Kayla and Tyler

On Saturday Tyler and I went to Farmington to my sister Lindsey's house for my nephew Nicholas' birthday party. All the boy cousins were invited. My mom took the great picture of Tyler below. He is such an awesome kid. Then later that night Jana and Kayla went out to Stansbury Park to my sister Jessica's house for a wedding shower for my niece Chelsea. At that party my mom took the black and white picture of Kayla below. She is such a beautiful sweet girl and I am a lucky dad.

Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary this week to my beautiful wife Jana. It seems like yesterday we were married but it was 18 years ago that we were married and went to Ensenada for our honeymoon. Thanks for sticking with me all this time (which is certainly not easy I know) and for giving me the best family ever. I love you still today.

Genealogy

My brother Jason recently discovered that we are related to James Dean, Grace Kelly and Lyndon B. Johnson. I guess with 6 degrees of separation we are all related, right? You can see it better if you click on the image.

Kayla

Every once-in-a-while I will not be able to find my phone. When I find it later, there is always a picture like this on it. Kayla takes the phone and takes pictures of herself. Funny.

Summer

Summer in our back yard. Jana's handiwork is beginning to pay off. She spends most of her spare time back there.

Mediterranean Cruise

Here are some pictures of our fun 8 day Mediterranean cruise Jana and I went on with USANA. We started and ended in Barcelona, Spain and visited Naples, Rome and Florence Italy then Nice and Marseille France. Andrew stayed half the time with my sister and the rest of the time with Jana's dad and his wife. Kayal and Tyler spent the whole time with her dad. We had a great time.

Shannon, Jeff, Jim, Jana in Marseille, France on the French Riviera

The beaches in Nice, France were little pebbles but people still laid out on them (and we were surprised to see about one in ten women were topless, mainly the 70 year old wrinkly type that I guess no longer cared what other people think ;^) )

Villa Frenche, France

Even on the coast of Nice where a one bedroom apartment goes for close to 5 million dollars people still hang the laundry out to dry on the clothes line.

French Riviera

Our cruise ship, the Voyager.

Jeff and I at breakfast looking very tired with goofy looks.

Baptistry and Cathedral in Pisa, Italy

I found the mythology and pagan items in the Vatican interesting. This is Perseus cutting off the head of Medusa (which I mainly know not because of our museum guide but because I watched Clash of the Titans as a kid).

I think this was Rome

Posing with the group in our helmets and sunglasses before we took off on the segways. Mark and Colton Wilson, Jennifer and Fred Cooper, Tenisha Wilson, Phil and Karen Lewis, Jim and Jana

Rome with an awesome sky as a storm approached

Some place in Italy

Colosseum

This was just sitting there at the Colosseum and it made me think of whoever was wearing it thousands of years ago

Aaron Dihn (Diamond Distributor). The large yellow things I think are a type of Lemon. In Sorrento, Italy they are famous for a lemon liquor

Traci, Mark and Tenisha Wilson, Jim, Colton Wilson, Shannon and Jeff Yates at Pompei

A child preserved forever in Ash that has petrified at Pompei

More people preserved in the poses they were in as they were covered with burning ash from Mt Vesuvias in Pompei.

Distributors in Pompei

This was a street in Pompei with residential houses and cafés. Over 20,000 people lived in Pompei

Jana and I in Naples, Italy (I think)

In Napels or Sorrento. Instead of carving their initials, lovers put their names on locks and place them on the guard rails.

Shannon and Jeff at an outdoor market in Marseille, France

These types of fountains were everywhere in France and Italy

Another fountain

Jana and Shannon waiting for a train in France

I think this is Nice, France

Cathedral in Florence, Italy. It is one of the top 3 largest cathedrals in the world. We saw all 3 on this trip (the other two being Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and St. Peter's Bascillica in the Vatican.)

Jana and the leaning tower of Pisa with an awesome stormy sky

Cathedral in Pisa, Italy

I loved all the little gothic and dark scenes on all the cathedrals and other religious buildings.

Practicing on the Segways (Jen Cooper, Jana and Tenisha Wilson)

artwork on the wall of what was a house in Pompei, Italy.

These rocks on the streets of Pompei were like speed bumps. The carriages had to slow down so their wheels get get in between the rocks.

an amphitheater in Pompei

Fred and Mark arguing with a taxi driver about price.

Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Cool Gaudi architecture. Dark, foreboding gothic at the bottom, Disneyland at the top (note the fruit at the top).

Front view of Sagrada Familia with more Disneyland as you see the Christmas tree with doves on top.

Jana caught me on video as I was learning how to ride the segway. It takes about 10 minutes to get your balance so I was practicing to learn how before we took off to explore Rome for the day.

Luau

Last night at the Gold Retreat Jana and I met some great people and had some good food. The last 2 hours or so there was a luau and this dance / band group showed us culture and dance from different Polynesian islands. All the guys had to learn the Haka. I was kind of forced to do it but at least I did not take off my shirt like the guy in front of me and next to me. The ladies had to learn the hula dance.

The Airborne Toxic Event

This is a band I have just been getting into called The Airborne Toxic Event. I could listen to them all day. Think Killers / Violent Femmes.


Missy



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