What to post?

I should make a blog post. Let's see, what's happened lately.......hmmmmmmmm.
I'll just post some pictures of Addi.

This is on one of our walks next to our lake on a chilly day in November

This is Addi pretending to study hard, just to make her daddy happy. This was at Allie's house while she was taking portraits of the rest of my family (our next post!)

Helping Mom with the laundry

Merry Christmas

I don't like doing paper Christmas cards because what do you do with it? Do you keep it? Do you throw it away? I feel bad throwing them away so I have a storage unit that's completely full of Christmas cards that I didn't know what to do with. I'm waiting for it to burn down because then I won't feel guilty about losing them.

Just kidding of course. We love Christmas cards from other people. Please contact me for our address.
justend@gmail.com

And our Christmas card to you is below. Make sure you click on the link. This is from Me, Cory, Addi, and our friend Meg.

click here
Thanks to Jasmine for showing me the site

By the way, Addi really can't shake her hips like that. It's just a computer animation.

Enter Final Stage of Life

Well I guess I still have retirement, so I'm not in my final final stage of life. But I'm married with kid and I finally have a job!
I just got hired at WesTech Engineering. We manufacture equipment for filtering processes like waste water treatment, food processing, industrial filtration etc. I just started today and already have my first project. It's to install two huge (30 foot) tanks in Redding, California that will thicken their waste water so that it's easier to treat (or something like that). I know I know, everybody wishes they had a job as sexy as mine. Well keep at it.

Prepare to be Amazed

I used to photocopy my friend Allie's scrapbook pages in high school because I didn't want to do it myself (I know I'm lazy... and a boy). Now she does the digital thing and even won an award.
She made this page for us this a little while ago, but I just watched "Meet the Robinsons" for the first time so I thought I'd celebrate by posting it.

Addie is only three months in these pictures, but I thought I'd post it anyway since I'm so behind with keeping you updated on her.

Ace Costumes

With that last post in mind, we thought we'd find out....

Well, actually Cory was Venus and I was Serena for Halloween. Addie was a tennis ball but we somehow missed having a decent picture of her. Anyone?
We got to dress up for the annual Cousin's Halloween Party, and also a swing dance in Sandy. I tied for scariest costume at the Cousin's Halloween Party, and Cory and I won the contest at the dance. Which is good because you can only put yourself out there like that once in a long while. I think next year I'm gonna wear a sheet and be a ghost like I did my entire childhood.

(Picture courtesy of Tony)


Thanks to Cory's mom for the tennis skirts and the rest of the costumes.

This is Addie the next day with her buddy Jack. I just thought I'd slip it in to the Halloween post.

Photoshop Fluke

I was trying some of Allie's Photoshop tricks that she teaches on her fabublog (pronounced fabyoo-blog) and realized I have a lot of learning to do. While I was practicing on Addison, her face was suppose to be getting softer but instead it kept getting darker. Which made me wonder - what if the mail man was black? (just kidding of course) So I finished the job and this is the result. You've got to admit, Black babies are pretty darn cute. I wonder if Black people ever do this?

Look-alike meter

I tried this here and these are the results. I tried a couple of different times to try to skew the results but we came out even both times. When Annie P tried it she came out ahead 14%.