Champions Again

This was our 3rd season in the Apple Volleyball league and we did well again!

We were league champions again and didn't lose a match all year.

(in fact we have never lost a match)

We still however, are yet to play in the finals with 6 players.

This year unfortunately one of our girls

hurt her knee in the semi finals. Anyway it was a lot of fun and we will hope

to be just as successful this spring!
Tem Included: Brian "Dr. Manhattan" Schultz, Dorian Dwight Ducker, Commander Brent Rowe, Kristi BUSINESS Lindley, Kelsey wilcox, Katelin EIA, Brianne QBD,

and Tyler "The Wizard" Pettingill

Alumni Volleyball Game

This past Saturday The Alumni(old guys) went up to BYU-Idaho to play the Students. I was the captain of our team mostly becasuei always have something to say and only the captain can talk to officials!

Here is Cache and Myself.

Here I am hitting!



Wow it looks like I can still jump!

Well the picture is tiny, but here is Brian "Dr. Manhattan" Schultz, Josh Connely, Myself,

Mike Brooks, Cache Allen, Kevin Dupree, Commander Brent Rowe, and Dorian "Dwight" Ducker

We Actually won the match in 5. it was a pretty good game, but we shoudl have won in 3!

Nothing says welcome back to Idaho like...

So this past Sunday at around 4am I was woken up by a loud noise. I thought knowing how clean I am, that something had fallen off of a counter. When I looked around that night I didn't see anything. In the morning, I found a white dust all over the front room. I couldn't figure out where it came from, since there didn't appear to be any problem with the ceiling. After a while I looked on the wall ad found some holes. It turned out my house had been shot 5 times! unbelievable! I will have to post some pictures. Today it was on the news! Here is the link

http://www.kidk.com/news/local/56671712.html

The Amazing Alicia Gettys

So about 8 years ago when I was ironically in San Diego, I met Alicia on the phone because she was one of Rocky's friends. Since then we have kept in touch and bumped into each other whenever we were in the same area. this summer was the first time I have ever lived near her and I got to spend some quality time with her which was blast!

Alicia and I had breakfast at a little shop on the beach.

Alicia and I were going to a Michael Jackson/Ferra Faucet tribute party. She was Ferra, I was Obviously Michael, although I think her costume is arguably better!

A much better picture of Ferra!

This was from our beautiful trip to Blythe,

I don't recall why she was doing this but it was funny!

Alicia deserves some kind of medal for going into our apartment(or a tetanus shot).

She is actually holding a B-day card I received, which reminds me of a story.....

So about a week after my B-day Alicia invited me over, and when I got there

she had me close my eyes and follow her upstairs. when I got there we

opened a door and a bunch of people yelled surprise for a makeup surprise B-day Party.

The real funny thing is I really didn't know them! She had just invited them to make surprise

Great!. Too funny, I even got a birthday cookie with candles and

of course some B-day Mountain Dew(the only liquid I drink!)

Here we are at the beach!

And this is her the night before I left!
She stayed till like 2 a.m. while I cleaned! What a trooper!

Bachelor life...you know you miss it!

California life

So Brian and I lived the easy life this summer. We had no microwave, and only one sauce pan that we used to boil water for our Cup o' Noodles. Here are a few pictures of our "Home." Don't worry I keep my house in much better condition!

" The" Garbage bag. I used one to bag move some laundry to California this summer, and that bag became the garbage bag. However when it got full we just took it out to the dumpster emptied it and brought it back in. Unfortunately on the last trip out this summer it tore a bit. May the good bag rest in peace.

This is where Brian and I spent our time in the apartment. We weren't home most of the time during the day, so we never really turned the AC on because it was so cool at night. However at times it did get a bit hot and we would sprint out, dive in the pool and run back in.

Here Alicia is pretending to drink a mountain dew. The important part is the giant stack of cans which I eventually recycled. There will be a later post with our "canning" adventures.

People used to sneak over and mess up our house. Fortunately Brian and I are neat freaks, so we would immediately clean the house when people left it looking like this!

You can't say Brian and I didn't put our scouting to good use. When we got there, we didn't have a shower curtain obviously so we went to the dollar store(where else would you even go for these things). Anyway I asked where their shower curtains were and they said they didn't have any, all they had were table cloths. At the time I thought why would you even mention table cloths in the same sentence as shower curtains? Anyway as I looked at them an idea came to mind and I asked Brian to pick a color. He chose peach obviously and the above creation took place.

I must admit that I don't relish living like this ever again! But it was exciting for a summer. These pictures also show how great a friend Alicia is because I don't think many other people would enter that apartment! In fact I am slighty embarassed she did!

A Trip to Paradise

So in true Tyler form, I will be posting several blog posts at once. On Saturday(some day in July), My good Friend Alicia Gettys and I left San Diego and headed to Blythe California to visit the Roman's and meet aspen!

We got stopped on the way there at a border patrol station to ensure

that we were actually legal Americans! This is actually the kind of place rocky works occasionally.

Andrea looked great already and their apartment was awesome!

Aspen is so cute! It was fun to meet her and get to hold the first little roman!

As you can clearly see in the photo, I was a big hit with aspen. You can tell she

was having a hard time containing her excitement to meet me!

While we were in Blythe, Alicia and I tried to go for a walk. It was so hot,

I think over 110 degrees, so we headed back to the Roman's apartment.

We decided to go bathing(yes not swimming), because the pool was 97 degrees!

which still felt better than that awful heat. Unfortunately there were so

many dead bugs in the pool it made it hard to really enjoy the experience!

Here is me filling up the gas tank! Brian was kind enough to loan me his car for the trip because I doubt sincerely my Dewey car could have made the voyage!

Another highlight of the trip was some peach rings Alicia purchased as we were leaving San Diego. They melted in the car since nothing can survive that heat. However....you don't let good candy go to waste.....

You know you love the background music!

Two amazing little Boys!

So Thanks to Todd, Onjali, Mindy and Darrin(hereto referred to as big D), My nephews were born so close together that their parents decided to have a joint baby blessing. It was an amazing experience! They are both very special boys, and have amazing parents, and uncles(and aunts).

Kai Rae Patterson is on the Left and Owen James Pettingill is on the right.

This is Rochelle and I. It is hard to believe she has been in the famiy for over a decade now!

She is so much fun! She practically introduced the family to Board Games!

All the Pettingill Men

Big D and Myself. This guy is amazing! We are sol lucky to have him in the family. You might wonder why he isn't smiling. He told me just like Dwight, he doesn't show his teeth to anyone.
(if You are laughing you watch the office, if you watch the office and don't get it, you probably don't watch the Office enough, and finally if you don't watch the office you are ...retarded!!!)

Two of the greatest Examples in My life! My Brothers Trevor and Todd.

The Ladies and their little ones.

The Original 5.

Grandpa and Grandma Pettingill with Rylan.

Grandpa Chuck apparently tried to hide whenever I took pictures,

but I did catch him in this one on the right!

Some Random Super model who decided to party crash.

Also you will notice that Dan Grange was unable to attend!

He was sorely missed and we will hopefully see him soon!

The Boys

So I got to see all my nephews this weekend. It was a blast. Unfortunately I don't get to see them enough, which is probably my own fault for not traveling enough!

Carson is growing like a weed! He seems so tall now.


Beckett I have decided is a lot like one of his uncles, very devious.
He i constantly tricking you wit cute smiles and pointing at things,
but when you look away....he is off into something he shouldn't be! Oh and in this picture he is wearing a volleyball shirt!



" THE Kai" is so dang cute. He is a lot of fun and still seems overly fond of his uncle!

Beckett is all smiles here with Anne.

He was a blast the whole weekend.

So this s embarrassing to admit, but this was the first time that I actually met Rylan. He was so much fun, always smiling and laughing, which I heard isn't always the case. He just must of really liked me, which doesn't surprise me. I find I connect really well with kids. We are just on the same level ;-)!

My nephew Owen!

Carson is such a good older brother. He was very helpful the whole weekend.

Beckett is pondering how to take over the world!

The Boys were a blast all weekend. I can't wait till they are older and we can play some sports!

Tribute to Addison and Evee Kate (The Two Cutest Girls in the World)

So I got to go to Utah for my nephews baby blessings and

while I was there I got to spend a lot of time with my nieces!

They were so much fun! Here is a few pictures of them

Addison Rolling down a grass hill.

Evee loves water. She kept trying to take her clothes off for some reason and she was crying like crazy when Todd had to redress her. Fortunately I offered her a cup of water and she immediately was smiling and wanted to water the trees!

Addison and I played checkers at the park. It was a pretty short game for a couple of reasons. First off we didn't have pieces, which apparently wasn't a problem because Addy said we could pretend. Secondly, her first two moves were to immediately move her pieces to become kings, (she said mine couldn't do that) About 3 moves later she informed me that she had won and asked if I wanted to play again!

On the 4Th, we went to a park to relax and there were some small rides.

Evee just loved the airplanes

Evee was so funny trying to put on her glasses.

She kept putting them on upside down.

Addy climbed on me for about an hour, with no breaks! She is so much fun!

The tough part was the random dives off me with no notice

and I was expected to anticipate them as well as catch her.

We were doing family pictures,

and I was able to get one with just the two Little girls!

A video of Evee:

A video of Addy on freedom and independence:

The Deep Blue Sea/15-17ft down in the ocean!!

At approximately 4:30 a.m. Pacific standard time(yes you read that correctly), We got out of bed to begin an amazing adventure. With roughly 25 minutes of pool diving experience, we embarked on a ocean scuba diving voyage.

(yup still dark outside)

Getting out from the house took a little bit of time due to some equipment issues, but we were eventually on the road. When we arrived at the beach it was light outside overcast.

Brian was paticuarly excited about his gloves.

First off you might notice the powerful knife in my right hand. Brian's father stated several times that I wouldn't need a knife. I on the other hand was confident that it was part of the complete scuba diving experience, so I of course insisted.

Here brian and his father were putting the final touches on the equipment.

Sharks and other undesireables beware!




And we made it back in one piece. If you look closely you will notice that in comparison with the other person in the picture(not singling anyone out). I am definitely picking up a tan in California.

Sorry that it is sideways but it is quite entertaining.