A few pictures from our trip a couple weeks ago! Below is a slideshow, and then below that is a gallery to click on a picture to see it really big.
…And I’m getting kinda tired of wordpress. I just typed a whole bunch of captions and then they didn’t appear in the slideshow or the gallery, and just now when I checked my photo library I found that they’re all deleted. So, enjoy these pictures. Without any explanations of what’s going on. Harrumph.
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Here’s Gavin near a few chimpanzees at the San Diego Zoo. I can’t tell which is which!
What a fun boy. The three of us had a great trip to San Diego. More to come.
Today’s my birthday. It’s been the best. Yeah I turned 30, what’s it to you? haha
To celebrate my birthday on Friday, a group of us at work went to 5 Star BBQ Company in Orem for lunch. Delicious.
On Saturday we had a bunch of people over for ice cream and Nintendo and general birthdaying. Wicked awesome.
Today Rebecca made me a huge breakfast and gave me presents. I got Portal 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Inception 2, and Pajama Pants 2.* She also made this really cool photo mosaic of Gavin, with one of my favorite photos of him. I’ll post a picture of it sometime, you’ll have to see it.
Around noon I was feelin’ a bit hungry, so I opened the fridge and…
Hey look, a sandwich
One of my birthday wishes was to walk up to the fridge at whatever time (probably lunch), open the door, and find a rad sandwich just sitting there, waiting for me to eat it. My wish came true.
Pictured: Heaven.
There’s even bacon, lettuce, tomato on it. Yes.
And to celebrate my birthday, Gavin ate his first Oreo.
It was a great few days. I’m typing all of this quickly but I think I covered most of everything. Thanks to everyone who helped make my birthday special, especially my lovely hot darling wife–love you babe! XO
*There isn’t really an Inception 2, so, hardee har har. But this is my 2nd pair of pajama pants, so the 2 applies everywhere else.
Thanks! Later.
Here’s a copy-n-pasted email I got today at work. Let me know if you’re interested or have more questions. I work at VitalSmarts, and we’re developing a new 1-day training product based on our new book, Change Anything.
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Subject: Default Future Videos
Hey Team,
We’re looking for a handful of people to participate in a handful of default future videos for the Change Anything website and we’d like to enlist your help!
We’re looking for people who have a long-standing bad habit or behavior that contributes to poor results in their life. The only thing we’d like to capture on video is their default future statement, or what will their future look like if they are unable to change their behavior. We’re particularly interested in in 4 categories:
Career (ex. If I can’t learn to hold my tongue when things get tense in meetings, I’ll be passed over for that promotion and eventually be shown the door.)
Finance: (If I can’t curb my spending, we’re going to lose the house.)
Relationship: (If we don’t figure out a better way to discuss our marital problems, divorce just seems inevitable.)
Addiction: (If I continue smoking, lung cancer is likely in my future and I may never live to see my grandkids)
Please let me know if you, a family member, or friend would be interested in participating. This is a great chance to help on the new site and hopefully to help thousands of others visit their default future in order to kick-start the desire to change. We’re also offering the the interviewee a $100 gift card to Amazon for their time, and we’ll give you, the finder, a free lunch at Malawis Pizza.
We’re hoping to shoot these early next week, so act fast if you’re interested. Please email me with any candidate suggestion by Monday the 28th.
Thanks!
Gavin has a history of not sleeping well sometimes. So, when he does something like take a really long nap, I’m relieved, then excited, then curious, and then suspicious. What’s his angle? “He’s still asleep,” I’ll say to Rebecca. “What’s he doing? What’s he up to?”
(While we’re on the subject, I’ll just quickly mention that one of the things he’s been up to for the past few weeks is sleeping a little bit better and better every day. I can type that because I don’t believe in jinxes, even though I feel like I need to give something like a disclaimer statement that mentions jinxes when I type such good news about something that’s been such a fragile struggle. More on that later.)
Anyway, all I really need you to know is that Gavin’s been up to a lot lately, so click here to check it out. Yay for Gavin! We love him so much.
His bottom lip is missing in some of these but don’t worry we found it afterward.
Pictured: Sickies
We all got pretty sick within a few days of each other. Gavin was sick from Sunday on. Wednesday was pretty rough for all of us. We’re all feeling much better now. Go fight win!
Watch this video I helped make! Just in time for November/December what-have-you.
I found a webcomic that I really enjoy and want to recommend. Here are links to a bunch of my favorites.
http://buttersafe.com/2008/10/09/goodbye/
http://buttersafe.com/2009/06/16/let-it-burrito/
http://buttersafe.com/2009/06/11/lumberjack-jim/
http://buttersafe.com/2009/04/23/rocks-on-my-head/
http://buttersafe.com/2009/04/21/ninja-cat/
http://buttersafe.com/2007/08/16/suspense/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/01/15/mr-magnetic-blood/
(love the doctor giving the “thumbs down”)
http://buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/04/03/spider-flakes/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/06/10/great-neighbors/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/04/17/the-new-pet/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/02/21/catch/
http://buttersafe.com/2007/07/19/confidence/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/01/03/professional-ghost-hunting/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/03/25/waiting-in-line/
http://buttersafe.com/2007/05/15/snail-mail/
http://buttersafe.com/2010/10/07/get-over-it/
http://buttersafe.com/2010/10/05/growth-spurt/
http://buttersafe.com/2010/08/26/what-it-means-to-be-alive/
http://buttersafe.com/2010/07/22/the-essence-of-being-human/
http://buttersafe.com/2010/06/17/the-ol-flower-pocket/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/06/12/ducks/
http://buttersafe.com/2008/04/22/this-is-for-you/ (Christmas is just around the corner…)
http://buttersafe.com/2010/02/25/the-prognosis/
http://buttersafe.com/2010/02/18/crew-vs-crew/
http://buttersafe.com/2010/01/19/life-on-the-desert-island/
http://buttersafe.com/2010/02/23/ben-franklin-at-the-dentist/
Gavin is always sneaking around our house and surprising us. What’s he up to this time?
Would you spell Binky with a Y or IE?
This was a couple of weeks ago. We recently bought a new camera, and it has a “continuous shooting” function, and that’s probably not what it’s called, and I’m too lazy to look up the actual term right now, but anyway it can take a bunch of pictures in rapid succession if you hold down the shutter button. So, I was playing around with that feature and managed to catch shots of Gavin spitting out his binky. Above is the “before,” and here’s the “after.”
Ha! We love this boy.
Bread, turkey, mustard, melted cheese, dill pickle, salsa, salt, pepper, fried egg.
Yum!
See this post for the details.
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What do you think? I liked this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38730223/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/
