This Week

La Familia

Marleah's youngest brother Tomsen left on his mission to Goinia this week. We went to the airport to drop him off (it was sad), but we all know he's going to be such an amazing missionary. He read the entire Quad this summer. That's intense! We got the email from the Brazilian MTC saying he had arrived safe and sound. God Speed Elder Reed. God Speed!

This last week a bunch of us went to the beach. It was a ton of fun. This picture is the perfect example of the difference between married guys and single guys. See if you pick out which is which. :)

On that note, everyone I know is on some kind of diet. Everyone from my mom to all the ladies in my office have done this crazy HCG diet. And, to their credit, they have all had awesome results. So, my wife really wanted to try it. So far, in 6 days, she’s lost about 7lbs. Congrats honey! My brother and I are doing Nutri-System. I just got my shipment of food last night, but Jesse started about a week and half ago. He’s down 15lbs! Holy crap! I’m stoked to start it because the toughest thing for me about dieting is portioning out the food and trying to decide what to eat when. NS does all of that for you, so i’m stoked. Today I’m at 252. I’ll keep you updated with the progress.

Here’s a cool iPhone App for all y’all who aren’t eating pre-determinded meals out of a box.

Jesse had his business spotlighted in the Dixie Newspaper! Congrats buddy! Too bad they spelled your name wrong... at least they got the business’ name right! Check it out HERE.

My cousin KJ, who can always be counted on for a quality forward, sent me THIS.   It really is unbelievable the crap you see in Walmart.

So, I’m in the YM presidency in my ward. I’m over the teachers and I love my guys. They are hilarious and a really good bunch of kids.... most of the time. Friday night was not one of those times. At about midnight, my phone started ringing. I didn’t answer it. About 4 phonecalls later I finally answered. Here’s the trasnscipt:    “Hello?”  “Hi, Do you still have the escalade?” [confused] “Um, yes, why?” “Can I come and get it?” [even more confused] “Come and get it? No, you can’t come and get it!” [now, the caller’s confused] “But I thought you said you were giving it away as charity?” [what the f?] “What are you talking about?” “Uh oh, someone must be playing a joke on you. Your name, number and pictures of your escalade are on Craig’s List right now. It says you’re giving it away for charity. Have fun with all the phone calls!” [son of a b] “Thank you”.

After about 10 phonecalls, i finally turned off my phone. In the morning I had about 20 messages and about 10 texts. The kids actually went through the trouble of finding pictures online of a blacked-out escalade to post with the ad. Touche young men, touche! 

I came across this cool little product this week. It was a finalist in the TechCrunch’s “product of the year”. It just started shipping this week. I think having something that tracks both your activity level as well as your sleep is definately a cool device. I'm very much considering trying one of these bad boys out!

Did you guys see the pictures of the massive dust storm in Sydney last week? If not, here you go. Can you imagine waking up to this? I think many a folk were thinking it was the end of the world.

Quotes of the week

“A fool learns after his mistake. A wise man learns after yours”  RevRun

“Even big gates swing on little hinges.”  My hometeacher