Dear Hollywood Movie Producer,

Could you PLEASE stop making movies longer than 2 hours?  My attention span is 2 hours, if you make a movie longer than 2 hrs. (say 148 minutes), I can not stay focused.  Your fore-moviemaking-fathers knew the average American could not pay attention for more than 2 hours.  They stuck with the format and movies were enjoyed by all. Be aware: All the extra, added "stuff" does not make your movie better, it just makes it longer.  If you need help with editing just let me know, because my brain has already edited your movie to 120 minutes.

"C" Dogs

My boys love the water, maybe in a previous life they were sea creatures!!

Flo-Rida...More than just a rapper

To celebrate Colin's eleventh birthday, we rented the Flowrider at the Lindon Aquatic Center.  Colin invited many, many boys to help him celebrate.

They had tons of fun on the boogie boards and a few even mastered the wake skate.

And everyone enjoyed an awesome crash or two!

It seems like yesterday...

Colin was celebrating his first birthday,
But it really was his eleventh birthday!

**Yes, the cake does say "Happy Day of the Father." But it was the best cake, what would you do?

Relays and Rain

The Central Utah Cancer Clinic always puts together a team for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. We have been many times. There are always lots of fun activities to go along with the relay like: Karaoke, movies, massages, bounce houses, etc. This year there was just rain!! Brian signed us up to walk from 10pm until midnight and it rained and rained and rained. The rain caused most of the activities to shut down. So we just walked and walked and walked (mostly to keep warm). It was a different experience than Relays in the past, but still good and it only took about 24 hours to warm up after.

I want to rock-n-roll all night

Brian, Bryson, Colin and I spent Saturday evening at The Miller Motorsports Raceway enjoying a little classic rock.

Styx welcomed us to The Grand Illusion,

Foreigner had us seeing Double Vision,

And Kansas wooed us to the Point Of No Return.

A great night was had by all, even while dealing with all the general admission crazies!

Weekend in New England

Oh man, this is a little embarrassing, but I'm just going to go with it. Many, many, many years ago my friend, Suzanne and I lived back east for a few months. During this time we saw The B Willie Smith Band play in Boston. We enjoyed the show (OK, we looooved them) and decided to make it our quest to see them as many times as possible. Over the next several months I am proud to say, we accomplished our goal. There have been several moments since that time that I have been nostalgic and wishing that I had a little B Willie to listen to. During one of these moments I did some googling to find out if this was possible; downloads, cd's, anything. After being added to a emailing list, asked to join their facebook page, that nothing was available. The recording company owns the rights to their music, and they will not release it. But, they were doing a reunion show in Connecticut.

Brian being as sweet as ever (and feeling pressure to get a Mother's Day gift) decided if he could bring B Willie to me, he would bring me to B Willie and surprised me with a trip to Connecticut.

While there we enjoyed: good food

beautiful beaches
and fantastic music.

Pretty much the best Mother's Day gift ever!!