The Eternal Student

Catherine my Hero

Ty — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:08:54 +0000

Is my wife cool or what? After being diagnosed with cancer and going through chemotherapy and radiation therapy, Catherine just ran her very first 5k! For our stake’s July 24th celebration they did a 5k that Catherine ran. I’ve never done any sort of run that I didn’t have to. What’s my only excuse? I’m fat. So Catherine goes through cancer, “recovers”, and runs 3.1 miles. Me, I slept until she’d started and then me and the boys drove to the finish line to cheer her on. She’s my hero!

Catherine crossing the finish line!

Getting a drink after the run

Laughing it up!

Updated blog

Ty — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:58:57 +0000

Well, I updated to the latest version of WordPress and thought I’d celebrate with a new theme. After a bit of tweaking, I think I’m good to go. Let me know if you like it, as I’m sure most people only look through their reader.

The Clubs

Ty — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:08:12 +0000

For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m taking a zero credit golf class at Oklahoma State. Part of the class is learning how to make and repair clubs. The last couple of Saturdays they’ve let anyone who has clubs to fix, re-grip, or completely make from components work on them. So, without further ado, here is what my set looks like now with some new additions.

The Light

Ty — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:52:36 +0000

At last,

night turns to day
though I have not slept.
Stars in the heavens
Disappearing

Cold, lonely night
Alone in the dark
Endless time and thought
Waiting for light

‘Till with the sun’s
warm touch upon me
darkness hides away
I close my eyes

At last.

Alone

Ty — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:04:58 +0000

So Catherine took to the boys to California so she could do her cancer treatment. However, I am here; alone. I didn’t think it would effect me so quickly. It’s not that I didn’t know it would, I just thought it would take me more time. Like, oh they’re on vacation for the next week or two, and then it would kick in. However, sitting alone in the house is making me crazy, especially as I wonder if her and the boys are ok, and if they are safe, etc. The lack of knowing what’s going on and being alone is killing me.

College Classes

Ty — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:00:35 +0000

Today was my first day as a college instructor. For anyone who may stumble upon this blog who doesn’t know me, I taught high school Spanish for the last two years. I loved it. However, coming to the college level as a graduate assistant and teaching undergrad classes was an intimidating step.

I guess if you’re a teacher, new venues may always be intimidating; at least that’s true for me. But once you get going, all the fears just kind of fall off and you do what you always do; Teach. The kids were good, and the class was good. Overall it was a pretty fun couple of hours (2 classes). I teach again on Wednesday so hopefully it goes well again. Cross your fingers for me.

Summer Stuff

Ty — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:47:57 +0000

This has been a busy summer for us at home. I’m teaching two classes for summer school which keeps me busy during the day till 3:00. It almost feels like being a normal teacher that doesn’t coach two sports and teach night school. I get to come home at 3:30 instead of 7:00 at night. Weird!

Kevin had swim lessons with mommy. There are some fun pictures on Catherine’s blog that show Kevin jumping off the diving board. He’s my little dare devil. Now he asks every day to go swimming so we’ve used his little blow up pool a few times in the back yard.

This weekend is the beginning of the Wardle family vacation as well. Saunya, my big sister, is coming in town with her family. She hasn’t seen our house in over two years, and that was a 6 hour rest stop for them on their way to Oregon. Then we’re heading to a cabin with my entire side of the family (all 36 of us) from my parents down. We’re going to spend an entire week there just playing around. It should be lots of fun.

Finally we’re still trying to sell our home here in Idaho (anyone interested?) so we can move to Oklahoma. One way or another we’re going, but it would be nice to get this one sold and move in directly to a house out there instead of having to rent. With the housing market like it is, not too many people are looking but two came through in the last few days so hopefully someone will put an offer on it soon.

Oklahoma is going to be interesting. When are we moving? I don’t know! Where are we moving? I don’t know. I do know classes begin August 18th, so I’d better figure all this out, and soon. Catherine and I are still really excited to go to Oklahoma and do my degree. It’s all the detail stuff we’re not sure about. Wish us luck!

Upgrades

Ty — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:21:54 +0000

For anyone out there that reads this blog, you may have noticed that some links and, pictures, etc that may not be working. I’m in the process of moving the site to it’s new location, EternalStudent.org. Everything has moved over just fine except for pictures and videos. I’m having to re-assign them to their posts. Please let me know if there is something you are trying to get to but can’t. Also, if you use a reader for this blog, you may need to update it in order to read anything. You can always use the sites subsriptions widget on the right to subscribe or subscribe here:

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Kite Time!

Ty — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:13:15 +0000

Today I put together a kite that Amber, one of my friends gave us for a wedding gift 5 years ago. It was part of a big bucket of fun little toys and coloring books. Today was fairly windy so I finally put the kite together (a Monarch butterfly) and then brought Kevin out to fly it. He’d never flown a kite before so he had a blast. He kept telling me, “Daddy, the butterfly is flying!”. He even flew it himself a few times. He did great but wanted to let all the string out, let go of the string, or run towards the butterfly. I’ve got to get that kid into a physics class! Catherine wanted to fly the kite too so there’s one of her as well. Anyway, here are some pictures!

Campout

Ty — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:48:40 +0000

Our ward had a father and sons campout a couple of weeks ago but Kevin and I couldn’t make it because we had some other stuff going on those two days. Instead, Catherine and I picked up a little fire pit, and Kevin and I camped out in the back yard. It was a blast. First we cooked hot dogs and smores (we even let Mom have some). Then Catherine made us peach cobbler in our dutch oven. It was all really good. Kevin had a blast playing in the tent. He even fell asleep holding on to the flashlight that wouldn’t let me shut off while he was awake. He are some pics Catherine took while we were playing!