It'll be back

Kristy emailed Blake and Kathy about growing a goatee and they said she can grow one as long as she keeps it trimmed. HA HA HA!

No, she asked them about me and I can finally grow my goatee back!

As long as I keep it trimmed and don't turn into a member of ZZ Top.

I'm excited and so is Becky.

Sean has a goatee

This morning began with an unwanted shave. I grew a goatee over the weekend and this morning had to shave it off.
There's been a rule change at work that some of us have been hoping for ever since we first started. I was going to just go to work but then decided to shave and patiently wait for the big announcement but I guess some people already heard it...

I hate you.


Gavin came in late, he's married now.
He tries to dodge the camera but I usually get his picture eventually, like in this shot when he was helping Sean rearrange the prints.




Oh, and one more thing.
Thomas, I ate some fish sticks today and they were high in potassium.

Boys

Brandi came by to take the kids to the park but it seems that Kayzin & Parker had more fun getting dirty in a mud puddle they found.

Photoshop, Photography and Zoolander

Attended a Creative Suite seminar today from 8:30am to 4pm.
Very educational. I learned all kinds of new tricks, like working with layers in InDesign, photo merging in Photoshop, the vanishing point filter, smart layers, smart filters, the 3D revolve effect in Illustrator and Bridge. It was great.

Then I drove around for a little while just looking for old buildings to shoot pictures of and caught this.


Then I picked up the kids and we went home.
In the evening I watched Zoolander. Funny movie! "I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is." - Derek Zoolander

Last Word

Parker had pizza for lunch and I get the crust. Parker doesn't like crust.




We spent the day at Mutti's place.
First we played House of Love for 2 hours. Pa's favorite cards are

Mutti in her green jacket and Gogo & Habib.

Then we played Last Word.

Cereals that start with the letter A. Avocado Flakes

Things that are heavy that start with O. Onions

Things in Egypt that start with the letter P. Persons

Things that cause anger and start with H. Hawaiian Punch

Things you can email that start with the letter E. Extra money

All about your bed starting with P? 

Getting Out

Shot this today on my little road trip with Thomas. Then I added the HDR effect. I've seen it used before and today I wanted to try it for myself.


We left from my place and stopped at a gas station to fill up.
If I choose to fill up the tank, I choose to eat a lot of Ramen.




I chose to fill the tank half way...
and then we were off.



For Jamie





For Mutti


and then we came upon this...

I'm not sure what happened here... but it looks like a safety hazard.

Jungle Gym

Thanks for building us the jungle gym Daddy.

Worn out

After last night's screening I pretty much crashed and fell asleep on the couch.

The Dark Knight

Thomas invited us to screen The Dark Knight with him. It was good, not as good as seeing it on IMAX, but still very good. It's Excellent on IMAX! Great movie. "I'm gonna make this pencil disappear" - Heath Ledger as The Joker

The Power of a Mustache

Sean came by today to inquire about his movie card and asked if I could update his photo. "Sure" I said.
I took his photo and it will look great on his movie card...



But with his great mustache he looks fantastic as The Rocker.

Meg 20

Drove to the Mega 20 to put up my concession image.

Home

Just spent the day at home relaxing. Played Oblivian, called Thomas, watched some old movies.

Wal-Mart

7Eleven

Today is FREE Slurpee day!
Left work an hour early today - was feeling very sick.
Once I got home I crashed and just slept.

MacGyver to the Rescue

Drove up to Mutti's today for some left-over Chinese food. On my way this made me think of her.


The Chinese food was great! While I was eating I heard this infernal hammering coming from the basement. At first I didn't think much of it because there's always something being fixed, hammered, rearranged, moved, demolished or boxed up.
Then Gogo came upstairs and said that Pops was trying to get into the downstairs bathroom that had been mysteriously locked from the inside. Hmmm? I thought to myself, 'Don't doors usually have a release switch on the inside of the door knob?', but then again this is probably some kind of New & Improved door knob that no longer has that feature, because Pops would've surely checked for that before banging the door to death.
The knocking continued on and on and then all the Chinese food was gone and still the banging continued on...
I figured he still wasn't able to get into the bathroom door and his rage was probably rising. By this time I was really curious about this new and improved impenetrable door and had to see if he had started with a blow torch yet. Right as I came down the stairs he was lifting the door off it's hinges. As the door was leaning against the wall I asked him why he didn't just use a toothpick. He said he tried and it didn't work. I took my Swiss Army knife from my pocket and pulled out the toothpick. Sure enough, after 3 seconds the lock popped open. "Well I guess that was the freshest waste of the day."
Pops was stunned and wanted to immediately know how I was able to unlock the door with my plastic toothpick. He learned something today and like he always says, "Knowledge is Power."

Photos for today

Going to Grandma's House



Owen is excited to see Parker!