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While Mom & Dad are away, Rustyn will Play.

Last weekend over Easter Amanda and I drove the youth of our ward up to Conference.  We decided Rustyn need a whirlwind trip like that, so he stayed the night at Jennifer and Earl’s house until Grandma and Grandpa got home.  Friday night Grandma and Grandpa got home, and had the weekend with Rustyn.  My mom sent pictures throughout the weekend (below) to let us know how he was doing.  We even Skyped him Saturday night when we got back from the Priesthood session.  It was great to get back home and see him.

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Pardon the Geekout | TrixBox

If you would indulge me please for a moment while I geek out..

For sometime I have wanted to play with Voice over IP, or VoIP as it is better known.  I wanted to build a completely open-source PBX (private branch exchange).  Essentially trying to provide the same kind of system that costs 40 to 50 thousand to install.  With all the spare time that we have in our lives i decided to convert an old machine that I finally got back off loan into a TrixBox.  It allowed me to teach IP Phones and computers how to interact with it.  While waiting for a part from China I ordered a SIP trunk (think of it as a phone line that comes over your internet connection) and taught TrixBox how to use it when I wanted to talk on the phone.  Using it, as well as Google Voice and some help from a friend I was able to essentially have an phone line with unlimited in and outbound calls for around 8-11 dollars a month after 911 location service.

Since, I have gotten the card in from China and now have my POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line jacked into TrixBox as well so I can tell it which to use.

Pretty boring stuff I know, but something I’ve wanted to figure out for a while.  Sorry again for the geek lesson, but it is cool to see it all working.

Geek, I mean Wes, out for now..

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Carnival at the Barn

While out feeding the animals we decided Rustyn was ready to get to ride the “carnival” we have out at the barn.  The carnival consists of a horse walker, a little tikes jet plane, and a johnny jump up.  He learn how to blow “raspberries” so his tounge is out for most of the pictures.

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p90x and Rustyn

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.

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Let it snow!!! (Forgot to post it)

There has been all this hype of the worst storm in 30 years in Arizona. There were 3 storms that came through and we are in the middle of the third one now. It was predicted upwards of 5 feet of snow from this storm. I think in some parts on northern Arizona have seen this amount of snow! As of today they are evacuating Greer because even the snow plows are getting stuck. Navaho and Apache Countys have declared stated of emergecy becasue of these storms. We were planning on going to the Valley this weekend to see Jenn before she left on her mission, and so Wes could do some work, it doesn’t look like we are going to make that trip. Good luck to Jenn, and you will do great!! Just don’t freeze up in Alaska.

In the middle of this storm we decided to have a little fun with Rustyn. He has never been in the snow so we put his snow pants on, with his cowboy boots cause he doesn’t have any snow boots… and a coat and put him in the snow. He didn’t seem to mind one way or the other.