Real Men BBQ

Well thats what Kelly kept telling me ever since we have been married. Well our "little" inside grilling just wasn't doing the trick - not the manly way to cook. So Kelly convinced his parents this last Christmas it was time for a manly grill. Low and behold he got one. Well Since the 1st of December (when we recieved it) it has been a great addition to our living room. It has sat inside our house being a great center piece to our ever lifeless living room. Well with SPRING officially here I decided it was time to break it out and get that puppy started and grill us some MEAT (chicken) and enjoy this weather! So I helped Kelly carry it outside and while he did the "manly" thing and cooked outside I slaved inside over the side dishes for our Sunday dinner.

Cleaning it up - getting ready for grillin'

Ahh the first official piece of meat on the grill. Marinated Tequilia Lime and Chipotle Chicken (yes still have that chipotle obssesion)

Finished products - add a little grilled Pineapple on there - could you ask for a better meal?! The meat was so juicy and delicious I can't wait till we can do this EVERY NIGHT!!

BBQ at the Hoyle's Bring your own Meat!

Nosebleed

With Seats like this you have to feel like you need a tissue for your nosebleed! Hey but can you complain when you get FREE tickets?

With a little ZOOM on your camera you can see everything right up close. Who needs to be courtside! Now when I say NOSEBLEED I mean NOSEBLEED - we had ONE row behind us to the ceiling! Yeah we were high I did get a little dizzy walking up there. But my company had given us all 2 free tickets to a game of our choice. And this is the one that I got. It was a blow out game, the Jazz kicked butt - the Hornets didn't even have a chance to catch up. So it wasn't and "exciting" game but we had a good time.

And end it with this - at least we had fun!

Gavin Dalton Speakman

Here is my newest nephew - he is super sweet and so chill. Don't mind how terrible I look in these pictures. Thanks J'net :) He makes up for it though

Born March 2, 2010

4:30 a.m.

7lbs 11 oz 22 Inches long.

I'll be honest, after seeing Jen and knowing she had a C-section I did get a little freaked out that one day I'll have to go through that - hopefully not a C-section! And then the thought of that pregnancy produces a CHILD I started to hope that I would have a puppy. But then again the thought of having a puppy is creepy - but so much easier to take care of then a CHILD!! A little freaked out? Maybe a little - good thing I have time to let it all settle in - even though time is moving fast!

The past and future

15 Weeks

19 Weeks

Hey look my house is clean 4 weeks later - YEAH go me!

OHH and....

Enough said

Work

So this is random but I have had a few people ask about what I do at Fox - and wanting to come see the studio. Well I thought I would bring some of the studio to all of you! I took these during the Sunday morning show so its pretty empty at the studio but at least you get a feel for the studio in general.

Welcome to Fox 13 Studios!!

This is what the studio looks like. The first desk is Dan Evans - its right in front of my desk. He is the first person I see when I come to work - and I am required to say HI to him first before everyone else (a fun little joke we have)
All the TV's in the back are like every network imaginable. They are always on (without sound) The assignment desk is the far back desk before all the monitors that they have scanners at and you can hear everything going on. It gets crazy and busy up there.
Of course to the left is the anchor desk where they sit and they do the news daily. The weather desk is far left way in the back, you can see John Goulet's head.

Birds eye view from my desk. they were actually live at this moment when I took it. That is Tamara and John doing the Sunday morning news. We have 3 cameras that the producers can choose from (far left you can kind of see them) the TV monitor is for weather when John is at the anchor desk, if he is doing longer weather he is at the blue screen (you can see it in the back left side of picture)

We have to check the lights everyday and replace at least one light every day.

This is my desk! The arrow is pointing to my job - I turn that scroll thing and it moves the words on the two black TV screens. There is an arrow at the top of the screen that I try to keep the sentence they are reading at next to that arrow. Not always - but I'm still super good at it. The other computer monitor is the rundown of the show. Mine is connected with the producers, he will always make changes throughout the show. So when he makes changes mine is automatically updated that way the anchors always have the words on the screen. I often have to switch stories in the middle because they forget or the video feed isn't working, or the audio isn't working on a live shot so I have a mouse on top of the first little monitor that I can use to go to another story quickly at any time.

Hmm I don't know what else I could tell you about my job other than I love it at Fox. Its so fun, the anchors are so much fun and so nice all of them. I have had the opportunity to work with most of them by now and I love them all.

Hope you enjoyed your mini tour of Fox 13~