Cruisin'

Tom, Bella, and I made a couple of loops around Riverwood Golf Course this afternoon. The cross country skiing conditions were great, and we got a good workout. Now that the temps have warmed up, it's fun to be able to enjoy all this snow.

But we are looking forward to fun of a different and much warmer kind . . . we are going on a cruise! It's been in the works for a while, but we didn't know for sure until about ten days ago. We fly to Miami this Saturday, meet up with Doug and Jody Lester and their daughter and son-in-law, and then board the ship on Sunday for a western Caribbean cruise. We'll be stopping at Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel. It will be a first for Tom and me, so we're pretty excited. Fun and sun - here we come! Watch for more blogging when we return.

Blog #70 (here's to many more!)

Hey Gang,

I'm just laying on the floor/my bed. Michael and I have finished our first half week of school. We're now taking "awake" naps at 860 Highland Avenue (my new home.) We are full of wonderful food from the McCluskey household. We are good friends with their son, John, and so we've eaten there nearly every sunday lunch for the past year or more. They call it "Family Lunch."

I've put up some posters that used to hang at the lake. One of my favorites is the Deer jumping over the moon:
I wish that I could go sledding at Grandma's house right now.

Jeff On The Mend

Jeff demonstrated additional thrills and spills last Thurs. at a ski meet. He hooked a ski on a slalom gate, fell and hit his knee badly. We didn't know if he had a fracture or torn ligaments until we got the good news from a doc at orthopedic urgent care. Just a bad bruise and lots of swelling.

The moon walk on crutches is coming along. He hopes to be back to dancing form by the weekend, but no skiing for a couple of weeks.

Stuntmen

Try hitting "pause" for amazement/amusement.

Grandpa's pride n joy

I love this picture of Keegan on Dave's workbench, so I got an enlargement for his office, Keegan got so excited when he saw it,one of his favorite things to do is play around on grandpas work bench.

father and son

This was my favorite shot taken during the weekend.

white Christmas

Prentice Landing Book List

I'm looking for some new books to read and wondering what my family recommends and I will compile a booklist. Hooray!
What was your favorite book of 2008? (you can put pre-2008 books as well)

Laura: The Red House by Sarah Messer

Carolyn: What's So Amazing about Grace? by Phillip Yancey

Jeff: 1984 by George Orwell

Happy New Year!

Jeff Pre-carnate...?

A Frightening resemblance.

practice blues

Here's a blues that you can practice with. Get serious, or your blues will be lacking.

Christmas blues.

Here's an idea I had for when we get together. Let's all do some blues. Everyone can sing and play, so there should be no getting out of this. You can bring instruments, prepare some verses, scat, or just let it go on the fly (probably the best plan. I rounded up a video of Fats McPhereson and Joe Wallace demonstrating some F blues.

oh the memories...

Here's looking forward to Christmas in Jamestown:

Also featuring Joel HMS (how's my shovel) Land:

Snow day in Denver

good morning. Our church service has been cancelled. We only have 2-4 inches of snow, but its really cold......thought you northerners would get a kick out of that.

And while we're at it...

The other day I was browsing the internet and came across this studly figure. and then, as I stared I realized that I was looking at myself 20 years later. Notice the similar facial features, and it looks like I never decided to remove the mole on the left side of my face. click for bigger image.

brothers?

Wow you look sharp! Does anyone else see the resemblence between these two?

Or is it just me...

Have a safe trip home you guys and we'll see you up there in a few.

Finished

I turned in my final paper today at 6pm, and I am now finished! I don't know what to do with myself. Maybe catching up on sleep would be a good step. Joel and I are flying home Friday morning. I can't wait.

I feel this classy right now:

Nov. Band trip, finals, and such

Hey gang,
I know I promised you all some pics of the band tour but I didn't take many and several are on my phone and I can't figure out how to put them on here yet. If I do, I will. Anyway, if I could sum up the band trip in one word, it would be probably be: Interesting. From the crappy hotel (which included switching rooms three times before we got a good one, haha), to the driver (who had to make a u-turn into the right lane coming back across the border), to the performances (which went well!), and to the amazing Winnipeg Symphony. It was fun and worth the troubles and definitely memorable. I can go into details about the trip for those of you who want to know more, when we meet at Christmas time.
I have one final this coming week, then the other 5 finals are during finals week (15th-18th). So I should be pretty busy till Christmas break. I can't wait till Christmas rolls around, it shall be glorious!

AKLand

Greetings from finals week!

one week left of classes before winter break starts! i am writing from a computer lab where i am working on a video project. or sitting here for a million hours waiting for my video to save. it's been "fun" and "wonderful", actually it has been a royal disaster. let's just say that i have dropped my video art class for next semester. on a brighter note i have 25 pages of papers to write and a giant critique of all of my work with the entire faculty next week. then it will be christmas!

2009 Calendar

This is the time of year I usually start working on the family calendar. I decided this year I'm going to place orders and (sigh) ask for reimbursement. They run $20 each -Correction, I found a deal for $10 + tax! If anyone's still interested, I'll get going!

Keegan has BIG news...

Our bean is due July 15th 2009. We are all so excited for Keegan to be a big brother.