For those of you only familiar with me, Daniel, let me introduce you to my family.
My wonderful wife Jennifer, Megan our 12 year old,
Connor who is 9, and our
6 year old Mallory.
We have a dog Hearty.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
The Fardig's as oldy and olderton
The Freeman's as well if you don't know who they are dressed as someone should punch you in the throat and take away the remote...
The Moore's wish they could travel back in time - I bet Jon would take state...
Our work has been trying to earn Mammoths business for a while now. We want to print their lift passes, so on a whim he threw out the idea of heading up there to try and win their business. It was going to be a mancation, but we decided to bring the wives. I'm glad we did, it was so much fun to be up there with out the kids (thank you Courtney for watching our gang). I hope you enjoy the photos, as much as I had taking them...
We got to see Radiohead this year! It was fantastic, the setlist was awesome! They played all my favorites, and from what I hear, the Monday night show was better than the night before... Jenny and I had a great time, thanks to Courtney for watching the kids.
Reckoner - opening song!
Radiohead was fantastic, I'll post the video links shortly...
I took Connor camping this past weekend. I was going up with the kids from Church. We had a good time, but I had to drive far too slow on the mountain roads... Connor almost barfed...
Connor's favorite pose - standing on a tree stomp as he likes to call them...
He found an extremley large pine cone that had "sharps" all over it. He said "We meed to take this home to show mom" - meed is of course need, but that's how he says it...
Megan's first day of 3rd grade was Wednesday the 13th. She of course was a little nervous, but very excited! I still can't believe I have an 8 year old daughter! I love it!
When we pulled into the parking lot, Connor asked how would he get out of the car with his back pack on... I told him that you are supposed to put the backpack on out side, he laughed and said, of course! I couldn't get out of the car fast enough! Connor was out of the car and up the side walk by the time I locked the car.
Just waiting for the teaching to begin!
Listen closely to how Connor answers my question of what he is doing today...
For the past week I've been threatening Connor that I would tie his tooth to a string, then tie that string to the car, and drive away with his tooth - he didn't like that idea at all.
So today he wiggled it till it started to bleed, so I yanked it out for him.
Here he is calling his mother to tell her all about it.
I mean, Jenny likes to run! The past year Jenny has slowly worked her way up to running 5 or 6 miles a night - about 3 or 4 times a week. Now she thinks she is cool (cooler than I am) and she has started running in some fun runs around the area. Today she bested her time by 5 min, and even beat Aaron my sisters husband by a few seconds.
Jenny's New Year resolution to have more fun in 2008 is really working out. She committed to seeing more live concerts this year, and we are making the most of it. We went to see Jimmy Eat World play at the Vine Theater, it was fantastic - the Vine is a small venue and we had an excellent view point. Dear and The Headlights opened up for them again, they sound good, not sure if they are my style though.
You know with a double chin like that, it has to be good.
You know I'm cool!
We were about 50ft from the stage, it was fantastic!
I was able to spend a week in Zion - July 12th to the 18th. It was beautiful to say the least. I went with the young men of our ward, we had 10 boys on the trip and 8 leaders... Enjoy the photos...
Jenny and I had fantastic seats at the Hollywood Bowl again - section 212 in the Garden boxes. If it sounds like I'm bragging, well I am - there's not much I can brag about other than the kids, so when we get killer seats to a show like this - I must flaunt it in every one's face...
If you are a fan of R.E.M. check out the set list here - Murmurs
I was able to record 1 song before my camera died - I wish I would have recorded the opening song, as it was a song I asked them to play in a small venue once and after I yelled it out Peter Buck yelled back no... Any who - I recorded another song off their first album "Murmur" called "Sitting Still"
If you don't already know, Jenny and my sister Sarah are CRAZY for anything Stephenie Meyer... They both have read the Twilight series of books too many times to count, and seek for any new info on Twilight Moms website... The cool thing is that they were able to go see some of the movie sets, meet some of the actors, have a vampire bite their necks and baby, see ROB the guy playing Edward, and what ever her name is playing Bella, hang out with like minded women, meet the director, and most importantly meet the author and get multiple books signed...
It's been a while I know, but I have a great excuse... I was busy quiting my job and getting a new one...
Many of you know that I decided to leave Shimano last month, it was a hard decision. But I'm glad I made the move. I'm working for my good Friend Jeff. I will be selling printing and packaging goods. So far I'm ahead of schedule, I've opened 2 new customers, and I have about 8 on the table that I'm hopeful to move forward on by the end of June.
