54 holes

I played 54 holes on Friday, 27 in the morning, took a little break and went back for another 27. I had a personal best round of 76 in the morning and was on track to equal it in the afternoon but had a triple bogey on #9 and ended up with a 79.

Brittney and the girls have been in Texas for the past couple of days, so I have been a little lonely but my clubs have done a good job of keeping me company.

cheese, please

custom m and p grinds. Kyle may have found a new profession. it's always good to backup your backup.


Kyle's been a busy man grinding his wedges . . . more on that later . . . , so i figured i'd post some pix for the parents.

latest ella story: i wasn't paying attention for one minute and when i returned i found kate covered in shredded cheese. "Did you try to feed Kate some cheese, Ella?" "Yeah, she liked it." I'm sure she did. It was the mexi-blend.

Also, another note to parents: when you're three year old puts her hand up and says "Do NOT go in the kitchen," that means, you better find out what the heck is going on in the kitchen. Especially when she follows it up with, "It was an accident. Don't worry, i'll clean it up." Ah, good times at the Gillespie home. Ella had spilled formula all over (powdered gold if you haven't bought any in a while) and quiet as a mouse tried to clean it up. The mop, broom, dustpan, and a few kitchen utensils all showed a valiant effort to hide the mess. It was worth the $20 just to see the expression on her face.

Girls and I are going to Dallas Friday for the weekend. Going to watch a few episodes of the office, eat some killer mexican food, and hang with baby sienna, karin, and matt. Kyle's already got his weekend planned: drop us off at the airport at 6:00 a.m., head for the best golf course in the state, and play until the sun goes down.

House goes up for sale in two weeks. Any buyers???

Golf Swing

Fell off the blogging world

Unfortunately the blog has been put on the back burner lately. I have been busy. The last quarter of class and they have us doing homework, it feels like high school again. Only 5 weeks left and class time is history for the rest of my life!!!

I have found time to play golf about every week. I am playing the best I have ever played, my knee feels great, my clubs are awesome and my swing is getting consistent. Scores for the past 4 rounds: 77, 78, 77, 82.

I have also been working on my business plan for opening a practice when I graduate next year. Talk about time consuming, I could work on this every day all day for weeks and still not have all the info I need. I am trying to be smart and start a year in advance. Financial statements, cash flow, projections, expences, liabilities, inventory, contracts, taxes, the list goes on........, I thought I signed up to be a doctor not a business man, I guess I will be both.



Ella is doing great, she misses Grandma Anne and Janie, and was sad to see them go home. She has a lot of fun with her friends though.


Kate is a really good baby and has started to sleep a little bit at night, although Brit claims to still get up with her all night long, every 2-3 hours she says.

Soccer

Ella's first soccer game was on Saturday, Her team scored one goal. The other team had one kid that knew how to really play soccer, he even slide tackled one of our players, he scored 6 or 7 goals. The last 10 minutes of the 3o minute game, it was a struggle to get any of players on either team to get on the field and play. The first 15 minutes were rocking though.


Ella's teammates, Even and Bella. Evan scored the goal and Ella thinks they are getting married, they hold hand during practice and I have to tell here she is there to play soccer, not find a husband

Ella is pretty darn good when it is just her and the ball, but she is not very aggressive around the other kids.

Tired

I have been a posting slacker lately, I have been very tired, my words are sluurryingtooogeeeteer, bodily functions are coming to a halt, I may not make it....

Ok so it is not that bad, we are all surviving around here, Kate is doing great, especially at keeping us up a night. She sure is cute and cuddly though.

I started my last quarter of classes for the rest of my life, 10 weeks and I am class free. Last quarter I thought I would barely squeak by but I ended up making the deans list. I am reaching the end of my rope, I do not have much left in the tank, I might just crack if I have to endure another class. Thanks to a great Wife and golf for getting me through it.

Don't know what else to say, but Ella still thinks we are #1.

Par 4 Eagle

My golf game is coming around, I shot 79 yesterday. I have played 4 rounds since the knee surgery, all 4 in the past week, twice at junky dead courses and shot in the 90's and twice at highland park and shot 81 and 79. I had the best shot of my life on the last hole yesterday, it was a 350 yard par 4 and my second shot was 125 out and I holed it for an eagle. It was my first eagle on a par 4.

Here is the lucky ball I played with the whole round, Callaway HX red. I usually play with a titleist pro v1 or a TaylorMade TP red. My friend Brent Petersen recommended the hx red to me awhile back and I came across one and thought I would give it a try. He was right, it is a great ball, too bad Callaway does not produce it anymore.

In honor of one of my favorite races, the desert rampage in St. George Utah, which was today, I pulled the Raleigh off the wall, dusted it off, put air in the tires, bled the brakes, and took it for a trail ride. It has been close to a year since it has seen any action. I rode for about 40 minutes and in that time, I saved a wrecked 4 wheeler rider by getting his machine off a sketchy hill, avoided about 10 drunk jeepers muddin on the trails, and about 10 moto riders.

I've also got a MTB race to get ready for on the 17th. On thursday I was riding through a dumpy little town called brookside and I was flagged down by the Mayor to tell me about a mountain bike race that the town was holding. Russian Boar Scramble Should be interesting.

We also survived the Tornados this week.

Here is our stocked safe room, also know as Ella's bathroom.

hanging out in the safe room, surfing the web during the tornado warning, checking the tornado tracks, ebay sales, and golf clubs.

Ella in the safe room with grandma Anne.

Ella made a "bird nest" for Kate to take a nap in. Kate

Ella loves playing on her computer, it will not be long until she will be buying golf clubs off ebay.