went to a funeral and took some pictures

Earlier this week I took a trek across washington to attend the graveside services of my great grandmother. While in Sunnyside i toook advantage of the nice weather and "historical" sinage around town. Here is a very brief glimpse of what I shot.

Camp Parsons

I made a trip to camp parsons this week to visit a few troops up there. i was able to snap some shots from the trip as well. The mugs are from inside the trading post. the second is the buddy board. and the third is a scout bathroom.

camping

This last weekend we went camping as a family. everybody in the family was there execpt my one sister stuck in california. Let me tell you it was hot and muggy. Cole recieved 8 mesquito bites on his face plus another 18 across other parts of his body. We also learned that three legged dogs can swim.

Spiderweb
moss

leaf

Clallam county fair (as i saw it)

Today was kids day at the clallam county fair. this meant they were free and rides were half price. so we went. i had a good time and so did rob and the kids. cole was a bit upset about not being able to ride most of the rides especially the car looking ones. i'll post some more of them at the fair tonight but for now here is what struck me interesting at the fair.

I got a new calculator

Now before you get too excited for me just know that i have been on the look out for a calculator that matches my personality. Today my friends I have found that calculator. this baby even comes with a leather case for portability. no fancy algebra functions on this find. I can't wait to pull this out at my next staff meeting when we are asked if anybody can add the numbers on a calculator. I know that you are jealous but it is not for sale.

port angeles to seattle to yakima to seattle to pheonix to nashville to vegas to seattle to yakima to port angeles

Well i thought it was funny





As you can tell from the long title we are now back from our whirlwind trip to a national Boy Scout professional leadership conferance. first we left port angeles and delivered some lavendre that we had sold in seattle and then traveled to yakima to drop off the kids and the dog at my parents house. my work got robyn and i a room at the seattle mariott and we had a nice date and movie. (olive garden and the Dark Knight)


notes on the trip:

• we were up at 4 am to fly to pheonix and run to catch the flight out to nashville.
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• We stayed at the gaylord opryland hotel.
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• There are over 2500 rooms at the hotel
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• plus shopping and like 15 resturants (all of them were expensive)
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• there were about 4900 people in attendance at the conferance (including spouses)
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• Nashville is freakin humid
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• Saw josh Turner in concert
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• Robyn tried a fried pickle
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• ran into 6 people from the BYU program.
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• had to buy new shoes
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• did i mention how humid it is there. (i had to apply deoderant three or four times a day)
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• went to two fancy dinners
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• got free stuff
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• it cost 9.25 to get a drink poolside.
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• had a good time
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• delayed in vegas due to weather
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• 17. got into seattle about 1 am
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• drove to yakima and picked up kids
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• drove straight to work meeting thursday night
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• kingsize beds are bigger than my queen.

We go to Forks and beyond

Yesterday we went to the other side of the world. ok we just went to forks for a day camp check up. I took the Fam and we made a day of it. First we stopped at sully burgers and robyn tried the "twilight"inspired Bella Burger. WE watched teen people come in and ask for directions to certian "twilight" places, and even saw one ask for an autograph from the burger joint.

After that we walked around town and then decided to head to lapush and the beach there. (we didn't know that day camp started at four and we got there around noon) the kids played on the beach for a while then we headed back and cruised around a bit more.

at the beach la push

water pit panning for gold at day camp

burnt down house forks, wa

part of bowling alley forks, wa

lavender

As most of the 5 people who read this blog would know. This last weekend was lavender fest and i worked at a farm to raise money for the boy scouts. Alot of the lavender had not quite bloomed yet but we did have enough ready to get us by. I took these shots in case i need them in the future for this event. The one in the middle is a black and white "toned" as if by a selinium toner. I put toned in quotations because is was a tecnique i am trying out in photoshop to reproduce toning effects. let me know what you think.

self imposed pictures

Ok so when ever i go our photgraphing someplace interesting or i get the idea to. I try to take some self portraits. this is for two reasons. 1. i am alone and nobody else can take the shot. 2. normally i am behind the camera and there is not much in the way of me shots (so i make my own)

Here is a sampling of my shots.

Moms house

These are pictures from my parents house. I didn't really have a chance last weekend to go explore yakima like i usually do. So i just walked around my parents house and let the photographs find me. This is a bit different than normal where i have a list in my head of areas/buildings I want to check out and photograph. The question is (if you go to my parents house) where are these items at?

july 4th thru the 7th

Ok so on the fourth we had our friends Steve and Robyn come over for a BBq then we went out and blew up some fireworks. The kids had a blast playing and the sparklers as well as the pop-its. I think we got home around 12:30 and then it was up and out the door to drive to Birch Bay by Blaine washington for w weekend with Casey and melissa. they have a timeshare thingie. We played in the pool and went to this gocart track. Irish was able to ride shotgun but cole being only 2 did not meet the 3 year requirment. It broke his poor little car loving heart. Then we ate steak. on sunday we hopped into the car and traveled to the State of Canada. There i was able to pick up some wunderbars and ketchup flavored potatoe chips. (if you go to canada get me some) more pool time when we got back. on monday we left the florens to their own devices hung out at the beach and went into bellingham saw WALL-E and drove to mt vernon to have dinner with some old college friends amy and joel. We got to talking and realized that it was 9:30 pm and we still had a three hour drive ahead of us. we got home about midnight.

We were all very tired by the end of the trip.

camp fife trip

On wednesday i went to camp fife to go see my dad who was up there for the week with some scouts. i also went to just be at camp and see how it was doing. most of the usual was happeing the cook had already quit and other personall issues were happining. i was going to buy a patch but they didnt have them yet. i wasa going to get a shirt but they didn't have them yet. i was going to buy any camp schwag they had but they didnt have any yet. so i bought a pepsi. now i am off to blaine washington to hanf out with casey and melissa and maybe get to canada for some ketchup flavored chips and wunderbars.

Sunset

Ok so today was is or could be called warm...for port angeles i hear the high was somewhere between 78-81 degrees. what a dramatic change from a week or so ago when we were happy about it getting to 50 degrees. anywho i was putting the dog outside and i looked over and it was a great looking sunset. so i shot it. with my camera. thus the picture.

Quotes from this morning

these are things that i heard around the house this morning.

Robyn "Cole no throwing pooh at mommie"

i was happy to find out it was a stuffed pooh bear.

Cole "i urt my boob"

we didn't know he knew the word boob.

Things Ben Found

a subsidiary blog on the crap that i find and buy.

http://thingsbenfound.blogspot.com/

tell your friends.

oh so many events

June is normally a busy month for me at work and this year has been no exception. Luckily one way or another the end of the month is here and the summer calm period begins. I have gone to meetings, courts of honor, recognition dinners, mariner games, auctions, pack meeting, family visits, ect.
I have also traveled once again to the magical land of Forks, Washington. The people there are friendly and the local drive in is pretty good to eat at. I had a spartan burger. try it you'll like it.
My sister and her family came up to seattle and we all went to a mariners game. The mariners won almost.

Seattle, wa from the 10:40 ferry

our view at safecothe fam at the game
Sulleys drive in forks, Washington