Limelight Dads

I was contacted and interviewed by a fellow blogger a couple of months ago.  He interviewed me about my life as a dad and blogger for a segment that he posts on his website, Dad of Divas.  The segment is called Dads in the Limelight.  Today the interview was posted, so go check it out HERE and please share and comment, tweet, etc.....  you know the drill.

I feel privileged to be a part of this and to share my thoughts and opinions about being an active and involved parent in my kids lives.  What can I say, I love being a dad.

Guest Post - Neck N Nog Party - Modern Mormon Men

Hey friends!  Lucky you, because you get two posts today.  I am a guest blogger over at Modern Mormon Men again today.  I have a quick little post about throwing holiday parties and I tell a little bit about the Neck n Nog Sweater & Wassail Party that I have been hosting for years. 

Go HERE to read the post and comment about the party.  Thanks.  Tis the season. 

Modern Mormon Men Guest Blogger

Remember how I occasionally post over at the Modern Mormon Men blog?  You know, the awesome manly mommy blog? Well I have a new post up there today and this time it's about the past General Conference and how we need to step up and be the men that we are and should be.  Go check it out! 

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Go HERE to see it, and you can see my other posts HERE.  Thanks! And please comment, 'like' it and share with others, thanks friends and family and thanks to MMM for letting me become a usual guest blogger, I thoroughly enjoy it! 

Modern Mormon Men Post

Guess what?  I am a guest blogger over at Modern Mormon Men again, how cool is that? 

This time I am writing about socks, yes socks and how they define a man, well a modern mormon man.  Go check it out HERE.  And don't be afraid to leave me a comment on there or 'like' it on Facebook.

 Hope everyone has a good weekend!  You know I will be cuddling baby D any chance I get! 

Murphy Built Home

Do you wanna see a really cool house?  Here are a few pics, check them out: 

 Your first sight of the house as you turn on their street.

The front view of the house.  The front yard is huge!

A little computer nook just off the kitchen.  So clean and simple. 

Half Bath on the main floor. 

Formal living and dining.  The floor to ceiling windows are awesome. 

Master bath.  That rain shower looks awesome!

And the kitchen.  I love the islands and that everything is hidden/built in.

This house was built by the wifey's friends in Reno that she grew up with.  They designed it, built it, etc..... it's pretty rad huh?!  The exterior gives an old Hollywood classy feel and I love all of the windows.  The kitchen is so clean and sleek.  I love how everything is off of the counters and is hidden in the cupboards or cabinets somewhere.  Even the refrigerators blend in, and there is a pizza over in the rock part of the kitchen, pretty cool!  Check out their Facebook page to see some of their other projects and like them too!  :)  The house has 4 bedrooms 5 bathrooms and a huge basement!  Oh, and there is a guest house and boat garage, of course!

Modern Mormon Men Guest Post (again!)

Yes!  Today is a good day because I am a guest blogger, (again) on Modern Mormon Men, the Manly Mommy Blog!  They asked me to post about my experience with Movember and I just had to do it!

Go HERE to read the post and to get the word out!  Enjoy it and Happy Friday!

Guest Blogger for Modern Mormon Men

As we all know, the majority of the blogging world is shared by the mommy mormon bloggers, which are great. I read them too. But when the Modern Mormon Men blog launched last Spring, I was right on board from the get go and am now a regular reader.  And as of today, I am a guest blogger for them.  How cool is that?

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My post just went up this morning, so get on over there and read it, and post a comment, the more the merrier!!  You can read it HERE and hopefully you will become a regular too! 

Thanks friends and family! 

G-Ma

This is my grandma Shields and she is awesome!  I look up to her.  This picture was taken at the annual Neck N Nog Wassail Party 2 years ago.  yes, she comes to them and loves them.  If she hears about a party and she was not invited then she feels left out, it's true.  We love to have her and always invite her. 

Any one who knows her knows that she loves to talk about all of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.  And trust me, there are a lot of them!  She shows up at every family event and is always up for an adventure.  Seriously she is.  When we went boating a couple weeks ago, she came to the lake, in her swimsuit all ready to go.  When she came to lake Powell with is a couple summers ago, she did the exact thing.  She even wanted to get on the tube and get a pull with some of the kids.  How cool is that? 

I only hope and pray that I can be adventurous as she is.  Go G-ma we look up to you in so many ways!  See you at the next party!

Adobe - Casa - Home

My cool cousin Sally has a very tasteful eye for design and she has a great blog/website going on.  Go HERE to check it out and see what it's all about.  She is a huge fan of fabrics & materials and follow her blog and like here on facebook, check out her etsy shop and you might just win something too!

What are you waiting for....go check it out! 

Guest Blogger - Sports Enthusiast - P. Brady Fish

Our first guest blogger is here!  Let me introduce to you a sports fanatic, P. Brady Fish!  His writing is unique and clever. Below is some information about him and his 'clever' responses to our blog questions.  I love his Jimmer question too, go on read it, you won't be disappointed! 

Tell us about yourself. 

I grew up in the State of Washington from the young age of 5 years old. This is where my roots for the Seattle Mariners and hatred of the New York Yankee began.


[Excerpt from January column Cricket, Anyone?:] “In 1995 I was eleven years old. I was in the incarnating years of cementing my sports loyalties. With baseball, it was an especially important year for me. It was the year I took my first taste of New York Yankee hatred. The season also marks my introduction to the rivalry between the Yanks and Soxs; introduced to me by my father. That hatred would become further cemented a few years later when New York dismissed Seattle from the AL Championship Series in consecutive seasons…”

Although from Washington, I am not a Seahawks fan, and never claimed the Sonics. But I did however, mourn their loss when they were preyed upon like Liam Nieson’s daughter in Taken.

Moved to Utah 4-5 years ago. Married two years this coming May. Currently a full time student at UVU majoring in English w/emphasis in creative writing. Work for UVU’s Marketing and Communications. Recently entered in to a small business venture with a good friend. And I write; trying to put out a column a week.

1. How long have you been interested in sports?

I am in my 15th year, of truly following sports. Something about sports is so captivating to me. I love the day we live in, with so many tremendous electronic sources delivering information immediately. I remember in the late summer of 2002 my buddy was hounding me to do a fantasy sports league with him. Playing in fantasy sports leagues was almost on the cusp of exploding, but not quite yet, and at the time it was kind of a dorky thing to participate in. I reluctantly signed up and it was the best thing that could have ever happened. It was if the passion I felt for the sports world, finally had found it’s outlet—or rather it’s all-you-can-eat buffet. Anything I could consume pertaining to sport, I did. I have not looked back since.

2. Tell me about your background in sports? What did you play growing up? When did you start?

Like most kids, I participated in the little leagues your parents signed you up for. Soccer, basketball and baseball. There was no pop-warner where I grew up—as far as I knew. I played for a very competitive club baseball team as a starting pitcher. When our club reached a certain age, the majority of our games switched from Fridays and Saturdays, to Saturday and Sunday games. I could not play in the Sunday games, lost my pitching spot, was moved to the outfield and eventually saw less playing time. It put a bitter taste in my mouth, along with some performance anxiety I suppose. Never tried out for any other sports after that—even though, looking back, I wish I had.

3. What do you like to blog about the most? Any sport in particular?

When it comes to picking a column topic, I try to pick things that are current or relevant, but not topics that EVERYBODY is writing about in the blogosphere. Movies are a big passion of mine and you can find characters references or quotes in my writing. I would say baseball is the easiest to write about. There are so many stats and advanced metrics you can use/find to make a point. But really I try to cover all sports, because I love anything sports related. Admittedly, the only sport I do not have a comfortable grasp on is hockey. Perhaps someday I’ll spend a season on top of it and then nothing will be out of reach.

4. What athlete/team inspires you?

There is not one particular player or team that inspires me. I like the idea, that in sports, any person can amaze you and achieve greatness. It is the unexpected that compels me. It is the “where were you” moments in sports. Like Donovan’s goal against Algeria. It is the unseen power when the moment or period of time unites complete strangers. Just YouTube “the world’s reaction to Donovan’s goal” and you’ll see what I mean. It is the goose bumps, and the sports stories behind them, which light the fire inside me.

5. What team/athlete do you admire? And why?

Michael Vick. I have written about him a few times. I love his story, the comeback, everything. Check out my November 2010 column (the only one I wrote that month).

6. If you could interview any athlete who would it be and why?

I don’t know about interviewing them, but meeting them, sure. If I were to interview a sports athlete, there would be nothing special about it what so ever. It was be an interview they had done a thousand times. I would like to meet an athlete and see what they are like. Ask them random ass questions or normal questions you would ask any average human being. Take Jimmer Fredette for example:

I ask him, “Jimmer, what is like taking those shots from 30-feet deep?” I’ll get the same blah blah blah answer he has given six times that day.

But if I ask him, “Jimmer, if Charles (Abuou, his room/team mate for the last 3 ½ years) were to arm wrestle his brother, who would win?” Then I get an answer that gives me insight to the relationship Jimmer has with his friend. I see how he interacts in the types of horseplay and hypothetical situations you and I get in to with our friends. Then I am given contrast and understanding, instead of the answer to a question I already know.

7. Any advice for your readers?

Haha, no advice. More of a plea really. I would love to write a mailbag—solely on the pretensions that I am extremely lazy. Mailbags write themselves. It is much easier to answer someone’s question than it is to think of something and write from scratch. Plus it would make me feel like more than three people are reading my columns. Ha!

If you want to read his sports blog, 'Hang in there Sports'

 then go HERE

and check out his tweets HERE.