hey no cow tipping

On wednesday of this week I was just leaving the clinic in benton city to head to the other clinic I manage in prosser when I saw a really odd site.  A cow was standing on the side of the road, I slowed thinking that some had gotten loose, however I soon saw it an overturned semi full of cows.  I saw the semi driver, and several cows running around.  I pulled over and soon saw three cows in the east bound lanes and realized I better get them before the get hit.  I herded them back over to the other side of the road where there was more room and got them to join the other cows standing there in shock.  After emergency crews arrived I took off, but hey who new I could rustle cattle on my way to work?  Here the rest of the storie

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/06/21/1994864/cattle-truck-rolls-near-prosser.html

I guess these things are now a little more important now that were having a BOY!

http://themetapicture.com/baby-dos-and-donts/

This is a great video, thank you to all those who serve or who have served.

"my mother thats who i need"

I thought with the upcoming holiday, I would write and share a few reasons why I think I have one of the best mothers in the world. Now in the effort of fully disclose I might have a small bias.

First the funny part...My mother is the lady who I would go to lunch with and always watch guys hit on here. We went skiing once and the guy at the lift said I had one foxy lady with me. She has worked hard to stay young, but I think she has found the fountain of youth, all you need is 8 year old running around...  The picture above is my mother at 16 as a queen of the dance.

My mother is one of those people who can just sit in the grass and and enjoy a day, but not one to shy away from getting her boots dirty...

She is a mother who always knew what to do, my guess is she did make a mistake once but it was on my sister...she was the first born child ...  but I am pretty sure it was just one mistake...

My mom is also a great shopper.  She was able to buy a magic refrigerator.  If you look in it three times in between looking in the cupboard food magically appears.  Its amazing.

I just want my mom to know what a great person she is, and tell her thanks for sacrificing everything for her children.  I am so grateful.  The last part I want to share is an experience I had on my mission.  I had been out about 3 months and was having a rather tough time learning spanish.  It was a particularly tough day we went on exchanges and I ended up with a mexican from the ward that spoke no english and I was supposed to go see this family, however I could not even give directions to get there and he didn't know where the address was.  Eventually we go there and watch a movie about finding faith, and then we left.  I felt useless, all I could do is press play on a vcr.  So when I cam home that night I had a letter in the mail box and it was from none other than my mom.  She wrote the same letter to all of her children where she shared her testimony of Christ and told us all to have faith and it would work out.  She offered each of words of encouragement in our current endeavors.  This letter boasted my spirit and gave me the strength to keep going.

Thanks Mom for all that you do!

On a last and final note, I found a site that help me calculate a monetary repayment for the labor it took to birth me.  So here it is...

Here is another fond memory.


Love you Mom, happy mothers day.

Here is the new promo video for one of the doctors at my clinic, it turned out really good so I thought I would share.


Dr. Tim Rankin from PixelSoft Films LLC on Vimeo.

 

 Have you ever seen this self?  They are like 400 dollars and really don't hold that much for the cost.  So I said to myself I could make one that would hold more and be cheaper.  So here are some pictures of that.

 Sarah was a big help on day on of this project.  You can see she learned how to use the Chop saw.  The next picture sows the beginning of the back frame.

 Here you can see the first self completed.

 And the drop down self from above, after all you do want a rotating design, so you can put new food in the back

 Here the self's keep climbing up

 Here is the last self being put on.

 Here is the completed shelves, we emptied our whole food storage on the selves and found out there is still a ton of space.  Total cost of the project was just under 150. 

I has some left over wood so I made a self under the hanging shelves I previously made.  It may look like I am collecting cardboard, but we know will likely move again and there is no sense in throwing it away, I just wanted it out of the ways so I built the hanging shelf. You can see I just need to finish organizing and we will be good to go.

Some see a foot rest others a vacume

I want to tell the story of the traveling recliner.  While growing up we had the opportunity to live with my paternal grandparents while our new house was being built.  It was really cramped, 6 of us in a basement with two rooms.  So my parents were in one and us children were in the other.  I have to say I really enjoyed the time living there, I remember my sisters almost in tears when my parents told us it was time to move out.  This is all side information back to the real story.  I am the happy owner of an old 1970's chair and foot rest, its a cool orange!

I really like, Sarah thinks it ugly...  So this rocker and foot stool ended up in the my parents basement as my Grandma moved to UT.  When I move to Washington I was given the honor to be the owner.  I think what Sarah doesn't understand about this chair and foot stool as its amazing abilities to save time.  One of its great skills is vacuuming. In the basement you see we had golden shag carpet, which on occasion my sister had to vacuum.  They found that if you flipped the foot stool ups side down you could drag it over the carpet, and there you had it all the shag laid in the same direction and you a perfectly vacuumed floor,  good enough even to fool Mom.

Now I don't want to give away all the super powers of this chair and foot stool, because then someone might still it  (and then I would have to go it back from good will).  So you will just have to wonder about the rest....

Great trip

Sarah and I had a great to trip this Christmas time. We were able to go from WA to NY, to see my sisters Seleta and Nicolette and their husbands and childrens. (Yes, I said childrens, that's child plural). We were able to stay there about a week. It was a wonderful time. I thought I would share some pictures of the trip. Our first day there my sister sent us out into the country side to see some church history sites; the Smith farm, Sacred Grove, and the Book of Mormon first edition printing location. Here are some pictures that I took while there:

Second home on Smith Farm

Sacred Grove, I really like how this picture turned out.

Hill Cumorah

Here are some pictures from Christmas:

Our trip to Niagara falls

Baby Claire sleeping with her best friend

Hope you enjoyed the run down!

more pictures for fun

I just thought I would add some more random pictures from the last few months. These are some fun ones. They are a fun picture of a flower I took, pictures of Sarah playing with a frog or two on our trip to Levenworth, and Sarah at the fish hatchery. Sarah really enjoyed it, I had been before, and it was the same as most others, but it was fun none the less. The other photos are from other trips, and a picture of my office door. I thought it might be fun to show where I work. Stay tune to upcoming posts i want to do a tribute to everything I learned from my siblings :)

Here are some pictures from our recent adventures.  It starts with pictures from Tysons Wedding, and then our trip to Portland.  We were given opera tickets, so we went over.  It was way fun, and we stopped at the some water falls on the way back.

My cute niece, I don't know why they didn't name her Da'Niece

This is my mom at age 28 doesn't she look great.

This was such a cool picture

Sarah found a hole and was looking through it.

These two are Multonoma falls.