Light'n up the blog scene!

I've noticed that the cool thing to do these days seems to be having a blog. So here it is.

Kayla beat me to it and is having a grand time on her's posting tons of pics of Susie. I'm sure there's gonna be plenty more to come since I have a hunch Santa is bringing us a new digital camera for Christmas this year.


I think I kind of just up and disappeared from most of the people I knew and hung out with in Boise about a year ago, so I guess that's where I need to catch people up from. I graduated from BSU with my B.S. in mechanical engineering in December of '06 and by mid January I found a job, so I had about 2 weeks to find a new place over here and get moved. The job actually found me, I had forgotten I posted a resume on Monster.com and this place called me up one day. The company makes big power transformers about the size of small houses. I'm a mechanical engineer for them working along side a couple other mechaincals and a bunch of electricals.

When Kayla and I moved we already knew she was pregnant but weren't really telling anyone yet. So a little less than 9 months after we moved we had Susie Belle. She is named after my Grandma on my dad's side. We both wanted an older style of name and I also liked having a good excuse to put some french in there too. The delivery ended up good but for sure had it's scary moments when we had to opt for a very unplanned c-section part way through because of baby heart rate problems. But Susie is here now and is for sure the cutest baby ever, she's huge too (before 3 mo. she was already too big for most of her 6 mo. outfits) which makes it funny to see Kayla and I lugging her around with how small we both are.

At the start of the year I tried to continue bike racing but nothing was clicking. The move messed up my early season hours big time and I never was able to attain any kind of respectable form. I spent the first part of the year in denial, still trying to be competitive but that can be summed up with my result from the Lava Rama MTB race I just now looked up for the first time. I toed the line with the pro field thinking I could do well just by virtue of being cool.... not only did I come in dead last at about 40 min. behind the winner, there were only about 3-4 expert class riders that didn't catch up and pass me. Shortly after that I threw in the towel for the year figuring a break would do me some good and spending more time with Kayla while she was having a hard time being pregers helped too. It was for sure hard to sit out the season, I missed Twilight and Bogus for the first time since I got back from France and started racing. The night of Twilight I was in Park City UT for a family reunion and got butterflies just knowing that it was going on back in Boise.