Crazy Night of Fights at UFC

Last night was insane at the Fight for the Troops put on by UFC at Fort Bragg, NC. You rarely ever seen anyone with broken limbs during UFC fights, because people tapout way before anything nasty happens.

Fighting in front of soldiers that fight for real must have made the UFC fighters not want to give up, ever.

That's Corey Hill getting a kick checked, and completely snapping his leg.

Another guy wouldn't tap during an arm bar, and his forearm wound up going the wrong way.

Insane night of fights, and all action-packed. Exactly why I so can't stand watching boxing.

Jason

B.A.E.

B.A.E. means Bad Ass Electrician, and that's just what my brother is! He brought his family out for Thanksgiving, then gave me the piece of mind of having anything that might be remotely dangerous fixed in our house.

He also set us up with some motion sensor lights around the house to increase the security level as well!

It was really fun to see, and visit with him for so long as he usually works himself to the bone.

Also got to have fun with his family as I think they blew up our Wii! Tyler was a monster on tennis by the end of the two days, and Tacey got into the action as a pretty good golfer on Wii Sports. She's only like 5, so I was impressed. Troy, 3, even played and got a couple of hits in baseball. Had to hold him back a few times, as he got pretty excited. I think our TV got frightened a few times!

If you haven't seen the insanity that can occur while playing Wii, check out http://www.wiiinjury.com/. Lots of injuries and damage can occur. I'm just stoked that they had so much fun playing the Wii, and nothing majorly bad happened. I think Tacey got whacked in the face a bit, but after a bit of crying it looked like no harm, no foul. She was back to smiling and wanting to play again.

Was really fun to have them out!

Next weekend is going to be great as well since Erin's parents looks to be heading down from Utah to visit and see the house. Enjoying stress free family time is what the holidays are all about!

Jason

It's Raining!

It has been such a long time since it has rained here. It is suppose to rain for the next couple of days so I am excited. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so Happy Thanksgiving to all that read this. Mine is going to be like every other day, I will be at work. The only advantage about that is I get free food and get paid time and a half.

Our house is slowly coming along. I just need to find spots for everything and I will be done. As for the apartment, we got done cleaning that last Friday. It was nice getting that out of the way so we can just concentrate on the house.

Well, I hope everybody has a Happy Gobble Gobble Day tomorrow.

Erin

Uppercut from Hell

We just watched a really good night of fights last night, and we all were blown away by this uppercut. It was flat-out amazing! The guy who gets knocked out was actually ahead on points until he ate the uppercut from hell!

It was a fun night. Ben and his dad came over as well as Cisco. These are the types of nights that are the reason we moved down to Tempe in the first place. Get to be around our friends and not have to drive 30-60 minutes just to see anyone.

Jason

It Drives Me Crazy...

That they are playing Christmas music on the radio stations. Thanksgiving is not even here yet. What goes on in these peoples minds? They put out Christmas stuff in stores before Halloween even. Every year it gets earlier and earlier. Pretty soon they will just leave it up year round.

Sorry for the rant.

Erin

We Got Cable Internet Again

Where to begin.....

Jason and I are still slowly moving stuff from our apartment into our house. It is crazy how much junk we really have. It is slowly getting put away, and our house is starting to look like a house. There is so much stuff I want to do to the house, but it is just going to have to wait. We have been so busy trying to do the inside we are forgetting about the outside. When you live in an apartment you are not use to doing outside stuff as in watering the grass, weeding, and the pool. So the other day Jason and I went and bought a saw and a nozzle for the hose and we worked on the outside. I cut down some branches off of our lemon tree that was on the top of our roof, and some that were already breaking off.

Work has been crazy for both Jason and I. He has been pulling crazy hours, for example, 2:30 A.M. UGH! It is hard to get a good night sleep when you hear an alarm at the crazy hour since I get up around 4:30ish. Since we now live down in Tempe I have a longer commute. I did the distance on my car and it is 23 miles one way, so it takes me about a half hour. It is not so bad other than I zone out a lot and they have a bunch of Photo Enforced Radars all over the freeway. Hopefully I will not be getting a ticket in the mail anytime soon! Also at work, state was just there to do their yearly survey. They said we did excellent, so I'm excited.

Oh yeah, about the pool. The other day when it was about 75 degrees outside and the water was about 70 degrees I jumped in! haha it was cold, but I wanted to swim since it is belongs to us.

Erin

Cox Cable Officially Sucks

I so can't wait until Verizon FIOS is available for our new house. Now, we're going to be out of Internet service for two weeks at home because the previous cable install at the house was dry-rotted. That means that we have to wait two weeks until Cox can get out there to basically reinstall cable from the front of the street.

As soon as we find another option, we're done with Cox.

Jason

Been awhile

Sorry for taking awhile to blog. We spent most of the weekend moving, and slept in our new house for the first time last night. It was pretty cool. Our cats are still figuring the place out.

We still have a few more runs to get everything moved, but we should be in full-time something this weekend!

Really appreciate my dad coming out with the truck and helping us with the move. It was huge! Really took a lot of stress off the process, plus he showed me a thing or two about our pool.

Jason

I'm Back.

It has been a long, but fun week in Utah. I went to Utah to go deer hunting with the fam. Friday it started off kinda crazy when our cousin went missing in the mountains, but no worries he is fine. That afternoon we took the truck, trailer, and 2 four-wheelers out West were we ended up getting to flat tires at once. One of the truck and on the the camping trailer.

Saturday & Sunday we got up early and started deer hunting. We seen a lot of elk and wild horses. We seen does and we did see 4 bucks, but did not get a chance to shoot at them because they ran into the trees. Sunday afternoon we came home and went hunting elsewhere.

Monday-Wednesday we did the same thing, but we seen some wild turkeys. I actually got a buck. He wasn't very big, but at least I didn't get skunked like my sister! My mom, sister, nephew, and I went out to lunch at the Cancun (Mexican food) in Beaver. Also, my sister and I seen some Chuckers.

Thursday we were able to sleep in since the hunt was over. I also got my hair cut which is nice. I was able to visit with the family. Friday we left around 7:30 a.m. to get me back to the airport. We stopped in Mesquite, NV for breakfast. My mom put a dollar in a penny machine and ended up winning $50. Lucky her! My parents dropped me off at the airport and then when going through security my bag got stuck in the scanner. UGH! I finally found my gate at B1 next thing you know we were moved to A12 where we were going to be waiting an extra 30 mins. About five minutes later they moved us to A11. I hate the Vegas airport because they are always doing this. But I have to say the pilot made up for it we landed a minute earlier that expected and he was a great tour guide while up in the air. The best part was when we landed he said "remember SHIFT happens!"

Thanks to Jason and Ben for painting some of the house while I was gone. You two are great! Now today, I get to go help finish painting the rest and cleaning! Hope everybody else had a wonderful week!

Erin

Erin's Back Tomorrow!

I'm excited. Erin's coming back home tomorrow, FINALLY! This old guy is sick of taking care of our quickly-recovering cat!

Jason

Crazy Week

It's been a crazy week. My buddy Ben and I spent all weekend at the house getting various things taken care of. Since Erin has been hunting and not exactly within cell phone range since she went to Utah, I've probably talked to her for about 2 hours total since Thursday. It will be nice when she gets back.

Just bought a fridge yesterday that will be delivered on Wednesday. Got it for a total of $370 with delivery and installation from a scratch and dent shop. We're a bit away from needing to get anything really nice. We just want to be able to live there for a bit before we get radical on upgrades.

We also still need to save up for the roof replacement, which I hope we can get knocked out by the summer.

Pool rehab is fun too. I still need to go and get chlorine and the other stuff. At least the pool isn't green from sitting without the filter running for two weeks.

Anywho, Metallica concert is tonight, so I'm really excited about that one!

Quick News

Just so that ever body knows, Jason and I are officially home owners! We are very excited, but overwhelmed at the same time.

This starts the crazy week for myself. I'm leaving in an hour to go to the airport and fly to Las Vegas where my parents will pick me up. It is going to be fun camping and seeing the family. Best part is that I will be out there for a week and still getting paid at work. :) Got to love PTO.

Erin

Our house!

This is what our house looks like on Google Maps. The little shed in the back corner of the backyard is gone, and there's a bunch of trash still around, but just in case you wanted to check it out.

Jason

Why do people do the things they do?

So, today we did our last walk through on the house. The people left a lot of trash around. You think that people would have some respect and clean up after themselves. It is going to be a project before we can even move in. The carpets definitely need cleaning and on top of that the place needs a major paint job. Any Volunteers?

Going to the house and actually seeing it empty has made it hit. We are finally buying a house. It will be ours. We are so excited to get out of this apartment complex. It has been nothing but craziness for the last 2 years. Just the other day, for example, somebody kicked a big dent on Jason's car.

On a wonderful note, I only have 2 more days until I go to Utah for a week. I'm excited to go camping, and hope that the weather warms up enough so I won't totally freeze!

Erin

268

Made it through a week of working out, and dropped down to 268. Could be water weight, never know - but it is less than the last scale check.

We did pretty well this week. Worked out for about an hour during four different days.

Lucy is doing much better, and the house is about four days away from closing. We're still dealing with the last minute stuff. Crossing our fingers hoping it all works out.

Erin is getting excited for her hunting trip back home, and I have a conference to go to this week on top of covering a meet online in Durban, South Africa. That means getting up at 2 a.m. for a few days while Erin is gone. I'm also getting excited for Metallica next week! Me and a few buddies are going to the North American launch here in Arizona!

Jason

270

Everyone who knows us well, knows we actually did pretty well with dropping some weight about a year and a half ago. Problem is, we let ourselves fall off the wagon for awhile again.

We re-committed ourselves today and started back in the gym (and Metallica's new awesome album really helped life during cardio!).

I've decided to hold myself to a strong standard and keep my friends and family posted about it. Hopefully, I won't let anyone down again like I let myself down the past few months.

It hasn't been a complete loss. Dec. 26, 2006, I weighed 282 pounds. That's the biggest I've ever been. I dropped down to about 255 when I was at my best, but have fallen back to 270 as of today. I'll be posting weekly weigh ins as a motivator. Let's see how it goes.

Jason

Let the Stress Begin!

October is officially a crazy month. Jason and I have so much to do we don't know how we are going to accomplish it. To start it all off we are suppose to be closing on a house by the 16th. I am also leaving to Utah for a week on the 16th. Next, Jason has a conference the 15-17. Last but not least, both of our cars need to be renewed! UGH!

On a lighter note, Uce is doing a lot better. She is giving lots of love and is hanging out more. It also has been a nice day in Phoenix. It has been cloudy most of the day and has smelled like rain. I love the rain!

Erin

Yay!!!!

Lucy started eating and drinking on her own a bit this morning. Just talked to the vet, and they said it could still be like 2 weeks of force feeding ahead, but she's turning the corner!

It's been a crazy week so far.

Also, heard back that our appraisal for the house should be clean. Closing in less than two weeks. Going to be an intense month of October!

Jason

Tired

Uce is a 24 hr job. Jason and I are losing sleep, and my eyes are starting to have spasms and also having headaches. UGH! We love her to death so of course we are going to do anything for her. She has the fatty liver, and we will get results from a biopsy soon. She has puked for the first time yesterday and has done it a couple of times since.

We are still force feeding her high protein food along with new medications. On top of that, we now have an IV kit at home that we administer to her. I don't like having to poke a needle into her (Jason had to do it this morning for me), but it needs to be done so she can get hydrated. I hope she gets well soon and starts eating on her own. The Dr said she has a 60/40 chance.

Erin

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Took Uce into the vet today, this time the nice ones that don't want to kill you on the costs! Looks like the $5k total was overkill that the ER vet was estimating. We still won't know for sure about what's wrong with Uce until tmrw as they are doing an ultrasound and possibly a biopsy. But, the cost is way more affordable at our normal vet.

We're cautiously optimistic that we'll hear good news tmrw. Uce might not like it, but we might wind up having to do a feeding tube. Sounds drastic, but it actually makes their feeding a lot less stressful.

Will keep you posted!

Jason

Maintaining

Lucy seems to be maintaining so far today. Force feeding every four hours has not been too enjoyable for her or for us. Looked into a bunch of stuff online today, and liver disease is something that is usually fixable with forced nutrition. Although, it can take 4-6 weeks until her liver fixes itself.

We're cautiously optimistic. I am a bit buoyed by the fact that she is a bit tougher to hold down right now during the feedings compared to the first few feedings yesterday. She also takes steps to clean herself after the feedings now.

Going to be a very long two months, even if the house closes well.

Thanks for everyone's well wishes.

Jason

Bummed

Our cat Lucy aka "Uce" has been declining for the last week. We finally took her to the emergency room today to figure out what is wrong with her. She has Liver Disease. The vet told us she will likely live about one more week. Right now, we are force feeding her high protein food and some antibiotics and vomiting medication to see if it will help. We are crossing our fingers and hoping for the best. Uce is about 8 years old and we got her when we were living in TN. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

Erin