With Christmas coming with one night’s sleep I’d like to thank all of you. Not the “you” that Time magazine refers to but the people that actually read my site or know me personally that don’t bother to come here because I geek out too much. Thank you.
We’ve had a great year and these last few days have followed suit. We’re just relaxing and enjoying it. I’ve posted nothing just keeping up with my feeds and e-mail on the downtime and I’m surprised. Normally I’d be filling more time on the computer. Instead it’s here and there and loving my girls and enjoying the view.
The picture below was taken last night at some garden of lights thing here in Boise. It’s not great but the only one with us three that looked presentable enough. The rest are coming to flickr soon.
Getting ready for our trip tomorrow.
Hopefully our plane will go a little straighter then this.
We do have a stop in Oakland so it does sort of go the same route.
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December 21
Sara and I are leaving tonight; off to see her family in Seattle. Her Sister’s family is cool but for some reason I am not excited about the trip. Two days off of work, which take away from our Christmas Boise trip, making it a four day vacation and I am still hesitant. Why? I don’t know why. It’s not like I had anything planned this week. Hopefully I make the best of the trip and we have fun. I do look forward to spending a solid time with Avery; it’s her first plane trip too.
Many pictures and video to come.
So the rain has really hit the fan today.
News here,
Jared’s weather watch here.
It’s just amazing what is happening; freinds trapped, freeways closed.
I wonder if all the homeless that were hurded from the river bottom are still complaining. Probably, I bet at least on guy is saying right now, “I could have handled it” and “I would of rode it out”, both is a drunk voice.
With the trechorous rains, I thought of Boise, just becuase…I don’t know. By the way we do not make that much.
Open Water was lame.
Newsgator is great. I have the outlook plugin so I can get all your blogs in my email box and I sync my work with my home email through the free online service.
I finally got Windows XP at work, I had 2000. It’s so much better, maybe it’s because I feel more comfortable.
Josh is doing great:
Boise was great:
Some things I either recieved or bought for Christmas:
Check out the Album in my Gallery
I made a video of the trip for the Family (next page):
COMING SOON
Sara and I yesterday went exploring after the hospitol trip.
We had some last minute Christmas shopping and after I decided to look at some houses. We saw that houses normally, 1 million in Ventura, are in the high $300,000s here. Amazing, Boise is great, housing is great, what is holding us back from packing up and leaving?
When Sara and I first got married we would go back and forth about moving, Sara hated the cost of Cali, and I never wanted to move becaue of all it’s benifits. Before their were so many reasons not to move, now, only one. Before I would say, the weather, now I am over it. Before I would say, the Bridge, now, I could never get over it, but I could move on. Lastly, before I would say, my job, now it is biggest reason not to move away from the expensive; perfect climate; densly populated; my family; dick heads; the B; traffic jammed; Ventura California.
I am so torn, with a child on the way, what is better?
A big house with a big yard, frigid in the winter, boiling in the summer, low cost of living, with great schools, and freindly people?
Or a perfect climate, with perfect freinds, with jerk neighbors, in a small condo, barely making it on a good waged job that I like?
But, could I ever leave?
What about you, I would’nt be able to see you; my family.
The perspective I see right now is Mac, our baby to be, or even future Mac’s, what is a better family desicion, from my viewpoint Boise beats Ventura, but only by speculation from the mind. The most important factor, GOD, only he will lead us to were he wants our child to learn and grow
Too much to say.
As many of you know, Sara and I are in Boise, Idaho , with her family. Her Parents live here with one of Sara’s sisters and her daughter, Sara’s other sister is here with here family, she lives in Washington with here husband and two kids.
The last couple days have been great until the eventful Christmas eve. This morning we went to the YMCA, and to help all of you Venturians, the YMCA here is awesome, it’s huge they have 3 pools: a kiddy pool, a lap pool, and the last has 2 slides; all in doors to shelter us from frigid cold outside (27 degrees). So we went to the pool this morning and it was a lot of fun for everyone. After we went out to Lunch and after, Sara’s sister’s son, Joshua, was sick. We went home and he was put to bed only to have a horrible event happen in the coming minutes. Doris, Sara’s mom, yelled at Jim to run downstairs, Mardi’s, Joshua’s mom was panicking, we had no idea what was happening, all we had was Sara’s mom describing what she heard through the baby monitor. Seconds later Mardi is holding Joshua, LIFELESS, it was horrifying. I yell, “lay him down, do not carry him!” Someone yells, “Tori (Sara’s niece) knows CPR”. Then I became proud, Sara took over, she knew exactly what to do, or she sure looked like it. I was so proud of her, we called 911, I took care of the crying scared kids and Sara tended to Joshua with her father. As this was happening all I saw was him laying there, not moving, vomiting green clearish mucus, it was one of the scariest moments of my life; a baby that I was playing with 3 hours ago is lifeless, everyone freaked. After the kids went down stairs Joshua started opening his eyes, still no movement, they decided to have him lay on his father face down, because it would be easier on him to vomit . Seconds later, seeming like hours, he started resisting, which is a great sign since he is moving, then a cry, never had that housed loved Joshua’s cries until that moment. I heard the sirens coming up the hill so I waited outside for them to come. I led them in and they decided he had to go to the hospital, at that time he was doing good, not great. The docs did some great work and we have finally found out, –WHY?–. It was water poisoning, with a possibility that he got water into his lungs. He will be in the hospital for the night but he is doing well. Christmas eve in the Hospital, not something we had planned but as long as Josh is safe.
How come you see true form through adversity, Sara someone that freaks and freezes in moments of Panic, stayed calm, so calm, like Tiger Woods was 3 years ago putting a ten footer.
