Last night was the annual fathers and sons campout for our ward. When I learned about it a week ago, I decided that it would be a good opportunity for me to spend some time with just Alex.  I figured that he would enjoy camping with just me.  It turns out that I was right.  We had a great time. Because I got off of work a few hours later than I had planned, we got a late start.  Combine the late start with rush hour traffic through a...

Well, after months and months, the basement has walls.  On Monday I was finally able to get the last of the drywall hung and last night I started mudding and taping.  I plan on getting all of the mud and tape up over the next few weeks and then it’s on to the baseboards. As I look at the nearly completed basement, I feel a great sense of pride in knowing that I built it and it still stands.

That’s not exactly true. While I like watching movies, I hate going to the theater to watch them. Not all theaters are bad but there is one in Layton that makes me shudder at the thought of going to the movies. There is a new theater in Syracuse that opened over the weekend so on Friday night Holly and I went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It was a fun movie but not as good as the other three. Well, it may...

Last night we had a get together with some of our friends. One of these friends, Lisa, is four months pregnant and was wearing a very cool, yet somewhat disturbing shirt. It had a picture of a fetus on it. Yeah, a fetus. It’s a very realistic rendition of and eight-month-old fetus that her husband, Mike, drew. I gotta say that the reason that I found it so disturbing is because it was so well done. It looked just like a fetus! I was...

Before I get started, let me say that in this post, I am in no way making fun of those who suffer from epilepsy or other ailments that cause seizures. Now that that’s out of the way, let me get started. Lately I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend in advertising. It seems as though stores, real estate developers, and restaurants all think it’s a wonderful idea to have a spasmodic teenager standing on a street corner...