After a long day of meetings my boss talked me into riding this schooner.  You know, like a big sail boat. It was a sunset cruise.  The kind where they provide the drinks, or in our case, soda.  The lady didn’t want to give me my drink ticket because I didn’t look 21. It turned […]

Wednesday nights are all sorts of fun these days as we’ve learned all kinds of tricks hanging from beautiful silk ribbons.        

Well as many of you know, about a week ago I took an adventure on my bike. I was just trying to buy my stupid xbox controller for a class while getting my car’s safety and emissions done (we are now starting to develop games for xbox live). So as I was coming back to […]

Well our grand Hawaii vacation is winding down. We’re trying not to – though. Today proved the best day yet. First off we totally slept in until 9:00. Man it felt good – it was definitely a change from the typical 6:30 – 7:00 we have been holding the entire week (we are trying to […]

Another day in paradise…well actually it was a freaking frigid paradise. We woke up at 5:15 and drove to Hanauma Bay – arriving just before sunrise. I guess they didn’t care who comes or goes that early, since they let us in for free. Free parking, free entrance – and we didn’t even have to […]

Well it is not really day three, but the third post of our totally awesome Hawaii trip, and boy was today a good one. To preface, it must be said that Waikiki is a pain in the butt. Traffic, big city, one way roads…it just sucks. With that being said we missed our boat tour […]

Well more pictures for today. We spent a lot of time hiking through the jungle, swinging from vines (Bree appeased me in this regard), and jumping off of waterfalls into pools of leptospirosis-infested water. A pretty good day, but we are freaking beat. Miss Bree got eaten alive. And she froze her butt off in […]

Well I’m not going to say much now, but we are having an awesome time in Hawaii. I know they say it is good, and that the waves are realky big, but you never really get it until you show up.  Anyway, a few shots from our “Beach Club” and the north shore…

Despite a rather crazy schedule, we had a great holiday week together.  One of the traditions we decided we wanted to start with our new family was to remember to give service around Christmas.  We planned a trip to the Utah Food Bank to volunteer sorting food for family night on Monday. Sorting turkeys… Ben […]

Well Bree dragged me along to an aerial dance class.  During finals week.  Well, she didn’t drag me but more casually invited me to go.  Being the devoted husband that I am, I tagged along.  I got there about 20 minutes before Bree and Megan Barrick, so a little uncomfortable?  Yes.  It turns out though […]

A bunch of our favorite people decided to participate in the Angel Tree program this year instead of swapping gifts.  Not everyone could join us at the mall, but we did have donations from everyone! We were told the biggest need this year was for coats and shoes, so we set off to make our […]

Saturday was Ben’s extended family’s annual graham cracker house event.  We had a blast, even though we were a little bit late.   Power tools + graham cracker houses= serious business. The finished product!  The drill was totally worth it!