I said I would...

So I said that I would post today because it has been FOREVER!

By the way, HELLO EVERYONE!!

Anyway, it has been a long time and I am thinking of a couple things to share with anyone and everyone. They are not profound things or things that will create and stir up emotions, but they are my life! Well, it might stir up emotions...we will see.

FIRST: Most days are pretty normal or usual. There are times for things and things happen pretty much in the time they should happen. Today however, things got thrown for a little of a loop. Our friends adopted a little puppy that was taken from a meth lab and a substance was actually spilled all over the little puppy's back. You can see a burn mark all the way down. Anyway, he is a very sweet loving dog with a Big Heart. And so thats what they named it, Big Heart. Anyway, they asked if I could puppy sit for a couple hours and even though I knew it was going to be crazy, I figured what they heck?!?! Well, after getting the puppy accustomed to the house, the other dog in the house, the baby, cleaning up the "accident," and going for a long walk. The puppy was picked up and was gone. It was actually kind of fun and I have a huge respect for people who have a baby and a puppy or two babies. It is a lot of work and patience! You have to just laugh!

BIG HEART

SECOND (and last): I finally recieved Super Mario All Stars and have beaten my favorite mario game, Super Mario 3, straight through. I beat every level and every castle. Even the ones that you could skip, I went back and beat them. I was amazed at how much I remembered as far as secret areas and tricks. I am currently working on Super Mario 2, my least favorite, but I want to beat them all straight through so that includes my least favorite games.


SO thats...uhh...thats is uhhh...well and update of sorts...I guess. Kind of pathetic, but its something right. I can blog about anything right? Oh well.


SEE YA!


Love Will Amanda and Bryson

Post Race and Recovery

Hey all,

We did it. A month of pretty intense training proved to really help us a lot in running our 13.1 Chicago Half-Marathon. I am so proud of my wife and I for sticking with the training program we set up for ourselves and then pushing ourselves on race day to finish. Our official time was 2:08:52. This is an amazing time considering we were planning on 10 to 10 1/2 min miles. That breaks down into 9:51 min miles. I still cannot believe we ran it that fast. It was very uplifting to be able to pass more people than people passing us. It felt good to be able to set our minds to do this and do it above our own expectations.

At about mile 9 or 10 I had the idea to go through the alphabet and pray for someone whose name starts with that letter. It was very interesting to see who God put into my head for each letter. Some of the people I have never prayed for before. So if you felt a little bit of encouragement last Sunday, it could have been me praying for you!! Anyway, this alphabet pray got me through the last few miles, and I really feel God was blessing and helping me for blessing others. I could really feel Him with me and us during the run.

I put recovery in the title, but it is not like I have been on bed rest the last couple days. I was a little stiff on monday but back in full swing by the end of monday. Amanda had work the next day and was just fine. That just amazed me. However, I think it hit her yesterday. She came home and was beat. Just tired and ready to sleep. But Race plus 4 and we are ready to get back into it. We want to keep up with running on a regular basis. I know it has been very good for my health especially.

So, thank you all for your thoughts and words of encouragement to us over the last month. I am looking forward to future races that include more half-marathons! Come join us!! Its worth it!

Love Will Amanda and Bry

Are you a tool?

So I kind of got sucked into this TV show called "Tool Academy." Its a show on MTV where these guys are brought unknowingly by their girlfriends to try and fix their relationships. These guys are very unfaithful, ungrateful, and in general womanizers to the fullest. They are very into themselves and whatever is best for them. They are very pompus and really out of control. The best part is that they dont think they are any of these things.

I started watching the first season of this show and now I am into the second season. On a regular basis I laugh out load while watching the show. Not because its funny, but because these "tools" take no responisbility for themselves or their own issues both within themselves and their relationships with the girlfriends. The last episode showed many of them, for the second time this season, completely brush off their girlfriends for scantly dressed women in front of them. I see women who are very beautiful and intelligent, who deserve way better than these guys, stick by them and want them to change. If that is not love I dont know what is. Every episode has a tool that gets kicked out of the academy. The most recent departure actually broke up with his girlfriend after being kicked out. Complete tool.

All of this to say, I mess up. I mess up A LOT with Amanda. But I am glad I am not a tool like these boys, not men, on this show. It seems like they have it all. But I would not want to be them because I would be willing to bet it is a very lonely life. A life in which they have get drunk every night in order to have a good time. It only takes my wife and my fremends to have a good time for me. Maybe this is why I watch it, to boost my self-confidence a little. I dont know, but I am glad I love my wife and do everything for her and would not change that. I am glad my wife loves me enough to forgive me everytime I mess up. Its when I start doing things for myself that I get into trouble. Its just that simple.

I hope God has put people into your life that continually lift you up and challange you when you need it. I hope I can be that person for others. But I mess up sometimes with that too....does that make me a tool?

Love Will Amanda and Bryson

ps- they also have therapy sessions that I enjoy watching from the counselor viewpoint...very interesting!!

FRYday!!

Haha, I laugh because from the title you probably thought I was going to talk about frenched fries or something....well I'm not I just thought of it as I was about to type and so I went with it!

Anyway, today is friday and it has been a pretty good week. I was hoping to get more done, but next week is another week! School is becoming a bigger and bigger part of what I think about on a daily basis. I am looking forward to starting up again for many reason, but I do have aprehension because I am not sure how homework and parenting are going to coincide. I know it will all work, but I am still anxious about that whole first week of school. On a side note, I start school on the 15th of September. Two days prior (the 13th) to that is the half-marathon and two days after (the 17th) is the season premier of The Office! Its going to a busy week, but lots of excitement!

So, I have my Christmas list started....I know its early, but I started thinking of this that I want and then I realized:
1. I would probably never get this stuff for myself
2. Christmas is always coming up.
I wont reveal anything thats on it now, as I have some items that need to be specified a little more. Keep it here for updates on that.

Lastly, I would like to leave you all with a little bit of a life lesson that I learned at a very young age that I promised to pass along to everyone that I met. It begins with a young Will Boscaljon. Thats enough for now.

Love Will Amanda and Bryson

Today's Post = New Vid

Its Thursday!!!

Off day from training, we have 6 miles on tap for tomorrow. Not really worried about it.

Its funny how my mind races when my creative juices get flowing. Last night, after not going to bed until after midnight, I had idea after idea for new things I could do in a video. Sometimes, this nights will keep me up all night, but last night I did fall asleep. Especially if you team me up with my buddy Josh, we could come up with ideas all night! The problem when we get together is we have too many good ideas and nothing gets done. We have thrown together a movie before, but hopefully as our sons get older, we can make some more impressive video's. Anyway, this morning these ideas I had were still pretty fresh in my mind and I wanted to get them on paper and then on camera. I got the idea to make it for Amanda. Thanking her for being such a great Mom. It ended up working out perfect. I ate and Bry ate breakfast, we changed, and headed out to shoot on location! We hit a few spots and then finished just in time for me to come home and put Bry down for a nap. This gave me the time to edit the video in the ways I had been thinking about all night. This is what came out of those ideas...

I was uploading to Blogger, but it took forever, so here is the link to the vid on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk8UWg6_kI8

Hope you all liked it and hopefully I will continue to come up with new ideas and create new videos for everyone's enjoyment

Love Will Amanda and Bryson

Here we are

So, Bryson is growing up so quick. Now he can pretty much understand simple intruction. Check it out...


He will close anything for you. If a door, cabinet, or drawer open all you have to do is ask, maybe a couple times, and he will waddle over and push it closed. It is very cute. He knows what his pacifier is and will take it out, give it to you, or put it anywhere you want him to!

Anyway, this is day three of the write something everyday for a week. As some of you know we are training for the Chicago Half-Marathon. Well yesterday was supposed to be a 5 mile run. Usually my parents have been very good at watching Bry while we run. I was going to meet Amanda at the gym to run, but first I got out of the house late. Then it seemed like everyone who owned a car was out driving on the roads I was driving on. Then there was a accident on Mclean and I called Amanda to tell her she should just run without me. However, I realized that I had all her running stuff. Well, it took me about 30 min to get from our house up to ECC and it was locked with cars as far as I could see north on Mclean. We ended up canceling the run, which I think we will be ok with. We have 7 miles today. Also yesterday we found out, we could not wear headphones during the race. I can understand why, but we both need the music to run, so we will have to start training without to get used to it...we will see how that goes! But we will be numbers 16023 and 16024 in case your down town and see a bunch of numbers run by, it could be us!!

Talk to ya tomorrow!!

Love Will Amanda and Bry

Everyday...

I have decided to blog everyday this week. It was late last night that I blogged and just now I thought that this would be an interesting little game to play with myself. What am I going to write about everyday?
Well Bryson woke up at his usual 7am this morning and...

Oh geez, Bry is napping right now and the monthly tornado siren test is going....please dont wake up...please dont wake up....

Ok, I think we made it....

Anyway, once in a while he will suprise us and sleep till like 8 or 830. Those are very nice days. I am already starting to blank on what else to blog about....It has been tough for Amanda since starting up school, how little time she has with Bryson. Also, being the beginning of school, school days are harder on her and the nshe comes home with no energy to hang with Bry. She feels really bad, but I'm sure things will get easier. They always do with time! She can also look forward to this friday, which is a SIP day and then next monday is labor day of course. So we will have some time this weekend for family time.

I just finished The Bourne Deception. It is the 7th book of the Bourne series and 4th written by this new author. It was pretty good except for the fact that Bourne just does not die. In this book he is shot through the chest, but lives. Originally I found Jason Bourne to be somewhat believeable. I am very intrigued by the secret government project and creating a superhuman weapon like Bourne. Then for him to lose his memory is a good twist. I am not sure that this new author is going to write another one, he left it open for it, but I think this series needs to come to an end now or very very soon. Also, I found out a 4th Bourne movie is lined up. I guess it wont start shooting until 2010, but its coming. As I have read all of the books, I am very curious where they will take the story in movie form. They are already WAY off the books, so I am excited for that.

Well, not sure what else...so I guess thats it for now...wow this is going to be a long week!

See ya

Love Will Amanda and Bryson