The Shaner "butt dictionary" is about to get a LOT fuller.

That's right campers, just when you thought it was impossible for the Shaner to fit any more junk in that butt dictionary trunk of his... For those of you not familiar with the Shaner "butt dictionary," as I refer to it, let me explain. Its like this; you see I've been fortunate enough in my lifetime to be exposed to a wide variety of random experiences, events, and just straight up craziness, all of this gets stored in the shaner "bank of useless knowledge" (not to be confused with the shaner butt dictionary.) Now, when I don't know something and still want to either sound smart or give my best educated guess (usually the latter) I dip into what I call the butt dictionary for the answer. My butt dictionary first consults the shaner bank of useless knowledge and then comes up with a best educated guess based on everything I have experienced in life. Nice! Now with that being said, I stumbled upon a wealth of knowledge at the tip of my fingers; it's called CHA CHA. You send a text to 242-242 or cha cha with any question about anything you could possibly think of, and a real person looks up the answer from a huge compilation of data bases. It is free, meaning it is the same price as sending a text to anyone. It's fun and addicting and perfect for those moments when you cant quite think of something...just ask cha cha and VOALA! It's seriously good times and a must have for useless knowledge consumers like myself. Anyway, just thought I'd share what I've been up to down here in Arizona.

4th of July fun times...

So the 4th of July was superb this year! I flew in a couple weeks early for a race and decided to stay and surprise my favorite cuteness with my presence on the 4th. We enjoyed lots of fun family time as well as the famous, traditional Oakley rodeo. I took a trip into AA calisters and picked up my very own black felt hat (which was custom steam fitted to my head.) Amy was cute and kept telling me that I looked hot so that made me feel good about being completely out of my element. It was also nice to have my Sister and her family as well as my little big bro. and parents there too. good times fo sho.

Wasatch Back 2008- At least ten Virgins

So its been awhile now but I need to post up these pics of my race a few weeks ago. Three years ago our ward tried out a little relay race spanning 180 miles or so from Logan, Ut to Park City and we had a lot of fun doing it and it has become a bit of a tradition ever since. 12 people make up a team and each team splits into two different groups- the first group handles the first six legs of the race and then hands off to the second group while they go recover and rest a bit in preparation to take over after group 2 finishes six more legs of the course. This continues all day, all night and much of the next day. This year was special because we decided to take a group of the most in shape people from our ward and make a team that cared about running it as fast as possible, our goal was to break the 24hr barrier (26 hours and change had been our previous best mark) I flew in to town for the race from Phoenix where I have been selling pest control, and we embarked on our quest. It turned out to be a great time, about half way through the race we realized that we were setting a very fast pace and if we could hold it, we would easily break the 24hr mark. After it was all said and done, we finished in a time of 22hrs 46min good enough for 15TH PLACE OVERALL! We are the sickness.

As Promised pics

Wow I suck at blogging...

Or not, but lately I have not found much time in the schedule for blogging. Oh well, there is lots to update. I will be putting up some pics of my fun summer times with Amy, pics of some races I've recently run, and a few cool pics of my Hawaii trip that have recently surfaced. Thank you all for the love and stuff.