Back to School (last week!)

I havent been very on top of posting- so here are a few more late photos. The main reason I have posted these today, is that I have been having a blast with these new Actions for Photoshop! I know, I agree that the ones I used are a little bit much, but they are so much fun! Anyway, I will hopefully keep a little more on top of posting... (unlike other people that I know...... hmm-hmmm- CAMI!)

Long overdue Birthday Post

Happy Birthday Cameron! I know its late- but its the thought that counts, right? Right?

Equestrian: Worst Olympic Sport. EVER.

Before I discuss my opinion of this terrible sport-
let me first say to all the people who are going to bash me and call me a jerk- I love horses! So don't think that I am an animal hater! Let me get started...
So I turned on the T.V. a few days ago when I got home from work to watch some Olympics. I have found myself watching more than I ever had in my life this time around. I can't account a reason to this, other than I find it fun to see us winning more gold medals. Call it patriotism, call it arrogance, it might just be a little of both. Anyway, I didn't find the usual channel that I have been watching the Olympics. I ended up finding another channel, that said it was "showing" the Olympics.
Little did I know, that it wasn't really the "Olympics," but a dog show. O.k.- more like a horse show. It was the Olympics, but it was a bunch of people trotting their horses around an arena of sorts. That was it!
My point is this: The Olympics are about personal strengths, running... swimming.... gymnasts... even badminton is considered a personal strength. I recall, when I was a wee little tike, in 4-H we would "train" and raise animals to show them at the County Fair. This is where we would see the Horse show. How in the world did this get to be an Olympic sport?! If I train my dog to roll over, do I get to go to the Olympics and show my dog rolling over and shaking hands? NO. That would be a dog show. So why do we have to sit through someone riding a poor horse and say that is a physical atribute? The horse does all the work, and a rider collects the glory. That's a weak excuse for a sport, if you ever ask me. I'm up for banning it. What a joke and a waste of my time. I hope I never have to see another dog show- errrrr- horse show in the Olympics again.

Tired Yet?

I hope I am not tiring anyone with our vacation photos! I think we just had such a good time- there are tons of photos that haven't been posted yet! I'll stop here- I won't bore anyone else with our photos... I wanted to just get these last few from the tide pools and river trip. I think that there were just over 410 photos taken during the entire trip! My sister in law Amber, also posted a few photos that I took- so If you want some more abuse- she has posted a few good ones too!!!

This was our first crab that we found- it just happened to be this small!

This was our first hermit crab that we found

This star fish was busy eating something that resembled a Japanese Abalone...

This was the only orange starfish that I found- I found about 11 others, but all purple

This is our friends son Tony- I think its Zac's long lost twin!

Zachary Carter Photo Shoot- Take 1

Traci wanted to take a few photos of Zac before we had our foot long grass cut. Zac immediately started to make poses, like he was in his own little photo shoot. That kid kills me.

Prison Issue

I heard that the Prison was cutting back on the throw away spork packets that are handed out with meals. It included the usual-salt, pepper, folded paper napkin, and your all and inclusive spork. I think that everyone should have a spork. They are they best invention, and why does it only exist in institutions? The prison quit ordering the packets, and everyone was issued a florescent orange spork. I thought it was only the inmates that got these.
Well, I ended up doing an overtime shift last night and this morning, I wanted some cereal. No sporks! I guess I just wasn't issued "my" spork yet! I then had a great thought- maybe I should get one for each of my boys, and then they wouldn't have to use any more silverware!
I'm a genius.
Vote for me.
I'll make sure each and every one of you, gets your own, personal, SPORK.