Epic update.

Well, for those few of you out there that are curious if we've found anything else out about my accident, we do have some more news. We went to the Boise Orthopedic Clinic this morning to see about scheduling surgery on my ankle. We met with Dr. Lawler and he told me that I had three broken bones. He turned us over to Dr. Webb as she is the trauma surgeon. She said I broke my fibula (thinner of the two lower leg bones) clean through. I broke my tibia where it comes down and kind of covers the ankle bones. There was also a small piece of bone that broke off from the bone that comes in contact with the tibia. I had to have a CT scan in order to determine what they will do with the small piece of bone that broke off. So far they say that I'll need two screws in my tibia, a plate on my fibula and possibly a screw on the small piece of bone. It will take two incisions. My appointment is for wednesday (tomorrow) afternoon. I'm nervous of course but I think Michelle is more nervous than I am. When were talking to Dr. Webb she was close to crying. She didn't tell me she was but I can tell sometimes when she gets upset. I'm not sure I'll have much to write tomorrow since I'll probably be out for the rest of the day after they cut me up. Until thursday I guess.... wish me luck.

Epic...?

Ah yes, another post about waterskiing. Just what you all want to see. Oh if you only knew. As per the picture below, I was skiing how I normally do, funky form, but pushing a little. Scroll down to the video and you'll get to see some sweet action...well, just watch it.

You'll hopefully notice at the end when I wreck, my back foot ripped part of my binding out of the base. I ended up falling forward, more forward than if the binding hadn't have ripped. To make a long story of pain and suffering short and to spare those who might get queezy, I broke my tibia and fibula just above my ankle. At the hospital they had to put me under to set the bone. On monday, I get to go see an Orthopedic surgeon to see what kind of fastener they will install to keep my bones aligned. The picture below was at the hospital. It's pretty nasty. Hope you enjoy it.

For those of you who want to know all the gory details, feel free to comment on this post. I'll have plenty of time to chat for the next couple days and possibly longer. Oh, no more skiing this season. Dang it!

Nice Picture

I was out kiting the other day with Michelle and she got this really nice picture of my kite and me. Just wanted to throw it up on here.

Race Day

So, I promised I'd update the blog with some results of the race. I figured I'd throw in some more pics to make it more real...

The Ginnetta Zytek Hybrid

The Race winning Acura of Gil DeFerran and Simon Pagenaud

Dan Panoz founder of Panoz Auto Development and son of ALMS founder Don Panoz.

Ford engine used in Panoz Esperante.

Well, as you hopefully picked up on, the XM Acura won the race overall. The Lowe's Acura took first in the Prototype class 2. The Flying Lizard Porsche 911 GT3 RSR of Jorg Bergmeister and Patrick Long took first in GT2. It was a clean competetive race with no yellows. Not an edge of a seater, but still great to watch. Michelle, the champ she is, had a good time reading during the race.

Here's the start of the race. The Ferrari that drives up at the end had been spun out by one of the BMW's on the opening straightway. At the very end the two BMW's both ended up spinning out. That's what all the dust is from.

Thanks Larry H. Miller...rest his soul.

So, for the last four years the American LeMans Series (ALMS) has made a visit to Miller Motorsports Park(MMP) in Tooele Utah. For the last three years James Starr and I (Joey) have gone and watched. Fortunately, my awesome wife, Michelle has tagged along to the race since we got married. This year being the third year and the first since the existence of this blog I feel obligated to post some pictures and brag about meeting people most of you could care less about. I'm gonna do it anyway.

Luis Diaz and Adrian Fernandez Gil DeFerran and Simon Pagenaud

Marc Lieb and Wolf Henzler

That's Frankie Muniz...really.

I suppose I should put some car pics in there too.

The new this year M3.

The Panoz (paynose) Esperante

The Aer engine from a Dyson Mazda.

The XM Acura, Risi Ferrari and Fernandez Acura.

As of this posting the race has yet to be run. From qualifying today it's looks to be an awesome race. More updates after that.

New Hobby for J^3

Three of the Woodland brothers - Joey, Josh and Jarom (J^3) - all started a new hobby this weekend: KITE BOARDING. Well, actually, it's snow-kiting in the winter and kite-boarding in the summer, so they were snow-kiting. Joey bought some equipment this week...I said he'd better love snow/water kiting for at least two years!! :)

Joey is on his way to losing at least one - possible both of his big toenails - but they are having a great time flying and skiing and boarding and using a green source of energy to have a good time!

Our happenings

As you can see...we SUCK at this blogging thing. I don't know why - we just do.

Anyway - here is a catch up on what's been going down with me and Joey:

November 2008 saw 2 missionaries coming home. My sister Tiffany returned in glory from the OKC, Oklahoma mission. She hung around for the rest of the year but has since gone up to BYU-Idaho. Joey's brother, Justin, came home from his mission in Germany...or Austria...or maybe both. (If you saw the movie "The Errand of Angels" - that was his mission and many of his companions. So, he served whereever those people were...)

This is Josh and Joey holding up a sign; me and our nephew Hayden (isn't he CUTE!) and then the RM himself with his little neice Anna.


December brought a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year. We are lucky that we get to be with both of our families because everyone lives so close! This is my newest little neice, Kylee Leila Hudson - she is ADORABLE!