I'm all in

I am selling my soul to get a decent date now.  As long as I'm moving, I might as well change up whatever I can to make it work.  Apparently girls actually like guys who dress in more than just whatever shorts and a t-shirt.

I bought V-neck shirts.  I bought Vans sneakers.  I got a new watch.  I even bought some skinny jeans.  Alyssia and the (self proclaimed) gay American Eagle worker got me an entire new wardrobe.

I'll post a real picture of some of my new clothes as well as the low-down on my Alaska trip soon.

Utah Home Show 2012 Edition

Griffin and I went up to Utah to see the

PARADE OF HOMES

Nana, Griffin and I all enjoyed seeing 11 houses in 7 hours!

Here's what you missed:

Before we left, at Nana's house

at the 1st house; OLD barn in the back yard

Our favorite bathroom

we LOVED this shower

Birds were EVERYWHERE!

I will try to make a couple

LARGEST house on tour.

20,000 sq. feet

NOT our favorite

in the largest house - I am in one wing, Nana in the other

do you see her across the hall, through the chandelier?

 There she is!

I really liked these branches behind the bed too

 I tried to be so sneaky. I wanted to take this women's picture, but didn't want her to know. I made it seem to be taking a picture of the ghastly fireplace/TV/wooden wall. The woman's hair is the MOST fascinating thing in the room

There, now you got to see highlights in 15 seconds.

Hope you are happy.

Nine IS Fine!

Griffin turned 9 today!

 He opened presents

 He got a compass; then instructions to follow to find his last present:

That made one happy boy!

Then we went to the beach

 He caught sand crabs

 Quinn went out to catch a few waves

 Griffin followed his lead

 Oh, we saw Wonder Woman and Captain America!

 He got his birthday cake

Yellow cake with white frosting with some of the cake with no frosting.

So many candles on fire, you can't see the cake!

One Fish, Two Fish

Tonight's dinner was provided by Christopher!!

Those fish, in the previous posts, a little portion was shipped to our house.

I grilled some of it up tonight! Yummy, tasty dinner.

Thanks, Christopher!!

Dracula?

This is how Griffin enjoys S'mores!

 All gone. I don't think he had anymore.

Sewing Bee!

This is Kylie's 2nd item of clothing that she has ever sewn.

We started at 8:00pm.

Look at the clock behind her...

9:10pm DONE!

We shopped for fabric after dinner; came home and sewed!

 A close up

Yes, they are skulls.

What the HALIBUT!

Between the 6 of them, they caught 600 pounds of Halibut!

Happy faces!

Fish, Anyone?

Between 6 fishermen

they caught 70 lbs of Halibut

and

150 lbs of salmon -

all in ONE day

Oh What do YOU Do in the Summer Time?

Christopher goes fishing - in ALASKA -

Looking good!

Our Meal AFTER the Drop Off

We usually go and eat at Chili's after a missionary drop off, but this year we ate at Chili's the night before the drop off so we wanted something different. The eating helps take our mind off of the missionary that we just left! We decided to go a little more upscale and we found this Japanese Steak house! It was very good.

 Griffin asked to finish everyone's fried rice! He loved it!

Quinn enjoyed eating off of Kylie's plate.

Hmm, I wonder what we did next....