Brooks

Winter Time in Provo Canyon

2008-12-26T14:58:00.000-08:00

Katie and John on Christmas day 2008 Papa Skips Home

We just finished our walkway on Christmas night after returning from Salt Lake.

This is the snow on our porch roof the windows you see are on the second floor I decided to remove the snow off the roof as it was building up as it slides off the the main roof to the porch roof.

This shot was taken from inside our bathroom window as I am on the roof of our porch you can see our shed in the background, oh and yes I did jump of the roof when I was done.

New Home in the Mountains

2008-12-26T14:43:00.000-08:00

Here is our new Home in Provo Canyon in September. We love it here and have some wonderful neighbors.

This is a view from the front porch.

Provo

2008-08-25T19:17:00.000-07:00

So we have moved in case you didn't know. John recieved a coaching position to coach for the Cougars! So we are back in Utah, closer to family, and enjoying the advantages the canyon has to share. IT IS GORGEOUS- a little piece of heaven if you ask me. Here is John's new chic pic. We are right next to the river. John has been fishing many a time. John also has a fly engraved on his ring- that is how big of a fisherman he is. He is quite a gentle fisherman, 98% of the time, he is throwing the fishes back into the water. Above is a creek John and I went fishing in earlier this year. He swore me to secrecy, so I cannot tell you where this is. More to come later. . .

UNLV Rebel Men Win MWC

2008-03-07T11:56:00.000-08:00

For the fourth straight year in a row the Rebel men won the MWC swimming meet women took 2nd! This season was one of the best season in school history!

Here are some of the stats
Women
A cuts 1
B cuts 17
School records 9
MWC records 5
1st places 10
1,2,3 in the 200bk
UNLV own all MWC relay records

Men
A cuts 3
B cuts 20
School records 5
MWC records 3
1st places 14
1,2,3 in the mile; 1,2 500fr; 1,2 50fr; 1,2 100/200bk

Here are some pictures of our team at MWC meet

Colorado visit / CSU swimming meet

2008-02-17T18:52:00.000-08:00

Last week we had a meet against CSU and now since my sister's family lives 15 min. away from CSU I stayed for an extra day to visit with her boys! Our girls team one by a lot, and now we are heading into MWC meet and I think we have a really good chance to beat BYU and win our MWC. Ashley and Morgan live in a quit area and a lot of room to run around even in the home.

I enjoyed playing guitar hero with Brooks, and going to the UNC bears hockey game with Morgan. (the bears one 10-0 not bad)

Coach Jim talking with our women's team during warmup

Ashley and the boy's at the end of the swimming meet at CSU

Brooks practicing so he can play video games..

UNLV training trip Irvine/Coronado Ca.

2008-01-13T17:05:00.000-08:00

Training camp this year started out with rain at the begin in Irvine Ca. We swam at UCI for the first few days along with UCI's invite. Our swimmers either swam really well or they swam really slow, not a lot of in between at this meet. We spent the remaining part of our trip in the sun in Coronado off of San Diego. I was fortunate to share a two bed hotel room with Kunio and Ben. All of our training was two blocks away from our hotel at the Coronado High School pool, which was just finished a few days before we arrived. It is a great pool! We had one day off from training and I took a few swimmers surfing near Mission beach. It was cold water but it was worth the 5-6 foot waves!

Last day of dry-land on a foggy morning Coronado beach

Dry-land at Coronado Beach

Surfing-Mission Beach

Women's Team practice at SDSU

Jeff fighting off the seguals-Mission Beach

Coaching pratice at SDSU

Dry-land at Coronado Beach

D-Group practice at Coronado High

I've been tagged!

2008-01-12T14:55:00.000-08:00

Okay, so now it is my turn to tell six things about myself.
1. Currently, I am training for a marathon with my tagger, Meg Neff. We are planning on running the Salt Lake Marathon. We shall see if the fruits of our labor pay off. We are in our second week of training (beginning Jan. 1).
2. I used to teach music on the weekends to many, many children ranging from ages 3-11. It has been quite the experience and I am certainly glad I did!
3. Why not teach? I teach music lessons to children in my area and am looking for more students. It is so fun to have a passion I enjoy and am able to give back to the communittee.
4. For work, I am building up my own music studio. It feels so good to be doing something I enjoy. I am teaching both privately and group lessons. If you know of anyone interested in voice, flute, or piano, send them my way.
5. I met John four years ago and it took him a year and a half to finally ask me out. I am glad though because the timing had to be right. I do like to tease him about it though. Hee Hee!
6. I have been VERY impressed by John taking the initiative and starting this Blog. If you think I started this, I didn't. It is such a fun adventure to see what neat things John will do next. I think that even after two years of marriage we have just skimmed the surface of how much we really know about each other. There are always more things to know and do with each other, which I am glad. What an exciting adventure this marriage is. Thank you John for all of it!

Love your wife,
Katie Jane

My next victims are my family members. You have now all been officially tagged. If you do not have a blog, then I expect a letter with full explanation telling me why you do not have one yet. Just kidding!

Paul & Rachel tag! Peter & Suzanne tag! Morgan & Ashley, you all have been tagged! Tell me six things EACH about yourselves.

Christmas 2007 in Salt Lake

2007-12-30T19:05:00.001-08:00

It was great to visit loved ones and have the excitement of Christmas this year in Salt lake. Katie and I have been married for two years and this is our first Christmas with family.
When we made the trek from Vegas to Salt Lake, we hit a nasty snow storm. We only have a two-wheel drive car, but we did not get stuck at all on the way up. We did have a 20 min stop in the road near Beaver due to the big rig trucks stopping. We finally make it up and over the the hill going around the big rigs in the snow.

Oh yea, we also had an electrical snow storm on the way up too. We had all kinds of static electricity around our car and around the front windshield- it was a little crazy for part of the drive.

Here are a few highlights from Christmas!

Katie and Mary Christmas morning

Ben's "Button"

Garrett's one eye look

Kristi- a Mothers smile

John, Kev and Dr. T-Roy

Family Summer Aptos trip

2007-08-20T18:13:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time since the Brooks family have been to Aptos, yes the last time we were all in Aptos "we were ALL togther" if you know what I mean.

Here are few photo's from the beach

Samuel checking things out summer 2007

Katie, Lauren and Olivia at the beach in Carmel

Ben and John flippen

Emma

James
Katie and John

John's species list

2007-08-05T09:42:00.000-07:00

Kern river Golden trout

caught July 21, 2007

Kern river rainbow trout

caught July 21, 2007

Bonneville Cutthroat trout
caught July 26 2006

Golden Trout Wilderness

2007-08-04T13:54:00.000-07:00

July 18-21 the Brooks brothers went out on a search for the "most beautiful" trout the golden.We stared out in Las Vegas and as always, we had to make a few stops. The first stop was to REI for one item and the next stop was to the Bass pro shop for another; however, we managed to leave town around the time we thought we would. After the four an half hour drive to Golden trout wilderness, we arrived at the south fork of the Kern and pitched our tents in the dark (Dad had his own tent as he tends to snore and keeps everyone up.). In the morning we were able to find the river, sadly we found out the river over the last five years has suffered a lot of drought so the river was very low and we didn't have any luck in the river. We decided if we were going to catch any Golden's we needed a new river. We got a hot tip about 9 mile creek, and headed there. We hike in about 5-6miles with 3000ft drop. When we found ourselves away from civilization we were able to catch some really nice Golden's.All brothers and dad were able to catch one too.

7" Kern River Rainbow trout, caught July 21, 2007

15" Kern River Rainbow, caught July 21, 2007

9" Golden trout, caught July 21, 2007

Builtmore Estate

2006-06-14T16:11:00.000-07:00

Katie and I had a few days off from Georgia Swim camp to check out the south. We decided to spend the whole day at the Buildmore Estate and we loved it!

Buildmore Estate; summer 06

Somewhere on the Weber R.

2005-09-04T19:35:00.000-07:00

Right before Katie and I decided to get married Ben, Ed, Katie and I went fishing and it was great! We caught some cuts, cut/bows and some brooke's.

Katie's Comments- John took me fishing to a place I have actually been several times before, but not for fishing, but to camp with the Young Women in my area growing up. Little did I know that the place I have so many fond memories of also happens to be one of the happiest memories I have with John before getting married. It was and still is so fun to watch the excitement in John's face as he lights up when he catches a fish. He took me to a place where I was able to catch many fish. Horray! That always makes fishing more memorable, right?

6" Bonneville Cutthroat; caught Aug. 24, 2005

7" Brooke trout, caught Aug. 24, 2005

Aug. 24, 2005

Aug. 24, 2005

wind rivers

2003-08-09T21:25:00.000-07:00

one of many trout in the wind rivers

Peter's Brooke trout, summer of 2003