Fabulous February Frenzy

Lily and I shared our 4th and 24th birthday yesterday, the 26th of February 2008. Aaron, Lily, and Carter picked me up in the morning and we went to a small airport to look at cool planes. Then we played at a park and joined Jill for lunch. At 2 o'clock 5 of Lily's friends came over for a princess tea party birthday bash. It was a lot of fun to help and observe the cute little pretty princesses.
The highlight of the day for me was spending time with my sweet wife, my sister, and her family at Red Robin and cake and ice cream after words. I had never seen Red in person and it was fun getting a picture with him.


I am grateful for my loving wife. I cannot express my love and gratitude for her sufficiently.

I felt tender love as we sat together and sang happy birthday with our own two little families. I feel privileged to have shared a special day with my sweet niece, Lily. Blowing out OUR cake was so much fun and I hope we can do it again many times.

I received wonderful gifts that enrich my life, each of the gifts closely relate to my favorite hobbies and other things I enjoy very much. As I think about it, each simple gift was a strong symbol to me that my family loves and cares about me.

But far beyond the gifts, I treasure most, my family and the love we share together. It was expressed in many ways yesterday through simple words, cards, and phone calls. Nothing is more precious to me than my family and I hope and pray that we can all draw closer to each other as time carries on. Thank you all so very much for your love, support, and example.

Desert Mountain Ride

I went on a 45 mile bike ride yesterday and it was a lot of fun. I saw a whole lot of desert. Cactus are some pretty neat creations. They are like trees and instead of leaves or fir needles they have sharp "pokies" as Lily calls them. The one seen here with my bike must have been about 20 feet tall. Well I thought you all might like seeing some different vegetation than you're used to. I am still not used to the desert but I like it. I enjoy all of the varieties of God's creations.

After riding for about 45 minutes I decided to get as close to these mountains as I could, the image below is where I ended up. Who's house this is, I don't know, but they were kind enough to fill up my water bottle. I hope Kelly and I will make time to hike on these mountains before we leave, I was told there are trails all over the other side of the cliffs. I really enjoyed riding to these cliffs and admiring the massive landscape. It is impossible to capture the beauty of nature without seeing it in person.

February Fun

Well, Kelly and I had a good Valentine's Day and we exchanged cards. I made one for here with the Adobe Illustrator software and she gave me a cute pop-up card of 2 cats in Paris. We also had heart shaped pancakes for breakfast that were really yummy with Chocolate chips in them.



The following image was captured Sunday, February 17, at approximately 7:59pm at the home of Aaron and Jill Robison. It is reported that Kelly was trying to imitate her husband, her motives were unclear and she got away with his belongings. If any of you have seen this woman please let us know as soon as possible. Her husband said, "She took every possible thing from me including my wallet and shoes.... "

Human Energy - amp energy

I had the opportunity to ride a bike and get paid $20 an hour. It was quite fun but not so easy. Over the last 3 days I spent 20 hours in the saddle and probably road more than a few hundred miles. It was exhausting mostly because of the uncomfortable seats which even the cyclists couldn't stand. I would say that most people who did it were not bike enthusiest although 2 or 3 professionals did show up.
Well... as you can see these wheels are turning wheels that are attached to little electric motors. We pedaled 42 bikes to create electricity which charged 160 batteries that enabled the tent to have lights and sound for the microphone and music. They also claim there is enough energy produced to sustain 30 minutes of the Superbowl's Fox pre-game show. They plan on having plasma screens tomorrow so they can watch the game and keep riding. All 42 bikes are riden for 12 hours a day for 4 days. They also said that the environment friendly event is going to be submitted to the Genis Book of World Records because it is the largest amount of human produced sustainable energy ever created. So we will just have to see what happens.

According to the amp gauge I produced about 1 to 2 amps steadily but got up to 9 and 10 amps if I really pedaled hard and fast. What that really means I am not sure but it was fun and and I think it is a neat idea.
If I had tons of money to blow I think I would start an exercise gym that produced its own energy for the lights, music, etc. To create energy that feeds it self. They had several differant performing groups come to entertain us and they said that their entertainment fed us which produced power so that they could use our energy for their microphones. Its like a constant circle of transfered energy. Any ways... check out this link to see more of the amp energy event and what I have done for the last few days. http://www.humanenergy.ampenergy.com/ oh.... yeah... amp energy is a new energy drink we were promoting. Don't tell any one I said this.... but in my opinion the drink isn't really an energy drink... in fact most riders always wanted water to drink instead!