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!

A long awaited saturday.

In February a friend of mine, James Starr and I went to the boat show they have at the Idaho Expo Center at the Fairgrounds. He wanted to look at jet boats and I went pretty much planning on buying a ski. I figured it was probably time. I found a good deal on a Connelly F1X and texted Michelle to ask if I could buy it. She didn't reply so I figured that was as good as a "yes." Anyway, as you can imagine I was anxious as all getout to use it, especially since I had to wait at least two months before I could use it. Instead of storing my ski in the garage or a closet I kept it in the living room. I would talk to it and tell it how much I wanted to use it and how much fun we would have together.
Unfortunately when the time came to use my F1X I wasn't very impressed. It turned fine but it didn't feel as good as other ski's I've used. I found some information online and tried to figure out what I could do to make it suit my style. Of course once I did some adjusting I wanted to try it out. I waited and waited for what seemed like an eternity as a month and a half went by. A long time for the amount of summer in Idaho.

Finally, last night at around 10:00 a friend of mine, Brian Collette called to see if I wanted to hit the lake this morning. Of course I did!!! The air was a little brisk, we got there at nine, but the water was pretty warm and most importantly smooth with no other boats on the water. It was awesome. Amazingly enough, the adjustment I made to the ski seemed to work. It felt tons better. Stoked is pretty much how I was feeling. I was planning on bringing my camera to take some pictures but I had left it at work. I decided to post some shots of last summer since no one has seen them. The ski I'm on belongs to another friend of mine Troy Brown. Hopefully I'll have another saturday morning or weeknight evening to get some pictures of me on my F1X before the summer is over. Or maybe we'll just go in october again!

Criminal Fame

Last weekend my dad's family came for a reunion. It was tons of fun - we had lots of activities scheduled but mostly just sat around and talked late into each night. I guess that's what family is...people you love to just be with. Anyway, Saturday morning all the men folk went out to Blacks Creek to shoot guns.

My dad's sweet set-up. Seeing this picture reminds me of Imperial Britain - when the soldiers would be out in India's deserts playing cricket or something. In the movies they always have big, white tents. Anyway

That's Joey in the orange. My mom teased him - "You wore that so you wouldn't get shot, right?"

The guys said they had fun. Too much fun. Apparently - illegal fun! Seriously. About 10 minutes before they were done, the sheriff showed up with a Channel 6 news crew and started busting everyone for trespassing on private property. We watched Channel 6 news for 2 days before we saw the story - and of course, not Hudson family appearance. In the general public's defense - people have been shooting up at Blacks Creek for years, and there were no "No Trespassing" signs posted. That'll change soon, but we're mostly sad that our family reunion wasn't documented by our crimes...better luck next year.