<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339</id><updated>2011-07-28T06:45:38.141-06:00</updated><title type='text'>We came to Party</title><subtitle type='html'>Are you invited?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-5566081093743294968</id><published>2010-05-06T20:50:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T21:09:46.608-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh yes oh yes it's spring time!?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S-ODIos3BlI/AAAAAAAABfI/16T3a1YIjZ0/s1600/IMG_0572.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S-ODIos3BlI/AAAAAAAABfI/16T3a1YIjZ0/s320/IMG_0572.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468358556945679954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S-OCrdMCVbI/AAAAAAAABfA/yMvKg63fCnA/s1600/IMG_0466.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S-OCrdMCVbI/AAAAAAAABfA/yMvKg63fCnA/s320/IMG_0466.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468358055639012786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S-OBswOVFcI/AAAAAAAABe4/3dmp6MX24-8/s1600/IMG_0472.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S-OBswOVFcI/AAAAAAAABe4/3dmp6MX24-8/s320/IMG_0472.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468356978417145282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sun and warm weather one day snow the next, must be spring time! &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well we've made it to the golf course, a baseball game and had a round of golf snowed out so it's been a pretty productive spring so far.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Layla is pretty petrified of almost everything that grows so you can put her on a blanket in the grass and it's as good as a prison cell.  All though a dog running by may be just enough temptation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I should just give up on this posting pictures thing, they never go where I want them to go and every time I try to move them it just screws everything up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So here's them all :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FOperamouse%2Falbumid%2F5468352680542798337%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCITXoNOp9qKn6gE%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5566081093743294968?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5566081093743294968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5566081093743294968' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5566081093743294968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5566081093743294968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2010/05/oh-yes-oh-yes-its-spring-time.html' title='Oh yes oh yes it&apos;s spring time!?'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S-ODIos3BlI/AAAAAAAABfI/16T3a1YIjZ0/s72-c/IMG_0572.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-706201311122477477</id><published>2010-03-04T20:27:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-04T20:57:19.443-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Been a While</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444987121006021522" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S5B68BIkC5I/AAAAAAAABY8/gtGhH87O8r0/s320/IMG_0227.JPG" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well it's been a very long time since we last updated. Probably a combination of being busy, and having it be a little less &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;convenient&lt;/span&gt; than it used to be. Life is, well moving on. Kids growing up quickly and slowly all at the same time. Max is really enjoying his Tang &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Soo&lt;/span&gt; Do class, and we would highly recommend it to anyone with kids. There a a bunch more pictures on Picasa and &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt; for those interested. I think &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt; actually has kind of taken over blogging for us. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;With football season over it's time to look forward toward golf and hopefully some camping this summer. Max is already sleeping on his cot once or twice a week we might as well do it in a tent! We're also thinking about heading to &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Moab&lt;/span&gt; for a weekend and touring the wineries down there. Should be a fun spring vacation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S5B9fB7DRgI/AAAAAAAABZE/vSrf41fchDo/s1600-h/IMG_0044.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444989921536460290" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S5B9fB7DRgI/AAAAAAAABZE/vSrf41fchDo/s200/IMG_0044.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Got the mantel finished right around C&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;hristmas&lt;/span&gt; time so now it's on to the next project aka the wash room. Oh and take the C&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;hristmas&lt;/span&gt; lights down :P&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S5B_1aWV1xI/AAAAAAAABZM/hg_1lEXVrC0/s1600-h/IMG_0185.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444992505073751826" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S5B_1aWV1xI/AAAAAAAABZM/hg_1lEXVrC0/s320/IMG_0185.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;What else...... Max has started reading so at this point I'm not sure we'll have a choice about putting him into a regular kindergarten class. One thing we know for sure, a bored Max is a lot harder to keep in line than an entertained and learning Max. One this is for sure he would read almost all day every day given the chance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Max loves the Jelly Fish at the aquarium! A pass to the Aquarium is a must have during the winter months.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444993460538349538" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S5CAtBu2l-I/AAAAAAAABZU/phg5NtFVhrw/s320/IMG_0040.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Layla is crawling all over the place and I'd imagine she's only a month or two away from taking her first steps.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I promise to try and do better at updating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-706201311122477477?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/706201311122477477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=706201311122477477' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/706201311122477477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/706201311122477477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2010/03/been-while.html' title='Been a While'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/S5B68BIkC5I/AAAAAAAABY8/gtGhH87O8r0/s72-c/IMG_0227.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-9086439074655205387</id><published>2009-08-28T13:39:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2009-08-28T14:22:14.847-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Fall..... down?.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Spgzyy6RTMI/AAAAAAAAAd8/VIODHnuWSfs/s1600-h/IMG_7690.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Spgzyy6RTMI/AAAAAAAAAd8/VIODHnuWSfs/s320/IMG_7690.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375103103019338946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the greatest buttrock song of all time?  I'm torn so I figured I'd put a few on here and let you decide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well it would appear that autumn is just around the corner, Oktoberfest has begun up at Snowbird, Fantasy Drafts are taking place every other day.  The tailgating schedule is coming into place and everyone is talking pigskin and BBQ's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for around our house, just getting ready for the whirlwind that is the football season.  NFL Sunday ticket has been purchased and we're ready for a stream of people every Sunday.  Max is doing great with the potty training still not a single accident, Hooray!  Steph got a new position at work and starts training in a few weeks, Hooray!  Myself I've lost all motivation, but I'm sure I'll find some laying around some where.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's hoping to squeeze in a few more rounds sometime before it gets to cold!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-9086439074655205387?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/9086439074655205387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=9086439074655205387' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/9086439074655205387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/9086439074655205387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/08/fall-down.html' title='Fall..... down?.....'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Spgzyy6RTMI/AAAAAAAAAd8/VIODHnuWSfs/s72-c/IMG_7690.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-8446534504675387950</id><published>2009-07-22T20:49:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T20:54:39.057-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Hot!</title><content type='html'>So I was thinking about all the OG songs I/we used to listen to in highschool, some pretty good stuff actually if you ask me.  Just a few quick notes other than updating the music.  Max is almost completely out of diapers, still wearing them at night but during the day it's all underwear or pull-ups.  No real accidents after 4 days now so I'd have to say thank you to those of you (Foulgers) that reccomended waiting until he was ready and not trying to push it on him.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm ready for a vacation anyone else?  Maybe some golf on said vacation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers everyone!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-8446534504675387950?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/8446534504675387950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=8446534504675387950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8446534504675387950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8446534504675387950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/07/hot.html' title='Hot!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-8687953799421745133</id><published>2009-07-03T17:26:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-07-03T17:41:40.093-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Thoughts?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Sk6W5VT7L3I/AAAAAAAAAbU/nAs_CqBMgbk/s1600-h/Navy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Sk6W5VT7L3I/AAAAAAAAAbU/nAs_CqBMgbk/s320/Navy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354382918707523442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. I think that people who feel they have the right to deny someone the right to be happy based only on the fact that what makes said person happy is something they don't agree with are ASShats. It doesn't affect your life one bit if people of the same sex can marry. What do you care if people want to buy clove cigarettes as opposed to regular cigarettes. How are you really affected when I order an entire pitcher of beer with no one else to share it with!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. If you are an idiot driver 99% of you are. You should be forced to crawl every where you need to go. There's a reason the turn signal is on the steering colum so you can flip it up or down with one hand. If I'm going the speed limit and you use the turn lane to pass me going 15 over (45mph) you better be prepared for an ear full of horn and a stern talking too. Signal for 3 seconds before; turning, changing lanes, merging, and pulling away from the curb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B1. I laugh every time I see someone pulled over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C. If you run from the cops or don't obey a direct order lethal force should be used. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D. The United States has the MOST expensive health care system in the entire world.&lt;br /&gt;D1. We rank 37th in quality of care.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E. I hope you have a good day and don't forget to signal :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-8687953799421745133?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/8687953799421745133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=8687953799421745133' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8687953799421745133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8687953799421745133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/07/thoughts.html' title='Thoughts?'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Sk6W5VT7L3I/AAAAAAAAAbU/nAs_CqBMgbk/s72-c/Navy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-1162751500469188523</id><published>2009-06-28T08:00:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-06-28T09:28:18.868-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New Pictures</title><content type='html'>Not much really to update today but there is a new web album on picasa, so here it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192" 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flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FOperamouse%2Falbumid%2F5342207753418594305%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCKjmuoq9qoP9zAE%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5232320784437164945?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5232320784437164945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5232320784437164945' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5232320784437164945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5232320784437164945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-8775727954797910114</id><published>2009-05-31T22:01:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T22:34:30.865-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Summer, summer, summer time!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SiNYnUJXvyI/AAAAAAAAAZc/-15Vqyotsc4/s1600-h/May+%2709+112.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342211015437696802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SiNYnUJXvyI/AAAAAAAAAZc/-15Vqyotsc4/s320/May+%2709+112.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well it's the end of May and what a summer so far. Layla is growing a bit bigger and starting to seem more like baby and less like a..... well baby. Max has been a handful but then again he always has been. I have to say thank you to Mr. Milne for letting us hang out at the cabin or at least arrive early before everyone else and give our family a chance to relax in the peace and quite of our own mini vacation. Between the cabin, bees game, the super bike races, and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;itty&lt;/span&gt; bitty you name it, it has been a fun and full spring. Max starts soccer and T-ball tomorrow so I can't imagine it's going to let up. Hoping most of you will join us in the next week or 4 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-8775727954797910114?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/8775727954797910114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=8775727954797910114' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8775727954797910114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8775727954797910114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/05/summer-summer-summer-time.html' title='Summer, summer, summer time!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SiNYnUJXvyI/AAAAAAAAAZc/-15Vqyotsc4/s72-c/May+%2709+112.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-7573805244863137749</id><published>2009-04-26T12:35:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T13:24:21.943-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Man of the House?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SfSqPEp8iTI/AAAAAAAAAYc/w5wPor6WDsc/s1600-h/April+%2709+15th-25th+084.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SfSqPEp8iTI/AAAAAAAAAYc/w5wPor6WDsc/s320/April+%2709+15th-25th+084.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329071435010574642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Well it's been almost 2 weeks and unfortunately I (Joe) have to return to work on Tuesday leaving our little man in charge.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well at least he seems to think so.  Life around the house has been rather hectic, I'm not sure how we ever had a hard time with a newborn.  Because a newborn is like infinitely easier to handle than a 3 year old.  Granted they can't do anything on their own but the first month or so it's all sleeping!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max is doing a very good job loving his little sister and a very good job ignoring everything mom and dad tell him to do.  That being said as usual Steph and I feel we are very lucky to have such a good first child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've uploaded all of April's pictures onto my picasa website and will update the slide shows on the blog which will take you there as well.  As for the rest of our lives, Steph is doing a very good job on taking care of the new baby while I do my best to keep Max distracted and take care of all those jobs that have been piling up around the house when there was always something better to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're all wishing for the weather to clear so we can get to some baseball games and to the driving range at least 10 times ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SfSsLPGQ9KI/AAAAAAAAAYk/6QfujaRmli4/s1600-h/April+%2709+15th-25th+092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SfSsLPGQ9KI/AAAAAAAAAYk/6QfujaRmli4/s320/April+%2709+15th-25th+092.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329073568117486754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FOperamouse%2Falbumid%2F5329036314779631713%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-7573805244863137749?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/7573805244863137749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=7573805244863137749' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7573805244863137749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7573805244863137749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/man-of-house.html' title='The Man of the House?'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SfSqPEp8iTI/AAAAAAAAAYc/w5wPor6WDsc/s72-c/April+%2709+15th-25th+084.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-5073849660387364159</id><published>2009-04-15T14:07:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T14:11:48.761-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Brother and Sister</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeY_M2YW5lI/AAAAAAAAAXI/WwkttxLbBUk/s1600-h/Layla+Belle+078.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeY_M2YW5lI/AAAAAAAAAXI/WwkttxLbBUk/s320/Layla+Belle+078.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325013099400848978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeY-q3TJyhI/AAAAAAAAAXA/7pGOw9G-ONU/s1600-h/Max+scale.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeY-q3TJyhI/AAAAAAAAAXA/7pGOw9G-ONU/s320/Max+scale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325012515531901458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You almost would not know it if I didn't tell you they were!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5073849660387364159?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5073849660387364159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5073849660387364159' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5073849660387364159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5073849660387364159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/brother-and-sister.html' title='Brother and Sister'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeY_M2YW5lI/AAAAAAAAAXI/WwkttxLbBUk/s72-c/Layla+Belle+078.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-9077710755758833347</id><published>2009-04-15T09:47:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T09:49:43.659-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeYCCtpONlI/AAAAAAAAAW0/-ROgjx24ZdU/s1600-h/Layla+Belle+day2+005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeYCCtpONlI/AAAAAAAAAW0/-ROgjx24ZdU/s320/Layla+Belle+day2+005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324945855047677522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day 2 everything is going well!  All the tests have come back perfect she's eating ok, so that's all we can hope for right now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-9077710755758833347?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/9077710755758833347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=9077710755758833347' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/9077710755758833347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/9077710755758833347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-2-everything-is-going-well-all.html' title=''/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeYCCtpONlI/AAAAAAAAAW0/-ROgjx24ZdU/s72-c/Layla+Belle+day2+005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-5269542495636813250</id><published>2009-04-15T07:02:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T07:03:17.526-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeXbDYiMENI/AAAAAAAAAWs/-nXbatcVZRY/s1600-h/.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 166px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeXbDYiMENI/AAAAAAAAAWs/-nXbatcVZRY/s320/.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324902985607418066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5269542495636813250?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5269542495636813250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5269542495636813250' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5269542495636813250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5269542495636813250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeXbDYiMENI/AAAAAAAAAWs/-nXbatcVZRY/s72-c/.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-8323329576937348659</id><published>2009-04-14T17:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T17:04:59.049-06:00</updated><title type='text'>She's here!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeUWkqd0QvI/AAAAAAAAAWk/vZhR-Qxrr9M/s1600-h/Layla+Belle+079.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeUWkqd0QvI/AAAAAAAAAWk/vZhR-Qxrr9M/s320/Layla+Belle+079.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324686953565930226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At 4:45pm Layla Belle Romney joined us coming in at 7 lbs 11 oz and 19 inches long.&lt;br /&gt;She'll be here and viewable at around 6:30pm and you're all invited to join us.  Don't know room number yet but you can text me for that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-8323329576937348659?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/8323329576937348659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=8323329576937348659' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8323329576937348659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8323329576937348659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/shes-here.html' title='She&apos;s here!!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SeUWkqd0QvI/AAAAAAAAAWk/vZhR-Qxrr9M/s72-c/Layla+Belle+079.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-1466546376579242042</id><published>2009-04-14T16:35:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T16:35:54.103-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Almost there!!</title><content type='html'>Fully &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;dilated&lt;/span&gt;, so it won't be much longer now :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-1466546376579242042?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/1466546376579242042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=1466546376579242042' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/1466546376579242042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/1466546376579242042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/almost-there.html' title='Almost there!!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-3769721283487036868</id><published>2009-04-14T16:03:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T16:05:04.753-06:00</updated><title type='text'>4:00pm</title><content type='html'>Things have started to move along a bit quicker now, still can't see anything happening before 5 and probably not until a bit later but we've seen more movement in the past hour than all the rest of the time combined.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-3769721283487036868?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/3769721283487036868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=3769721283487036868' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/3769721283487036868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/3769721283487036868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/400pm.html' title='4:00pm'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-5976277163289939955</id><published>2009-04-14T14:24:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T14:26:35.891-06:00</updated><title type='text'>2:30PM</title><content type='html'>Well not much news, got the epidural about 45 minutes ago.  Still looking at 5pm'ish at the soonest.&lt;br /&gt;Watching Thomas Crown affair now :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5976277163289939955?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5976277163289939955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5976277163289939955' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5976277163289939955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5976277163289939955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/230pm.html' title='2:30PM'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-5562444923260973540</id><published>2009-04-14T13:01:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T13:03:37.284-06:00</updated><title type='text'>A bit behind</title><content type='html'>Well we're a bit behind where we hoped to be but hey it's not like we've got anything else to do.  The doctor was hoping to pop back in between 12:00 and 12:30 to help move things along and........ well sure enough he just walked in.  So he's going to break the water now and should speed things up a bit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5562444923260973540?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5562444923260973540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5562444923260973540' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5562444923260973540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5562444923260973540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/bit-behind.html' title='A bit behind'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-7896862141049501366</id><published>2009-04-14T10:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T10:04:36.137-06:00</updated><title type='text'>10AM</title><content type='html'>Well we're a couple hours in and things are going pretty smoothly.  The doctor has come in and the nurse says everything is going well.   Her guess for baby weight is 7 pounds 6 ounces so feel free to post your guesses below.  Right now we don't expect much to happen for at least 2-3 hours.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-7896862141049501366?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/7896862141049501366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=7896862141049501366' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7896862141049501366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7896862141049501366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/10am.html' title='10AM'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-3629379676875885961</id><published>2009-04-14T07:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T07:43:10.458-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Checked</title><content type='html'>Well we're here and checked in, nothing to report yet.  Hope everyone is having a good Tuesday morning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-3629379676875885961?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/3629379676875885961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=3629379676875885961' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/3629379676875885961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/3629379676875885961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/checked.html' title='Checked'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-1895334264677974532</id><published>2009-04-14T06:51:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T06:52:20.769-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Today's the day</title><content type='html'>We're heading out now, supposed to be at the hospital by 7:30AM MST. :D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-1895334264677974532?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/1895334264677974532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=1895334264677974532' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/1895334264677974532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/1895334264677974532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/todays-day.html' title='Today&apos;s the day'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-1374142062520985256</id><published>2009-04-09T21:05:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T21:06:56.624-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ok getting closer</title><content type='html'>Well we're within a week and I've updated the music list to reflect new baby girl!  When the day does come stay tuned here we'll be updating the blog instead of calling, text messaging, emailing etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tick, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;tock&lt;/span&gt;, tick &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;tock&lt;/span&gt;...........&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-1374142062520985256?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/1374142062520985256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=1374142062520985256' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/1374142062520985256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/1374142062520985256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/ok-getting-closer.html' title='Ok getting closer'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-7278942886099465559</id><published>2009-04-07T21:14:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T21:38:41.748-06:00</updated><title type='text'>What the hell!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SdwXAYem7VI/AAAAAAAAAV8/26FcHnn2ZFk/s1600-h/Jan-March+09+300.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SdwXAYem7VI/AAAAAAAAAV8/26FcHnn2ZFk/s320/Jan-March+09+300.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322154154983353682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Who the hell is this guy ^ !!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry had to do it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When things aren't happening to you they take a lot less &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;tim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;e.  We've been waiting for Layla Belle FOREVER!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I'm ready to throw sleep away and just get on with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; it.  But then again I've always been a fan of doing my presentation first&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;.  Why endure the agony of waiting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many of you know my/our good buddy Brad was in town this weekend for a little paintball and cards, it was a very good time.  We'll miss him not being in the valley but wish him well in his new location a little farther south.  Speaking of Paintball&lt;br /&gt;This guy right down there \/ took a great shot and tagged me right in the ear!  &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Damnit&lt;/span&gt; that hurt but it made every hit I took after that not hurt at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Sdwb5Q6lsYI/AAAAAAAAAWc/dkMlmHmVzYw/s1600-h/California+and+tailgate.+182.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Sdwb5Q6lsYI/AAAAAAAAAWc/dkMlmHmVzYw/s320/California+and+tailgate.+182.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322159530252284290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Where'd he go?  Where'd whooooo gooooooooo?&lt;br /&gt;;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-7278942886099465559?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/7278942886099465559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=7278942886099465559' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7278942886099465559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7278942886099465559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-hell.html' title='What the hell!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SdwXAYem7VI/AAAAAAAAAV8/26FcHnn2ZFk/s72-c/Jan-March+09+300.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-670988614960993612</id><published>2009-03-14T16:35:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-03-14T16:42:02.465-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey, hey, heyyyyy!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SbwxTTWfh9I/AAAAAAAAAVg/FCuQbVqfKMg/s1600-h/Max+3rd+B-day+Balloon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313175868072232914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SbwxTTWfh9I/AAAAAAAAAVg/FCuQbVqfKMg/s320/Max+3rd+B-day+Balloon.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Well Max's 3rd Birthday has come and gone and he had a great time making a weak of it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Max spent his birthday day with CC, then we did Jungle Jim's with the family on the 3rd. We had cake and presents at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Grandpa's&lt;/span&gt; on the 4&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; and finally a BBQ with pinata on the 8&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thank you &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;everyone&lt;/span&gt; for celebrating with us it was a good time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Max is pretty &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;fascinated&lt;/span&gt; right now with what Layla will and will not like. Everything we do, is followed with the question "Will Layla like this?" Good stuff. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;That's all really I'm off to watch the Utes game so we'll talk to you all soon!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313176790447797506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SbwyI_d9tQI/AAAAAAAAAVo/u6CdiOM7DYc/s320/Max+3rd+B-day+Pinata.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;He picked that pinata himself I had NO influence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313177069499877026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SbwyZPBKhqI/AAAAAAAAAVw/V4flleSAYJ0/s320/Joe+and+Max+Wolf+Creek.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;And just one more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;"I think it would be cool if someone threw a throne.  Then it would be a thrown throne..."  &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Demitri&lt;/span&gt; Martin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-670988614960993612?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/670988614960993612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=670988614960993612' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/670988614960993612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/670988614960993612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/03/hey-hey-heyyyyy.html' title='Hey, hey, heyyyyy!!!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SbwxTTWfh9I/AAAAAAAAAVg/FCuQbVqfKMg/s72-c/Max+3rd+B-day+Balloon.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-4468108329524382229</id><published>2009-03-03T11:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T12:00:34.144-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It's that time!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Saq-z6Aj7oI/AAAAAAAAAUo/6OJa1q4wVBc/s1600-h/oct-dec+2008+281.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308264909763767938" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 240px; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Saq-z6Aj7oI/AAAAAAAAAUo/6OJa1q4wVBc/s320/oct-dec+2008+281.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Birthday MAX!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;3 years old already!?!&lt;br /&gt;It seems like it's been much longer with all the memories but it really has flown by.&lt;br /&gt;We've got a fun evening planned and hope to see everyone for festivities on Sunday! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-4468108329524382229?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/4468108329524382229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=4468108329524382229' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/4468108329524382229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/4468108329524382229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/03/its-that-time1.html' title='It&apos;s that time!!!!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/Saq-z6Aj7oI/AAAAAAAAAUo/6OJa1q4wVBc/s72-c/oct-dec+2008+281.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-2257392056140732643</id><published>2009-02-13T13:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-13T13:43:53.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nothing in particular</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SZXWc5uIpII/AAAAAAAAAUg/sTrRly0uvUo/s1600-h/Tradition.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 233px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SZXWc5uIpII/AAAAAAAAAUg/sTrRly0uvUo/s320/Tradition.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302379928317633666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well it's been a little while since this got updated, I really don't have anything in particular to update, it seems our house is in slow motion waiting for the spring.  Max can't wait to be able to go to the park, the putting green, the zoo, Lagoon, and any where else he's heard of that can be done when the snow melts.  Our golf clubs are sitting patiently in the corner even if their owners are not.  And of course the new arrival coming in April, Steph is convinced the time is going to fly by, I on the other hand think 60+ days is still a LONG time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the end of Football we were left with only Hockey for sports to watch for a week.  Fortunately NASCAR starts up this Sunday with the Daytona 500.  Thank you bootlegger for the gift of a real sport to watch in these bleak times.  Oh and keeping our ancestors &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;spirits&lt;/span&gt; up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read the other day the 30 was the new 20!?!  That's the most messed up thing I've heard in at least a week.  20 was full of opportunity, all night parties and a total disregard for almost all responsibility.  Hell back then the question "When are you going to get to the bar?"  Meant what time you would be arriving that day, now it means what day this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-2257392056140732643?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/2257392056140732643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=2257392056140732643' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/2257392056140732643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/2257392056140732643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/02/nothing-in-particular.html' title='Nothing in particular'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SZXWc5uIpII/AAAAAAAAAUg/sTrRly0uvUo/s72-c/Tradition.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-5971718400353447989</id><published>2009-01-14T08:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T09:07:44.872-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Smells like teen spirit?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SW4GYklrQyI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/qa7X0qiZ6qo/s1600-h/Comic.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 281px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SW4GYklrQyI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/qa7X0qiZ6qo/s320/Comic.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291173631415239458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I'm sure this happens to everyone but this morning as I was leaving for work, I walked into the kitchen and smelled the coffee brewing and was instantly transported to waking up at Grandma and Grandpa Romney's house in the avenues -back before I ever thought I'd need more than a dollar to my name in order pay for the ice cream truck-, walking up the stairs holding on to the wrought iron banister to that wonderfully foreign smell.  When I came back to my cozy little kitchen there was just a warm feeling inside.  Then I remembered it was Costco brand coffee and with no creamer almost undrinkable ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well it's been a while since I've posted a blog.  Christmas was a blast and Max can't wait for next year.  A whole new room of toys and every Black and Decker toy tool imaginable including a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;recipro&lt;/span&gt; saw (thank you Mason I don't even own a real one).  One funny anecdote Christmas Eve I asked Max to put the plate of cookies out for Santa, he walked over to the dinner table the called over, "Where does he sit?"!!  Over the holidays we got Layla's room painted when I say we, I mean I got it painted while &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; kept Max distracted, although he did help roll a bit.  Is it bad that while I was painting I kept thinking to myself "Damn you are a good painter, taping is for amateurs!"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New years was a lot of fun because we didn't plan anything at all.  I've found that if you plan too much New Years Eve just finds a way to let you down. &lt;br /&gt;We all know what happened the day after the holiday at the Sugar Bowl so no need to go into that.  Suffice it to say there was a lot of screaming, yelling, chest bumping and tom foolery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to work now with nothing major happening other than some Birthdays and a couple holidays.  The Super Bowl is a mere fort night away so that should be a lot of fun as usual. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Hot potato is a very different game when the players are starving. Then it's more like 'My Potato.' I've got burned fingertips, but I don't give a damn: FREE POTATO!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- &lt;a href="http://www.demetrimartin.com/"&gt;Demetri Martin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5971718400353447989?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5971718400353447989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5971718400353447989' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5971718400353447989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5971718400353447989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2009/01/smells-like-teen-spirit.html' title='Smells like teen spirit?'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SW4GYklrQyI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/qa7X0qiZ6qo/s72-c/Comic.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-2820983910494050992</id><published>2008-12-20T13:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-20T13:46:22.446-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SU1VXMwTj8I/AAAAAAAAASI/DVNbMsEyiII/s1600-h/IMG_4933.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SU1VXMwTj8I/AAAAAAAAASI/DVNbMsEyiII/s320/IMG_4933.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281971795024646082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ho, ho, ho.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ell excitement is building around the house as Christmas draws near.  The wish list has been mailed and I don't know if even Santa will be able to deliver all that was asked for!  --that's kind of an inside joke all Max asked for was a wand and a screwdriver.  That being said he's getting a bit more than that I think &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; and I are more excited than he is for Christmas morning.  Setting up gifts the night before and filming his reaction as he opens gifts will kind of be first for us since in the past he was a bit to young to understand exactly what was going on.  Charge those video cameras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With snow falling practically every day who needs a gym membership just go out and shovel twice a day.  That being said it sure would be nice to find an indoor track somewhere nearby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fantasy football update, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; and I are going against each other this week for the Superbowl.  The only surprising thing about that is that I'm in the Super Bowl.  In four years &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; has never not gone, with two first place finishes and one second, I'll keep you posted on how this fourth trip turns out for her.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Well I think that's about it, I'll get Christmas photo's up in the days following the holiday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-2820983910494050992?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/2820983910494050992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=2820983910494050992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/2820983910494050992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/2820983910494050992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/12/ho-ho-ho.html' title=''/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SU1VXMwTj8I/AAAAAAAAASI/DVNbMsEyiII/s72-c/IMG_4933.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-110787710020929253</id><published>2008-12-06T07:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-06T08:34:33.431-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Passing time at work....</title><content type='html'>In case any of you are curious, sconecutter has the WORST coffee on the face of the plant. Coffee filtered through an old dirty shirt while camping tastes better. Their scones, filled with heavenly goodness, are delicious though. I am sitting here at work, 8:00 am on a Saturday, digesting one of these yummies.&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, Joe, Max and I traveled to the zoo to see the lights. They are quite fantastic. Max had a blast, running from one completely christmas light covered tree to the next. There were also light animals climbing trees and dancing, which apparently can handle grabing and shaking, which Max did with gusto. We ate deep fried smores, which are probably the strangest thing I have consumed. I don't really know if I liked it or not, but it sure sounds cool. Max is such a character, he ran almost the entire time, weaving in and out of people, yelling "excuse me." At least he is polite, right? When asked on the way home what his favorite part of the evening was, he responded "the rocks." Who knew that rocks strategically placed around a tree is better than a bazillon lights? Kids are great, such a different perspective on the world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-110787710020929253?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/110787710020929253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=110787710020929253' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/110787710020929253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/110787710020929253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/12/passing-time-at-work.html' title='Passing time at work....'/><author><name>Steph</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01566548126905875152</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-7446853119941433893</id><published>2008-12-02T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-02T12:40:14.504-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Half way there!</title><content type='html'>I am officially joining the blogging club!&lt;br /&gt;I am now over half way through baking this little babe, 20 weeks 6 days to be exact. And for those of you who have seen my belly lately know that it is growing every day. &lt;br /&gt;I have decided that we have the cutest little boy around. Yesterday when I picked Max up from daycare he ran over to me yelling Mommy! Mommy! with the biggest smile on his face. Oh, the warm fuzzy feelings I get from being a parent. He can do the littlest things to brighten my day. Later in the day I asked Max for a hug. He hugged me and then proceeded to squeeze my neck, saying "I am going to squeeze the stuffins out of you." Needless to say, I laughed so hard I almost cried. He is such a joy.&lt;br /&gt;I am thrilled that the holiday season is here! Let the Christmas partying begin!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-7446853119941433893?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/7446853119941433893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=7446853119941433893' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7446853119941433893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7446853119941433893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/12/half-way-there.html' title='Half way there!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-826650126189215278</id><published>2008-11-03T15:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T15:59:33.557-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQ-Afb61EhI/AAAAAAAAAQM/0zlKT49ZbUg/s1600-h/Max+and+mom.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264567766978204178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQ-Afb61EhI/AAAAAAAAAQM/0zlKT49ZbUg/s320/Max+and+mom.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Well Halloween has come and gone link to pictures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/Operamouse/Halloween08"&gt;http://picasaweb.google.com/Operamouse/Halloween08&lt;/a&gt;#&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a really fun holiday it's amazing what a difference one year can make "Do you have candy for me?"  was Max's way of saying Trick or Treat.  It was classic watching him try to open people's door and then with hardly a glance back at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; just walk in once the door was opened up.  I do have to say that he's done a very good job not eating all his candy in one day.  If he asks you if you want any candy beware!  It's a skillful ploy to get you to open it up and then share it with him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cold season is upon us and I've gone and found one, it's making it a lot tougher to get into shape boo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly come on Michigan just because we beat you doesn't mean you need to go and lose to everyone else you play!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-826650126189215278?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/826650126189215278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=826650126189215278' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/826650126189215278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/826650126189215278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/11/well-halloween-has-come-and-gone-link.html' title=''/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQ-Afb61EhI/AAAAAAAAAQM/0zlKT49ZbUg/s72-c/Max+and+mom.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-5848620587699636040</id><published>2008-10-28T09:54:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T10:38:30.330-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQc_9bgF5eI/AAAAAAAAAP8/XkNMW-DptvQ/s1600-h/8-0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262245014192645602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQc_9bgF5eI/AAAAAAAAAP8/XkNMW-DptvQ/s320/8-0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQc_lxcR2zI/AAAAAAAAAPs/klFq7LThOQc/s1600-h/motivation1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262244607765371698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 252px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQc_lxcR2zI/AAAAAAAAAPs/klFq7LThOQc/s320/motivation1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Well the Holiday season is upon us and we are over half way through the college football season. The Utes have some very tough games ahead but if we can make it through unscathed I hope y’all have some time off left come the end of the year because the RV may need to be gassed up and pointed south again. We’ve had a good few weeks Tailgating, watching NFL games and just getting the cobwebs of summer straightened out. Who’s ready for goblins ghouls and fried turkey!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took Max to go see Wall-E the other day, we made it through 30 minutes of previews and 20 minutes of the movie before he had more fun counting the lights on the sides of the aisles. Still not worth paying full price for him yet, oh well. Bowling on the other hand is the thing to do when the weather’s bad outside!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262244792726033266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 138px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 147px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQc_wieVk3I/AAAAAAAAAP0/qXn-OWut0sE/s320/uhallow.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The family is getting together for pumpkin carving tonight which should be a good time, then we’ll try to figure out trick or treating this weekend. If you weren’t already convinced that Americans are turning into paranoid Fatsos take a look at trunk or treating. Instead of running miles and miles to fill your pillow case with candy all you have to do is go to the local school, synagogue, parking lot and walk from car to car, and half the time the parents are doing it for the kids while the kids are off running around in a PARKING LOT! Yeah that sounds safe, no exercise and run around where cars are pulling in and out. Get off your lazy ass, and walk around the neighborhood with your kids until their old enough to go it with their friends. The neighborhood is pretty damn safe when you’ve got 100 kids and parents running around outside. You know what it really is, LAZY FAT ASS PARENTS! --Says the really out of shape Joe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need a projection screen, anyone have one? I want to show old Halloween movies and serve hot chocolate like the good old days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See all you ghosts and goblins in the next few days/months hopefully in a much warmer climate!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5848620587699636040?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5848620587699636040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5848620587699636040' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5848620587699636040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5848620587699636040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/10/well-holiday-season-is-upon-us-and-we.html' title=''/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SQc_9bgF5eI/AAAAAAAAAP8/XkNMW-DptvQ/s72-c/8-0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-5256697293383972090</id><published>2008-09-25T15:20:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-09-25T15:47:57.349-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Are you Crazy or am I just sma't</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SNwE8930ViI/AAAAAAAAANc/SksH1y5-nXc/s1600-h/overconfidence.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250076711054497314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SNwE8930ViI/AAAAAAAAANc/SksH1y5-nXc/s320/overconfidence.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ok&lt;/span&gt;, so the market has been a mess lately and so work has been pretty crazy. I guess we can be thankful at least we haven't had a major earthquake to make things even more hectic ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you own stocks panicked and sold them 'shame on you!' You deserve to lose that money. What goes up must come down and vice &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;versa&lt;/span&gt;. If you didn't know it this applies most of the time, “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." Tolkien&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Do you ever try to do to much but at the same time not enough?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I really, really dislike religion and the belief that some guy can tell me what I can and can't do in order to save my eternal soul. Um sure whatever can I have some &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;kool&lt;/span&gt;-aid as well? Don't get me wrong most days I'm not ready to die but I'm sure glad I've done everything I have so when I do I don't think back and say to myself, "Man I would have liked to try that". Because it would suck to go into that nothingness/primordial soup/ everything and nothing, thinking man I wonder what Disneyland would have been like if I'd tried ??&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Coffee what the hell is wrong with coffee? I have a cup every morning 5 days a week I don't think it's going to kill me. The drive to work might though, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;hmmmm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Guess what people you can't all be right all the time, All though I'm pretty sure I am ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everyone keep an eye on Maude because her blog has some awesome music. I'm grooving to it right now. Wonder what it would be like to be the youngest instead of the oldest? Having people look up to you &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;fundamentally&lt;/span&gt; changes your perception of reality and every choice you make. But then again apparently so does colored sugar water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vodka please!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sorry I'm sure most of this didn't make any sense and that's &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;ok&lt;/span&gt;. I needed to write it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-5256697293383972090?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/5256697293383972090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=5256697293383972090' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5256697293383972090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/5256697293383972090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/09/are-you-crazy-or-am-i-just-smat.html' title='Are you Crazy or am I just sma&apos;t'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SNwE8930ViI/AAAAAAAAANc/SksH1y5-nXc/s72-c/overconfidence.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-88207763549244052</id><published>2008-09-19T14:41:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T15:50:01.296-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Beer, Golf and um oh yeah Football!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SNQPD-YwHlI/AAAAAAAAAM0/MOXgMgn5pKg/s1600-h/may+2008+031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247836026754309714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SNQPD-YwHlI/AAAAAAAAAM0/MOXgMgn5pKg/s320/may+2008+031.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SNQOuAsV6ZI/AAAAAAAAAMs/-CMEgRLnJpw/s1600-h/u1.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The above picture is a photo from Spanish Trails in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Las&lt;/span&gt; Vegas. Pretty course it's there signature hole, you are looking from the T box to the green.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;----I did make it over the water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well it's been an eventful month, we got back from San Diego and started getting ready for the football season. Took a trip to Michigan to watch the Utes stomp on the Wolverines and it was a very good time, barring combating a wicked sickness that sent Max to the hospital the day I left. A few things about the trip, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wrigley field can not fully be appreciated in 1 game alone. I'm estimating at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;least&lt;/span&gt; 3 games minimum is required.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Michigan fans know how to do it, they are awesome tailgaters that use all the space they can find and don't relegate them selves to one shitty black top parking lot. They also are very &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;intelligent&lt;/span&gt; football fans and were very stand up people in defeat. Unlike some of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;loonies&lt;/span&gt; that live to the south of us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you golf golf at Cog Hill in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Chicago&lt;/span&gt;, I recommend the Ravines. BEAUTIFUL course, we &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Teed&lt;/span&gt; off at 6:30 in the morning and it was gorgeous. If you don't golf then um sucks for you!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tailgating has been good, I'm still trying to push people to move out of that black top hell down to the grass and the shade. They just don't seem to like being more comfortable. Maybe some day. Keep your eyes out for an old &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;trailer&lt;/span&gt; for sale we want to buy it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'll be putting a new slide show off to the side of there so click on it if you want. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"And if you're drinking then I know that you're my friend and I'll say, I think I'll have myself a beer."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-88207763549244052?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/88207763549244052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=88207763549244052' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/88207763549244052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/88207763549244052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/09/beer-golf-and-um-oh-yeah-football.html' title='Beer, Golf and um oh yeah Football!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SNQPD-YwHlI/AAAAAAAAAM0/MOXgMgn5pKg/s72-c/may+2008+031.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-6587035156200971361</id><published>2008-08-18T14:50:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T15:23:16.522-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SKngvulmTEI/AAAAAAAAAKs/xcQ-gfkFJeE/s1600-h/Unique.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235963152359115842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SKngvulmTEI/AAAAAAAAAKs/xcQ-gfkFJeE/s320/Unique.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Well that was fun!  You may ask what was but don't it's silly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vacation was a blast, lots of beach and relaxing with the family. &lt;br /&gt;I had a hole bunch typed but reading over it I figured it was too much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Football starts in 12 days can you imagine?  That was fast!  The Utes running wild in Michigan, sounds like fun and you know it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well I think that's about it, new pictures on the top left.  Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-6587035156200971361?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/6587035156200971361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=6587035156200971361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/6587035156200971361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/6587035156200971361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/08/wow-almost-month-has-gone-by-well.html' title=''/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SKngvulmTEI/AAAAAAAAAKs/xcQ-gfkFJeE/s72-c/Unique.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-2866513793098856916</id><published>2008-07-23T09:17:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-07-23T10:18:43.913-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Who needs a Break</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SIdPUkIAJ5I/AAAAAAAAAKg/J3_C5IQmbhY/s1600-h/Teamwork.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226233107299968914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SIdPUkIAJ5I/AAAAAAAAAKg/J3_C5IQmbhY/s320/Teamwork.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;AHHHHHHH&lt;/span&gt;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;fter what seems like a month of go, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;gO&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;gO&lt;/span&gt;! i'd like to take a weekend and just sit around the house, Maybe rent a movie and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;fertilize&lt;/span&gt; the lawn, throw some salt in the water &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;softener&lt;/span&gt; and fix a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;couPle&lt;/span&gt; sprinklers. Sounds like a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;bArrel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;fulL&lt;/span&gt; of fun right? that's because i'm Officially Old. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;we need to get up to the lake and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;caMPing&lt;/span&gt;, but Are really looking forward to the beach in a few weekS. --that's the end of thA ThoughT.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the concert wAs fun, the drummer is the best thing about that band, who knows about those other jokers but that drummer Carried the day, you all Know it's true. i would lIke someoNe to explain to me why they built a concert arena in such a pit of the valley with no easy way in or out? i &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;miss&lt;/span&gt; wolf mountain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Great i think that's all i have to say about that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"i think winning employee of the month is a good example of being a winner and a loser at the same time." d&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;emitri&lt;/span&gt; martin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-2866513793098856916?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/2866513793098856916/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=2866513793098856916' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/2866513793098856916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/2866513793098856916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/07/who-needs-break.html' title='Who needs a Break'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SIdPUkIAJ5I/AAAAAAAAAKg/J3_C5IQmbhY/s72-c/Teamwork.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-8524086496909375832</id><published>2008-07-10T11:58:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T13:17:37.939-06:00</updated><title type='text'>What's that a Birdie?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SHZOGod6_RI/AAAAAAAAAKY/nlmycBoz70c/s1600-h/pooped+collars.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221446693831769362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SHZOGod6_RI/AAAAAAAAAKY/nlmycBoz70c/s320/pooped+collars.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      So it's been a fun week and a few days, 4&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; of July was a blast up in Idaho's Park City aka Sun Valley.  It was a good time hanging out with the family at the pool, golfing and generally relaxing.  Thank you to all that came and made it possible.  Max enjoyed bike rides, pool time, and hanging out with everyone.  I'll try and get a new photo album linked to this blog ASAP.  Since we've gotten back Max has passed his cold to both &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; and I which has made the week a bit of a haze.  Foster's came into town and we had a 7AM Tee time this morning on which I scored my very first birdie!!!  Hooray It's a big deal so love it &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;damnit&lt;/span&gt;!  Granted it was a par 3 and I played pretty bad for the first 6 holes and shot a 66 on a par 34 course.  But hey it was a good time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got back and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; tried to get me to call in sick and golf another 9 with her, unfortunately getting a babysitter on such short notice is kind of tough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weekend plans more &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Barbque&lt;/span&gt; I still have yet to cook a bad piece of meat on that thing it's the best grill I've ever cooked on.  Hopefully another 9 holes of golf and maybe a baseball game we'll see. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Saying I like kids is like saying 'I like people for a little while'&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-8524086496909375832?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/8524086496909375832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=8524086496909375832' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8524086496909375832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8524086496909375832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/07/whats-that-birdie.html' title='What&apos;s that a Birdie?'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SHZOGod6_RI/AAAAAAAAAKY/nlmycBoz70c/s72-c/pooped+collars.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-755486522260832262</id><published>2008-06-30T11:33:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-06-30T14:10:24.016-06:00</updated><title type='text'>My own psuedo Ipod</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGkZJ__XTeI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/fvRriqRHwrM/s1600-h/chances.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217729302872149474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGkZJ__XTeI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/fvRriqRHwrM/s320/chances.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ok&lt;/span&gt;, so this last week was fun. Dinner at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Mazza&lt;/span&gt; for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Steph's&lt;/span&gt; birthday (the real one on 15&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; and 15&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;, not the fake one on 9&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; and 9&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;). &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; had &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Bonco&lt;/span&gt; Saturday night, so I got to prepare the house and a meal for 12-13 girls. Not being used to doing such a feat we ended up feeding all of them and Myself, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Wilber&lt;/span&gt;, and Mason Saturday night and the guys again on Sunday while watching the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;EuroCup&lt;/span&gt;. There's still enough chicken left over for dinner tonight. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Huli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Huli&lt;/span&gt; chicken good stuff even reheated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday wasn't a bad day either Spain won that was good, Jr got wrecked not so good, and Juan Pablo Montoya continue his trend of wrecking other drivers intentionally for no reason at all. We'll start packing for Sun Valley today and are all pretty excited to get out of dodge for a few days. Golf, swimming, eating and relaxing sounds nice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly if you haven't noticed this is my own personal &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Ipod&lt;/span&gt;. I can log in anywhere and have hours of good music to listen to. Feel free to do the same!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And now Harry, let us go out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." ~Albus Dumbledore&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-755486522260832262?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/755486522260832262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=755486522260832262' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/755486522260832262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/755486522260832262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-own-psuedo-ipod.html' title='My own psuedo Ipod'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGkZJ__XTeI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/fvRriqRHwrM/s72-c/chances.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-8425182825246171871</id><published>2008-06-26T08:29:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-06-26T08:38:28.309-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Steph's Birthday!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGOp3SlnNbI/AAAAAAAAAJY/cJw8hJzkNtM/s1600-h/Birthday.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216199560772662706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGOp3SlnNbI/AAAAAAAAAJY/cJw8hJzkNtM/s320/Birthday.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGOoiiRo00I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/ycElQHTq1Bw/s1600-h/Green+Eyes.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216198104694969154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGOoiiRo00I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/ycElQHTq1Bw/s320/Green+Eyes.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; So it's Steph's Birthday today, She's getting me with a bow. Ouch that doesn't sound pleasant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Flowers and dinner then maybe?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Birthday to Stephanie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-8425182825246171871?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/8425182825246171871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=8425182825246171871' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8425182825246171871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/8425182825246171871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/06/stephs-birthday.html' title='Steph&apos;s Birthday!!'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGOp3SlnNbI/AAAAAAAAAJY/cJw8hJzkNtM/s72-c/Birthday.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144381781516764339.post-7795996285932589143</id><published>2008-06-25T09:58:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T17:04:05.856-06:00</updated><title type='text'>This Message has not been approved by the boss.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGJsJfpCsEI/AAAAAAAAAHY/sxxXOroXAOk/s1600-h/Simplicity.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215850228816719938" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGJsJfpCsEI/AAAAAAAAAHY/sxxXOroXAOk/s400/Simplicity.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGJr2wyz3wI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/s5Jfp5JOsQY/s1600-h/Epic+Failure.bmp"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ok&lt;/span&gt;, so Maude has inspired me to start a Blog&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I figure I can keep you all up to date with Pictures, life etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; hasn't seen this yet but I imagine she will contribute as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Ok&lt;/span&gt;, well one week to Sun Valley and a real vacation, which will be nice. I don't consider running all over Manhattan Island doing wedding stuff for 2 days a vacation. You might but I don't. I'm really looking forward to a 6 hour car ride with a 2 year old. Let's pray to god we can keep him entertained, and I don't go all Happening (if you haven't seen the movie you won't get it.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The thought of more golf and swimming will keep us sane on the way there I hope.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Life is here, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Steph&lt;/span&gt; is in school most nights it seems, Max wants to do anything he's not supposed to and shoot hoops or hit golf balls.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Drivers in this state Blow. It's the little nob that sticks out of the left side of your steering column, (some people call it a signal) don't use it and I'll honk and call you an A$$hat! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Don't travel in the left lane or right lane for that matter, those lanes are used for passing and entering and exiting the freeway. If you are driving in one of those lanes, MOVE, thanks!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;If you speed down 800E or on my street and your car &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;gets&lt;/span&gt; hit by a rock, it's your OWN DAMN FAULT!! Don't come whining to me about it, even if you think I threw it. We can call the cops I'll win.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Lastly, I'll leave you with a thought from Demetri Martin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;"I'm afraid of sharks. But only in a water &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;situation&lt;/span&gt;, if I saw a shark on the street I'd be like what?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;F*$# You!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;It's like the opposite of how I am with lions."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGJrpZvhnxI/AAAAAAAAAHI/lnms63891cA/s1600-h/chances.bmp"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/144381781516764339-7795996285932589143?l=mmriv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/feeds/7795996285932589143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=144381781516764339&amp;postID=7795996285932589143' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7795996285932589143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/144381781516764339/posts/default/7795996285932589143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mmriv.blogspot.com/2008/06/this-message-has-not-been-approved-by.html' title='This Message has not been approved by the boss.'/><author><name>Joe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16097556834737819676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4ErOGR4SkbM/SGJsJfpCsEI/AAAAAAAAAHY/sxxXOroXAOk/s72-c/Simplicity.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
