blog slackers

Ummmmm it's not acceptable to have not updated your blog in 1 month... stacey and julie! and 3 months.... EMILY! Get on it already!

I read it...

... and I'm in the same boat. Wondering why other people aren't posting! But also not posting myself.

My post is about busy-ness. We have been "busy" lately. I use the quotes because for once we are busy doing things we actually ENJOY doing rather than things we HAVE to do. Here's what we've been up to:

• We went on a 7 mile hike up Farmington Canyon in the snow... beautiful!
• Drove up to Weber State pond yesterday with 2 loaves of bread and fed the ducks which was absolutely hilarious. There were like 50 ducks and they would just swarm around you to get the bread and follow you everywhere.
• Watched American Idol after a 3 or 4 season hiatus
• Watched the Superbowl & the hilarious Office episode that aired after
• Made frozen dinners
• Went to the Jazz game this last Monday
• Watched Kathryn and Danielle on Saturday during Jami's birth, and got to see beautiful Addison!
• Drove around Farmington and Fruit Heights looking at mansions up on the hill. 90% of which were for sale, and 50% of which were bank-owned--no exaggeration! But beautiful homes, which are probably a steal right now.
• Had a barbeque in the snow with Greek Souvlaki that I made myself... it was so good, but I had heartburn for about 2 days.

It is really nice to not be "busy." I feel like I can be available for others more, I find myself thinking about more important things, and I am noticeably more relaxed and less stressed. I take baths, read, work on scrapbooking, write in my journal, and give the dogs more attention. Mike and I decided this is how life should be--enjoyable every day. In the words of "Death of a Salesman," why work really really hard 50 weeks a year for a 2 week vacation? Our new motto is that every week should be a vacation! So, our goal is to do at least one thing per week that we would do on vacation, i.e. hike, camp, ride horses, swim, picnic, watch the stars, sports, museums, bowling, etc etc etc.

Does anybody read this?

So I noticed that nobody has posted on this for a while. I got kind of tired of checking the blog to see if anybody had posted anything new and there not being anything new. Then I realized maybe everybody else is doing the same thing and we just need a catalyst here to get things started. Well, restarted.

So everybody should know by now that Jami had her baby. Little Addison is adorably cute. Since she looks nothing at all like our kids, they can all be adorably cute without having to compete for who's cuter.

Also, if anybody is interested, here are some of my more interesting pictures from my graphics class. I wrote the program that rendered them.

Reflective/Transmissive: shows the changes as a marble becomes gradually more transmissive and less reflective.

Five Spheres: Two reflective spheres and one transparent one to show off reflections and refractions.

Billiars: Shows off shadows and some reflections.

Axis Triangles: Multiple light sources, shadows, and reflection

Arvo (my nemesis!): Some funky refractions, inner reflections (light refracted at the surface then refelcted inside the object). This one took forever to get right...

Whitted: Fun with refractions and reflections

Thanks a lot! I'll be here all semester!