Fathers Day

Last weekend was Fathers Day. Alicia and I decided to go up to Pinetop to visit her dad Jimmy for the weekend. Jimmy and I played 27 holes at Silver Creek golf course, just outside of Show Low, and I beat him with a score of 88 so he now owes me lunch. We're now 2-2 since we've been keeping track and betting lunch on the match. It's a fun bet.

Jimmy got a great gift from his wife...a SkyCaddie GPS unit. I bought it and she paid me back so that it would be a surprise and not show up on their credit card. It's a pretty neat little unit. He got the SG5 which has the color screen and the IntelliGreen® technology, enabling golfers to measure the full depth and shape of the green from any angle of approach and shows distances for all targets and hazards on any of SkyGolf’s many thousands of professionally mapped courses. Can you tell I copied and pasted that last sentence from their website? :)

It was so nice to have the GPS unit on this course with very little yardage markers, but soon everyone was asking Jimmy to give them the yardage for each shot. He was running around giving everyone their precies yardage to the pin. It would have annoyed me, but I think Jimmy kind of liked feeling needed. :)

The drive back to Phoenix was long and boring. The road from Payson to Phoenix is windy and everyone drives so recklessly! You'll have trucks hauling huge trailers or boats and they're passing cars on this windy road and tailgating cars like it's the Indy 500 or something. You would think these gas prices would slow people down, but it didn't. You could just hear their bank accounts emptying as they put the pedal to the metal.

Later that day I had the chance to talk to my dad. He is doing well, but is worried about the price of diesel for the winter. At this price, he will have to spend over $4k just for heating his house for the winter. That's crazy! I told him he should move down to St. George for the winter, but he loves Idaho...he even serenaded me with the Idaho state song.

Wanted Dead or Alive

Does anyone out there recognize these two outlaws? This is the most recent photo of the two brothers. They call themselves "The Greasy Crows".

They were last seen playing baseball out in their back yard in Pingree, Idaho with another brother who does not seem to be part of their gang, but is considered dangerous and may be armed!

The father of these outlaws is big and burly, and is known to wear a piece of aluminum irrigation pipe on his right shin bone. This metal shin armour is said to stop bullets.

The mother of this unruly bunch is probably the most fierce of all. She can make a grown man cry like a baby girl with one look of disappointment. The whole family seems to revolve around her and she will protect them with her life.

Watch out for the "Three Sisters" as they are known throughout the Northwest, and even down into Arizona. They have been known to shoot first and ask questions later. When the men are away from the house they are so dark that they eat the homeless, the "Hobos" as some call them, while they watch horror movies.

Belize

Rachel and I saw Shaq

Last Wednesday evening, my sister Rachel and I were on Mill Ave. in Tempe, AZ just walking around, going to the various shops and we saw a huge black man getting out of an even bigger black truck.

It was Shaquille O'Neal from the Phoenix Suns! He went into a Cold Stone Creamery for some ice cream where I was able to snap a couple of photos. I'm now considering changing my career to Paparazzi Professional. :)

Saturday Alicia and I were able to go to the 3rd Playoff game between the Suns and the San Antonio Spurs. We had great seats and it was an awesome experience, but the Suns played horribly and lost 115-99 which made them 0-3 in the best-of-seven playoff. No NBA team has ever came back to win a 7 game series when being down 0-3 so it doesn't look good for the Suns. Sunday the Suns ended up playing phenomenal and won 105-86!!! How does that happen?

We've Moved In!!!

We closed on our house last Thursday and moved in last weekend! We absolutely love our new house! Last week was a very stressful time for us because I was gone on business travel until Thursday night so Alicia had to take care of a lot of last minute issues while still working at her office.

We're glad last week is over, but we are still very busy! We have an upcoming vacation planned and we are getting certified for Scuba Diving. All the while, we still have to move little items from the town house over to the new house. We are still living in boxes, but love the additional space that we have!

I will post pics as soon as I can find time!