Todd's in Alaska right now!

He's still alive and apparantly well. He thinks we're all jealous but we're actually quite fine down here where it's warm. I am still amazed that he goes up there all by himself just to go fishing. He's reliving the pike days!

Finally

Here is a picture of me and G.  I will let you know what to write when I am not so tired

Paul's blog just got a major improvement

Its great that Paul has found the time to bring us all together through his blog.  I must say that given the circumstances, I would rather not have to cut my finger off to get the time away from work. 

 

I am living in Gaithersburg, MD--outside of Washington, DC--with my wife and 5 kids.  You're all welcome to visit our nation's capital and stay at my place.  Ellie Anna just had her first birthday (May 25, 2008) and she has been a lot of fun after 4 boys.  This morning I took the two older boys to our Elder's Quorum Dodgeball activity.  It brought back memories of trying to survive while Dave Toner slung 90 mph fastballs at us when we were scouts.  Speaking of which, my son Carter will be 12 in June and will join the scout troop for which I am the scoutmaster. 

 

I work for the Food and Drug Administration reviewing biological drug applications (cellular therapies and tissue engineered products to be precise).  I was lucky enough to avoid a post-doc and get a 'real' job after receiving my PhD from Penn State. I recently decided gas was too expensive and started biking 13 miles to work every day.  However, I'm not sure I'm saving any money because I probably have doubled the amount of food I eat each day.  I am coaching Carter's soccer team (I used to coach Alex--who is 10--as well, but he moved up to the competetive league, which is too much of a commitment for me).  Taylor (6) and Luke (5) are playing tee-ball against my wishes and so I take care of the soccer games while my wife takes care of the baseball. 

 

I didn't want to upload a bunch of photos, but I will post one and provide this link to where my wife keeps the family photos online.  http://picasaweb.google.com/mariannewonnacott

 

 

I like pretzels

I'll write that story for you later.

Above is My brother Steve's post. Thanks steve! Is that all you can write you lazy piece of shit!

This is my brother Steve. We were playing football at Newport beach. Later the camera was being passed amongst several girls interested in seeing Steve with his shirt off. Ooo! la! la! Even Heather was ooing and ahing as she scanned through the photos.
"What are you girls looking at?" I asked.
"Oh nothing!" as they hide the LCD from view.
Of course everyone knew. Steve is by far the coolest, best looking, most saught after, of all the Wonnacott boys. Of course that's just now! If I was to compare him to me, at the same age, then I was just as cool. Who am I kidding, I was never as cool as Steve. Beside's Steve's got something I never had. A hairless chest. How can I compete with that? It was the same day that these picture were taken that my brother Tyler came up to me, on the beach, and said, "Paul, we're at the beach, why don't you take your coat off?" That was a good one Tyler. It still stings a year later! (In case you didn't get that... I wasn't wearing a coat, or shirt, we were at the beach!)

The Dyer Family

This is Carrie, (Paul's younger, and oldest, sister) in the hospital a couple months ago! Baby #4! Carrie's husband, Jeromy is the family doctor. We see him for all our medical needs. He's a physician's assistant, but you would think he was a tenured MD the way he spins a needle. Yes he knits a lot! Ha Ha! No seriously he has gotten me out of countless visits to the hospital, which is great considering i don't have medical insurance. The only time I had to bypass him to go to the hospital was when i cut my finger off. It's too bad because he probably would have done a way better job reattaching it!
Carrie is the black belt mother of 4. I guess she realized if she was going to be prepared for Cody she'd better get her black belt. Her eldest son Cody is an 8 year old inside a 12 year olds body! He is literally a phenomenon in size and physical strenghth for his age. Carrie's training for her black belt has kept her in incredible physical shape despite having four kids. If you're a mother with children and your jealous of carries body, don't worry you're not alone. We're all jealous of her! I just want to kick her ass, but i'm scared!
Below is what I made her post yesterday while she was at my house!

If you want to know more about us, you can visit our blog.  In a nutshell we are a family of 6, yes, unbelievable right? Jeromy is a PA at Sutter Orthopaedics. I am a full time accident preventalist, Cody is a second grader, Davey is a kindergartener, Noelle is a princess and Indy (or Micah) is a milk-a-holic.

Todd's Family

I'm trapped at Pauls home until I type in 50 words or less about myself.  Where to begin.  Abby and I are expecting number 2 at the end of October.  We just got back from a Cruise to the Mexican "Riviera"...(Fancy word for Mexico's west side to give it credibility...I think we prefer the Carribean side)  Nothing super exciting to report...I surpassed my 50 word requirement.  Later.

My Brother Todd, is actually the reason I live in California! It was 5-6 years ago I was trying to make it on my own as an independent computer consultant. I would go to small businesses and set up their networks. I would actually go in run all the Cat5 terminate the ends, put in the routers/switches etc, configure the servers and then maintain the network as their on-call computer network guy. It was going great, i thought, accept for the fact that I had only two clients and i was in the on call stage of the job and they weren't calling. If I was smart I would have sabotaged their networks while I was setting them up. Anyway, Todd said why don't you come out to California, I'm starting a company, and I can keep you busy full time and you'll make a lot more money. It was a good move. I worked for Todd installing windows, doors, siding. Todd treated me well, he paid me well, he looked after me. Even today years after the company has been sold off and abandoned, he still takes care of me. He went to Mexico and came back with presents and gave me a couple hundred bucks for watching his daughter, even though I would have done it for free. He sold me his 800 dollar mountain bike for 50 bucks, because he doesn't use it? Someday I'll give him the 50 bucks! I've been without a car ever since the accident and he has given me his car everytime he goes out of town, which is basically all the time, and when he's home he'll buy subway and bring it over for lunch. Seriously, can you believe this? He takes me to the gym and kicks my ass in raquetball to remind me that I need to get in shape! He took Kobe home with him last night, so Heather and i could go out on a nice date! It's really amazing the incredible gift god gave me in this my twin brother! Oh wait i don't believe in God. I get it now! my brother thinks I'm going to hell and he feels so bad for me he's trying to help make my life here, now, a little bit better before...I die! Thanks Todd, I hope there is a heaven for you!

Who Saw God?

Okay, I want to know who saw God? I know the polls are anonymous, but come on I gotta know who's. Todd was that you! I know it was you Todd! Smart Ass!
Anyway Todd has a collection of photo's that you all need to see so here they are.
Todd broke his leg so grandma ducktaped a heavy duty garbage bag around his leg so he could go off the rope swing! I'm on the left with a really nice body! I wish I still looked like that!
We used to catch the biggest Pike in the world. At least that's what it felt like. They look a lot smaller in the picture than in my memory. These fish are incredible fighters and they were so much fun to pull in. We would dangle worms under rocks at the creek to catch minnows, then take the minnows a couple miles up streem to our secret spot and let the minnows swim around on the hook. The little tug and pull of the minnow was nothing. When the pike would grab, the reel would screem as fishing line spun violently out of the pole.

Here's me and my girlfriend Andrea Catoia with Todd, Heather Pingle, and Haroon

Todd's had the best hair for a while there.

Beth's Wedding

So I finally got this collage I've been putting together for my sister ordered to be printed. It is a 2ft by 4 ft poster that I hope they will enjoy. I started the collage several months ago and just kind of forgot about it. I looked at it again today and I was surprised, I was like this picture is freakin cool. If you were at the wedding then chances are you are somewhere in this collage. No absolute guarantees of course. What I like is you can basically look through an entire wedding photo album just by looking at this one picture.