Last one before the cold

This was our last boating trip before old man winter showed up. I will count the days before we can do in all over again next year. I just hope that fuel prices will stay the same as they are right now just before Christmas. I got a new wake board and water ski at the end of season prices and I am excited to try them out next spring. Putting away the boat was such a pain that I wish we lived in a warmer climate so I did not have to winterize the boat. Next year our boat will be getting a home away from the sun and elements with a new garage to the side of our house. Now we are getting ready to play with our winter toys, it is great that we never have to grow up.

Paris, France

We just returned from Paris France for a family vacation and had a wonderful time. This city is fantastic and beautiful and everyone should plan sometime in thier lifetime to visit. We spent about one week in this wonderful city with my wife Kathryn and two of our daughters Sarah and Anna. We also took my in-laws Frank and Shirley Russell along with us for this spur of the moment trip. We got Business class going over to Paris but got stuck in coach coming back. Boy the benefits of working for an airline are great.

Winter has arrived

Well, Fall is gone away and old man winter has arrived in SLC. We began our first day at deicing at the SLC airport for most of the flights on Sunday morning. This is part of the job that I get to get into a warm truck/or enclosed bucket and spray de-icing fluid all over the wings and tails of outgoing aircraft. It is getting into a small cage or box on a lift truck and using the lift to get above the planes to spray off snow,ice, frost so the airplane can fly. The lift goes about 75 to 80 feet in the air to get above our bigger aircraft. It is like playing a video game shooting de-icing fluid out of a very powerful canon. It is almost as much fun as driving the planes on the ramp.

Go UTES !!!

We went to the Utes game on Thursday night and now I do not have a voice due to yelling at the Utes for the first 3 quarters and with them on the last 3 minutes of the game. What a game that was for them to stay undefeated at 6-0. This little boy was in front of us also cheering for the Utes. Maybe I should ask them what kind of shampoo they use on him so I can use it to grow some hair. My wife was mad at me for getting to the game an hour before it started (I thought it started at 6:00pm instead of when it did at 7:00pm) at least we got there without a large crowd because the stadium was empty. The game was awesome and exciting to the very last second of the game. Go Utes.

Having fun on the water

Enjoying the water of Bear lake and having fun on almost glass type water. What a blast!!!

It has been way to long since I last posted a comment so I decided to update my blog and be better at this blogging stuff. It has been a fun filled summer with our family and getting ready to go into winter is going to be tough. We spent a week in August going boating at Deer Creek and Utah lake(you should not go boating on Utah lake in August if you don't want to get eaten by bugs and covered by green moss). I am still working full time at our new hospital IMC in Murrary Utah and part time for Delta Airlines doing all kinds of customer service. school is going fine with only 6 more months left before I will graduate with my BSNA. Then on to finish my MBA in health care administration from the U of U. My lovely wife is keeping busy working at Kencraft and looking forward to staying home to be a stay at home wife. Our kids are all doing great with our youngest just getting married(she alloped) and we just found out, what a surprise!!
Iwill try to keep this blog better updated in the future.

It has been awhile since I last posted to this blog so I thought I would give it a another try. Life at our house has been really busy with life and work and a little play. Our daughter Sarah graduated from the U of U and is now looking for something to keep her busy. Josh got a new job at South valley Motor Sports (a motorcycle shop in Draper) and is enjoying working there. Anna is now back in school at the U of U and working to pay all of her bills and of course playing a lot. Amanda moved back from Roosevelt UT. to Bountiful UT and is looking for work and trying to deal with life's challenges. Kathryn and I are celebrating our 14 year wedding anniversary and are looking forward to another 14 years together. I started back in school and Kathryn just finished her one class that she took for her job at SLCC. Other than that life keeps moving on in the Wilcox household and we are looking forward to all of the summer activities.

Josh and I playing on our new toys

Part of the family down in Cabo San Lucas

Getting started

Hello everyone, This is my first attempt at blogging and trying to learn how to do all of this blogging stuff. As you can see I'm a rookie but it looks like this might be fun so I am going to give it a try. Let me tell you a little bit about myself first. I'm married to a beautiful woman whom I adore and we have 4 wonderful children and a very active dog named Roxy. I have worked for Intermountain Health Care for the past 25 years as a nurse at both LDS Hospital and now at the new IMC hospital in Murray. I take care of babies in the NICU and love my job.

I also work for Delta Airlines as a customer service agent working out on the ramp doing all kinds of stuff. I have been doing that since 1999 and love every minute of it and getting to be around airplanes is the best part. Our family loves to travel and we indeed travel around the world as often as possible.