Im a Picture guy.

So when I read books, look at recipes, or anything of the sort, I need pictures. So I like taking pictures. Lianna and I need your help. Lianna found a great deal on picture frames, and literally bought a million. Ok, well not literally, but still its a lot. So we're gonna be putting them up on our wall... have a photo wall or something. So we wanted pictures we've taken, and we've narrowed it down. Here are some of the choices, lemme know which ones you like/don't like/find offensive/want to hug forever. Thanks!

This is a Maui sunset from our honeymoon trip.

This is a sea turtle, obviously. We took our Japanese exchange student up the North Shore so she and her friends could see the turtles.

Here he is again.

This is when we took a catamaran excursion while on a wee outing to Waikiki with Peter and De Ohler.

Here is a picture of Waikiki taken from Diamond Head while on the same outing mentioned above.

For an enrichment hike, we went up to Laie falls. At the bottom of the trail, a dog started following us. He was a house dog that had just gotten out. It was a good couple mile hike... taking most of the day. Once down, he just went back home like nothing happened.

A picture taken on one of the many Hawaiian hikes.

Muir Woods, CA. We went with Chris, Aaron, Debbie, Lianna and me.

Gray's peak, taken on our hike of the 14er.

Byodo-In temple in Hawaii, which coincidentally doubled as Korea where Sun and Jin got married on Lost, the TV show. We went with our goodest friends, Jimmy and Mikensi.

Same Temple, obviously.

A picture of the north of New Caledonia when Lianna and I went for research. I believe that valley is called the Ouaième .

This is the same trip, on a bridge built by the Americans in WWII. This is the Ponérihouen Bridge.

Footprints... in the sand.

Our feet, in the sand of Maui on our honeymoon.

Forest at Golden Gate State Park, CO.

A flower in the same state park.

Glen, from my mission.

Let me know which ones you like best, specifically of the ones that have doubles (the turtles, the Byodo-In temple, etc.)

Cute Dog

So, its been a while since we've blogged about Teo exclusively. But I just want to say how fun he is and how cute he is. We try to get him out and keep him active, especially as summer wanes and winter looms like a mushroom cloud on the horizon, threating death and destruction with every passing day. Anyway, nearly every Sunday we go to my parent's house for Sunday dinner. My mother is kind enough, despite having to exercise EXTREME patience with my dog. (She doesn't like "big" dogs). Anyway, mom waters her grass each evening since the back yard sprinklers don't work, and Teo certainly takes advantage. He bites it, drinks it, and runs around it. We pretty much love him.

New Camera Time!

So Lianna and I (emphasis on the I) decided to buy a new camera. After a lot of research and comparing, we decided to get the Nikon D5000. We really enjoy the pictures it takes. Here are some of the pics I've taken while messing around with it, learning how to adjust shutter, aperture, etc. Its been fun learning about it.

Free Time = Time to Cook!

So, I'm a gamer. Lianna, bless her, is quite patient with it. I try, and most of the time do very well, at limiting the time I spend on games, especially lately. However, Starcraft 2 came out recently, and I have literally been waiting for that game for 10 years! Seriously. 10 years. No joke. Anyway, I played it, and played it a lot. I got my money's worth. But I was becoming addicted, and therefore I uninstalled it. Well, that leaves me with lots of free time, especially this semester. So I've been filling that time with cooking. I love to cook, and love trying new recipes. So I've been craving hamburgers lately, and I decided to make me and Lianna some darn good ones. I found a delicious recipe at epicurious.com at this link here. It's called Dominican Chimichurri Burgers. Doesn't that just SOUND good? Well, it was. Here is a pic of the long-gone food.

I know French, but am I speaking a foreign language?

So, I decided, much to the dismay of my wife, to make chocolate chip cookie dough truffles. Great idea hu? (shes not a fan of cookie dough). So I go to King Soopers to get some of the more odd ingredients I don't have. I find the candy coating chocolate bark stuff... now for sweetened condensed milk. I look up and down the bakery isle, THREE TIMES. Nope, not there. Ok, I'm a man, but I can ask directions. Employee #1 gets asked, "where is your sweetened condensed milk?" "Uhhhh, I dunno... lemme ask." So he asks employee #2 who's bagging. "Baking isle." So I say to myself that I might as well go look again. Nope. So I ask employee #3, who happens to be the head check out person. "Wow... I have no idea. I've never been asked that." He then turns to employee #4 and employee #5, one says I dunno, and the other says, "Evaporated milk?" So I say sure in hopes to get closer... he sends me down the baked BEANS isle. Wow. So I meander around trying to find another unoccupied, not-already-asked person and finally I ask employee #6, and she looks at me like a just spat out alien larva on the ground and proceeded to eat it up again... So I continue my already finished sentence with an awkward pause, "err, or someone else who might know." She points me to the day stocker walking towards me. "Great" I think to myself..."Someone who might actually know!" So I ask him, and he says, "Sure, follow me!" Hallelujah! I follow him, he takes me to an isle, and says, "at the end, and on the left." I go down... its THE MILK ILSE! I guess he just heard milk. WTFreak? So I decided I'm done. I throw the chocolate candy coating I've been carrying around right in with the milk. That way, when someone asks for it, the employees will know since they'll have to put it back. Wow... nice shopping experience King Soopers.

Cutest Primary Kids Ever!

So for those of you who don't know, Lianna and I got called to the Primary in our ward. We teach the CTR 4 group, and let me tell you, they're one wild bunch of coconuts! Here are some pictures of our beautiful kids.

This is Mya, who is quite shy.

This is Jace, who is by far our most active CTR 4

This is Jace making his silly face.

Here is Grant with Mr. Reverent Frog.

This is Darius.

Of course, even Mr. Reverent Frog can be silly for a silly picture.

This is George, who also is quite active.

Here is Erin.
Our class silly face time.

Here we are walking to the lesson outside!

Long Overdue

Ok, so its been a while since I've looked at my blog other than to throw out a random post here and there. In fact, its been so long that half the blogs I follow on my blog list I'm not even invited to! I know right? Another gross evidence of my lack of blog upkeep is the simple fact that we have friends out there, friends with blogs, that aren't on my "list." What a terrible friend. So, if you're reading this, and you have a blog that I don't have on my list to the left of this post, TELL ME, pretty please? You can leave a comment, shoot me an email or text, anything. Much mahalo. I also finally realized that the gmail account that I always use wasn't even the administrator of my blog. In fact, the admin account is an account that I haven't used for nearly two years. Anyway, I'm repenting, the end.

So I just watched a movie via Netflix streaming that I absolutely loved. It is now one of my favorites. It's an indie film, and it was amazing. The actors in it are very, very beautiful people, yet quite unknown. Not only are they beautiful, but the acting was phenomenal. Despite it being about the age-old conflict of good and evil, dark and light, the storyline seemed completely original as if I was watching a revolutionary idea. Though all of what I've mentioned was great and all, the cinematography was unbelievable. It was like the director had never watched a movie in his life and created his own unique, visionary way of depicting the story. If you have Netflix, watch it. The name: Ink.