This was my birthday weekend, which might make you think that that is the reason for the blog title, but no. Tonight my Dallas Mavericks won the NBA finals. The Mavs took their talents to South Beach, and won the NBA title. GO MAVS!
Celebrating with Nolan
2011 NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks!
Honestly the rest of the weekend was great! We went to my parents cabin for Friday night and Saturday. We had a nice time just relaxing and spending time together, which is my language of love… (FYI). Here are some photos of my weekend.
Out Little Model
All Smiles
Addie found the "Power of the Holy Ghost"
Addie loved playing in, on and around Grandpa’s new (’53 Ford) truck. At one point she opened a little tray on the floorboard of the truck cab and found the battery. She looked at me and said “this is the power Daddy, the power of the Holy Ghost.” I looked at my Dad and we both started laughing. I don’t know if I was more amazed at how she guessed the battery gives the car power, or the Holy Ghost reference. Apparently Addie listens in nursery. She helped Grandpa pull the fenders off and after all the work Grandpa had time to take Nolan for his first four wheeler ride. We even went for a little canoe ride in the river. This was a great weekend, a great birthday, caped by an amazing victory by my Dallas Mavericks!
Addie Helping Grandpa Fix the Truck
Nolan and Grandpa Four Wheeling
We opened Jake’s mission call on Thursday afternoon and he is going to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He reports to the Brazil MTC on September 1, 2010. We are all so excited for him. We know that is where the Lord wants him to go and that he will be an amazing missionary.
Thank you to everyone who participated in guessing where his mission call would be. We had a fun time talking about everyone’s guesses and thinking about where he could go. But enough about that, it is time to announce the winner. Erik Hulme (my brother-in law) won with a guess of Cordoba Argentina. The distance between Cordoba and Rio de Janeiro according to Google Maps is 2760 km a 1 day and 9 hour drive. That is a drive I definitely don’t want to make, and luckily we don’t have to! We will be sending Erik two movie tickets so he and my little sister can go on a date! Congratulations Erik.
Feel free to leave comment with advice or congratualations for Jake here on the blog and we will be sure that he receives them.
Mission Call
My little brother Jake just received his mission call but we will not be opening it until Thursday since we will all be together for my little sisters graduation. So the speculation begins.
Please leave a comment with your prediction. You may guess one foreign mission and one domestic if you’d like, per Jake.
There are two prizes up for grabs. The winner can choose the prize they would like from:
- Two movie passes to AMC Theatres
- Two Dallas Symphony Orchestra tickets to Franck’s Symphony in D Minor on May 1 2010 at 8:00PM
The winner will be determined by distance to actual mission in miles.
What are you waiting for? Go leave a comment with your prediction, a free date awaits!!
If you need ideas, this document has all of the missions listed: List of LDS Missions
I am an avid reader of quite a few photography and photoshop blogs. One of the people I follow closest is Scott Kelby. He is a photgraphy and photoshop genious and not to mention a savy business man, but I digress. I was reading his blog today and he had such a good post I had to include it here.
This doesn't look too bad!
OK, so yesterday I heard from a friend that it was reported that the government spent an estimated $360,000 for that “Photo Op” debacle which had the President’s 747 flying low over New York City (good plan!), escorted by a fighter jet (luckily the President wasn’t on board).
I heard what they wanted was a shot of Air Force One (of course, it’s only called Air Force One if the President is actually on board, so we’ll just call it “Big Blue and White 747?) flying over the statue of Liberty with Manhattan in the background. There were probably more cost efficient ways getting that image, and so in literally less than two minutes I hacked together the composite you see above in Adobe Photoshop CS4, using a background from iStockPhoto.com and an official White House shot of “Big Blue and White 747? from their web site.
Now, here’s my plea to the White House. Rather than spending $360,000 somewhat foolishly (wink, wink), whatdayasay we work out a deal?
I’m trying to raise money for furniture and household appliances for an orphange in Kenya (run by Americans), and I’d be happy to actually take 90 minutes (or more; whatever it takes), and really do the compositing job right, and all you have to do is buy a freezer for around, say $360. You can keep the other $359,640 or give it to GM.
Anyway, by next weekend my schedule will have freed up, so if you’re interested just drop me a line here or call my cell phone (you know the number).
I will spare you my thoughts about how this is another example of the current administration spending our money for absolutely ridiculous things but just know I am mad about it! At least Scott Kelby thought of a good way to look at it, and his picture looks pretty good!
