Birthdays

I've been thinking about birthday's a lot this week. I really feel like birthday's are a special time and you should be treated like a king or queen on your birthday. Perhaps the general consensus is that birthdays become less important as we get older, and become adults. But I disagree. I love it when people remember my birthday, and I love feeling like the day is full of selfish indulgences.

It's a day to remember what birthdays were like when you were a kid, full of cake, and balloons, and party hats. Even if you aren't having a party, hopefully you still get that feeling a little bit. To all my friends near and far HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I might not be able to call, or send gifts or bake you goodies, but in my heart I'm thinking about you.

I have some ideas of how I can be a better friend on your special day, even if we aren't in touch as much as we'd like to be....I can't tell you what my ideas are, because that would ruin the surprise! So instead, I'm asking you to email me your current mailing addresses. Many of you have moved, and I've been bad about keeping my information up to date. Sooooooo....if you are reading my blog - email me and send me your mailing address!

And if you've had a birthday recently that I've missed -- this blog is for you!

Abbie Warnock does it again

Abbie did some more portfolio shots of Lakin and Stetson's senior pics. She was wonderful, as always. I think that I got the short end of the stick when it comes to the gene pool in my family! ;)

Lakin is 16, and Stetson is 18

Meet Lulu

During our stay in Guatemala at the Villa Maya, the hotel that was in the center of an ecological preserve, we met Lulu.



She is a wild howler monkey that usually appears around breakfast time. I watched her jump up on the table and steal the food off of plates! She also ran off with the sugar bowl once or twice.

The other cool thing about Lulu, is that she is a mom! The baby monkey was so cute, I just couldn't stop taking pictures of him.

Hair is a big deal

For those of you who know Zach, you by default know the hair. The entire time that I've known Zach he's had long hair. I'm definitely not complaining, he rocked the long locks! However, for everybody else (especially the folks in my family back in Utah), Zach's hair has been sort of a big deal. So when he decided to go in for a trim at a little Guatemalan barber shop, I was surprised. The hair cutter guy didn't speak any English, and Zach speaks even less Spanish than I do - so when Zach turned down my translation services and opted to go it alone, I was skeptical.

I sat in the waiting area watching the discovery channel (dubbed in Spanish of course). They were doing a special on tiger sharks, so I was sucked in. I looked over at Zach during a commercial break and .....wouldn't you know it. After more than 10 years with long hair, he now has the shortest hair he's had since his mission.

After lots of giggling by both of us, and little bit of 'what was I thinking' from Zach, we got over the initial shock. I like the new do, and I think he's pretty okay with it too. What can I say, he's hot no matter what his hair looks like!











...and just in case you can't remember - here's a before picture:

Can you see the crocodile?

Well, we just got home from Guatemala. What an adventure! I'm working on getting some of the pictures up, but I was so excited about these - I just had to post them!

We stayed at a hotel in the middle of an ecological preserve in the rain forest, all the animals, birds, and creepy crawly things were free to roam around. Definitely not like a zoo, where everything is caged.

Can you see the crocodile?















Yep, he's pretty well camouflaged, but if you look closely you can see his eyes peeping out. Here is a closer look:















It's hard to tell from the picture, but he was about 6-8 feet long. Look how brave I am....standing next to the crocodile in the wild!















We had such a great time and I learned and saw SO much. I can't wait to tell you all about it, check back for the travel scrapbook soon!

TV and Movies Online

Okay, I'll admit it. I like TV, and I have my favorite series just like everyone else. However, I usually don't have a lot of time to watch TV, so when I do it is when I'm not home or when my TV is occupied by video gamers! I seem to get a lot of people asking me how to find their shows to watch online, so here it is....

Here are a few sites that I use that stream TV Series, Movies, etc from a web browser, so it doesn't matter if you have a Mac or a PC.

ABC - Lost, Grey's Anatomy
CBS - CSI, Moonlight
NBC - Heros, The Office, Scrubs

Hulu
Fancast
SideReel
TvLiveShows
SurfTheChannel
TVLife
QuickSilverScreen
Cucirca
TVLinkVault
AllUC


If you just have to, HAVE to see the second part of Grey's Anatomy season finally and you can't find it anywhere else, you can check this list. Typically not as good of a selection, but sometimes you can find what you are looking for:


PeekVid
ReelTime - Kinda like an online version of Netflix, doesn't work on Macs though.
WatchTVShows
Veoh

If you STILL can't find what you are looking for, try the other links posted on this site.

Peru Scrapbook

Yay! It's finally finished. After weeding through over 1000 pictures that Erika and I brought back from Peru, I've finally finished the scrapbook. It doesn't look as cool as all the other scrapbooks that I've done, I might need to go back in and add some backgrounds and embellishments (all you scrapbookers know what I'm talking about). And I should warn you that it's long - really long. However, it's better than just looking at a slide show of pictures, right? I mean at least the scrapbook has some of my travel journal in it, and it's in chronological order!