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p90x and Rustyn
Mar 2nd
We started up p90x 4 weeks ago, and just got out of our first recovery week. It has been a blast so far, and I’m glad Amanda is so motivating becuase it has made it much easier on me. I think one of the hardest parts of doing it so far has been working with Rustyn. Our workout sometimes includes Bicep curl bottle making, and Baby Bench Press. He has even been down on the floor with us during Ab Ripper X, and he must think we are crazy but just moves around like crazy with us. The best part of the whole thing for him though is when we turn WiiFit on to weigh ourselves. He loves that thing. We actually made him a Mii on it and weigh him every now and then. He gets so excited when he hears the “elevator” music that coems on when you start up WiiFit.
UPDATED: We’re Here!!!
Mar 3rd
I promise i’ll post something more soon, but we be very busy today trying to finishing cleaning up things….
UPDATE: 3/4/2008 – A long weekend it was indeed. We started out on Friday with getting a few things done at the house. My Mom came over when she finished up work and she painted the rooms again, and then Moo and I headed for Gwen’s to pick up the remainder of our things and the trailer at the same time. There we got the truckload out of Gwen’s and made it back to our house (that’s still really weird to say) to find Mylea there as well. She had a note to come to our house, and she was soo excited to be riding a new bus to our home. With her we headed to lunch at Arby’s where we saw the Pifers and then the Shumways as well.
After filling ourselves (not the best move) we started in on the bed extravaganza. At Gwens with the trailer we got our bed out of the back room, and then cleaned like it was our job. We ended up cleaning the whole house before we were done. From there we ran back to our house to switch out the bed we had bought with the house and ours. After getting all of mom’s new furniture loaded and ready to go we strapped it all down and headed for Mom and Dad’s house. We got some help from the Shumways there and moved Mylea’s and Mom’s new beds in. After there we ran to storage and moved some more bedding action around and headed back to the house. *While at Mom’s house Amanda smashed her finger, and i jammed my head into the door frame of the Kia*
That night we didn’t do too much more, but i did hook up the majority of our TV stuff in the living room. Heading to bed we talked to Clancey and Kody that were heading up for the weekend to help us. At 12:30 when Clancey called to say that they wouldn’t leave until 4 or so I had a wonderful pounding headache from my run in with the Kia. When i would lay down my head would only hurt worse, and my ice packs were still at Gwens. So for the next 5 hours I worked in the living room, and also hooked up my computer in my office. At 5ish i went back in to take a shower and slept for about 2 more hours.
Clancey and Kody made it to our house about 8ish. They crashed out for a while, and we started with Breakfast. Amanda made biscuits and gravy for all the willing victims that would be helping us that day. With migraine in head, and everyone full from Breakfast we started in on the day.
Moving from storage took no time at all, and we had so many people that the entire act of moving didn’t seem bad at all. SOOOO THANKFUL for my family and the crazy generosity they showed me and my wife. We moved the Ping Pong table to the house, and that entertained the little kids while we networked the house, put things in the right room, and put pictures up.
At 345ish we went to Brando’s and had lunch/birthday action for Clancey and Kody. We went back to the house and hit it a little more. After terminating the network cabling, and hooking up the TVs we had cake and brownies while Clancey and Kody opened up their “practical” college kid gifts.
All in all it was an amazing experience, and i still have a hard time thinking that i own a home, but its growing on us. I never saw or thought about myself doing some of these things. I’m now getting up earlier for work to make a fire before i leave. Growing up whether i like it or not! Pretty much by the end of it we all felt about like this…
Another album and stuff on the way… Here’s the pics for now.
November Family Newsletter
Dec 4th
Dear Family,
Well this is the first time we have submitted a letter in the family news. We have talked about doing it, but it just never got it done. The month of November was busy and went by so fast. Our lease ended at the end of November, so we had to make a choice to either stay in our small one bedroom or upgrade to a two bedroom. We choose the later. Our address stayed the same, just the apartment number changed. We now live in # 241. We like it much better, there is much more room. Wes’s little brother, Clancey, might move in with us until he goes on his mission this coming summer. We enjoy having him around and think it would be a way to help him save some money and prepare for his mission. But we will see what happens.
We went up to Colorado for Thanksgiving. Chad and Mindy invited us to have Thanksgiving dinner with them. Mom and Dad came over from Meeker as well. It was a lot of fun. We arrived there on Wednesday afternoon and that evening we went to Chad and Sam’s company party at Rib City there in Fruita. It was a great dinner and good company. Thursday we helped prepare the dinner and played with Carli, Regan, and Mollie. On Friday morning we got up early and went Black Friday shopping. It was a lot of fun and we got some really great deals. It was Amanda and Mom’s first time going. I think we will be going for the next years to come. We drove home on Saturday and stopped in Springerville to stay the night with Wes’s family. We made it back to our home on Sunday evening. What a wonderful few days off that was!!
As soon as we got back we started packing our old place up and moving to the new one. In the middle of the week Wes got really sick and was out for the count and couldn’t help much. So I moved all that I could and by Friday we were ready to move all of the big stuff. Wes had set up with one of his friends to help up by using his truck. Friday morning was beautiful… well for part of the morning, then it started raining. Yep we moved all our stuff in the rain. His buddy with the truck showed up about an hour after we started, thank goodness! When it was all said and done we were soaked to the bone and had a big mess at our new place to clean up. Now everything is all put away and it is starting to feel more like home.
We love you all and hope everyone has a safe Christmas season. Hope to see all the cousins at the cousin party this year!!
Love, Wes and Amanda McBride
