Fun in Utah

One event that was planned for this annual summer trip to Utah to see the Family was the Sealing of Brad and Dana (Brad is Liz's brother). It was mid morning at the Mt. Timpanogas Temple. I have to say that it is a beatiful temple and with sun shinning through the windows, it was even better. One of the coolest things, though, was that I got to be one of the witnesses. I felt very honored (though I don't know if they had any special reason, but I'll take it anyways!)

As always I like to have my camera out and screw around. I captured several nice pictures, but this series is my favorite and you will see why. This is my nephew Eddie and he is 2. He always has this blank/curious look, so I started to take pictures . . . . . .

I guess he thought that I needed a better picture and decided to "scratch his brain" . . .

Once he obtained a treasure you can see he heavily contemplated what to do with it . . . .

And you guessed it! "Hmm. . . It's a little salty." :)
Good ol' Eddie

Warning, Dangerous Virus!!!

The word has just started to spread about the next dangerous computer virus. Its said to have no fix and no way of stopping it. When it attacks it drenches your data to the point of no recognition. The say it is a "data eater" so beware of any supicous activity.

Its called the

Morgan Virus!!!!

(Don't worry, no data was actually lost in this "simulation" of the virus, but beware.....)

Besides, who uses floppy disks anymore :)

Morgan VS The Pig

So every night I get the job of playing with Morgan and getting her ready for bed. Typically that consists of holding her and making faces and then changing her diaper and dressing her in her PJs so she can eat and go to bed. Well she has become more active and energetic so it takes more to make her "tired." So this is the result of one night with her pig (a gift from her Daddy) but it was too cute, so check it out :)

To see her Jumping Check out Liz's Blog.

Photos

One of my new hobbies is actually one of many things that I have always wanted to do but never did due to . . . , well, who knows. In high school I always wanted to take a Photography class but never did. I learned a little about it when I worked for City4 TV in Show Low (now mind you this station has grown and changed a lot in the last 8 years, in fact we were basically in a closet. But because of it I did get paid to go to my own graduation) during my Senior year, but most of the stuff was for video but applies to stills. The summer of 2007 I got to play with Alison's (my sister-in-law) camera and that sparked it. By Thanksgiving I had Liz convinced and we bought a new camera! :) It is a Canon Rebel XTI which is an entry level SLR. I won't go into the equipment more than that for now. But I love taking pictures and playing with the different settings. I hope to take some classes soon.

This picture I was playing around with depth of field at my parents while my dad was irrigating. At first I thought it was odd, but it gave the effect I was after. Then after I looked at with Liz and my sister Stephi I realized I actually liked it. I even water marked it :)

This Picture is from a Saturday trip on the light rail into downtown Phoenix. This is the water fountains at the Arizona Center (which is really cool, its like a small garden/park in the middle of several buildings). I actually had to use Photoshop to take out a leg of one of her brothers, can you tell?

Now this one I did not take (thus I did not watermark it) but we do own the copyright to it with our photographer Mark Loper who I met years before we got married when he did pictures for our family. He is awesome and a really great guy. He was a lot of help with our wedding because that is what he specializes in. Anyway he took the photo. I just pulled it into Photoshop and played with the colors and Liz wanted me to post it (I think she like to remember the day that the world revolved around her, which of course everyday since has:) she is so beautiful!)

Music

I added a lot more music (at the bottom of the page). You can scroll through it. These are just some of my favorites. Let me know what you think and if you have any good ones to add! Also let me know if I have any that have any inappropriate words or themes, some are from back in high school and I may have missed something in it. Thanks.

I also figured that I could take a minute to show some of the things that I have done since I started this blog but haven't taken the time to do so. For starts I built us (me) a new computer.

As you can see I was neat freak and covered all of the cables is wire wrap to keep it clean. The fans is the case have blue lights (not really by a choice of mine, I'm not really into that, but it was standard, but now it is growing on me).

The system is complete. The cost of parts was a little over $1000 but it was fun and well worth it. In basic it has :

• EVGA motherboard and video card.
• Intel Quad Core Processor.
• 4Gb OCZ Ram.
• 500GB Seagate Hard drive.
• LG DVD burner
• A built in card reader for camera memory cards

I love that case, it is well ventilated, the front is nothing but a screen so I have no heat issues at all. I also added a 200GB Seagate drive as a storage drive for my crap (as Liz calls it). I just think it look slick :)

Blog Changes

I guess I should take some time to post, since I have not done so since I created this Blog. Though I don't think that I will be changing the format too much I added a weekly quote section that I am hoping to change out every week. I have quite a few quotes and thoughts in several note books that I have collected over the years. I hope to share them with anyone who wants to take the time to read them. Some of them are pretty popular, some less known, and some I have no idea where they came from. But this is the hope.