, and that makes me feel great.  Now they have a toolbox just like their dad does. Pretty impressive project boys!



Hali also just got done making a yummy cake.  Chad was in here helping and guess who got to lick the beater?  He is such a good helper, he loves his mom.  By the way, the cake is awesome!

Winter will not quit

We had another busy week last week, in fact, it REALLY wore us out.  We were going both directions with so many different things last week that we were never all together at once.  When we got home at night, we were all so tired that all we really wanted to do was go to bed.  That was not so bad, I guess, I suppose we are used to it by now.  I think what really is bothering me is the weather.  Cold, Grey, wet, windy, dark, and still snowing off and on!  I have talked to a lot of my patients, and they all feel the same way I do.  This winter more than any other, has really wore me out.  It has been long and full of snow.  I guess I am just ready to get to mowing the lawn, getting the house sold, and moving on with the next chapter in our lives.  So much of our life is unsettled right now.  We try to keep it as stable as we can, and for the most part, we are doing good, we just know how much things will have to change before we truly will feel settled again.
On another note, I am going to coach Chads baseball team in Rexburg this summer.  He has a tryout on Wednesday, then we will draft all of the new kids into the existing teams.  I think it will be fun to watch and he is looking forward to it.  Kace is going to try T-ball, he will also double as my bat boy and mascot.  He is such a funny little guy.  I hope I have another father that will want to help out with practices.  The girls are still busy with volleyball each weekend, and Mataia had her first track meet last week.  She was one of only two freshman to make the girls varsity track team.  We are very proud of her for that.  Funny though, there are a lot of little freshman girls that are not too happy about that, but Taia does not see it at all.  My opinion...get better and beat her, or get over it!  Just a dads point of view.  Got to go to town, Hali and Morgan are playing the violin and piano at a fireside tonight.  I am out.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

NCAA MADNESS

Today is a fun day.  College basketball, which I really do not follow much during the year, started their end of the season national tournament.  It is so fun to watch, because they are all good, and at any time, any one of them could win.  Of course, I am  cheering for BYU, and the fighting Fredetts!  They beat Wofford, now on to the round of 32.  My boys just had a wrestling tournament and they both got second.  Not bad, I am proud of them, it is fun for this old wrestler to watch the next generation try it out.  The girls are doing volleyball this weekend, both in different directions on the map, sheesh.  Mataia's track meet got cancelled on wednesday, so no pole vault results to report, but her vaulting coach just got 6th in the nation at the Indoor National Championships at Texas A&M, so we think she is in pretty good hands there.  Life is great here, I am tired from all the things we do.  OK, I just saw the commercial for Old Spice where the guy says, 'look at me, now look at you, now look at me, now you, now me...that is so funny!'  The picture is of a contraption Chad made to plow the melting snow around here.  He has much more fun riding his bike and scooter than actually shoveling, what a smart little man!  He gets his smarts from his mom I am sure. We are very ready for the snow to melt and be gone.  I am out.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS

Saturday today. Sports and traveling are the theme. Morgan is playing volleyball in Ashton about 20 miles away, Taia is in a band concert in Blackfoot, about 60 miles away. Hali is judging a clogging competition in Pocatello, 90 miles away. I am here with Morgan. They boys are none too excited to be here, but it was either here or they had to babysit the chickens all day. Yes, we have egg laying MACHINES. I cannot believe how many eggs we get from these little guys. We have 8 barred rock hens and we get at least 7 eggs a day. It is hard to keep up with them sometimes. We are always giving eggs to the neighbors. It's been a good project for the kids. So now back to volleyball, we are in the gym and there are volleyballs flying everywhere! Little 14u girls running around with bows in their hair, cap sleeved uniforms and spandex. Volleyball is fun to watch. They improve every weekend they play.
This is Morgan hitting against a team from Pocatello.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

POLE VAULTING AND WRESTLING


In the last few days we have continued with the busy!  Mataia had track practice a few days ago and she was practicing her pole vault.  Notice the 2" of fresh Idaho powder.  It was cold, but she learned a lot and got some practice on the track before her first meet next week.  Should be fun to watch.



Now tonight we had wrestling practice with the boys.  I have to admit, that I am a bit partial to this sport of stress, strain and work.  My boys are still a bit behind when it comes to excitement for the sport though.  They are cute, they are fun, they are just like there dad!  My cute wife likes to tell me that they are just like me when they are bad, so what can I say.  Chad is on my left, Kace is on the right,  what fun they are.



Like I said this morning, today is Hali's birthday, she is awesome!  Somebody called the radio station and told them it was her birthday, and told them that "RODERICKS RULE!"  I honestly do not know who did it, but it was dang funny.  I love her more now than ever before, I am a lucky guy.  Time for some salsa chicken.  I am out.

FIRE

You know, there are not a lot of words out there that get your head spinning and heart racing like FIRE!  We got a little scare the other night when Hali's grandparents had a chimney fire at their house.  It did some damage, burned a few trusses, got smoke all through the house, but otherwise was taken care of quickly, and very efficiently, by our local fire department and volunteers.  I was terribly impressed at how well they did.  Her grandparents are going to be displaced for a few weeks while they get things back together, but luckily there is a lot of family around to help.  We have been busy here in the RN, Hali has a birthday today.  It is also the 12th anniversary of us opening our clinic, so that is a nice little accomplishment.  Track and volleyball for the girls are rolling along, as is wrestling for the boys.  They are all busy, we love our "down time" at home, and enjoy all the fun times we have together.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

TO BOISE AND BACK

This weekend we went over to Boise to watch the Boys State Basketball Championships.  It was so much fun.  We took the girls, one of their friends, and my nephew Foster, and had a blast.  We laughed more this weekend than we have in a long time. Foster acted like he was from Spain and was always saying "In Spain we do this, and in Spain we do that."  It was a running comedy.  Hali...she seemed to just be saying everything that was on her mind at the time, sometimes not exactly what I was expecting to hear, but way funny!  Taia and Morgan got along great, it was fun to see them enjoy each other.  I know it is hard to be nice to each other all the time, but these two are always laughing.  Morgan has this laugh that is funny, when she laughs it makes me want to laugh even more.  I love her for that.  We ate a lot of good food, stayed at a nice hotel, went swimming and just played.  I realize how lucky I am to be a Dad and a husband.  My kids are so much fun, my wife is my best friend, and life is good!  Oh, yeah, Madison won the state championship.  Great fun to watch, but all the real joy for me was to spend time with my family.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

AND WE ARE OFF

This morning started like most, Morgan had piano at 6:45, Taia had to be at school at 7:30 for a science review, I had to run on the 'mill, Hali was busy getting the boys ready, and the phone was ringing.  Fast pace to start today, and it is not going to slow down much this afternoon.  Hali has school all afternoon, the boys have wrestling, the girls have volleyball practice following Taia's track practice, and I am busy in the clinic.  We will probably all meet up at home well after dark. We are busy here in RN.  I am out.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

MY VIEW OF LIFE

Now, for some reason, my lovely wife has a few blogs that she has been keeping up.  I, however, have been content to just stalk her and make sure she applies the right amount of love and appreciation to me that  she should.  I have finally taken a minute to start my own blog.  I know it will probably just mirror a lot of what Hali already says, but it will be through my eyes, which she says thankfully there are only one pair of them out there.  This is because one of me is plenty.  Most of you who know me can appreciate that statement.  I am sure there will be many who do not like me, nor care for me, so this blog will just give them more ammunition.  I guess that is life.  This is going to be a fun little project.  I hope I can do it justice and provide fair and unbiased information that reflects our life.  It is our life, and as crazy as it is, it is a blast.  Hopefully I can entertain us all with some of the things that happen in "RODERICK NATION".