brown noser

"I really like you, and you da best, and you da boss."

And then she grabs my hand and kisses it.

Shay is such a brown noser. But it works. She doesn't get yelled at when
she gets out of bed to give us compliments and hugs and kisses. Funny how
that works.

Ty and I are having a bit of a biggest loser competition before we head to
Vegas in a little over 4 weeks. We weighed in last night at 210 and 161.
Yikes! I'm not sure what Ty is doing for his diet, but I am starting Bill
Phillips "transformation" program and the Take Shape For Life diet. Bill's
stuff more for the motivation, workouts, and overall changes, and the Take
Shape For Life diet because it's working great for Steve Frei and I really
like Shawna Hodges, and I think it may be something that would work well for
Dad if he wants to do it.

Raleigh seems to be doing well after 3 days back to school. He had football
practice last night and tonight. He's enjoying football a lot and excited
for their first game on the 11th. It's looking like I will be missing the
VikingMan triathlon because we've just got too much going on that day. Ty
has the ACT's and I don't want to miss Raleigh's first game. Still not sure
what time the game is though so the verdict is still out on what I'll do.

I went up to BYU-I yesterday for a training for faculty. My online course
starts on Monday. I also went up to St. Anthony to meet with the folks at
Austin's office about marketing Austin as the new doc and an obstetrics
specialist.

I have been playing way too much tennis as I got roped into being on a
"twilight" women's team and playing mixed doubles. Six more matches to go
and it will be over, and then I'll just be doing lessons once/week with
Gretchen Maloney (a local pro) and some other ladies. Ty and I enjoyed
playing last week with Greg and Susan Ehardt. Hopefully we can do that
again because it was a good matchup. They are a little better than us but
it was quite competitive. I can tell I'm improving, thanks to lots of
singles with Ty with the kids riding around the Skyline tennis courts on
their scooters and bikes at night. It really has been a fun thing to do
this summer, and something we've never done before because I sucked too bad
to play a competitive game with Ty. I keep wondering, "Where was tennis all
my life?" Wow, I sure enjoy it. It's very addicting. Almost like playing
video games, except for the exercise part.