bean loves the open air.

it seems like i cannot get my bike out or come home from work and relax with out giving bean a ride on the bike she loves it. it is to bad she is not a little older so i could take her out on the open road.

gone they are gone.

Natalie and i are trying to get out of debt and we decided that we needed to take some action. we decided to sell the quads. they are now all gone. it took us a few weeks to get them sold but we did it and we were able to take a nice chunk out of our debt. it is a little sad but i am excited to start the new chapter in life. i think some day we will get new ATVs but it will be down the road some.

Ready, Set, BURN

so i got a new tire for my motorcycle thanks to my boss. I guess the best thing to do is give the old one a good burn out.

so first you get ready, rev up the motor and dump the cluch.

so with the ingredients of pavement, rubber, friction and heat we get our treat.

smoke.

and the smell of burnt rubber

anyone who loves things that have motors, wheels and goes fast. loves the sight and smells of spinning tires.

smoke, smoke and more smoke

so as you can see i have a smoking problem and i love it.

so here it is all at once

spring means time to ride

so jenny asked me to help out last weekend at their new place up north. so long ride + canyon+good weather = bike ride. so we took a ride up there and had a lot of fun. we also we over the border into Idaho.

it was tons of fun thanks jen for the chance to help out it made for a good weekend.

a little of everything these last few days.

i am sorry that i have not written in a long time. i have no excesses only laziness. it feels like i have done a little of everything this last few weeks. last weekend was general conference. a lot of great talks. i always feel good about the words we get from the first presidency and the 12. we did our usual over niter at my mom and dad's house. we ate pizza and junk. watched movies and had fun with those that were there. on Sunday after the first session we went to Natalie's uncle tom's house and they did crafts while i watched the second session and visited. so good restful weekend until about ten o clock Sunday night when i get a SOS call from by brother in law Jeff. "help me i am stuck in the mud to the frame in my truck and cannot get out." he said. so i call my brother Aaron and we get some gear together and go out to try and get him unstuck. he was stuck in the mud about 100 yards of shore in the great salt lake. "what the hell were you doing Jeff" i said. anyway we got to pulling on his truck and no luck our truck just does not have the power we need. so we call a tow truck. while we are waiting i figure we should just keep trying. so i have the idea to go start to dig out the tires and lucky for us Aaron had some four by fours in the truck so we stick this wood under the tires we pull on the truck with Aaron's truck and tell Megan who is driving Jeff's truck to give it some gas. we get it out. lucky for us. so we called off the tow truck. then on the way home we start to hear a noise coming from Aaron's truck and we start to think the night will never end. we get home OK but i am going to have to help Aaron now figure out his own truck. we i then get to bed around 2 in the morning.

with the economy slow it has keep the commissions down. we are OK and making it by but it has really opened Natalie's and my eyes to just how poor we are at managing our money. we have decided we really need to put in a good effort to get out of debt. i mean we would be so much better off if we had no debt. also Natalie may need to do surgery for her condition an if that is so then i really need to make a move on our money problems. what to do though there is so many opinions out there. i feel like we really don't just blow money but it seems to always be in short supply right now. we just need to make cutbacks in our life just like they do in business. it will be hard on the kids but i think they get it.

Natalie Reimann

So last Saturday Natalie and I went with my mom and dad to the temple. we use to go every third Saturday as a family. though life throws curve balls sometimes and one thing led to another and the family has not been keeping up on the tradition. We are starting over though and we are off to a good start. Anyway while we were doing a session i looked over at Natalie and she was crying at the end. she told me she felt very close to the person she was going through for. While in the celestial room i started pondering over the last year. i have not been the best at building the spiritual foundation my family needs. not that we were being wicked but just not growing well. we had a great moment with Kirsten's baptism but thinking about it, Natalie is the one who has really turned up the heat getting us ready for Kirsten's baptism. she has us doing family home evening, reading scriptures and saying family prayers. she does this with a bad condition causing pain in her body all the time. so Natalie i just want to let you know how much i love you and how grateful i am the lord has blessed me with such a great companion. you make this family great. our girls are prof of all the hard work you put in. thanks thanks thanks.

Kirsten's baptism

Kirsten had her baptism last Saturday the 7Th. we started the day slow. we just rested got the house clean and i spent some time with Kirsten reading some scripture. of coarse there is always something out there to try and stop all good spiritual experiences. right before we left to go to the baptism whitnee started throwing up. we got it all out of whitnee and gave her a blessing and headed over to the church. the service was great and very spiritual the tears started on the opening hymn. we got Kirsten baptized on the first dip and everyone did great on there parts of the program. i think Kirsten really got a good taste of the spirit. after the service we went over to sizzler for dinner. all the family came and we ate and ate. after dinner we went home and of coarse whitnee threw up all her dinner. the good thing is her blessing worked she was fine through the whole baptism. yesterday Kirsten got to stand in front of the congregation and be recognized. the rest of the Sunday we got to spent with my parents and we got some good rest in.