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  • 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)…

  • #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.

  • 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…

  • 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!

  • I don’t want to get over you.

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    Remember when I blogged regularly? Remember when all I needed to blog were some mundane captures / macro photos? Who needs words anyways? Yeah. Been craving a slurpee for a while now 😉

  • Moon

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    My sister Mel pleaded on Facebook earlier this evening: “Will someone with a camera that takes decent night pictures PLEASE take a picture of that moon[]??” So I decided what the heck, I’d just picked up a Canon 1.4x extender which was still sitting in the box yet unused, so I figured this was as…

  • Benefit Concert for my bro, Dan Sloan

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    This Friday there is a benefit concert being held to help my brother out, primarily with medical expenses. My wonderful cousin Cassi has spear-headed the event, which will feature some local musicians as well as entertainer Jason Hewlett. I’ve heard nothing but great things about Jason and I’m sure the evening will be a blast.…

  • The Forgotten Story of Thanksgiving

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    Fascinating read, and history I think is important be shared and taught about the origins of Thanksgiving. It illuminates the importance of freedom and private ownership / individual stewardship in producing abundance. If one cannot place their own interests first, by their nature they are unlikely to be productive enough to bless the lives of…

  • Zion 2010 – preview

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    Somehow I feel like this is a fitting photo to summarize this trip. I had to post at least one image tonight. I edited the photos from this trip and I knew there was gonna be some magic with how the sky was Saturday afternoon. Marianne, Jesse, Addie, Westen, Steve and myself made the trip…

  • Shawn & Kali — The Wedding (lo-fi)

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    So I lied. My cousin-in-law Emily Ann asked if I’d taken lots of photos at Shawn’s wedding, to which I replied in some way that I hadn’t taken any. Nay, I hadn’t brought my nice camera with me to the wedding nor the reception. But I had actually taken a few pictures (and Kate took…