I get it

I found this funny.

Life is what we think it is.

I found this talk to be very interesting. If you have 15 minutes, you should watch it.
I really liked the Chesterton quote: "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders." Brilliant.

Spicy Chicken

Dilbert

This is funny. (We are all doing well. More on that later.)

Broken DVD

A few weeks ago my DVD player started acting funny. It would only play movies backwards. This is what happened.

Slow pictures

July has been a slow month for pictures. I have been busy with work. We have been busy getting our house ready to sell. Here is one picture of each child.
Thank you.

Wedding

I mentioned in my last post that I shot my sister at her wedding. I have posted the pictures. You can see all of them on my Picasa Web Album, or you can see my favorite ones on my Flickr account.
Thank you.

Ancillary pictures

My sister Amanda became married last week. She married a really fine young man. I took pictures at the wedding. I will post some of the wedding pictures in a short while. Meanwhile, I have some ancillary pictures from festivities.
Goodday.

Keep checking

Keep checking on my web album for June. I have regularly been updating it.
Recently I have acquired some new photo equipment, including some lighting stuff. I have been playing around with it, so check out the results. There are also pictures on my Flickr account that are not on Picasa (the web album above).
Thank you for your time.

Graduation and stuff

Aidan's Kindergarten graduation and other stuff.

Forthcoming

More pictures of the kids, especially the new one. Pictures of Aidan's kindergarten graduation.
All is well.

She's home

Baby Colette is home, safe and sound. She loves her new crib. Jenni is doing great.
I have added some more pictures to the slideshow.
Goodday.

Baby Colette

Here are some pictures of baby Colette. Keep checking back throughout the week as I will be adding plenty more pictures to the slideshow.
Updated: 10:45 am, Monday 5/11/09.
Updated: 1:30 pm, Monday 5/11/09.

She's here

Colette Anae Doan
Born: 12:15 pm, May 9, 2009
Stats: 7 lbs, 6 oz, 19 in
Mother: Doing well
Father: Waiting for the champagne
Thanks for the prayers
More pictures to follow
 
 

Making a music video

Setting: Glormorlux Production Studios, Des Moines, IA
Time: September 23, 1980

Director: All right people. Let's get started. We need to get this music video for Armi Ja Danny's near pop-hit "I want to love you tender" made soon. Where are we on the props?
Prop manager: Well, I have not heard the song, but since the group is from Finland, I thought we could go with a gazebo.
D: A gazebo?
PM: Let me finish. A gazebo . . . in space.
D: Niiice. I am liking that idea. We'll go Ziggy Stardust with this baby. Great! What kind of costumes will we have?
Costume maker: I too have not hear the song. But, I was thinking of going with a 50's sock hop theme. The dancers would be dressed in cheerleader uniforms for an all-boys prep school, and Danny and Armi can be dressed as the chaperone's.
D: No good. Armi insists on wearing his BeGees outfit.
CM: I think I can still make it work.
D: I am feeling it. Rocketman meets Grease. Groovy. What about the choreography?
Dance choreographer: Having not heard the song, I can't be sure how it will go. However, I have been working on a really fly routine that combines the Hokey-Pokey, a Hari Chrishna dance, with a mildly suggestive yet completely unoffensive disco step. I could even through a Rumba line and some Tai Chi in there.
D: Are you sure you have enough for the whole song? They tell me it is nearly three and a half minutes long.
DC: I can cover everything but about twenty seconds. But, no worries. We can have the dancers walk in front of the camera doing whatever feels natural.
D: Perfect. Oh! I almost forgot. Armi wants a really snazzy ending. Any ideas?
PM: We could have them ride off on unicorns.
CM: We could have them slide down a rainbow.
DC: We could have them floating off into space in the back of a '56 Chevy.
D: Winner! That will tie everything up with a American Grafitti finale. I like it. I like it alot. Folks, we are giving the world something they have never seen before. Go to it.

What's going on.

A great deal is happening in our house.
Jenni is 38 weeks pregnant and has been laboring mildly since Friday.
I am in the last 3 weeks of school.
I have a hernia and need an operation the next week or so.
Brothers, pray for us.

The Great Sand Dunes

Last week, I accompanied 14 students from my school and one other teacher on a 4 day camping trip to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. It was great fun, even though I was injured (more on that to come). Here are some of the pictures I took.
Goodday.

BTW

I did not come close to winning the photo contest of a few months ago. Thank you for your help anyway.

Where have all the pictures gone

Finally, pictures from Janebruarchil. Enjoy.