catch up or Ketchup

It has been a few weeks so I wanted to catch things up a bit.  We have had several visitors the last few weeks.  Below are some pictures of Joseph and Mom feeding the ducks.  The first night joseph tried to feed them rocks, they didn't like that.  When we came back with bread the next day he was their best friend.

We has some plums and pears that we wanted to preserve so we cut them up and dried them.  It kind of looks like swedish fish on the tray.

Last weekend sarah and i went on a camp-out adventure.  On our way there we stopped into a little mexican grocery store.  It was funny to see they had pictures of the cow you were buying.  It kind of made me laugh.

After camping out we headed up the road to Rim rock lake Here is a link to the location.  We got some nice photos

Hope you enjoyed this ketchup

deschutes

So we went to the deschutes river yesterday and had a great time.  Its a 14 mile stretch of class 2, 3, and 4 rapids.  Sarah was brave on her sit on top.  I watch one wave take her off back wards.  Here are some photos and a short video

These are some waterfalls further down stream we didn't run them

Sarah and Ben

Thats not a banana on top of my car, but rather my canoe.

If you watch the first part of the video close i go over a 3-4 foot drop.  And my canoe disappears for a few moments. (less than a second)

Here is a picture cut out of the video where the canoe is clear under the water.

Hoover Dam

I got to go the hoover dam yesterday. It was way fun because my company presidents cousin works there so we go the private tour. I have pictures of the trail we walked on going there that looks over lake mead. I was on a the trail where they used to have a rail road to move stuff to the dam. we walked through tunnels that you will see on the pictures, they were really neat. One part i really like was floors in the dam. I took a few pictures as you will see. They are all granite pieces that two Italian guy put in when the dam was being built.  I was surprised to learn the dam only cost 49 million to build.  But that was in the 1930's.  I also have a few pictures of the bypass highway bridge that is being built.  It is really big.  Hope you enjoy the pics.

hair cut!

so i was in desperate need of a hair cut.  Just before i cut it (i like to cut my own) Sarah said, don't give yourself a mullet.  She said it wouldn't look good on me.  With that introduction i give you my new hair cut.

I think it turned out really good.  What do they say business in the front party in the back!  Now that i know you think i am crazy i will show you how the rest of my hair cut turned out

not to bad eh?

project for my mother

i worked on a project for my mother and i thought i would share, i am getting a little better with photo shop.  I also made this page heading for my wife's music studio, that she can use on stationary and such.  (For legal purposes i don't claim any rights on these photos and although i did change them more than required by the laws i have read, one of the images used was not open source photo, so i only used part of it.  And i have not sold or profited from them in anyway)

Funny crossword

So for this online class I am taking i have to do some crossword puzzles.  I am not good at these things and would take a word search or writing a paper over these things.  I did find a good help though, even though as you see it dosen't work that good.  At dictionary.com you can enter the clue and how many letters long it is and it gives you possible answers.  When i saw this answer i laughed rather hard.  Check out this clue and the first possible word be low the add.

Can you believe that, Taxes, how is that needed for life.  It made me laugh either way.

So i guess i am getting good at making these slide show things, it seems to be quicker at least for me.  So i thought i would write a run down of whats in this show. First are some pictures of the light parade sarah and i were in for lions club.  Next is some pictures of our christmas eve and acting out the nativity.  Sarah was an angel, literally and figuratively.  And you may see some pictures of our friends.  He was just called to be our new bishop.  Next is christmas day, and we had a really good one!  After that are two pictures of us geocaching.  I got sarah a gps in hopes that she would first go geo caching with me and second let me use it on occasion.  So far both have proved to be true.  So thats an update.  PS i don't know if you like my new back ground or not but, i made it out of a picture i took, i kind of like it.

hello world

I haven't written in a very long time, so I thought I would play a little catch up. Things are going well. I was called in the young mens presidency in are ward, (sarah was called in the young womens) and we were called to work as temple workers. We really enjoy it. Sarah and I had a really nice christmas, we didn't go back to idaho, so it was just us. We spent time with another family from our ward. We missed not being with family, but well be back some day. I always thought it would be fun for go geo catching, so I searched for several months and finally found a deal on ebay, and got a gps, that i gave to sarah for christmas. We went yesterday, and had so much fun. We found two catches, but we couldn't find the third one we looked for, we think someone may have taken it. I will post pictures later. Today I would like to pull the those who are reading this about my new blog design. I have found out about photoshop for mac and have had some fun. The background comes from a picture i took in McCall. My question is which banner do you like better, the one that currently there, or this one?

The current one is made up of stuff i like to do, Let me know what you think. PS Happy New Year!

Trip to McCall

This is a slide show of the pictures I took while at MedMans company meeting.  Theres one really cool one and a bunch that are ok.  These are on the samon river.

Augustish

So i haven't written for a month.  Things have become a little crazy but i have some pictures to show for it.  At work the manager of the surgery center left for a new job, so it left me to manage it as well as the clinic.  It has kept me pretty busy, good news is that i am really only in charge for a week and a few days.  It can be a little challenging due to the fact there 25 miles apart.  So it puts me on my motorcycle quite a bit.  In two months i have put almost 5000 miles on my bike.  They have a biker association called the "iron butt"  I see where the name comes from.  To join it you have to ride one of their certified rides, the shortest of which is called Saddle Sore, its 1000 miles in 24 hours.  So now a little about the pictures you are seeing.  This had pictures from Sarah's graduation. Someone backed into my jeep and took out the tail light while sarah was at an appointment.  The pictures so a before and after of the repair job.  Sarah kissing some animals (oh dear or Oh DEER).  A trip to a national forest where we saw petrified wood.  They also had some indian paintings on the rocks. pictures from our trip back to idaho (people grand teton, jackson, others).  And pictures from our float in the parade, my car, for my work and the both for the day in the park.  And last but not least pictures from the temple. We went yesterday.