Back from San Francisco

We got back around 8:30 or so. Roughly 13 1/2 hours. Great trip. Traffic was bad on I-10 out of L.A. due to an accident though.


Here are some infrared photos from the trip out. Seeing these snow capped mountains with the desert in the foreground was really awesome.

Lynch Canyon, Fairfield, CA

Liz and I decided to drive up at the last minute to northern California. We went hiking today with her sister and brother-in-law. We're leaving tomorrow at 6:00 or so back to Phoenix. We should get into Phoenix around 7:00 Phoenix time.

Myron Kitty

Some shots of the little guy begging to be let back in.

Touching the belly button

Liz thinks I am wierd about belly buttons. We thought this movie clip was funny. Might have to turn up the volume.

Enjoy

Baby Update - 31 weeks

Liz and I toured a 2nd hospital tonight and have decided to go with the first hospital we toured. The tour tonight was at a Scottsdale (Snobsdale) hospital complete with valet parking. We've heard that it was always a nicer hospital, but when staff doesn't wait for the back end of the tour to catch up before speaking, that did it for us. They [the hospital] probably isn't worried about not losing customers. The first hospital is closer to the house anyway, so we're happy about picking it. Liz's ultrasound on her kidneys, gall bladder, etc. turn out good. So far everything is very good.

Don't blink about 1:30 into the video.

Wickenburg trip video

Liz was shooting the video. I wanted to test out the new HD video camera and editing on the computer. I was able to dub some Eagles over the audio as well. Should be really cool making videos later. Anyway, enjoy.

Wickenburg/Vulture Mine/Prescott road trip

We decided to make a small road trip to Vulture Mine about 20 miles south of Wickenburg (which is about an hour northwest of Phoenix). Vulture Mine used to be an old gold mine and was abandonded in 1942 or so. I was told the old buildings would be great to photograph. Turns our that there was a fee to take the above ground tour and we couldn't get to the good part of the mine. Funny how they call it a "donation" of $7 per person. Wasn't a wasted trip as we got to see scenery I haven't seen before. Since we had to go through Wickenburg to get to the mine, we stopped an ate in the old downtown. After the mine, we decided to make a trip up through Prescott back to the 17, then come home. We hit the square in Prescott where the County courthouse was. I thought layouts like that existed only in the midwest. Was cool to see and very pretty up there among the pine trees. We were suprised at how many hippies were running around the square. One hippie was beating on some sort of congo drums or something.

Anyway, here are some photos...











We decided to make a small road trip to Vulture Mine about 20 miles south of Wickenburg (which is about an hour northwest of Phoenix). Vulture Mine used to be an old gold mine and was abandonded in 1942 or so. I was told the old buildings would be great to photograph. Turns our that there was a fee to take the above ground tour and we couldn't get to the good part of the mine. Funny how they call it a "donation" of $7 per person. Wasn't a wasted trip as we got to see scenery I haven't seen before. Since we had to go through Wickenburg to get to the mine, we stopped an ate in the old downtown. After the mine, we decided to make a trip up through Prescott back to the 17, then come home. We hit the square in Prescott where the County courthouse was. I thought layouts like that existed only in the midwest. Was cool to see and very pretty up there among the pine trees. We were suprised at how many hippies were running around the square. One hippie was beating on some sort of congo drums or something.

Anyway, here are some photos...

Hiking 11.18.08

We tried to take Kim to the top of the mountain behind us tonight before it got dark, but couldn't. Oh well. Here are some photos.

25 Weeks

Some pics of the mommy to be and the Myron kitty.

Liz's Costume

This is what Liz came up with for Halloween. I was grossed out at times, but thought she did a pretty good job.

Myron

Liz and I were looking at photos of Myron tonight and laughing. Here are some.

Some baby clothes

We have more than enough 0-3 months clothes now. I'm betting we could fill up the bassonette with them.


But here are some of the clothes we got as a gift the other night.

First post!

Liz and I thought we'd "copy" others and create a blog to begin sharing what our lives are like out here in AZ for those who live in other states.



This will definetely make it easier to share photos and movies of our son.



So stay tuned...