The End MUST be Near

Because of a variety of incomprehensible situations, I realized the other day that the End must be nearing. Consider these items and try to convince me otherwise:

#3: Rob created a blog. That's really not a big deal to the rest of us, but to put this in perspective, I hear that the Town of Princeville will be awarding him the 'First Citizen to Log Onto That Darn In-Ter-Net Thing' award. And a banquet.

#2: Jenny, the consummate corporate professional on the fast-track, the know-it-all (in a good way) go-to-gal of user interfaceverything recently decided to stay home and raise CJ. Now that's great soup.

#1: I have a 6lb bag of protein in my pantry...I've been making one or two fruit smoothies a day...and I regularly *gasp* work out at Gold's Gym. Anybody that knows me, knows that this is simply not possible.

Yeah, just try to convince me otherwise. Actually, my feelings lately have been that there is a lot of great stuff going on around you in life if you just choose to look.

King Spam and the Toxic Peanut

I just thought that would be a cool title for a post.

Growing Up

This was a landmark weekend regarding how much fun it is starting to become to have older kids. We have had a great time playing games at a suprisingly comprehensive level, in addition to the fact that Mia and Cooper play together very well for extended periods of time now, so I was able to finish my taxes, etc. It's so nice not to have to babysit - for a few minutes at a time anyway!
One of the sweetest moments in recent memory happened while we were playing Pictionary on Saturday night. David and I on one team and Steve, Shanna, and Mia on the other team, which worked out well, since Steve's 30 second attention span lent itself to needing a 3rd player. Anyway, Mia was doing an awesome job drawing and guessing - she seriously beat Dave and I drawing a couple of times, no holds barred. One of those included "underwater camera", complete with a stickman diver wearing flippers, diving under the waterline while holding a camera. We came upon the word "small" and it was an all-play, so that left Mia and I drawing. I drew various contrasting objects and finally David guessed it right before the time ran out. But neither Shanna or Steve had guessed anything close to Mia's highly detailed little object, so they asked her what she was drawing. "A grasshopper." We totally died laughing. So then she says, "I guess a shoulda drawn a ladybug - they're even smaller..."
Here is pic of Mia, Coop and I playing Uno tonight. Cooper is fully functional and can get through an entire game without me having to tell him which card to play. Note the "I really don't care if anyone sees my cards" attitude, which means Mia just works him over when it's her turn to pick a color. Note2 the duration of which it takes Mia to play a card, routinely resulting in napping antics.

Hawkins lays down the law

Dan Hawkins (the previous Broncos coach) took on a huge challenge in building the Colorado football program back up - they were 2-10 this year. At at recent press conference, he decided he needed to set a minor detail straight. Now that is funny. Sounded a little like Howard Dean runnin' for president.

Tundra update

We saw a new Tundra in person this weekend at the local Toyota dealer (we seem to spend a lot of time there for some reason). My first impression is that the overall size is definitely in the 'real truck' category. It comes across no less than a Ford, Chevy, Dodge etc. So if that was one of the goals, I'd say it's been met. Shanna didn't really like the hood which is very short(depth), tall(height) and rounded(shape). I think it looks sweet - kinda like a semi-truck. We saw the double cab and single cab models, but no CrewMax yet. Because of the overall size issue, I'm sticking with the '06+ Tacoma Double Cab as the Current Truck of Choice. Shanna easily retained her Sequoia selection as Current SUV of Choice.

Toyota's new Tundra

Finally getting some good info on Toyota's new Tundra. This version is the first major competitor to GM and Ford, coming in at 3" longer than the F-150. I'm not a big 'big' truck fan, but I think it is very good looking in the CrewMax configuration shown below. Like an upsized version of our Tacoma with twice as much power. Now, where did I put that extra $38000 I had laying around....

Ooooohh, stock headers.....

Skiing with the kids (sort of)

I had been talking for quite a while about taking the kids skiing this winter, so we sort of did that last Saturday. Actually it was more of a field trip just to get them used to the idea. So we drove up to Bogus Basin to have a look around. They loved the chair lifts, the magic carpet, the lodge, the tubing hill etc. I think it's safe to say that we'll get back up as soon as possible and go skiing for real!