Poll Time!!!

OK, I know this is kinda dumb. Ive got this comming weekend off (Fri, Sat, Sun) and it will most likely be my last until December or so, since we should finally be going back to summer schedule at work. Now here's the dilemma. We were originally going to go to Twin Falls, ID to the new temple open house, got tickets and everything. But I was also thinking San Diego because we have Seaworld passes good untill the end of the year. My heart says Seaworld, but my head and wallet say Twin Falls (actually the wallet says stay home, but I'm done listening to him). So I need your help. Which one would you do? OK, Twin Falls is closer (250 miles), has a uplifting spiritual experience, and is closer (I know I mentioned that already, but I wanted 3 good things about TF and could only think of 2). But on the downside, TF is, well, in Idaho. It is close enough that we could come back same day if we get bored enought and do something else Saturday and Sunday. San Diego is more funner, has more funner stuff, and has Tijuana near by (donkey show?), but its much further away (about 600 miles each way) which hurts even more with $4.50 gas, and it also has Tijuana near by (guess I could fill up in TJ for $2/gallon and wait at the border for 3 hours to come back in). Also, if you dont like any of those options, suggest your own, but don't say come to Phoenix cause its too damn hot. Just leave your choice in the comment so I dont have to decide.

Devin.

How we gonna kick it, gonna kick it root down!

Hi, Devin again. I know probably anyone who reads this (the 2 or 3 of you) don't know that I am Basque. To be honest, not too long ago neither did I. Already, I know you are saying to yourself, "what the hell is Basque". Well, that's what I would say to myself. I know most of you don't swear as much as I do (though IMO, hell isn't swearing). The Basques are from northern Spain and southern France (from what I've discovered, I'm from the Spanish part), and you can learn so much more on Wikipedia than I can ever tell you myself. Anyways, my parents came up this weekend, which just happened to be, besides July 4th, the annual National Basque Festival (and parade) in Elko, NV, about 180 miles from us. To be honest, it was a much smaller event than the website made it out to be, and I didn't get to see the weightlifting or lumberjack competitions because Cameron was screaming and Amy had a migraine and was being a not very nice girl, so we had to leave early. But what we see was really cool and wants to make me find out more about my heritage (maybe it will get me working on my genealogy again).

This is a pic I took of Cameron in a little beret I bought for him. I thought I'd go artsy and make it black and white.






Another cute one of Cam my dad got. Love the filthy face. It really stands out in this one.







Collin in his beret. Once again, in a artsy sepia tone.







Tessa in her sunglasses. I guess being almost 7 and a 2nd grader make you too cool for a silly hat.






Children in traditional Basque clothing in the parade. Just after this, they did a little dance. Sorry for the not close up shot, I had the short lens on.





Some more dancing by the older dancers, this one was a dance that was done to sell fish at the market the announcer said. Interesting. Once again, sorry for the crappy shot. I had the zoom lens on and I think I zoomed too much.




I've got plenty more bad pictures where those came from. All of my pictures are viewable on flickr in their unorganized and untagged goodness. I've never got around to properly organizing them, what with all the Counterstrike and Diablo 2 I've been playing a work lately. To keep weirdos from glancing into our lives, if you want to see them, leave a note or email Amy or me and we will send you our flickr info.

Home alone...

Well, since nobody's done this in a while, Ill give it a shot. Amy and the kids are in AZ at the moment, leaving me home alone for Father's Day with my Father's day Present, a PS3 and MGS4. Guess who's not putting on pants and playing video games all day on the couch...

Bad Day

It's been a bad day. No, it's more than that...it's been a HORRIBLE day. Cameron woke up in the night with vomit everywhere and has continued this cycle for a while. Then Devin couldn't find his wallet and he thinks he might have left it in his truck. Of course, it's not there. His passenger door was unlocked and not closed tightly, different than normal. I still tried to hope for the best, until I went to take the trash out and found his ice scraper on the side where his passenger door was. So yes, I believe it was stolen.

He has spent all morning calling credit card, bank, DMV etc to get everything cancelled. He filed a police report and put a fraud alert on his credit report. *sigh* long day and it isn't even 11am yet. I really hope that everything turns out well, but with his social security card in there, I don't know. He will go get another drivers license today during his lunch break and then we can see about the social security card.

Luckily he only carries one credit card in there, so that one was easy to cancel and he didn't have too many people to call. Of course, his debit card was in there too, so I will have to get him some money until his new one shows up...oh yeah, and another wallet! Dang it, he liked that one. *sigh*

Twilight Series

I'm not usually a book review person. I love reading, but don't do it often. However, I finally caved and bought the Twilight book while in AZ. I read it in 1 1/2 days and was hooked. Thanks to Lexi, I am now obsessed. I read the other 2 books in a day each and have since read them all at least once more, if not more. I agree with Lexi's review that the 2nd one dragged in the middle since I am apparently a vampire girl too!

So I am one of the obsessed. I am glad I'm not as bad as some though. I was looking on Etsy and saw someone that makes wood block things with quotes from the book. Silly, but cute.

I am excited to read the 4th book (I already pre-ordered in through Amazon, so it should arrive by August 4th). I was really excited to go to Stephenie Meyer's website and read the first chapter of the Midnight Sun book that is the book written through Edward's view rather than Bella's. I can't wait to read that one either.

New Camera!

I am so excited to be getting my new camera tomorrow! I can't wait. Devin bought it for me (using money I made writing!) so I will be the owner of a Nikon D40. I am too excited, I can't wait to start taking pictures with it. So hopefully I will get some great shots up here soon.

Free Photoshop

Adobe is now offering a free online PhotoShop! You sign up for an account at www.photoshop.com/express and get 2GB of free storage space for your pics plus some fun features to edit your photos. Have fun with it!

New Bikes

Contessa & Collin got new bikes Monday! They were very excited and are doing well on the bigger sizes. We were supposed to be buying Devin a bike, but ended up with bikes for the kids instead. Poor Cameron wanted one so bad! It's kinda funny to watch him try to get on Collin's. Maybe next time we will find something to fit him.

I will post pictures when I find my camera!

Cameron the Star!

Our local paper comes out once a week on Wednesday's. Well, we had a community Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday and one of the reporters for the Ely Times asked if he could take a picture of Cameron. So I said he could, even though Cam had been crying (he had finally figured out what the egg hunt was all about and all the eggs were gone!)

So here is his picture in our paper. My baby is a star!

I'm such a procrastinator!

So I had 10 article to write this week, and then was asked to write 2 reviews for a new client. I did the reviews since I knew the other articles weren't due til Sunday. My new client then asked for 4 articles on Wednesday. So I got 3 of those done when he asked me to write another review.

I procrastinated way too much. It is now Saturday night and I have gotten all but 1 article done for my new client, but I still have 4 more for my original client that are due tomorrow! So what am I doing, blogging and watching tv. AAAHHH! I have issues.

But if I hadn't procrastinated tonight, I wouldn't have seen the tv show I talk about in the next post! So I guess that's good.

Anyway, I am heading back to work right now...now...here I go...I'm going...okay, really I am going to get back to writing my articles...now