I love my wife so much. More than Teslas. More than peanut butter with chocolate. More than DIYing. More than solar. More than pizza. More than sex. More than naps. More than anything. Love me some Katrina. What a year! I’m writing this in September because time slipped away but it’s been a pretty amazing year. Some highlights: Anders decided to go on a mission and has been called to the Copenhagen, Denmark mission We took a family vacation to Alaska on Carnival Cruise Lines and loved it! My sweet grandma moved from Washington to Utah and passed away a …
White Dad Can’t Jump…
Anders just told me that if I can dunk a basketball he’ll put in his mission papers. He promised he’d do it and I said “It’s on.” I’m going to start learning how to get my hops going and dunk that ball. I just wanted to record this for posterity. Let’s see if I can do it and if he’ll follow through. Not a small thing. I don’t think I can even come close to touching the rim right now. Here we go.
Forty-Three
I Quit Another big year in the books. 43 Has been a big one for me because I changed careers – like… totally changed. I quit my job as an Engineering Manager after spending around 17 years in IT & Marketing and became one of them there YouTubers. On November 2, 2020, I walked out of O.C. Tanner for the last time (actually, we were working at home so I think I just turned in my stuff) and, along with it, into the entrepreneurial world of self employment. We spent a while saving up money to essentially self fund out little …
Forty-Two
It’s 2020, so there are a lot of ups and downs that come with that but I have to say that 41 has been an excellent year. A few highlights: TEENAGERS: Holy Teenagers, Batman! We have three at the moment, plus Ava, who is 10. This has been one of the toughest experiences of parenting for us. That thing they tell you, about how teenagers brain lobes disconnect and start to reform? It’s true. Our very intelligent little ones are going through a phase of impaired judgement, obliviousness and challenge. I don’t think I do well with it. Katrina is, …
Forty-One
What a year! In many ways, my forty-first year was the best of my life. Here are some highlights. Katrina went back to work part time. She works about 20 hours/week at a Physical Therapist office and it’s been good. There has been a lot of questioning about whether she should be home more or if it’s fine and I’d say all in all it’s worked out just fine. I started my new job as a Software Engineering Manager at O.C. Tanner. In a couple of weeks it will have been a year and it’s been the most challenging and …
Forty
A new decade. A LOT of change lately. My 40th year has been full of happiness and sprinkled with sadness. Many of the bigger events having happened in the last week. Here’s an overview, with pictures after that. My sister, Harmony Gwenivere Rasmusson Moody, passed away a week ago at the all too young age of 34. Her memorial/funeral was yesterday, on my 40th birthday. It was wonderful to be with family and to celebrate her life, but of course, sad as well. My Dad was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in January. He was given several months to …
Thirty-Nine
Better late than never, right? What a year! I just reviewed my Thirty-Eight post and a lot has happened since then. Luckily none of the major three items have changed: family-size, employer or address. Kids are doing awesome and are now aged 7 to 14. Super weird. I guess it’ll never not freak me out a bit to state how old my children are. They grow so fast. Let’s see, here are some highlights of my 38th year of life. We decided to sell our little kid playhouse in the backyard and build a big kid clubhouse. We literally finished it …
2016 In Review
The turning of the year always makes me reflect back on how very much has happened in those 365 days. This year has not seen as much change as years past but it’s been a great year. Family Just a month ago, our youngest, Ava, turned 7. Seven! I can’t believe that. Anders is about to turn 14 (on Friday). Fourteen! It’s nuts. We let Anders stop taking piano lessons this year, as he’s pretty decent at it and has been playing the Piano in the Jazz band. He continues to play the French Horn in band as well (he’s …
Thirty-Eight
It’s that time of year again – time for my annual blog post, prompted by a birthday. As usual I took the day off for my birthday again and we had a fun day playing, sleeping in, furniture shopping and then going to the temple with family. Thirty-seven was an excellent year. Some highlights, in no particular order: We started and finished the basement – kind of a huge deal for us We took a road trip to Virginia and Tennessee for the 2016 RaRaRa reunion Two of my YouTube videos surpassed one millions views each. Nice. Also started getting …
4A Observations and Piñata Pics
It’s been a good year so far. Kids are back in school and doing well. Ava just turned six, so we’re enjoying the 35 days of having evenly spaced ages for our kids: 6, 8, 10 and 12. Anders will be an official teenager in one month, but he’s been acting like one for a little while now. He’s a good kid, no doubt about it, but we are starting to see some of the brain lobe separation going on. As they say in Portuguese, “coitado dele” (poor boy). I just did the (somewhat) monthly video interviews with the kids …