So I am 26 now. Sammy is 3 now. I am signed up for Team in Training. I am gonna run in the Memphis in May Triathlon on May 22nd. To do that I have to raise $3900.00 to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, which in turns goes to fight blood cancers. I think its neat. I get to train, and hopefully lose weight and support a good cause. If you would like to donate go to this website www.active.com/donations/fundraise_public.cfm?key=bigtriman and donate!!!

We're doing great besides that. We are getting very stable and we are trying to qualify for a mortgage to buy a house soon. So we'll see what happens. Anyway laters

Zoey and the boys in Osage Beach, MO 

Isn't she cute? 

Its a new year, and I thought that I needed to blog a little bit. Tomorrow is Sunday and after that is Monday. Summer and I are going to be hitting it hard then. We are going to try and get 5 each in January. We want to get 50 houses closed this year. If they all net us 10k each, then we will make 50ok. Not too bad. We want to eliminate all of our debt this year. So 2006 will be gravy.

On a personal note I want to get back in shape to the point where I am happy about the way I look. I saw myself in a mirror at the Airport on our way back from Christmas and was shocked at my large mound of rebound self. I have never been this big, and it is starting to get to me.

We have 3-5 closings set for January already.

We also got a puppy up in Missouri. She is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi which we name Zoey. The kids love her even though they get too excited and scare her under the bed. She looking over my shoulder right now while I blog. I'll load a pic of her in a second.

Overall I am very happy about the way the year ended. We did really good. I have some really good equity deals that allowed us to travel and see what we wanted to see. Maybe this year we go to Europe. That would awesome. But we are gonna pay some debt off first. Laters.

Boy its been awhile. I suppose that I have been too busy to worry about this blog. But to update you all we have had two closings so far and have made more money already then I ever made before. We have three more set to close before Christmas. I am hardly exercising anymore and have gained back everything I put on after I got married. And I don't really have the desire to get back in shape. I am thinking about a personal trainer or something.

We went to Seattle for Thanksgiving and it was great. Neat city. We saw the space needle, Pike's Market, the Aquarium, and did some good shopping. The kids kinda freaked out on the plane rides. We had delays there and back in Atlanta. I hate that airport. Never again.

For Christmas we are going to Captiva Island, then to Missouri. We'll spend New Years Eve here in Florida. We are excited but not for the Snow in Missouri. Don't miss that at all. So that about covers it. Laters.

Wow its been a while since the last post. I am sitting here using my father-in-law's new computer which has wireless on it. He even bought a wireless router to install so we could set it up while he stays with us.

A lot has happened since the last post. We got 8 houses last month. I have two closings this month that are really gonna be great. They are historic in that they are the first real closings since we moved down here. Which has been around six months. I mean we have made very good money but its been from advances on houses, and rehabs of my brother's houses. This is my first "real" money.

I breathed a huge sigh of relief on Wednesday when I woke up to see that President Bush had won. Its really refreshing to see that almost 59 million voters in the US feel the same way I do. But on the other hand, 55 some odd million feel differently. But hey thats free agency for ya.

Its neat that my wife Summer is really taking an interest in the business. She really has helped me so much with her support and help. I couldn't do any of this without her. She is awesome.
She even got house this month! A nice little 3/2 in Lakeland.

So thats everything. Laters.

Holy Cow its been a long time since I posted on this blog. Well its been for good reason. And that is simply that I have been working my rather large butt off. I have seven houses in the pipeline that have combined equity of around 100K. Yes thats right 100k. Gotta love it. So after I got back on track with the Depression, I am have been getting houses.

Of course I haven't worked out one day since then but we have gotten ourselves into a comfortable status. Dennis is down and training and beating the pavement trying to get a house for himself. Summer and him do a lot together. They knock and work together.

All the hurricanes are gone hopefully. Dad is getting surgery on his prostrate on Monday. And Jacob fell out of a shopping cart today and split open his eyebrow today at Ross Dress for Less. It was totally my fault. I had him standing in the cart cuz he was whining and he leaned too far forward and he fell out and flipped and cut his forehead on the cart. It freaked me out.

Another thing that is freaking me out is that I have gained all of my weight back and more. I am guessing like 360 or so. I am back in size 46 or 48 waist right now. I am starting to get motivated to work out again. I have to mentally process it for awhile before I can force myself to do it.

Summer got her security clearance approved from the State Department a couple of weeks ago. So now just mine is left. Interesting to see what is offered to us for that job.

Its 10:3o here on the east coast right now and the Yanks and Red Sox are only in the fourth after like two and half hours of play. So that should catch me up. Oh and my sister has the Shingles. Whatever those are. Laters.

Its been a few days since my last post. I got bored tonight and looked up the race photos of the triathlon that I ran in May before we moved down here. Man how embarrassing to see my in my skivies run out of the pool? Somehow I thought I was skinnier.

Lots of things have been happening lately. Not to mention Hurricane Jeanne. I am sooo tired of Hurricanes. I mean we move down here and then like four hit the state? That hasn't happened in forty years but yet as soon as we get here it all happens. Whatever.

None of my clothes fit anymore. Not good. But I grow strong in the face of adversity. Yeah right. Laters.

So I got a house yesterday. I drove past (as I often do cuz I can never find them on the first try) and saw that they were moving out. So I went and talked to them. I got the Deed signed right in their drive way. Amazing how I talked to this people for five minutes and they gave me the deed to their house and the keys. And they left for Michigan. It was great cause she had everything for the process ready to go even the Hardship letter.

I have hit forty five house this week. Tomorrow it will be close to sixty. That's a little bit under 10 a day. One of out sixty. Not bad really.

I'm watching the cougs get pummeled by USC. Norm Chow's revenge. Bet he is loving it and his little deuschbag of a son Cameron. You see Chow's kids went to Timpview High School in Provo and I went to Provo High. I played QB for Provo my senior year and FB my junior year. I hated Timpview people.

I feel so much better about myself and my future. I have a better peace of mind. Amazing what a little serotonin replenishment will do for ya.

I wanna put a pic of Sammy on the site. He is potty training and he was throwing up tonight and was a pretty sick little boy, the poor little guy. I'll see if I can get that Hello thing working again.

I am working again with a good work ethic but I am having a hard time finding time to workout to try and get back into shape. Its just not there. I am gonna have to try harder I suppose. We're getting three grand in the next few days hopefully so that'll be nice.

Ummm sno cone!!! 

Is it a hat? 

Oh man I just wrote this good post and lost it for some reason heres the brief recap.

-- I can't get the Google AdSense thingys to work. Anyone help me?
-- Dad won 4000$ in the lottery a few days ago.
-- My sister Erin bugs sometime with her comments regarding my family.
-- I got a new prescription for Prozac. (Happy days are here again:) )

And thats it for now.

Yesterday was September 11th, and I don't think I mentioned one thing about the Events that changed everyone's life three short years ago. I was working at Wal-Mart Distribution Center in St. James Missouri. It was the grand opening of the center. St. James is in the middle of Missouri's wine country so they had wine/grape juice bottles made up with the date on them. I wished I had kept them. But the juice was way too good. Summer and I left work early to go home. We didn't know what was going on. We just watched TV all day. Summer started crying after about two hours and couldn't watch anymore. She was about four months pregnant with Sammy at the time.

We had a pow-wow with Dohnnie today about doing some more rehabs for him. Something like six houses with a good profit spread on all of them. So that will be cool. We need the money. And he gave the cash that was due to me for Summer's previous work and the last deed I got. Most importantly, he said he would pay for a Doctor's Appointment to get back on Prozac. Thank goodness I am calling docs tomorrow first thing.

Summer and I have discovered Six Feet Under on HBO. What an awesome unique show. I have heard people say that it is better then the S0pranos this season. I have to agree with them on this one. We watched all of the past episodes ON DEMAND and then watched the Season Finale. We were glued to our seat when we found out that Nate's brother in-law killed Lisa. Unbelieveable and then he blows his head off in front of Nate and Barb!!! Good stuff. I guess its really a soap opera in a Funeral home but we like..... alot.

I am starting to feel more positive about all of this. My life, career, the future. I think we can succeed if I give myself the tools and just get out and do it. Enough for now.

So here I am. My Grandma died last night. Supposedly it was a peaceful death. Good for her. She is in a different place probably catching up with Mom after ten years. I am not going to be able to go to the funeral due to the third Hurricane and money or lack thereof.

So many things are going on right now. We just got back from being refugees from Frances. We went to Nashville to stay with my sister Erin. And she was great except we had our usual confronatation. Summer and her just rub each other the wrong way probably because they are so similar.

We have no money right now. I have three houses right now but they may be running out of time. One looks really good.

We are meeting Dohnnie to set some boundaries and talk about the future. He is gonna need us for a few more Rehabs notably Summer.

I am horribly depressed. No really it took me a lot of energy just to write this. Tomorrow we just have testimony meeting because of no power in the chapel.

Summer got her first check from FBAH today. She made 142.41. not bad really. Can't wait to buy a yacht with that bad boy. Sam is potty training and we are picking up poop all over the house. I'll post some pics maybe.

I made a plan for Happiness tonight. I put it on my wall so I can see it everyday and hopefully it will motivate me to act. At this point I don't want to do anything. I am in a deep dark depression.

Been thinking about getting a different job to pay the bills and eat. We'll see I suppose.

I am gonna transcribe my notes from the Workshop I just went to in Santa Rosa, CA. I haven't done it yet but there will be more to come. Laters.

So today is Sunday. At least for 15 more minutes. I am lying on my bed typing this post as my wonderful wife sleeps next to me. Gotta love laptops. Church was uneventful except for Priesthood being dismissed early to help the Hurricane victims in Orlando. I don't think many people went however. Most of the men were waiting for their wives and kids to get out of their meetings trading war stories about previous storms. For me I didn't have any being a new found Floridian.

Summer and I applied for a car loan. And to our suprise were accepted. It was one of those be careful what you wish for kind of situations. So I have spent most of the day researching cars (minivans) online. For instance do you know that Only Durangos and Expeditions and a few Explorers have third row seating? That is a big feature for us with the kiddies and all. But I have a sneaking suspicion we will be purchasing some sort of minivan in the near future. But we keep telling ourselves that we won't do the loan if the interest is too high or its generally an impulse buy. Because we will be giving ourselves a lot of debt. And we have student loans coming right down the corner. So we got that going for us which is nice.

I finally found the statcounter today on my site. It is way down at the very bottom. Too bad it counts when I open the page...That way I could really tell how many people have read it. Probably not that many. I saw it spike after I read some websites and commented. Nobody left any comments though for me. I must be pretty dull or something.

Summer and I lamenting today about having kiddies so early in our lives. I mean we are only 25 and 23 for crap sakes. And we have two toddlers. Tonight at Dinner they practically drove us insane. Sam kept screaming in the high pitch voice that can break glass. We had to take them both out of the restaurant at one point to calm them down. And yes I do realize today is Sunday for you Mormon readers...(like there are any).

The Dream Team is playing like they are in a dream in Athens. I think that International competition has improved its talent pool and the NBAers are like third string all-star team. So it doesn't surprise me that the USA is losing. But not by twenty points. Yes they did come back and make it somewhat of a challenge for the fourth quarter, but come on you gotta get up for the Olympics? Please. They already have too much money what do they care.

I have created a battle plan and schedule for the next few weeks. Tomorrow I am going to see about getting Dad a car that Dohnnie can buy for him. I already have a line on a couple. With any luck Dad will be driving by tomorrow night. Looks like they are holed up in that hotel until late next week. Sucks to be them.

Also I am catching up on my workouts. This week I have the 10-8-6 week. And I am going to do an hour a day of swim, bike, run. I get my bike on Tuesday!!! Laters.

So Florida just went through a huge hurricane named Charley. How do they come up with these names anyway? I actually know they represent letters of the alphabet like Bonnie, Charley, Donna and Earl. Earl is off of Barbados and might Charley's footsteps.

Where we are just got the outer bands of the storm. Just winds around 35 mph and light rain. Very disappointing. I mean don't get me wrong, I feel lucky that my family was spared. Orlando got smashed. My father and brother are now in hotel outside of my city because they will not have power for a week.

My sister was planning on going to a little resort on Captiva Island near Sanibel, Florida for her tenth year anniversary. Of course, Captiva got the eye wall and was completely flattened with 145 mph winds. So she is probably sol.

On other notes, I am really down these past few days. The weight is really getting to me and Summer and I are arguing alot. Admittedly, most of them are my fault. I am in a bad place right now. I feel helpless. I can't lose weight and I can't get out and get deeds like I did. All this adds up to one thing....Prozac. Yep I haven't taken any meds since we got here. And I am really feeling it big time. I don't think it is a side effect or withdrawal I am just going back into my nightmare of depression that I have been fighting for most of adolescence and adult life. This past year was the best year of my life and honestly, the meds really helped. So we are going to apply for Medicaid to get some help.

Went to see Collateral this morning. Very good movie. But I wonder why it was callled Collateral? Funny, this is an action psychological thriller and at one part it made me cry. I guess it made me cry because at one point in the movie, Jamie Foxx's character takes charge with his relationship and situation with Tom Cruise's character and change's his destiny with that situation. It reminded how we all have free agency. And you don't ever really know until you try. So that describes my situation really well right now. I am off the "gravy train" and it is time to produce. I have a choice. I can not do anything and see what happens or I can take control and see what happens with me making good decisions.

Erin mentioned about being a life coach. She pays one right now for a life coaching. 275 a month for three phone calls and unlimited emails. Unbelieveable that people pay for that. I think I would be a good life coach. It is just like being a teacher. Funny how things work out. I am going to check it out. Right now I am going to knock on doors after I get finished eating for sure.

Been a few days but hopefully worth the wait. Yeah right. Well we get paid soon. We are going to get a substantial amount of money from Summer's rehab project. After we get that we will have already made more money then we did all last year. But are we gonna stop there? I don't think so.

Looks like Dad is getting the boot from Dohnnie' s place. They had an argument a few days ago and Dohnnie will need the place open if he gets custody of Dannie. So Dad will probably get into assisted living and then perhaps even Omaha with Chris.

I got a weird email from my niece a few days ago. Looks like she is playing on the different team if you know what I mean. She is in SLC putting on some one act plays about being bisexuality, lesbianism, homosexuality, and all that stuff...Not that there's anything wrong with that except for everything. Whatever. Who knows.

Summer and I are working out together now pretty consistently. We are planning on a beach run tomorrow. Should be pretty exciting. Then our Wednesday lift and then onto the rest of the day. I knocked on ten doors today and I have to knock on like thirty more. And I haven't checked the south counties. Hopefully I will get some Deeds here soon I need to replenish now that I don't have short sales to glom off of.

So I will be set for the workshop as soon as this money comes. That means that I will have four days in San Francisco. I am going to rent a car and enjoy it this time. Maybe see some sights. Acutally go see Alcatraz instead of just look at it from afar. Maybe go the beach on the West Coast instead of the east coast.

Summer and I have been sleeping in lately. Yes we have two toddlers and yes we do get to sleep in. It rocks. Just happened a few weeks ago. We are enjoying it. We get to stay up late and watch movies like we are dating again without having to worry about getting up early. Lets just say I like being self-employed. Anyway I am enjoying this rant. Laters.

So for the first time in like years, I got to sleep in till ten o'clock. Yeah ten o'clock. Before I had kids I never got up earlier then ten. But now when kids wake up at seven all bright eyed and bushy tailed, you gotta wonder if you'll ever get any sleep. But today it all came together and man it felt good. Up until the phone call that woke me up.

I answered my cell phone and it was a guy on line asking for me. He sounded upset. Turns out he was all pissed off about me calling one of his relatives to pitch the short sale deal to him. I guess I said the word "foreclosure" in the message to the relative and it started a whole sh=t storm. He called me and was threatening to sue me and the company I use for skip tracing and all that stuff. But whatever. He has no grounds. The foreclosure is public record he can't do a thing. He just wanted to vent about his mortgage company not sending him a bill. So I called him back and told him all that and I promised not to call him if he wouldn't call me. So that was that. I got kind of worked up about it though. I was shaking after the the initial call. I guess cuz of the confrontation. I was kicking myself all day for what I should have said. I totally could have been more aggressive. But whatever.

I worked out today. I am back on track. I am trying to lift and get stronger as I have gained so much more weight in the recent months. So I am trying to change my diet and ease into the calorie burn.

I am back knocking on doors again. I have committed to knocking or calling on every foreclosure that comes through my territory. That should be well over 100 contacts. If I do that I should get five or so for August. Dohnnie already has like twelve. I don't know how he does it. Unbelievable.

So for more updates, Summer got called to be the Second Counselor in the Primary Presidency of our ward. I congratulated her on the achieving the promotion to Mormon middle management. Hey gotta love it.

I am going to a workshop http://www.lifetransitionsworkshops.com at the end of August. The first one since 1999. Its been awhile.

I had a good IM conversation with Erin tonight. We were talking about how much we miss Mom. Sasha was out in Provo putting flowers on the gravesite because he had a training in SLC. Made me miss her even more.