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  • Camping on the Beach. With the Knights.

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    Here’s a glimpse of what it’s like hanging out over at the Knights’ camp site. Lots of activity. (I especially love how well the x100 captured the campfire scene at twilight.)

  • A Month Shy of Eight Years

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    I took a ton of photos in the last couple weeks. Kinda nice to get back into photography after feeling out of it for so long. Took so many in Carlsbad this last week… it’ll take some time to get them edited and posted. Marianne says she’s in dire need of a new FB profile…

  • Carlsbad

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    Headed back here this week: Took these in October of 2008, last time I was camping at the beach in Carlsbad. So stoked for this vacation!

  • Summertime

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    I’m not sure I could express the idea of summer with words as well as with an image or two. Taken last Monday on the Fourth of July: This is a rarity these days– Addie smiling directly at the camera 🙂 Helps to be a) using a telephoto and thus be farther away, and b)…

  • Refresh.

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    No, I didn’t take this picture– belongs to some random condo on the Big Island at Mauna Lani that I’ve never been to but wouldn’t mind living in. It was pretty warm out driving home from work today. Probably in the high 80s, which is still nice but not quite as perfect as yesterday’s mid…

  • #3

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    I can’t believe Addie is 3 already (or that Westen is a copule months shy of 1). Where does the time go? From Addie’s birthday party yesterday: Kali made and decorated her best cake to date specially for Addie: And even on her third birthday, like birthdays past, the only thing she really needed to…

  • Homemade bbq chicken pizza

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    For Addie’s b-day party yesterday, Marianne and Jesse made homemade pizza for dinner. It was as good as it looks 😉 BBQ chicken was among the 4 varieties they produced, along with some cinnamon pull-apart madness.

  • It’s not up to you. At the proper moment, they’ll trigger you.

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    I entered the small adjacent building wearing a dark navy blue suit and white button-down shirt. The building seemed to be nothing more than a medium sized room with rows of chairs set up to accommodate maybe fifty to a hundred people. The larger, taller building next door was some sort of hall or auditorium.…

  • Moving On.

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    This post (most of it) has been sitting in my drafts folder since last October. Never got around to finishing / posting it, but I thought I’d do so today, given that the creators of LOST have been commemorating the 1 year mark since the finale of the show. Wanting to know how realistic some…

  • Glimpse

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    It’s April 29, and it was snowing SIDEWAYS today. You’d think people would be used to wacky spring weather in Utah by now. One thing I love about storms, though… they so frequently pave the way for gorgeous sunsets. As I drove into Salt Lake City tonight, I could tell one was on the way.…

  • Westen’s “new” smile

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    Had to post a larger version of this. Apparently this is Westen’s new smile. He was giving it to Steve pretty liberally on Easter, haha. Steve somehow can get the best smiles from Westen, maybe second only to Marianne and Jesse. With his eyes mostly closed like this, he kinda reminds me of pictures of…

  • Easter 2011

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    Wonderful Easter Sunday at the Knight home today. Great time with family, delicious food, adorable kids… the warmth of the holiday was felt. Just a couple quick edits of Addie and Westen in their Easter outfits during the little Easter egg hunt this evening 🙂 While it’s nigh impossible to get Addie to look at…

  • Sushi in Joy

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    Strange it was, I actually craved sushi tonight. (I’m not normally a huge fan.) I poked around Urban Spoon and found that this place that had a pretty cheesy name– Sushi in Joy– was supposedly decent for the price, and pretty close to home. So I figured I’d give it a shot. As I sat…

  • Signs of Summer

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    Kato, Dan and I went to Mo Bettah’s Steaks on Friday– not only for their awesome Hawaiian BBQ, but because they’re finally serving Hawaiian Shave Ice again (Kate was pretty sad last fall when she discovered it was seasonal, haha). Amidst her giddiness, Kate referred to her shave ice as a sign of summer. Can’t…

  • Truffle Shuffle

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    Birthday card from co-workers: It’s pretty tough to beat a birthday card that has a Sloth button and picture of Chunk doing the Truffle Shuffle in it. Thanks everyone who made my birthday great this year!