Wish I was skiing

mutant spider in our yard

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Kitchen remodel

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here's some old vs new

easter pictures of girls

2010-04-07T08:57:00.002-04:00

new addition to family

2010-03-24T20:00:00.001-04:00

our house & mckinley digging in the dirt w/ her dress on reminded me of sarah when she was same age.

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more picts

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more picts

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more picts

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more picts

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house picts

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picts of outside of house

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HOUSE

2010-01-26T18:18:00.003-05:00

People accepted our offer on a house here's the link for pictures. this is my one time i'm glad the economy sucks. we'll be doing some painting inside and out, but other than that, house is in real good shape, in a good area.

http://www.century21.com/property/index.jsp?id=35857956

newest from afghanistan--words from dad

2010-01-15T17:05:00.000-05:00

A rocket apparently aimed at Camp Eggers slammed into a nearby location outside a store 200 meters as the crow flies from our facilities, causing one injury to a store guard but resulting in no other casualties. This was the first rocket I have been close enough to have felt the real dangers of rockets. The concussion was much like a bomb—in fact initially I grabbed the AK-47 and ran out of my room to check on our people—fearing that there might be a coordinated attack underway. The guards met me and asked for Mozhdah—and told her that it was a rocket. I didn’t hear it screaming in—but Fahim heard it from his home (about 700 meters away)—but he knows what they sound like. I heard only the ka-boom. As close as it was, it didn’t cause any glass breakage—so it wasn’t nearly as powerful as the car bomb from before Christmas.

Suprise!!

2010-01-02T14:09:00.002-05:00

We surprised my family--john and camille knew we were coming home but nobody else. I told them i had to be back in Tennessee monday, but we were actually driving up from idaho where we spent christmas w/ Jess family. Here's the video.

new job

2009-12-01T16:29:00.001-05:00

I was offered a new job today and took it. We'll be here another 3 years or so probably. i'll be a production supervisor in our tomato department.

fam picts

2009-10-31T14:04:00.001-04:00

note from dad. i now hate obama more, didn't know that was possilbe.

2009-10-31T08:40:00.001-04:00

Here the Taliban are showing no discernment between schoolchildren or UN workers--they kill randomly--the weakest and those with no defenses. This is what they've always done. I saw a documentary yesterday that was filmed by my head of photography a few years ago. It contains some never-before released scenes of the Taliban's oppression--really horrible and oppressive people. They are not originally from Afghanistan--they are from Saudi Arabia--and are a relatively new philosophy--inspired directly by Osama Bin Laden. The US must not allow them to regain any kind of leadership role in Afghanistan or they will take over Pakistan--which gives nucear weapons to Al Qaida--and then look-out China, India, Russia, and any US interests. Pakistan has deep-water submarines that are nuclear-armed--so the US would be a sitting duck. Clinton's latest brow-beating of Pakistan's leadership--weak as they are--was a deep insult to a nation that has only recently begun to truly spill its own blood in combat with the Taliban--before they didn't have the leadership that was willing to do much. For her to be throwing salt on their wounds when they have just sent 40,000 troops into one region that is in the US' interest to drive out the Taliban and then to be insulted by her in the eyes of the world is going to do irreperable harm to US interests in the region. She has forgotten why we're here--it's about the nuclear weapons and preventing real terrorism from spreading to the west. 9/11 will look like a day at the beach if Al Qaida gets power in Pakistan.

Sorry for the lecture--but maybe some of your influential friends might find this perspective interesting.

The work at the station continues to go well. The disruptions due to the Taliban have been frustrating to everyone--but we're doing OK. My guest house is about 250 meters away from the UN's--but it's 3 streets over, so though the gun battle was tense--it even went up and down our road--it wasn't a direct threat to us here. We have only 4 guests here and are well-guarded--so there is little likelihood that the Taliban would target us. Right now the media aren't targeted by them because they need the reports from us to keep the rest of the nation tense.

funny picture

2009-10-25T19:37:00.000-04:00

For a taste of tennessee go to http://knoxville.craigslist.org/cto/1437382864.html and see the pictures. LOL

kylee takes her suckers very seriously.

2009-10-25T19:12:00.002-04:00

Halloween party

2009-10-25T19:02:00.002-04:00

Kylee the cat.

bomb blast (from dad)

2009-10-08T04:50:00.002-04:00

We had a bomb blast at the Interior Ministry, across from the Indian Embassy. I was in the news room, when we heard a whooshing sound and then a low thud--all the walls, floors, and ceilings shook, and the windows vibrated, but nobody at our facility was hurt. The ministry building is 500 meters from our facility. Our people were immediately outbound to cover the blast--and everyone else resumed their work like nothing had happened. You'll read more about it in a few minutes, I'm sure. Anyway, I'm OK and still feel secure in my location--I'm just glad I wasn't on that road today.

Pray for him

a word on afghanistan

2009-10-06T16:24:00.001-04:00

From my dad (he lives in Kabul now by the way):
I am learning a lot--I feel like I am in college taking several world history and social science courses simultaneously. This evening I spent a couple of hours with a consultant from Pakistan who gave me a broad history lesson (as he answered many questions) on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chechnya, India, Saudi Arabia, Kresmir, the first Gulf War and its relationship to the beginnings of Al Quaida (it was the ultimate insult to Muslims that the west (the US) would build a base in their most holy place, the home of Mecca) and the Taliban's origins and growth in Afghanistan. Also, I learned more about Kabul City--how it was once the Paris of the middle east--a place where tourists would come to enjoy a beautiful, modern, progressive and serene vacation. Then, after two very bad kings who oppressed their people much like the bad kings of the Bible and the Book of Mormon, communism was able to get a foothold--and under the guise of saving the people of Afghanistan from an oppressive ruler, the Soviets came to Afghanistan to throw out the oppressive and corrupt regime of the king. The war, which lasted 10 years, was ultimate won by the Mujahadin as the fighters, the Americans as the weapons suppliers, and the Pakistanis as the colonels and generals. I learned that the very first suicide bomber was a Muslim woman in Chechnya who had been raped by Soviet soldiers and forced to watch as her husband and son were tortured and murdered. She strapped dynamite to her body and made it into the tent headquarters of the Soviet general and blew herself up. This was in about 1977. There was then a great controversy throughout the Muslim world--was suicide, considered an unpardonable sin in Islam, acceptable when Jhiad has been warranted. Ultimately, though most Muslim clerics declared that it was never justified, a small faction within the Sunni sect declared that it was justified, and of course we know what has followed. 9/11 was brought on by a combination of what happened in Chechnya (the introduction of acceptable suicide retaliation) and Gulf War 1--the insult to Islam by the west's occupying even a small portion of Saudi Arabia

the fight

2009-09-20T18:38:00.002-04:00

McKinley and Seabub (Jacob)

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Mink pronounces Jacob's name as Seabub.

More Lake Powell

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More lake powell

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Pictures from Lake Powell trip

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These are of jess, her sister and our bro-in-law on the tube. I held down the shutter.. if you look close you can see her sister squished below jess.

Dad has a job

2009-09-10T15:02:00.003-04:00

My dad has accepted a new job, not state-side though, so keep him in your prayers please. To find out where it is, here's a picture of the country's flag. He leaves in about 2 weeks.

New truck (to me)

2009-08-15T11:24:00.001-04:00

Traded the honda finally. Mink loves it.

my girls. Mink's b-day

2009-07-27T21:03:00.000-04:00

bug's life

2009-07-11T10:04:00.000-04:00

lots of little bugs in the air a few nights ago.

4th from fireworks in newport, where i work

2009-07-11T09:59:00.001-04:00

4th of july picts

2009-07-04T12:01:00.001-04:00

cute Kylee picture. i was playing w/ our camera, lots of cool settings.

my car

2009-05-30T18:04:00.000-04:00

have a blog for my car

http://parkers94civic.blogspot.com/

My 3 girls

2009-05-30T17:53:00.002-04:00

new car

2009-05-23T20:00:00.001-04:00

The camaro days are over. Traded it while Jess was in utah (with her blessings). I have a little honda civic, that has a few modifications. It was a fair trade, i'll post pictures some time. I have taken up golfing since we live on the golf course, and the girls have taken up swimming.

2009-05-02T21:53:00.001-04:00

i noticed obama is pushing for greater legal protection for terrorists. Sounds about right. Why are all democrats so stupid? Democrats push for protecting the idiots, animals and anybody who is willing to commit any sort of crime at the expense of punishing the people who actually do good. What comes to you're mind when you hear the word democrat? Probably not democracy.

Jess is gone for a week. sad day at the reid house.

more picts

2009-04-26T19:14:00.001-04:00

The carrier was awesome. The 1st jet on the left is a F-18- an old Blue Angels jet (dad should like that). These other two are where we live. Actually this is about 1/2 hour from home, if you look at the bottom one, the area that looks like a town is where i work (off in the distance). We're in the foothills of the smokies. I went home teaching the other day and it took about a hour from my house to get there, it was way up in the hills off some dirt road. real pretty.

more san antonio picts

2009-04-26T19:08:00.000-04:00

can you tell which girl belongs to who? In the one I'm holding, it's kylee. Jess is holding Lily. Kylee's on the right, lily on the left in the one of just the 2 girls. Mink went to her 1st easter egg hunt. she done good.
We think lily and kylee look a lot alike. We went to the USS Lexington in TX.

obama

2009-04-15T21:26:00.000-04:00

Don't blame me i didn't vote for a Huseein.
I'd like to see him work for $1 a year till the "company" he is CEO of perks up. That seems to be what he encourages anyway. So pass that on. $1/ year till he makes us profitable again. Then again, maybe he's trying to make other countries profitable first. He's anti-democracy, pro-socialism and a bit commi to me, and his wife is clueless and an embarrassment, but at least she's proud of her country. If you voted for Obama, I'll bet you feel pretty stupid. Though you're probably one of the many that spent too much $ and thinks uncle sam owes you for it.

Video of minkles

2009-04-07T20:52:00.000-04:00

Mink was very very into the whale show. She was their cheerleader.

more seaworld picts

2009-04-07T20:50:00.000-04:00

Sea World (lily's on the left, Kylee's on the right)

2009-04-07T20:43:00.000-04:00

We went to visit my sister Camille (Camel) in San Antonio. We went to Sea World and Corpus Christi. It was lots of fun. Here' some pictures. This will be in several posts to post all the pictures.

2009-04-03T21:13:00.000-04:00

We went to Texas and stayed w/ camel for a few days. Went to Seaworld and Corpus Christi. It was lots and lots of fun.

Camaro for sale!

2009-01-17T18:28:00.000-05:00

For sale. 1978 z28. It's been lots of fun having it, but it's time to let her go. Runs great, loud, very fun to drive- it's pretty quick. Needs a paint job and the inside needs the paneling put in (I have all the paneling, except the door panels). 350. Edelbrock 600. Turn down exhaust. The pictures show different size tires on front and back but they're the same now. Doesn't leak too bad (rain leaks). Has all new weather stripping. The passenger side door needs a new window regulator ($90). The passenger door could use new bushings. That should fix the leaks. The t-tops don't leak though, they're Hurst. Has a fresh oil change. I have the stock hood as well. New rear seat belts and the front ones are both installed from a different camaro and work. Speedo and tach don't work. Not entirley sure if it's the original engine or not. Good transmission. Have a few other spare parts to go with it. $3300.

Christmas picts

2009-01-04T17:13:00.001-05:00

We went to washington for christmas along with everyone else. It was lots of fun. 1st time all of us have been together for christmas since '01. The 3 babies are Kylee (ours), Lily- Camel's, and Akaila- Janica's. Jess and I started a snow fort on Christmas. We got somewhat over 2 feet so it wsa lots of fun.

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ninnie found some makeup. She also found a girl to play with. Actually it was outside a haunted house and she didn't care for the girl as you can see.

2008-12-06T15:52:00.000-05:00

we saw this truck on our way home. guess there's bears in the smokies. jess had her 1st craft show today. work's good. we're going to washington in a few weeks. the girls are happy.

Tennessee Pickups

2008-12-06T15:42:00.000-05:00

cute picts of the girls

2008-11-09T08:24:00.000-05:00

hiking in the smokies

2008-11-09T08:10:00.000-05:00

We went on a hike in the Smokies yesterday. it was just a 4 mile (round trip) but i was surprised it had some steep parts and once we got to the top there was cliffs so there was lots of good scenery. We carried the girls up with our baby carrier things. Mink slept the whole way up. Jess and I were very tired by the time we got to the top. Mink walked the whole way down so she was very tired and grouchy by the time we got back to the car. so here's some pictures. we also used our camping stove for the 1st time so we had a good lunch. mink hasn't figured out how to smile for a camera without scrunching up her face.

trip

2008-10-14T18:40:00.000-04:00

it's exactly 2722.7 miles from our house to my parent's house in custer.

Video Produced by the Reids

2008-10-12T18:26:00.000-04:00

Just click on the hyperlink to a short movie we put together.

http://animoto.com/play/3zjTo3tbBmLSsqXfZzCqng

Smokies

2008-10-11T23:23:00.000-04:00

This is from today. we drove through the Smokies. It was real pretty. More pictures to come.

2008-10-09T18:08:00.000-04:00

I miss the northwest. Mink had a hard day, so she drank herself to sleep. That was over the summer. that's her at the peach arch.

around conference time

2008-10-05T18:29:00.000-04:00

recent pictures

2008-09-04T15:41:00.000-04:00

These are of Kylee, our trip to TN, our new apartment, and the trailer.

Kylee day 2

2008-07-31T16:56:00.000-04:00

These are Kylee day 2.

kylee day 2

2008-07-31T16:42:00.000-04:00

Turkey

2008-07-31T16:04:00.000-04:00

These were in Turkey. Ephesus, the top 4 and the castle looking one is in Istanbul on the Europe side over looking the Bosphorus and Asia

Tennessee, Baker in July

2008-07-30T23:18:00.000-04:00

New Kylee pictures

2008-07-30T22:54:00.000-04:00

four wheeling

2008-03-05T21:28:00.001-05:00

me doing farm work... just kidding

2008-03-05T21:25:00.001-05:00

young minkles in front of the much improved house

some pictures

2008-03-02T17:20:00.001-05:00

pictures

2008-03-02T17:11:00.000-05:00

hi how do add more pictures to the blog?

First blog

2008-01-19T12:29:00.000-05:00

At the inspiration of Steve, the Indian, I have created this blog. It is named after McKinley Lynn Reid, our very entertaining little daughter.

Wish I was skiing

mutant spider in our yard

Kitchen remodel

easter pictures of girls

new addition to family

our house & mckinley digging in the dirt w/ her dress on reminded me of sarah when she was same age.

more picts

more picts

more picts

more picts

house picts

picts of outside of house

HOUSE

newest from afghanistan--words from dad

Suprise!!

new job

fam picts

note from dad. i now hate obama more, didn't know that was possilbe.

funny picture

kylee takes her suckers very seriously.

Halloween party

bomb blast (from dad)

a word on afghanistan

the fight

McKinley and Seabub (Jacob)

More Lake Powell

More lake powell

Pictures from Lake Powell trip

Dad has a job

New truck (to me)

my girls. Mink's b-day

bug's life

4th from fireworks in newport, where i work

my car

My 3 girls

new car

more picts

more san antonio picts

obama

Video of minkles

more seaworld picts

Sea World (lily's on the left, Kylee's on the right)

Camaro for sale!

Christmas picts

Tennessee Pickups

cute picts of the girls

hiking in the smokies

trip

Video Produced by the Reids

Smokies

around conference time

more from other post

recent pictures

Kylee day 2

kylee day 2

Turkey

Tennessee, Baker in July

New Kylee pictures

four wheeling

some pictures

pictures

First blog