Fire Watch!!!

The fire station has extra money for two people to drive around in a brush truck each night and patrol the restricted areas and foothills of North Ogden and Pleasant View, for the months of July and August. Last night I took a shift with Aaron Nielson and the night started off good. We spent the first half of the night patrolling the North Ogden side and talking to citizens. We decided to come down to Taco Time and get a bite to eat and then head back up to patrol the Pleasant View side. As we pulled back on to Washington Boulevard we immediately noticed a big ball of fire up on the mountain. We hurried and went lights and sirens, called dispatch, and booked it up there as fast as we could. We were first on scene and there was a car fully engulfed in flames. We immediately sprayed water on the car and looked inside to see if there was anyone inside. Luckily, there wasn't anyone inside. The wind was blowing about 30 mph and taking the fire to the west and spreading very quickly. We started putting the fire out, but it got away from us really quick and we kept running out of booster line. luckily, we had brush trucks and engines from all over the county respond and help contain it before it could get to any houses. It was quite an exciting night. One I will never forget!

This was a picture I took in the evening before the sun went down

This is a picture of us fighting the fire

Jarrod Dearden Family Dream Team Scramble

Friday was the 2nd annunal Jarrod Dearden Family Dream Team Scramble. Jarrod Dearden was one of my best buddies as a kid and a good friend over the years. A few years ago after he died suddenly and tragically in a plane accident, his family started this Golf Tournament at the Barn golf course in Pleasant View. I was happy to be able to golf in it last year and this year with my Dad and brothers. I think of Jared and his wife and kids often, but on Friday I thought of him a lot that day. I miss him and am so thankful that we are able to get together now every year with his family and friends and remember Jared with a fun day of golf. Jareds Dad, Craig, talked last year about how he and his wife Cheryl had golfed with Jared at the Barn just days before he died and he wished that he would have had a picture of them at the golf course together. So he decided that at each tournament he would have a spot set up where our group could each get their picture taken together.

A highlight of the day was winning this cool new OGIO golf bag in the raffle contest. I was pretty excited and Carter was really excited to get my blue OGIO bag.

4th of July - 2012

This year the 4th of July started out early with the Cherry Days parade. Our friends Bryce and Amanda saved us a good spot in the shade along the parade route. Me, Christy and Calee sat with them and watched the parade while Carter and Cambree got to ride in the parade on the Weber County Fair float with my family. After the parade, we spent the day swimming and hanging out. Later in the evening, we had a bunch of friends over for a barbecue, and then later that night we had we had a huge group of friends and neighbors over for a fireworks show. Bryce and I didn't spend as much as we did last year, but we still had quite the show. It was a very fun day.

 Calee was excited to see her grandpa driving the fire truck

 Calee and uncle Darrin

 Carter, throwing candy

Carter, Emily, and Shandi

Grandpa Call's 80th birthday party

Grandpa Call turned 80 and we had a big family party for him Sunday up at Grandma's house. We love him so much and are so grateful for him and Grandma and all they do for our family. We are so lucky to be able to spend so much time with them camping, golfing, and eating Sunday dinners every sunday up at their house. Our kids just love Grandpa so much. Happy Birthday Grandpa! We love you!

Calls Family Drive-in

One of our favorite places to go and eat in the summer time is a little drive-in called Calls Family drive-in and it is up in Perry. They are only open in the summer and they have the best food, root-beer floats, and shakes. We surprised the kids and took them there friday night.

Brandon and Makell's wedding

We were lucky enough to be invited to Brandon and Makell's sealing at the Bountiful Temple on thursday. We took our kids and they sat outside with Josh and all the other kids during the sealing. The temple president of the Bountiful temple performed the ceremony and he did an amazing job. We are so happy for Brandon and Makell. Our kids were excited to be there and to see them afterward, outside the temple. While they were getting pictures, we left and went down to Dicks Market in bountiful and bought a dozen of their famous sugar cookies and drinks. We also went to Brats kids in bountiful and bought Cambree a really pretty baptism dress. It was a very fun day!

Calee and Chad

Carter and Josh

our kids with Brandon and Makell

Makell at her wedding reception at the Union Station

Bountiful Temple with Makell

Saturday, Christy and I were invited to go to the Bountiful temple and go through with Makell for her first time and be with her while she took out her endowment. We were so happy to be able to be there and spend the day with Chad, Jen, Makell, Brandon, and their families. We are so proud of Makell and love her so much! After the temple, we were also invited to a big lunch with everyone down at El Matador. It was a very fun day! Looking forward to seing Brandon and Makell get sealed on Thursday!

Our little fisherman

Carter went fishing today with his Grandpa Roger up to echo reservoir and was excited to come home and show us his three fish that he caught. I guess Roger didn't catch any and Carter caught three nice sized trout, so he was pretty excited.



Archery World Cup 2012

Ogden hosted the Archery World Cup Semi-finals again this year. This time they were out at the Weber County fairgrounds. I was lucky enough to meet a lot of them and be able to talk to them. I was excited when I found out that there was a mens and womens team from Romania. It was fun to be able to speak Romanian to them. They were really surprised to hear me speaking Romania to them. On one of the days of competition, team USA and team Romania shared a tent and were side by side. It was fun to watch them and cheer them both on. We got a lot of strange looks from people whenever we would cheer for Romania. It was a fun week and really neat to be able to meet so many different people. Surprisingly, the team from Iraq were some of the most friendly people out there. It was a neat experience. Hopefully we get to host the Archery world cup again some day.

 Team USA and Team Romania side-by-side

 Me with a few of the Romanians

Me with the team from Iraq