Summer/Chico Racing

Just watch and enjoy.

What the future holds...

We learned this weekend that I got the job in California!  We hope to be moving to Corona, CA right after Tustiweek of the Summer of Kim. We are planning to get a house with an RV parking spot, a guest room, and we'll have a couple futons, so we want everyone to come visit.  Mayka, I am counting on you to help me figure out where everything should go like you did in Philly. We are so excited to see you all this summer and be closer to everyone after that (except, I am not sure if the Texas Tustisons will be closer or not).

Just in case the FBI comes a Callin'

With 2014 promising to be a great one for TustiQroo and overshadowing 2013 (sorry Cooper and Summer but the World Cup and Disney World is just so exciting), I decided I had to be involved in the celebration with the only way I know how: blasting my body with intense workouts in the hope of being ready in case the FBI needed me.

So today, after several weeks of training, I decided to do an unofficial FBI physical fitness test at the school with a track.  It’s a test that is point-based with 4+1 events, 10 points possible in each event.  To qualify you need at least 12 points with 1 point in each event.  Though the pull-ups are scored, they do not count for the final qualification.  Summer watched as a witness and timer.  The order of the events along with the results went as such:

Situps in a minute: 59 (10 points)

-5 min rest-

300 meter sprint: 45.12 sec (5 points)

-5 min rest-

Total push-ups (continuous): 69 (9 points)

-5 min rest-

1.5 mile run: 9:43 min (7 points)

-5 min rest-

Total Pull-ups (continuous): 14 (7 points)

Total Points (sans pull-ups): 31

For training, I had been doing the sit-ups without anybody holding my legs, so when it came time to do the actual event, the leverage gave me an extra advantage.  I know the 1.5 mile run seems kind of weak, which I kind of agree.  I was still recovering, I felt, from the 300 meter sprint which made me pretty nauseous.  But overall, I was happy with the results.  

Tustiweek of the Summer of Kim

2014, also known as the year of Kim, starts tomorrow. That means the summer of Kim is fast approaching, and we need to start planning Tustiweek of the Summer of Kim.  Tustiweek of the Summer of Kim is July 5-12.

We are very excited about the house where we will all be staying. You can look at it here:
  http://www.allstarvacationhomes.com/orlando/property.asp?ID=683
I haven't made room assignments yet, but Mia has dibs on the princess room and really hopes Hazel we be there with her. I may accommodate room requests, so feel free to ask, but I already told Aiden that nobody will sleep in the game room.  There is a pool for your cross-training pleasure, but I don't think you will find any monster tires in this gated community.

There will be plenty to do at the house, and there is a lot to do in the surrounding area.  Disney's website is really helpful. https://disneyworld.disney.go.com
The Disney Downtown area is essentially a big outdoor mall with lots of restaurants, shopping, and entertainment. Many of the restaurants in the Orlando area including non-Disney restaurants take reservations six months in advance through this web page: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/#/reservations-accepted
There is also Universal Studios Orlando https://www.universalorlando.com/From-Mobile.aspx
The Harry Potter world there is quite impressive, and the butterbeer is delicious.

As the vacation gets a little closer, we will start planning meals, activities, push-up contests, etc. We should start discussions about whether people want to dine out together and make reservations. I hope everyone is getting as excited as I am. Can't wait.

Art Class

So - Some of you know....I'm taking a couple art classes at USU.  One is basically an intro to Graphic Design.  Here is my second project - a book cover using Photoshop.  

Now unfortunately,  none of the kids in my class could fully appreciate my project, because none of them had read IT or any other Stephen King book for that matter.  WHAT!?  So I thought, maybe I'd find some respect with those of the family who have read the book.

I even came up with a story...which I thought was pretty good....


In 1986, King introduced us to Pennywise the clown.  One of  his most popuar novels ever, IT, follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by an eponymous being, which exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey.  Since that time, fans have always wondered if IT was truly destroyed .  IT Returns not only provides answers but brings a whole new light to the nightmare inducing Clown of Northern Maine. 

IT Returns follows the journey of Dandelo, a Todash creature who wakes up under the recently destroyed town of Derry, Maine.  Knowing nothing of his past, he finds a portal to the End World and quickly finds a life for himself quietly feeding on the emotions of travelers.  When Dendelo meets Walter O’Dim, a haunting traveler who is well known to Stephen Kind fans everywhere as the denomic villain Randall Flagg, everything changes.  Together they start on an evil mission at the request of The Crimson King and soon Dendalo begins to unravel the mysteries of his past.

This is an epic tale of evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of IT and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King Canon.

Man Baby

Just want to share some pictures with you all

In this picture Riley and I were trying to get him to say word up with his arms, he didn't like it!

enjoy!

A week without Nick

I suspect all of you know that Nick wears the pants in the family along with the apron, the chauffeur's hat, accountants visor, coach's whistle, etc and so on. Well on Friday he flew off to Japan for the "international nerd competition" (a sort of big deal contest to see who can write the fastest smartest software to find brain tumors in head MRIs). Well, no surprise, he won. I feel like I had a little victory here as well. Friday night I made it home by 7:15, which is pretty amazing. Saturday morning I took Aiden to baseball, then Mia to soccer, back to Aiden's baseball game where, surprise it was our turn to work in the concession stand. After the game ended, we went home and had lunch. Then I put on my mother of the year hat and took the kids to get frozen yogurt and see Planes. Admittedly I fell dead asleep before the previews ended and didn't wake up until Mia shook me to say she was hungry about 30 minutes before the movie ended. After the movie we grocery shopped, got gas, and clipped the kids scraggly toenails because Saturday really is a special day. This morning I made pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes and got to church only 4 minutes late. I am pretty sure I can't keep up at this pace, but while Nick is off winning the international nerd contest, we are hanging in. BTW, congrats on pregnancies, babies, weddings, relocations, and everything else that has been going on.