First Day of Kindergarten

This is the morning of Dresden's first day of Kindergarten. He met with his teacher, Mrs. Steenblik, the week before and she was so proud of him because he already knew his letters and sounds along with his numbers. Dresden is so smart and loves to learn all about his surroundings!!! Dresden was pretty excited to see that his classroom has a fish tank. Did you know that Mrs. Steenblik was Uncle Brandt's Pre-school teacher? Also, her husband was the bishop that Larry and I interviewed with before we got married.

Such a handsome boy!

Whatever you do, DON'T SMILE!

Dresden was pretty excited when we got to the school and saw Sophie there. Dresden and Sophie are in the same Sunday School class and when the two of them get together they giggle and laugh and get a little crazy!

Bear Lake

Okay, for the request from anonymous, here is a picture with me in it. Dresden and I are roasting marshmellows! Yummy, this is the boys first experience making s'mores...not to mention camping!

Logan and Larry are testing the water to see how cold it is.

It felt so nice to sit in the sun...once it came out. Dresden is inspecting
the sand and trying to find seashells. Very exciting!

Here is our Lolo. He is fearless of water and loves to swim!

Collin loves to build things! He and Jay spent a good part of the afternoon building a sandcastle.

Here are the "kids" at play. Papa let Sydney and Logan float along with him.

Comic-Con 2007

Every year I work for Sideshow Collectibles at Comic-Con, a pop-culture convention with over 140,000 visitors this year. It always makes for interesting visuals. I look forward to the time boys are old enough to come with me; I hope they want to.

Shots from a Dream Theater concert

I recently previewed and reviewed the Dream Theater show. I took a lot of photos but I didn't get them on-line in time to run with the story. I present them here. I know a lot of folks will not be especially interested unless they know the band but it is a group of fine musicians and they are important to me.

La Caille

These pictures were taken up at La Caille. We were lucky to get one of the last openings that a former Deseret Morning News photographer had up at La Caille. Larry had to take care of getting the boys ready for the photoshoot. I happened to be in New York on business when all this occured. Believe me, being the control freak that I am, it was hard to not be there to make sure Dresden and Logan looked their best. Larry was wonderful making sure the boys looked handsome. However, while Larry was in the bathroom cleaning up Logan's Kool-Aid mustache Dresden was in the fridge drinking juice from the pitcher. They made it out of the house and up to La Caille without Larry noticing Dresden's Kool-Aid smile. The photographer reassured Larry that she was shooting digital pictures and that she would Photoshop the mustache out. So, here are a few of the pictures from that day.