Eye of the World...

A few more...

2008-07-14T22:51:00.001-07:00

So I love pictures, here's some more!!!

Here's Calgary from the olympic park with a sepia touch. nice?

This is one of the holes from Silvertip again. Thats the three sisters in the background.

This is the BIGGEST horse I have ever seen or heard of! I didn't know there were bigger horses than cleidsdales but there are! This is a Belgian. (the camera is tilted upwards even!) I barely went up to the horses shoulder and he weighs 2500 pounds...

This is the Calgary stampede from our seats. I'm a cowboy at heart and this stuff just sings to me!!! I may have to buy me a horse now!!! :)

My bad

2008-07-14T22:39:00.000-07:00

It had trouble with all the pictures, so heres more!!!

Me and Gary in Central Park enjoying some spider-man icecream. :)

This is the most scenic and beautiful part of central park. What a great walk in the middle of the city that never sleeps!

This is in Canada where me and my pops stopped in Waterton park. It was nice.

Same park, different view!

This is Silvertip gold course, one of the most famous and nicest courses in Canada with huge drops and narrow fairways! It was awesome, just wish my brother gary was there to be with us... :(

Everything Else

2008-07-14T16:07:00.001-07:00

MAN I AM SUCH A SLACKER at this blogging thing.

I seriously never mean to let it slip for so long, but time flies!

So here are some pictures from NY and my latest trip to Calgary, Canada. Enjoy!

This is Yankee stadium. This is the last season that it will be in this stadium as they are making a bigger and more updated one across the street, literally.

This a picture of the New York skyline from the boat.

New York Day 1

2008-06-21T17:08:00.000-07:00

So this weekend I have come out to New York for the first time ever to visit my brother. He is doing his intern out here for Pfizer and has a really nice setup for these summer months. He , my oldest brother randy, and I met here at the airport on Friday night. He flew in from france, I flew in from LA, and randy flew in from SF so it was an interesting arrival.

So we all got in then went to gary's apt. which is in mid-town manhattan. So we dropped everything and went to times square for the night. It was crazy busy and at 1 am!!! So we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and then spent the rest of the night walking around and watching crazy new york at night.

Today we went to Yankee stadium to see a yankee game against the reds. This is their last year playing in that stadium so it was fun to see them playing there. (thats where babe ruth played) The new stadium is literally across the street so not too far of a move. After that, we went down to central park for the rest of the afternoon and hung out with the rest of the city in there. (theres a lot of interesting people here) So anyway, i'll download some pictures when I get home.

Has anyone else been here to NY?

Lake Meazy

2008-06-08T22:51:00.001-07:00

Hey everone,

Just got back from a trip with some of my good friends to Lake Mead. It was a lot of fun and I was really impressed with Rachel getting up on her first try wakeboarding! I have been a few times before and I love the lake! So anyway, first day we get out there on the lake, jumped in for a while, and went back to the hotel after some nice food. (hotel fast food, ugh...)
Anyway, here are some pictures... Good times. :)

Here's the crew minus me...
L to R - Laura, Jake, Rachel, Tara, Phil, Randy, and Kristen.

Here's the first day Dip in the Lake... BRrrrr! :)

And here's me gettin my wakeboarding on..

Tripod - Gonna Make You Happy

2008-06-03T10:31:00.001-07:00

This is one of the best Songs ever if you've married someone who plays videogames... :)

New Pics

2008-05-27T20:52:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is healthy and doing well!

So it's been a while since I have updated and thats my bad. But to win you guys back over I'm gonna post some pictures of me and my baby... :)

This is one of me and Rebecca sharing a noodle. I think she liked the noodle but by the look on her face wasn't so happy with being so close to my face!!

This is one of me and my daughter do what we do BEST!!! Who says morning naps are just for kids! (Concentrate more on Rebecca than daddy's ugly mug... thanks :)

As for school, looks like things are going well with preparing for going to AL. I still have some major paperwork to do but I think I might be able to see a light at the end of the tunnel. or maybe that is just a flashlight...

If you've read this far, you must be a true supporter of my inadequate blogging, so here's your star! Lets have someone comment on this blog... (it makes me feel less lonely :)

New game

2008-05-20T17:51:00.000-07:00

So for those of you who think you are smart... have a shot at this game/riddler! It will take you a second to get the hang of it but it is addicting!

Lots of brain power

Fishin

2008-05-06T21:56:00.001-07:00

Last night I went fishing with Phil, one of my classmates, and we had a great time just freezin our butts off! It was pretty chilly but this made it all better! I hadn't caught a fish in a while so it was fun to ring one in. I just need a good set up now so I don't have to borrow others' things...

BIG Weekend

2008-04-27T16:07:00.000-07:00

So this weekend was a big weekend in my life for a few reasons...

#1) Got my board scores back on friday. Luckily I passes all of them ;). Usually how it goes with boards is the tests that you think you did bad on are the ones that you do ok on. And the ones you think you aced you do bad on. ( this is because the ones you think you do well on, everyone else does better then you on them, so you do worse on the curve. then the bad ones you do ok on because everyone did more worse than you) Did I lose anyone there? :)

#2) I ran my first marathon. (ok, I walked some but you get it) Here's the story...
We had to sleep in a hotel 20 minutes away due to every hotel in nashville which I thought was the marriott only to find out it was the ramada... it made me smile when I realized that but what can you do. :) We then had a rebecca free night. (we dished her off to the in-laws) I woke up around 4:30 am to wake myself up a little before running. (I can't just wake up and run like some people, I like to run in the afternoons so I had to wake a little earlier just to make sure my body was awake) Everyone else woke up around 5 and we left for the race around 5:30. It was raining when we left and it had t-storms forcasted for the morning so we weren't looking forward to that. Well when we got there it was lightly raining but while we were standing in line for the shuttle it started to POUR! To take the drama out, it only rained for the next 15 minutes then it was beautiful weather the whole rest of the day!
So we start the race after 30 minutes of getting hurded towards the starting line then we were off! Gary and I had one goal for the marathon and that was to FINISH. We didn't really know who was going to be hurting worse than the other so we promised each other that we were gonna finish together no matter what. We also had a run/walk plan for the marathon that way we wouldn't wear out too early. Well, we were doing great for the first 11 miles and in fact were only a few minutes behind rachel at that point but then gary got some really bad cramps so we had to start walking/running in between cramps. Luckily I know how to stretch out every muscle that was tight on him so it worked out. Anyway, around mile 20 we were both ready to call it good. Somehow we mustered up the last little strength we had and ran in the last half mile or so. We came in officially at 5:25. Thats a long exercise!!! :) Anyway, it was a really good experience and even though I am pretty sore today I am looking forward to my next one. But, I'm proud of gary and me since we were probably really undertrained and not ready but made it! At least if I never do one again I can say that I've ran one once in my life! I really hope everyone does one sometime in there life to push themselves to the limit! Next is a half-iron man, bring it baby! :)

Cleanse End

2008-04-20T17:25:00.000-07:00

Well,

I finished my cleanse a few days early due to trying to train for a marathon. I just didn't have enough energy during the runs and I felt a lot better during them if I ate some bread or something like that before. So I ended up losing 14 pounds total in two weeks and will probably do it again in the summer when my mom visits. (I've been trying to get the whole family on it :))

I had a very out of body experience the other day when I realized that I had just taken my last test ever as a student. It was awesome but scary all at the same time!

This friday I learn the scores from my latest set of National Boards. I think I am going to wait til after the marathon on saturday because I don't want to run for 26 miles thinking about what went wrong. ;-)

Rebecca is finally a baby in my opinion... always getting into things and shoving things in her mouth that I have to actually keep an eye on her. The good part is that she can entertain herself for hours just standing next to the ottoman. :)

I hope everyone visits rachels blog cause she always has good pictures and junk. I just like to update you guys on my side. :) I'll let you know how the marathon and boards went when I get back. Wish me LUCK!!!

Snoop Dogg a Mormon???

2008-04-09T20:19:00.000-07:00

Check this out...

It seems pretty legit. Snoop

Whats New With Me...

2008-04-09T15:35:00.000-07:00

Well I am still pluggin along on this cleanse... only 10 more days! I've lost 10 pounds to date and feel really good still. I am definitely going to recommend this to someone who wants to lose weight and still be able to eat. I do feel like a rabbit sometimes with the way I eat things with no dressing on it. (just straight with a little lemon juice or something)

Last weekend stopped by a farmers market on the way to trader joes and guess what they were selling there??? You guessed it! Vegetables! and Fruit... but that wasn't anything to blog about. What one vendor was selling was hotdogs with grilled onions and it smelled like HEAVEN! Remember my thing with smells? well, this was killing me so I told rachel we ARE going backthere in a week and a half to get one of those. actually just typing about them make me hungry... :)

My little girl is growing up WAAAAAYY to fast! She is already pulling up on things and standing there. It's scary to look up at her crib and see her just standing there staring at you like "come on!" I do think it is funny that she can't even crawl correctly yet but she can pull herself up to standing. oh yeah, she has been pushing herself up to a sit for a week or so now. I think she'll be running around the track by the end of next week at this rate...

I'm getting pretty anxious about ending school. I don't remember a time when I didn't have some sort of school ahead and now that it is coming to an end I don't think I like it. Responsibility??? In fact, we just had our last classes yesterday. Finals next week then clinic for the rest of the my schooling career. Crazy huh!

Marathon time is around the corner and my brother just kinda bailed on me last minute. He sliced his big toe in half so he can't run. I need photo proof! jk. atleast he'll be there. But now i'll have to run it by myself cause rachel is actually gonna try to get a good time instead of just surviving like me. :)

Thats it for now I guess...

Update on cleansing

2008-04-05T00:00:00.000-07:00

Well I finished the first week of the cleanse and I have to say it has NOT been easy... Friends wanting to go out to lunch, wife eating candy at home, and tonight was the worst - I had to serve icecream to friends! whats up with that???

Anyway, I've lost 5 pounds already and I feel healthier so that is good I think. :) People say my face looks skinnier even though i think its because I just shaved.

The hardest thing about the cleanse for me is the smells!!! I didn't know how much smells had power over me till now, but the only times I ever feel the pull to be naughty is when there is a really good smell!

And.... I have a marathon in a few weeks. I am going to pay severely for not training properly. (oh, i will finish - dont you worry, just may not be functional for a few weeks after :)

Reomama

2008-04-01T23:56:00.001-07:00

Check out Rachel's store, reomama. She likes to spend her free time making cute baby stuff like dresses, headbands, and flower clips. So, if you know someone who's going to have a baby shower soon, check it out. Or, if you just want to buy cute baby stuff, go there. The link is on the side.

A Purification cleanse

2008-03-31T18:08:00.000-07:00

So, have any of you ever put your body through a purification cleanse?

My good friend ethan and I are doing it together and we sarted today. As a chiropractor we give nutritional support for patients and this cleanse is one way of jump starting a good change. We figure how are we supposed to tell patients what it is like if we have never done it before, so here we are.

The main points of the cleanse.

- Get rid of refined sugar in the diet.
- No form of wheat
- Eat a lot of vegetables and natural sugars(fruits)
- Drink lots of water to help flush the
- Use whole food supplements to aid the cleanse
- Become thankful for your tastebuds!!! :)

I just started today and I can already tell that my body is used to SUGAR! Its not that I feel like i have no energy, I just really like the taste of it and used to it. The shakes and supplements that we are using all have good properties but leave an after taste kinda like hay... :)

So, now that I have complained enough about it, here are the benefits of the cleanse..
- Increased Energy
- Improved health
- Weight loss!
- Removal of Food addictions!
- Clearer thinking
- Better Digestion
- Less Bloating
- Clearer skin
- Shinier Hair! - thats exciting ;-)
- Disappearance or lessening of past conditions!

This last one is especially important to me because I have heard, and met, many patients who have had this happen to them. Now, don't get me wrong, we can not say we cure anything with this cleanse! but is it helps out and things disappear... :)

Also, I only have three more class days left in my schooling career! This is the most exciting thing ever! After this semester, we have nothing but clinic and reports!

I have more but you have to wait...

Oh yeah, heres a picture of me and my favorite child... :)

No News =

2008-03-28T11:45:00.000-07:00

I thought road rage was bad..

2008-03-21T20:33:00.000-07:00

I don't know if you have noticed but I like to check on the news every now and then for weird stories and I found this...

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340229,00.html

CARS

2008-03-20T02:45:00.000-07:00

Its about TIME!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339629,00.html

ps - yes, look at the time. I'm a nighthawk, what can i say...

Boards Part II

2008-03-20T01:12:00.000-07:00

Well,

They are done. Thats all I can say. Except I want to say more.... :)

So this was actually more than part II boards. It consisted of Part II and Part III along with the additional physical therapy section all in one weekend. It was a three day test and grueling. The first day was the longest starting at 8 am and going till 7pm with an hour break for lunch and 20 minutes between each test. There were 5 tests that day. This consisted of general and physical diagnosis, the PT section, and radiology. Although this was the longest day, I felt like I probably passed each section. (well except for gen diagnosis because we had to know tons of blood and urine lab stuff and what kind of chiropractor knows that stuff off hand! refer out baby! ;-)

The next two days both only had two tests in the morning from 8 till noon. Out of those sections, I felt like only one of them was bad enough that I'm gonna be sweatin bullets for the scores to come in. These ones were applied sciences, chiro technique and Part III on sunday.

In case any of you never have to sit in a huge test like this, let me just tell you you're lucky. We had to start EACH exam with a long instruction list 15 min because every time new people were in there retaking exams. That was painful and I was ready to bounce before the test was even handed out! So then we have to take the test. There were 110 questions per test and the allotted time was usually 90 minutes for each one. BUT, they let groups out if you were finished at the 60 and 75 minute mark. So if you were close to finishing and knew that it was almost time for the group to be let out, it was a mad dash to finish. (this is because if you get out early you can spend more time cramming for the next one) I was usually done by the first time group except on one test where I had to visualize and think about each question. (chiro technique)

So there you go. In the end I think we (my study group) all did well and hopefully passed each section. You're allowed to retake up to two sections failed. If you failed more than that, you gotta do the whole shebang over again. ugh. hope i failed only two if any!

SO.... in order to release all the tension built up we decided to go out the next night and do some late night lobster fishing! the season ended today so the pickings were especially slim but we wanted to at least get out there. and this is what we caught instead of lobster!!!

Pretty cool eh? We were proud parents and I think Phil's grandma is doing some research on how to even cook that thing... We also caught some octopuses! It was a fun night even though we got to bed around 3 and had class at 8. :)

National Boards

2008-03-06T10:31:00.000-08:00

So I have national boards next week and I have decided that I need to study more...

This is part II and III of four parts and they are supposed to be the easiest of them. They are mainly physical exam skills and general diagnosis with a little PT rehab stuff mixed in. Oh yeah, theres also a big section on radiology but thats not too bad. The real problem with this test is that the material is stuff I know pretty well already... that may seem counter intuitive but its hard to study stuff you already kinda know! Oh yeah, and the test costs 1100 dollars so I don't want to take it again. :)

Cool Little Find...

2008-03-04T15:41:00.000-08:00

So as I was wasting time on the internet and someone pointed out to me this cool website. Its put on by NASA and its the astronomy picture of the day. Take a look at this one! (it has a little explanation for each picture)

ttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070205.html

Bball

2008-03-04T09:27:00.000-08:00

So I admit it, I'm a little out of shape...

I have been running with rachel a lot as of late because I'm expected to run a marathon at the end of next month so my aerobic exercise isn't hurting that bad. But I haven't played any organized sports in a few months and I figured that I could just jump back into anything and start playing on our intramural bball team again... wrong. There is a stark difference between running for endurance and sprinting for a rebound.

I'm not joking when I say this - I was on the floor for 2.5 minutes and I felt like I was going to die! I couldn't make any shots and my feet were dragging. Its a good thing we had some subs. I have been pretty athletic most of my life so this was an eye opener at being a 9-5'er and not getting enough exercise.

Since High School have you guys felt like your exercise(or physical activity in general) has dimished as much as mine or what? Too many things in life...

A Day Off..

2008-03-03T09:51:00.000-08:00

Well,

Today I have the day off, sorta. I have to put in atleast 24 hours a week in clinic this semester and so instead of doing 4 six hour days I'm doing 3 eight hour days. So today I have the day off but I have to make up for it later.

Have any of you new parents noticed that having a baby around the house makes days go a lot faster? I swear I just woke up and after playing with rebecca, feeding her, and puttin her down for a nap I feel like taking one myself!

We don't have much planned today other than running a little then taking rebecca in for shots! rachel can't do it by herself so she has me hold rebecca. what a wuss... :)

Heading

2008-03-02T20:01:00.000-08:00

Can anyone guess what my blog name references???

Without Google of course... :)

New Beginning

2008-03-02T19:56:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone,

Well its time I start doing this for myself due to the fact that my wife has one and I can only say so much through her without it getting twisted. Here you can get my spin on things and new events in my life. welcome to my blog!