Cemeteries...

So, I was able to get out and find (2) cemeteries today, unfortunately, not even close to anything I was used to seeing in Buffalo.

http://www.blvddrive.com/cemeteries.htm

Headstones and Statues, especially ones that are aging, are what usually catches my eye, but not much luck here, so far...Any suggestions for here in NM, please letme know.

Anyways, it did feel good to get out and take a few pictures. I even had my apprentice Jakob following right behind me with our little point/shoot digital camera snapping shots. He was a little shocked when I told him that people were buried underneath the ground.

Been a While...

It's been about a month, so I thought I'd post a few newer pictures. I started vacation today and will hopefully be able to take some shots, maybe even get back to what really first got me interested in photography and play with some black and white photography, maybe even find a good cemetery around here...

They Have Arrived....

"They" meaning the tickets to the Bills-Cardinals game on October 5th that I got for me and Logan for his 7th Birthday gift...Ok, so maybe his birthday was a little bit of an excuse to get the tickets, but it worked!!!!! Got them off EBay from a season ticket holder and paid less than the face value for them. The cool thing is we are (2) rows off of the field near the Bills sidelines, arounf the 5-10 yard line. While it will be a little tough to watch the action near the other endzone, I thought the experience to be so close to the field and the Bills players would be cool for Logan.

Chicken Bone

A little background...As far as eating goes, Logan is just like his mother, very picking and absolutely unwilling to try new things, food doesn't even hit Logan's lips and his face scrunches up and he starts to turn pale. Kellsie and Jake take after me, they will try almost anything and are not very picky when it comes to eating. Jakob has even become more daring lately(we've been watching a lot of "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern" and "No Reservations with Anthony Bourdaine" on the travel channel). He even asked if we could make his turtle into soup the other day.

Anyways, I made some fried chicken the other night, and as usual with previously frozen chicken, there is a little blood that rises to the top when you fry it and also the bones and meat near it, often takes on a dark reddish brown color. So Jakob is tearing threw his drumstick when he asks, "Is this blood", of course the answer is "no" from me, because I don't want him to get grossed out. Anyways as I look over at Katie, her face has already gone pale and she is about to gag as she sees her youngest offspring, not even think twice and continue to gnaw away at the remainder. Then when he gets done, he puts the bone in his mouth at gets closer to katie as she is still try to recover.

Day 2...The Zoo

So we decided to hit the Zoo on the final day of rest of my mini-vacation. It was a typically refreshing New Mexico July afternoon...who am I kidding, it was extremely hot and miserable, normal for New Mexico in the summer. We were all dragging along at about the halfway point and Jakob at one point decided to dramatically fall to the ground by the gorillas and in a dying voice said to me, "I can't walk, I need to be carried" That never happened and some how he miraculously made it to the end. By the time our 4 hour adventure was over, we were all in the hurry to get back to the air conditioned car and drive home. I was able to get some good pictures of the kids, a few below and also to the side of the page and Katies also posted a few more, including Jakob's above described collapse.


As usual the boys can't stand still
for a picture...



Jakob in another "I'm Cool" pose




Kellsie looking cute as usual



And a relative from Katie's side of the Family

Post #1...

Well, I decided to take a few days off from work this week. Working for Staples, we are about ready to hit our biggest time of the year, Back to School. For those of you outside New Mexico, this may sound a little early, but not only does New Mexico have some of the worst educational scores in the country(this subject could be a whole seperate post by itself, so I won't get started, at least not now), but New Mexico probably goes back to school before any other state in the country(I believe this year it starts back up on August 12th)...So anyways, I decided to take a few days off before work gets hectic and also to spend some time as a family before Kellsie and Logan head back to school...Today was the Botanical Gardens and the Aquarium, tommorrow is the Zoo....

Jakob usually doesn't stand still for a picture unless it is something that he really wants to do. Most of his pictures he is either making faces, giving rabbitt ears to someone, or flashing the "loser" sign, so you either have to catch him off guard or make him believe the picture will turn out really "cool".

Just some random pics from the Bio Park....