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Hello everyone. Good to hear that Dad hasn't waivered in his opinions. I love it and totally agree, but maybe not with the red face and increased HR. As you can kind of see from the picture, we are getting another typhoon. However, this is different than all the others, because it is hitting just to our west, which brings us the strongest winds. The one last week went pretty much directly over us but petered (no offense Peter) out upon landfall. This one puts on the side where the winds plus the movement of the storm equals a pretty good typhoon. They say it'll be the worse winds in 60 years here. And, the howling outside is proving it. Very strong winds and gusting. Again, I am thankful that I don't live out in the cho (Japanese community), because their houses are made of cardboard and I feel there will be a lot of damage. Here, we are in reinforced concrete and can barely hear the wind. Very comforting. This typhoon was not supposed to come anywhere near us. It was supposed to go directly to China, but did a 90 degree turn and is nailing us. Another day off!
Adina's brother, Ray, is coming to visit us (At least some family is coming to visit us...Marnie excluded from that one) the day after tomorrow. He'll be here for 2 weeks and we are going to give him a good introduction into japanese culture, history, and cuisine. Should be fun. He just got home from his mission in Ecuador about a month ago or so.
Isaac ran/swam in his first Duathlon on Monday right before the storm came. It was a 50m swim with a 1.0k run. There were 8 kids in his division and he took 3rd. He is not a very strong swimmer, although he could be with some practice. He has big flippers and a slim body. His strength comes in running. He really has a long stride and some good endurance. He can run forever. Even though he is really thin, he is solid muscle, not a lick of fat on his body no matter how much crap we feed him. When I was that age, I am sure I was chunkier than he.
Marnie, good to see that you are enjoying school. I hope this advertising class gets you some exposure and hopefully a job doing what you love to do.
And just to let everyone know, we will be coming back to visit the states from 28 January - 18 February. We will mostly be with mom and dad, but we will visit the Archuleta's as well. But, my primary reason for coming is to secure employment for August 2005, since my papers are in to be released from active duty.
Hope everyone is safe, happy, and healthy!
Dave

Typhoon Songda

So, I can find my way into the writing portion of the blog....but the photo part will have to wait. I've tried to upload a couple of pics and I have no idea where they went.

Kim and I went to Seattle on Saturday; had a good drive up and back and a good time there. We went to see the Rock and Roll museum at Seattle Center, which was originally placed as a memorial to Jimi Hendrix but has expanded to include many more individuals. I would suspect it is a mini-hall of fame compared to Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall. It is tied into the Science Museum if you desire to pay the extra $$$ to view that part. We just did the R and R part; that was enough. We drove down close to Pike's Place Market and had some dinner at a "hole-in-the-wall place that she knew about??? Actually, she and Tim went there a year ago when we all went for a Pacific NW Dental Convention there. Kim is a good companion and does very well away from Bradly. She has an interview on Thursday at the GAP. I know she is excited to travel to Cleveland and Ft Benning. If she had the time off to do so, she'd be going south to Cali...but, hey....she has to get a job and make some $$ for next semester.

Work has been busy...one of my old residents is applying and interviewing for an OMS job with Willamette Dental on the 10th of September. It might help to have him in the area so my access time can improve. If you tried to get a consultation with me right now, they would book you for January 2005. And, then you'd have to wait 4-5 months after that for surgery. That is not a good thing. I told them they need to hire another OMS and have him take on some of this backload. I really don't see it hurting my income or my amount of work. Just gets things closer for patients...and I think I'll have fewer "no-shows".

Concerning the upcoming election: you know how I feel. Is there any doubt? I have absolutely no trust in Hanoi John. I can remember very well the antics of Hanoi Jane and the added cruelty given to our POWs because of her visit to Hanoi. I absolutely place Kerry at the same level as Jane as they both actively spoke out against our troops, actively joined the ranks of the garbage that worked with anit-war activists to cause a breakdown of the American will to fight to the end. He and she, were outspoken critics of the administration and the policies of the US. You have a right to be against any policy that the administration issues forth, BUT, to do it the way they did it...and by doing so, added credibility to the anti-US policies in Viet Nam and the US.....AND....contributed to the inhumane treatment of POWs and the loss of more lives of our servicemen and women who were in-country. Kerry is as low as you can go and his sleething dogs are out here again, protesting at conventions and at campaign meetings...using exactly the same tactics as were used in the 60's and 70's. Look as the low-lifes who are hired off the street to battle the administratioin. They pay the activists to go out and disrupt the general order of the public during these rituals of theirs. Throw in a few "veterans" and that makes their point appropriate. Anarchy before our eyes and the Dems don't see it. Their eyes are blurrred by images of....PEACE, LOVE, etc..... well, wake up and smell the smoke and gunpowder of the people who would like to destroy the good old USA from within and without. 911 has not gone away. Maybe we need to review the footage of the carnage of that terrible day. Just remember that on election day, Benedict in on one side of the ticket......the dark side. You vote how you may, but there is no question how my vote will be cast. I don't like our young men and women being killed and maimed by the enemy....however, that is a given in war. BUT, I really don't like our young people being killed and maimed because of the likes of John Kerry and Jane Fonda.
Has dad lost his mind? Wake up sweet peas.......smell the artificial roses for what they are.

Yeow, that was a real release. Kim really did well at calming me down when we walked by the kiosks of Bumbershoot at the Center on Saturday. There were more of the anti-Bush folks out there with very demeaning tee-shirts (hey, they are lucky this is a free country; they'd be shot in commie lands).

It'll be nice to get the election behind us. Then, we can see which way the US is turning.

So, that is my blurb for the Labor Day 04. Read it and smile. Enjoy your day. I have to go get ready for my "Professional Driving Day". Peace and Love, man.....Dad

So school has started up again. Last week was a good intro to what this semester will be like. Two of my classes will be pretty much repeats and the other three should be really interesting. I am really excited because my professor for my advertising creative development class is the head of an advertising agency in San Diego called Lambesis agency and his name is Nick Lambesis! His agency does the Skyy Vodka, BeBe, and Airwalk (when it was big) ads. He has some really cool ideas for the class, one of which is doing an ad campaign for Rubio's Baja Grill and we are going to have to present it to Paul Rubio, the owner, himself! Kind of intimidating but it should be a good experience.

It is SO hot in San Diego right now. Mostly just where I live though. San Diego State campus is probably 20 degrees hotter than anywhere else in San Diego. It is making start to dream of when I will live in Seattle or thereabouts.

So I may be moving again. My landlord at the condo I live in now is planning to buy a house in San Diego and so he wants to sell this condo. So me and my roommates are going to stick together and move most likely. We are looking at a small house right now that is very close to campus, like across the street. It is a cute little house. The yard needs some revamping but the inside is like a cabin with dark wood paneling and vaulted ceilings, pretty cool. So we may move there if we have to move. That would probably be the beginning of October so at least i can get into my routine before I have to throw that in there.

I am in the ward's roadshow right now and that is going on this Saturday. Should be a corny little show but fun nonetheless. Hopefully Kimmy will be able to come visit sometime this month (mom and dad), that would be cool. But I guess that is all from me now. Hope you are all well and not roasting like I am in heat!

-Marnie

Mike- Nothing---he had his eyes dilated today so was blind for half the day...and he beat Brent at football last night.
Brooke- went out to the backyard today and wiped off a counter
Jane- she is having a sleepover with her best friend this weekend
Sadie- has to have her cast on for FOUR MORE WEEKS!
Ellen- got fully up on her hands and knees with stomach up...crawling is not far off!

Mom- did not break her foot after all when she fell on the stairs taking the dog out...just black and blue. I got a very attractive ortho shoe (ha!ha!) but it really does make it feel better.

Georgia is hot, hot, hot!!!

Mom

Well, today I got to school and had a normal day. We have a game at U of Utah tomorrow and so we are able to get 4 people in for free. So we have to put their names down and if we have extra spaces, other girls from the team who need more can use them. So I only had to use one of the spots so I let one of the other girls use the rest of my spots. And as she is writing the names down, I notice that she has written down Megan Bodily. I freaked and was like "How do you know the Bodilys?" And she told me that Megan and Forrest are her Aunt and Uncle. They used to go to Gualala every year during memorial day weekend. Her brothers are the ones who did commercials all the time when they were younger.

Yeah a little crazy, small world. Also, One of the other girls on my team's sister-in-law is married to Patrick...cannot remember the last name...but he is from Valentine, and he was dad's ex-seminary student.

CRAZY!

Anyways, All is well here. I am starting tomorrow as a defensive specialist as long as nothing changes, and I hope to crush the U of Utah. Wish us luck!

Love- Anne

Hey Everyone,

I sat down today and drew names for the Sibling gift list. And here it is:

Mike --- Brent
Brooke -- Tom
Dave --- Anne
Adina --- Buffy
Brent --- Marnie
Buffy --- Peter
Tom --- Kim
Tracey -- Brooke
Marnie -- Tracey
Anne --- Mike
Peter --- Adina
Kim --- Dave

There you go for those who were asking.

Peter and I are doing great. I started school last wednesday and all is going well. I've been playing volleyball practically everyday but it is so wonderful. Peter starts school tomorrow and is very excited to be busy. The last two weeks he hasn't had much to do except clean the apartment and go hiking. He went hiking in the Uintas this last thursday and friday and had a blast. Friday they ended up hiking 20 miles because he didn't want to have to sleep in a tent for another night. Our first volleyball game is wednesday versus the U of Utah. And we are hoping to play well. We have a pretty tough schedule with this being our first official year in the Division 1 of NCAA. So we play a lot of tough teams but we hope to do well. Just wanted to update you all on how we are doing and we love you and miss you all.

Love-Anne and Peter

P.S. Peter is so jealous of Dave and Adina...he wishes he could have gone with you.

I wanted to make it clear for the record that Brooke didn't intentionally stay overnight to spite us. It was good for her since she really could not have managed coming at home at all. However prior to the surgery, the doctor had indicated that she would be able to go home within 3 hours of surgery.....definitely not the case....so that everything would have been covered.

All survived, however...especially Ellyn who gave both Mike and I "I got my way" looks as she started to nurse!!! (Don't tell me 6 month old babies aren't able to wield influence!)

Mom

I am really enjoying getting to know these three darling granddaughters here in Georgia better. I laughed when I read Buffy's entry....I've been there and done that! Your experience at the concert reminded me of our outing to the ZZ Top concert. I felt as if I stuck out like a sore thumb and also almost lost my hearing. Although the worst attack recently on my ears was the drag races that Dad took me to. (I also share your dislike of roller coasters-when we go together we can just sit on the bench and let those others indulge!)

I am now a lady of leisure...feels very weird! I am looking for work...as required by Oregon Unemployment services...and would be willing to take another full time opportunity if it was the right job for me. We'll see what comes around.

Brooke had to stay overnight at the hospital...good for her...not good for us, or Ellyn since Ellyn refused to take a bottle. We finally managed around it by taking Ellyn in for one feeding at about 5 pm (after about 12-14 hours without food) and then Mike took Ellyn in at about 9 and she spent the rest of the time there. Fortunately, she is a VERY good baby as long as she is regularly nursed.

Brooke came home on Friday morning and is pretty much couch-bound. Getting up and down is very painful but she needs to do a reasonable amount of walking every day. She can't carry the girls for at least a week. So I spend a lot of time carrying them around to give them to Brooke...who, of course, is much preferred over me!!! She is in a fair amount of pain but is gradually improving. She is hoping that we can get Sadie's cast off next week so that she can move around on her own. She does a good job scooting with the cast but there are definite limits to the scoot!

The morning I took Jane and Sadie to the funeral for a classmate in Jane's primary class. He was run over trying to stop their car from rolling down a hill. He was just eight years old and it was a very heart-rending funeral. Jane sang "I am a Child of God" with some other primary children. He will be buried out in Utah. The family had one 13 year old daughter and then were unable to have any other children. They went to Russia and adopted 3 little boys. This was the oldest one. They had had him for about 5 years. A really tragic accident.

Mike is very involved in his work and is trying to catch up from the day and a half off that he had during Brooke's surgery.

I love reading all your activities...even if I don't always respond. I love you all!!!

Mom

Well, I am still able to hear despite an evening at The Cure concert with Brent. As you may know, Brent has been a long time fan so being a good wife I agreed to go with him. As we entered the concert venue I realized that I must have missed the memo about the all black dress code with died black hair (hmm, and I thought it was a nice summer evening in southern CA and not Halloween). I off course was wearing the total pastel gap girl outfit with flip flops (darn, I knew I should have warn my black combat boots instead!). Anyway, the first half of the concert was really good untill the more than loud screaching sounds from the guitars turned into a constant painful stabbing sensation in my ear drums. I really do think I've proved myself to be a supportive wife.
Magic Mountain: I decided to join Marnie, Bob, and Brent after my ballet class at CSUN ignoring the fact that I have not enjoyed roller coasters ever since the Buffalo Bill's experience. We met up and went to a ride called Dejavu and I waited in line having a great time talking with everyone and getting to know this Bob guy (nice guy... very funny) and making a point to not think about my impending doom. We get on the ride and let's just say I didn't have a good time feeling like I was going to fall out of my seat dangling several hundred feet in the air and then get my spine adjusted several times over. I know what you're thinking, I drove myself to Magic Mountain and what was I expecting... a nice mellow day at the beach? But we did go to one of the park's nicer restaurants for lunch before Brent and I had to leave for the concert and I was glad to see Marnie and her friend.
Mental Note: Disneyland GOOD, Magic Mountain BAD!!
By the way, Brent has had a great first week at his new store (everyone really likes him as their new GM) and I have survived my first week of school as well. We hope everyone is doing well and wish Brooke a quick recovery!!

More to come..... 

So I went to Disneyland on Monday for my friend Michelle's birthday. It was really fun. I got to go on the Tower of Terror for the first time. It is really cool! Definitely fun. It makes California Adventure much better.

On Friday I am venturing up to Valencia to go to Magic Mountain with Brent and my two friends Brooke and Bob. It should be fun. I haven't been there in a while.

Today at work I added an accident to the Stinchfield list. I cut quite a gash in my left pinky while putting a pocket knife on display. I don't think I need stitches. It shouldn't be that bad.

Overall life is good. I start school on Monday and I am excited to get back into it. Hope you are all well. I love you all.

Morgan, strutting her stuff. 

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So, shame on us for talking about the fact that there is going to be a third broken bone. As you notice, the color of the cast is different. And, the cast is bigger. Well, let me tell you little story.....
He falls down on Thursday afternoon last week. Adina takes him right over to emergency, he says his arm hurts and points to his wrist. They take an xray of his forearm and, sure enough, a fracture of the radius. They put a cast on and call it a day. That night and the next morning we notice that there is alot of swelling at his elbow along with some bruising. First thing we think is that the cast might be too tight, but blood flow to the fingers is fine and they aren't numb or anything. As Friday continues, the bruising worsens. Adina takes him into the same doctor and she says that it is normal swelling. Adina asks if the xrays included the elbow area, the doc says that the elbow looked fine and that it was in the xray of the forearm. "Ok", we say, the good little patients we are. We take him home all weekend and the swelling is still present on Monday night and the bruising is a little worse. So, I go into work this morning and my first patient just happens to be a nurse from medical who's husband is a doctor down there as well. I am good friends with them both, so I ask her to just check to make sure that the 'xray of the elbow' was actually taken. Of course, no it wasn't. It was just an xray of the forearm and wrist. I ask for another look to be taken, she sets us up for an appointment with her husband, he takes an xray of the elbow and upper arm, and, sure enough, the humerus is fractured too. No wonder he said the cast before was heavy for his arm to hold it up, the poor kid had a heavy cast being supported by another broken bone! He must have fell and locked his arm or something so that it caught all the weight (including his double chin) of his fat little body. So, he has a broken radius and humerus and will be in the new "cool" red cast for 4-6 weeks. Oh well, we caused it by jinxing ourselves I guess.
On another note, we leave for Mt. Fuji to hike it on early Thursday morning. Should be an interesting trip. We will be sure to take alot of pics.
Dave

Amazing what you can do going 80 mph... Anyways, this is the new haircut as of the 20th of August 

just trying it out to see if this works 

Last night the girsl fell asleep holding hands, very cute.

Well, I wish I could say these pictures were from the A's in Tampa, but the truth is the rain-out never came and my plans to drive 6 hours to see the A's were spoiled by Military Appreciation Night. Still, it was a fun night. And Zito won this time, probably because we were not there.
Brooke gets her surgery this week, Thusrday. Mom flies in on Wednesday to help watch Ellyn and "Baloo Tast" Sadie. (Blue Cast) My life gets busier and busier this time of the cycle. I get to go next week to my first appointment toward getting laser eye surgery. I hope to go up to D.C. in February and finally get them fixed.
We are still planning on doing everything we can to get to Fort Lewis next year. It is going to be very hard to say goodbye to these nice quarters, but I am sure we will find something to like up in Washington. And it will be so nice to be close to home!
The only movie we watched this week was Hidalgo, which I liked a lot more than I thought I would. As far as gametime goes, I am mostly still messing around with Doom 3 and my football games. Oh, and flight simulator of course. But there is just less and less time for that stuff. The Olympics are pretty much on all the time here. Anne, we watched the Volleyball girls play Cuba today, it was a sweet win and we thought of you.

We love you all!

mike, brooke, jane, sadie, ellyn