Juliette Stars in her first commercial

See if you can pick out which one she is...

I PASSED THE FE EXAM!!!!

First of all I would like to tell you that I have super powers! Let me tell you about my dream....

Amanda and I are sitting around as she is going through the mail. She pulls out a letter from ELSES (the FE exam people). She opened the letter quickly. I kept telling her to tell me what the results were. She just kept ignoring me. Finally she looks up and tells me that I passed. So I then wanted to she the letter. I wanted something that I could read and know for sure. When she finally gave me the paper I started unfolding it. After unfolding it I noticed that it was covered in oil. I couldn't read anything on there. When I went to open the second page it was gone. They had people around me picking up trash. I asked one of them if they had seen my paper. Nobody would talk to me. I was getting so frustrated. Finally I decided to just go check my email....The dream ended.

Why do I have super powers? That dream took place the night that I received the email notice from ELSES. I knew that I had gotten the email before even checking my email!

Anyway, I passed the FE. I am now an "Engineer Intern" and on the road for my PE soon!

God's GREATEST Gift

Juliette Elise Andrepont
8 pounds 5 ounces
21 inches
June 14, 2009 - 12:33 PM

Work Update

I know that most of you already know, but I am not working on the Jackson Barracks project anymore. I am now working on a flood gate in New Orleans. They are driving the piles for the foundation right now. So for the next month or so I should be down there doing pile inspections.

Some of you have requested to see pictures of my "home away from home" while at Jackson Barracks. Here are some pictures.

The Wilsons

This weekend we were blessed with being able to hang out with the Wilson's. I am so glad that I was able to have some time off to visit with them.

I came home from work to find that Glenn mowed my grass, Vivian planted some flowers, and the boys enjoyed some movies on my new TV. So they literally made themselves at home!

Papa Bear came in on Friday and made sure to take us fishing over the weekend. That was really fun, even though the weather was not good at all. We were still able to catch a good bit of fish. Gotta love getting some red fish in the freezer. Of course we ate pretty much everything we caught, so there wasn't much left over.

It wouldn't be any fun if I didn't get hurt, right? Friday night I was trying to jump from the boat to the pier. That didn't go the way I thought it would. I nearly knocked myself out by breaking my fall with my head. So I look up to see Justin laughing his tail off. I would have laughed too, I am sure that it was funny to see someone trying to jump two feet and falling on their head.

Lately its not fishing with me and Justin unless there is boat trouble. There was nothing different this weekend either. We got PawPaw's boat and went to put it in the water. Before putting the boat in we noticed that there was no key. We put the boat in anyway and I used the troll motor to get from the launch to the camp. Shortly after leaving the launch I remembered that we did not take off the motor brace (from the trailer to the motor) so I reached down for it, but it was too late. It had already fallen off into the water. So I continue on my ride to the camp and the troll motor goes out. Completely "cu-put". Justin had to get the other boat to tow me to the camp. So now we have a boat with no key and no troll motor. When we got to the camp, that's why I fell on my head. Oh, and my Chaco flip flop fell in the water. They float, but the current was moving. So we took about 5 minutes to find a flash light. Luckily I was able to find the flip flop about 100 yards down the bayou. We all worked on the troll motor to get it up and running again. We found a key at a boat shop, drove all the way there to find out that they did NOT have a key. We finally gave up on the idea of going fishing in PawPaw's boat.

Its a good thing that PaPa Bear had his boat up a running. At least some of us were able to go fishing.

Oh yeah, and the cooking! We ate super good all weekend. That had a bit of an affect on tightening my belt for work on Tuesday. I have got to slow down on the blackberry cobbler!

Maybe I will have some red fish pictures to add to this post later on.

What a great weekend!

She is SOOOO Beautiful!

I love these two so much! I am looking forward to June 11th - ish.

Do not do this at (your own) home!

If you want to try this make sure its at friends house and you are not around to help clean up!

All over the ice maker.

All over the frozen goods.

It did taste good, the perfect coke icee. Yes, I know, I am bald.

Coke all over the top of the freezer.

Monster Truck Show

I know that my parents took me to a show when I was a kid, but unfortunately I didn't quite remember everything about that. So, Amanda and I went see the Monster Trucks last weekend. I was just like a little kid when I walked in there and saw those trucks. I couldn't wait to see what they were going to do.

I was very impressed with the show, with the exception of the "commercials".

Here is what happened:

- Wheelie contest. The trucks went up to a row of three cars, popped up the front end of the truck and gunned it. Which made the back tires spin fast enough to bring the truck into a mad wheelie. AWESOME!
- Race off the line. The trucks would start about 10 feet from the other side of that row of cars. They had a dirt ramp leading up to the cars, so there was no dramatic front end wheelies. Anyway, they raced off a red/green light. Would ever made it over the three cars and across the line first, won.
- Freestyle. Used the entire course in whatever way they wanted to. 60 seconds to impress the crowd.

Pics...


This guy actually rolled his truck over doing that wheelie. It was awesome! He was still able to compete the rest of the night too.

YOU HAVE TO READ THIS!!!

FULL ARTICLE!

Please read this article, I think that everyone should be aware of this. Make sure that you read all of the comments at the bottom.

Kristen, make sure that Russell gets a copy to the link. He would love it!

Am I missing something here?

Full Article.

The article is talking about the money loss from the world's billionaires. Some interesting facts about the billionaires..."The collective net worth of this year's 793 billionaires is $2.4 trillion, down $2 trillion from the total wealth of last year's 1,125 billionaires."

This is a clip that I have taken out from the full article (above). This is what I found to be extremely interesting. I have never heard of the person, so I don't know what the situation is. Just read the comment:

"So is there anywhere one can still make a fortune these days? The 38 newcomers offer a few clues. Among the more notable new billionaires are Mexican Joaquín Guzmán Loera, one of the biggest suppliers of cocaine to the U.S."

Funny Kids

I have no clue what I would do if that were my kid...(punishment?)

A 5 year old's Birthday Cake

Mishaps in nature

Here is a link that shows all of the animals.

If you ask me, it looks like someone boiled half the lobster.

Soda Restriction - FAILED!

As you know, I had an Energy drink at the begining of February. That was for needs of staying awake and it was something that I could justify with breaking my rules. Since then I have failed again, and again. Another time with driving home from Houston, and time staying up really late while working on something with Justin. And again today. We had a Shaw lunch and there was Coke. I drank some. I could have had water, but I gave up. I am going public with this to let everyone know that I am a failure.

Big Cats Need Big Food

Taken from a trail camera in East Texas.

Body in Motion!

Ummm....THANK YOU! Even though that really doesn't express my gratitude I have to say that. I am so grateful to have Dr. Shawn there for me.

Yesterday I woke up with a pain in the neck. It was bearable in the beginning. By around 1:00 pm it was down right HURTING. So I drove all the way from New Orleans to go to my trusted doctor. It was totally worth the trip too! Within about 45 minutes I was back on my feet with hardly any pain at all.

Thanks to Body in Motion I can actually turn my head now!

How I lost $40

Yesterday when I went to work I decided that I have entirely too much money. So the only solution that I could find was to waste $40. I decided to pump some money into the economy locked my keys in the Shaw truck. Then I called Pop-A-Lock to come unlock the truck.

Colorado Trip: The Drive/Flight

I guess the first thing that I have to do is confess that I drank something on my restricted list!

Here is the reason: My flight is out of Houston, TX at 6:30 am on Friday... So I left New Orleans around 4:00 pm on Thursday. I got into Baton Rouge and got into my personal truck. My lovely wife wanted for me to get a couple of things from the Baker house, so passed by there. I was out of Baker for about 6:30. Because of the I-10 construction I made sure to take HWY 190 to I-49. So by the time I got into Lafayette it was 8:30. From there I had to print out my e-tickets and pack up. Long story short, I was packed and ready to go at 11:30. Of course I still had to go get gas and groceries. I needed something that was going to keep me awake for my four hour drive to Houston. This was my answer to that!


So do see what restriction I had? I will give you a hint, it says Wildlife on it! I know that I only said that I could have carbonation/energy drinks if it were a Jr.High lock-in. But I knew that I was going to need some juice in order to make it to Houston on NO SLEEP. So I had to have it. That stuff is GOOD too!

I got to the airport in plenty of time. No mishaps while on the road. So I was able to get on the plane on time and I was in Colorado at 7:30 in the morning!

Colorado Trip: The Arrival

I was picked up from the airport in this really fancy BMW. The best part about that is we took a toll road where there is NO SPEED LIMIT! Shawn was nice enough to take me 150 mph. It was pretty fun. Once we slowed down to 100 mph it was like we weren't even moving. So maybe I wasn't telling the truth about the no speed limit, neither was I telling the truth about how fast we went. But that was still a cool story. Shawn does have a fine little BMW though!

We stopped off and got some Breakfast Burritos and then headed to the house for some relaxation! Which was nothing but practicing for the Wii tournament.

Then we went to Kristen's school. That was fun, we got to help out. Since I am so tall we used my height to hang the kids' art work. They had to make a poster with 100 things on it. Well this one kid made a poster with 100 "lost socks". None of them were the same. It was 100 random socks. Maybe Kristen can take a picture of it for me and I will post it later.

After all of that excitement we went home for more Wii practice. Then we went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant. It was really good. We also thought about going dancing at a club with Hippies (right Amanda?).

Colorado Trip: The Hike

Kristen and I went for a hike at Mount Sanitas (I think). It was really fun. It makes me want to live somewhere that I can drive 20 minutes for some mountain hiking.

It was about a 2 hour hike. And we practically ran up the entire way, oh wait, never mind...I sucked wind the entire time!

Kristen was trying to hold her car from the top of the mountain.

Colorado Trip: The Dealer

Shawn has been working at a VW dealership for a long time now, too long! He is just too good at his job. If I only needed a vehicle right now, I most likely would have driven one home (especially if he showed me the car at night). I really like a lot of the features that this van has, the Routan. I have always been a Toyota guy, but Shawn has me considering the Routan!

Colorado Trip: Rock Band/Wii Sports Tournament

So Kristen told me that we were going to have a Rock Band party with a bunch of her Colorado friends. By the time it was within a couple of hours of the party everyone started to cancel on us. It was almost like Kristen wanted me to think that she actually had friends. I personally thought that she was paying people to call her and make up these excuses, just to make me think that people really were going to come.

In the end she did have some friends over. Due to a really good guilt trip! So we had some fun that night. We all grew moustaches!

**Thanks for coming over Adam, Katy, Reily, Regan, Leum, and Reese. (I most likely did not get the spelling correct on those names.)**

Colorado Trip: Snow Day!

Oh yeah, SNOW DAY! Kristen on skis, Scott and Shawn on snowboards. We were carving up the entire mountain! It was a small mountain that packed a HUGE amount of fun. We had a blast. I am getting better with the snow board, but I still had my moments with falling.

Oh, and I wanted to go sleding too. Since I would be getting into the car, I had to make sure that I didnt get my clothes all wet.

Colorado Trip: Snow Day - WATCH OUT!

This was my attempt to be funny...did it work? In the last seconds of the video you can hear a bystander..."Oh my God!"

Colorado Trip: Snow Day - Sledding!

This is a trick that a Canadian taught me...thanks for the trick Glenn! I had to go in my swim suit to make sure that everyone knew it was'nt that cold out there.

Best of the season!

Click on the picture to see it bigger.

I am pretty sure that this picture gets the award "Best of the season". Never did I expect to see something like this on my trail camera in the back yard. It took almost a whole year, but it was totally worth the wait to see.

If I had to guess I would say that this is an 8pt and a 6pt. The six point is much older and much tougher (if you ask me).

Now if I could only extend hunting season a little longer...

Air Travel

This is a video that Jacque sent to me through email. The video shows the air travel of the entire world for 24 hours. It has been compressed into 1 minute, so you dont have to take a day of vacation to watch the video. I thought that it was interesting, hope you enjoy.

Lancelot Encore

This was a story that I was very surprised to see. I really didn't think that this kind of stuff was going on with a public price tag. This couple some how won a CLONE AUCTION. So $155,000 later they get a double of their (dead) dog.

Read story here.

Food in the freezer!

This weekend I made my second Bow kill this year. I was fortunate enough to go to Rusty's place and do some bow hunting. Due to the wonderful weather I got to see some awesome sights. In the morning I saw 8 bucks all walk out at the same time. It was really cool, something that I have never seen before. At least 5 of them were within bow range, but none of them were "shooter" bucks. They get to live longer because of their good genetics.

I have to give a huge thanks to Douglas, who helped me find the deer after running for a very long distance. I would guess at least 1/2 mile. Thanks to the 2 bladed Rage broad head there was a nice blood trail to guide our way.

Thanks Rusty and Douglas!

Still Difficult

Last night was a GREAT food night. Caroline cooked for all of us and it was some kind of wonderful! I absolutely loved it. I will most likely make her come to my house and show me how to cook it. Yum Yum...

Well Grandma came and she made a BLACKBERRY COBBLER!!! So of course since it is still January I was not allowed the sweets! I was so not happy about that. But, as Justin reminded me, I came this far. So I am going to finish strong with one more week of no sweets.

I do not think that not eating sweets has made any difference in my weight. I think that I just eat more of the real food instead of the sweets. Oh well, at least I know that I can give it up if I need to.

Difficult

As you all know, I have my restrictions right now. Well, I still have half a roll of cookie dough in the refrigerator. That is killing me. I tried to tell myself that if I waited until February that it would go bad. There are starving people all around the world and I am not eating it. Shame one me...but I still resisted. Then I found some candy canes in the cabinet. Grrr...its so hard. Not to mention all the candy and cokes at work.

2008 College Football/National Championship

It wasn't as crazy of a year as last year's season, but it still had a lot of entertaining moments. Poor LSU wasn't able to hang on for a great season. but they sure did look good in the bowl game. Only time will tell how next year plays out. I sure did like the way Jefferson played! Shows some promise for a good quarterback next season. Although, I hear that LSU has recruited another great high school prospect.

I wont say this much, but GO GATORS! What a game last night! I got a little worried when I saw how well OU was moving the ball. I think there is something about the red zone that really pumps up UF. They man handled OU on that 4th down. And they came up with some great interceptions to keep OU from scoring. It seemed like it was tough enough for Florida. This wasn't there normal dominating kind of play. Fortunately they never get tired. Obviously OU's D couldn't handle an entire game with the SEC players!

Gotta love the "unsportsmanlike conduct" called on Tim Tebow. I think that Gator Chomp on the other OU guy was totally worth it! Being the good man that Tebow is, I would assume that the OU player wasn't being nice to him and that was the only response that he could think of doing.

How did you bring in the New Year?

I am sure that most of you know by now, but I will post it anyway. Sean had some pictures on his blog, but he didn't want to show anything too graphic. Lucky for me, I have a disclosure at the top of my blog.

If you don't know what happened: Long story short...Popping fireworks at Sean's parents house. I drank a Jones soda (in a glass bottle). Sean used it to shoot bottle rockets, I used it to shoot bottle rockets. Car ran over the bottle, it broke into pieces. Last fireworks of the night, five sparklers, approximately 1:00 a.m. I lite two sparklers, I raise my hands and start running like a kid. Glass crunches under my foot (wearing crocs). I go to hospital and get 6 stitches.

Thanks to Tim we had a first aid kit in the house. Tim did a fine job getting me cleaned up and prepared for the doctor.

Ironic quote of the night: I really did ask this question to Tim around 10:30 p.m. (before the accident ever took place) while discussing his nursing school. "Hey Tim, do you think that you could give me stitches if you wanted to?"

Do not look at pictures if you cant handle the blood!

It has been a while

Well, what a busy holiday schedule. It has kept me from so much over the past couple of weeks.

Thanks for the 4 people who supported me in my restrictions for the next couple of months. As for the 2 people who dont think that I can do it, I appriciate the motivation. So far, so good.

Time Warp - Discovery Channel

Last night I was able to watch a show on the Discovery Channel called Time Warp. This show is quite an awesome one to watch. Basically they take a SUPER DUPER slow motion camera and show you the video in slow mo. It allows you to see things that are just plain awesome. My favorite video is with them shooting three water ballons. I cant find the video on YouTube, but here is a similar video. I look how when the ballon pops that water is still in the air in the shape of the water ballon.