Surprise!

Tonight we went to a surprise party that ended up being a surprise wedding and I got to be the surprise photographer! It was a lot of fun!

Commissioned Painting - Sold!

After months and months I finally finished the painting I was commisioned to paint.



Here it is hanging in it's new home with the proud owner!

Family we saw this summer

This may be a bit long but mostly pictures so hang in there...

We also saw millions of cousins but figured there wouldn't be enough room on this post.

Nature Walk

We went on a nature walk tonight in our new/old neighborhood and this is what we found.

It's nice to know that summer is here.

BIRTHDAYS!!!

For Dan's birthday we stayed at a condo in Bear Lake (A special thanks to Cherie, Jeff and Jeff's parents).

We had a lot of fun while we were there!

We rented this cool bike and rode 5 miles.

It was a little tiring...

We spent a lot of time in the pool and hot tub.

We also worked on our video footage for the movie trailers in the previous blog.

And of course went to the beach.

For Wendy's birthday Dan threw an amazing party!

 

We even had our own mariachi band!

Overall we had some amazing birthdays!

Thanks to all our friends and family who made our days great!

We loved all our birthday phone calls too, thanks Mary for the happy birthday from all 50 states!

Movie trailers from our Bear Lake getaway!

This is a romantic comedy called "Weekend Away".

This one is action packed and it's called "Dingers vs the World".

Sit back and enjoy!

P.S. Don't forget to vote for #93 in the art show I got into. For more details check out the blog I Appreciate Art listed here on the side. Thanks everyone!

San Dinger and the Adventures in Ghost Town

I've decided to try my hand at movie trailer making. Hope you like it... more to come.

Ghost Town!

We decided to go ghost town hunting last Saturday. Turns out there are a lot of ghost towns in Utah.

We headed south on I-15 and then west on the I-6.

We made a ghost town play list of songs for the trip. Two of our favorites on the list included Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Ghost Town by Shiny Toy Guns. Home became the trip song because it was a great driving song for the middle of nowhere. 

We found a lot of houses like this, which lead to quite a few questions. Who puts the boards up? Do they  put them up themselves before they evacuate? Why were these towns abandoned? Are we going to get radiation poisoning from visiting? And why was this called Last Chance St.?

We found the cemetery and most people there didn't live longer than this guy, 43. We did find one guy that lived to be 71 but no one else close to his age.

In one town we didn't find any old houses or people just a lot of these. First we thought they were goats, then sheep, but really they are probably a mutated alien animal.

Overall it was a fun way to spend a Saturday.

Snow Day Adventure!

Due to the weather I got sent home early from work so Dan and I decided to have a little fun...

This is our Alien vs Predator reenactment.

We tried to morph ourselves to Hawaii but it didn't quite work.

But we did get to go swimming with the fish.

Moving Day...s

On our designated moving day we didn't look out the window and started to carry things out. It looked like this.

That's right snow! It's pretty much been spring time here for the past few weeks until the day we decide to move. Today it's raining/snowing so we've made a lot more trips in the enclosed truck (jeep) than we planned on. Here's the only one we made with the truck when there was a break in the weather.

If you look close you might be able to see the water in the truck bed. It wasn't too bad, nothing even close to what Matt and Cara have been through, but we were hoping for the ideal spring time weather to make our move easy.

While moving is never easy this one hasn't been too bad.

Time to pack the computer and who knows when we'll see the internet again so bye for now.

P.S. In case you hadn't heard we're just moving to a different place in the same town, no big deal.

The Zoo

The art exhibit ended at the zoo yesterday. It was a great feeling to get accepted into the show and even better when I got choosen to be in the traveling show. Turns out dreams really do come true. They haven't revealed the dates or venues for the traveling show yet but when they do we'll keep you posted.

Thank you everyone who went to see the show and everyone who cheered me on!

 If you didn't get to see the show but want to online click here.

Some of my favorites are Tug of War , Desert Kangaroo Rat , Polar Bear , and Beneath the Surface. Dan's favorite was Hunter . We'd love to know your favorites so don't be shy with the comments.

Something I didn't know about gorillas but learned on one of my zoo trips.

Warning: Don't watch this if you have a weak stomach.

or this.. 

 

Two Wonderful Years!

We spent most of the day soaking in the sun.

It was 72 degrees in Vegas!

We decided to go with the traditional 2nd year gift - cotton.

So we made each other t-shirts.

(It's my fault that the one Dan made me is printed backwards. I thought they needed to be printed mirror image...opps!)

We decided to make the shirts and then go to the after midnight bowling special...

Overall it was a great day and a great anniversary!

P.S. For a special art announcement go here.


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