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December 14, 2018
Happy Birthday Alicia 2018
December 11, 2018
Bricks and MiniFigs
December 2, 2018Emmett and Elle love to go to the Bricks and MiniFigs store nearby here in Orem. Emmett just loves to find all sorts of useful pieces for his trucks and trailers. Elle isn’t quite as skilled as Emmett is, but she definitely enjoys putting the blocks together.
Before the Sunrise
November 30, 2018On my way to dropping off Sho at the bus stop, I couldn’t help but notice the faint pink coming from the clouds. I love how subtle color can be at times. Of course I had to pull over and take a photo.
Sadly, I was inside for what happened afterwards as the full sunrise showed up. Thankfully, others snagged it.
Sick Baby
November 25, 2018Elle has had a little bug the past several nights. Some of those nights were pretty rough, and Alicia did most of the heavy lifting. Okay, pretty much all. I hopped up once to help. Last night, however, went smoothly… until about 4:45am when Emmett came in to tell me his blanket was all messed up. So I went and tucked him back in, and then he talked and said Elle had a wet diaper, to which she popped up “dad?”, so I changed her diaper. And then I was up every 15-20 minutes after that for one cry or another, eventually getting Elle out of bed at 6am so Emmett could sleep. This morning, I’m tired.
Emmett’s Shop
November 24, 2018While Alicia and Elle were putting the toys away in the playroom, Emmett was sneaking some away to the front room so he could set up his shop. (Originally he kept referring to it as his restaurant.). It was so cute.
New lens, who dis?
November 23, 2018I kinda went on a shopping spree lately. Oops. I blame it on the 50-60 hour work weeks I’ve been pulling for the last 2 months. Wake up at 6/6:30 and take Sho to the bus stop. Then work on 460 from 7-8:30. Then go to work at SQRD from 9-5. Come home, have dinner and put the kids to bed, and then back to 460 from 8-11. Repeat. So, I bought a few things. A new vacuum sealer (how exciting!), a new lens (actually exciting!), and a HomePod which I shouldn’t have bought. — On Black Friday Costco and Best Buy had them for $250 ($100 off). Alicia was out shopping and I told her how badly I wanted one, and she said “if you get it consider it your Christmas” and I waited about 15 minutes before I went and got it. In the meantime she went to Best Buy and got one too. I feel like a putz. I should have waited until Christmas. I don’t regret the HomePod itself though, it’s pretty cool. Now I just need more HomeKit things in my house to take better advantage of Siri.
Anyway, this post is about the Rokinon 12mm F2 lens that I bought – it’s very wide angle. And also very manual. Which is fine. Set the aperture to F5.6 + and everything comes out sharp. Here’s a few photos I took on Black Friday at the mall with the kids.
Birthday Revisited
November 17, 2018Most days our playroom is a disaster. Toys of every variety are everywhere, all over the room and too often around the house. Saturday was a rare day where it was all clean and organized. Emmett wanted to revisit the train that he picked out for his birthday. It took about 10 minutes to find all the tracks in all the boxes and places they had been put away. Elle wanted to play her usual part of destroyer.
Emmett’s LEGO Truck
November 11, 2018Emmett loves building things out of anything he has access to, he is so imaginative and creative. I love it! He loves getting LEGO sets and building them right away, but soon they get broken up and then he goes and creates his own things. He love trucks and trailers, at any given time he has several trucks pulling around trailers with other cars on top or parts inside. I love it. So much.
I should probably mention that his stories have a tendency to get a little out of control. His imagination really goes wild. I also love that he found a piece that looks like a transmission and drive shafts. I actually have no idea how he’s even aware those parts exist on a car.