SAND DUNES

more pics from ledge point. we had to drive to the dunes in that dodgey trailor and some of us ended up getting hurt. The dunes were amazing and sandboarding was so fun. the pic of me boarding was my first run- i swear i got better as time went by, but my camera battery died....

LEDGE POINT

The first pic is my friend Ben and I at an Indonesian Restaurant in Perth. He went on a mission to Indonesia so he spoke the language with the workers there and then taught me how to eat the food with my hands. it was yum.

This weekend i went to ledge point--- we camped in the bush way far away from anyone and right on the beach. it was so relaxing and secluded. We had a bonfire going all night... the next pic is Renae and I- she was my weeing buddy- there were no toilets so the girls taught me how to go in the bush, and now i am a pro. The third is a pic of our camping area from far away.

yo i'ts from Eric

Heelo this is ERIC SPEAKING. Just to let everybody know i'm so very happy and I hope everybodyelse is too. have a great DAY!!!!!!


FROM,

ERIC P.S. TEE HEE

Animation Final (Yes, another)

Buenas!! Hey, I just finished burning my CD for my final project, this is a character design study, I took a bunch of pictures of my friend Ben and tried to make him into a cartoon character, and then studied other character artists, and drew Ben as I thought they would draw him. I had a lot of fun with it, and wish I would have had time to do more:

Some original sketches of Ben

Face studies/caricatures of Ben

Study of Shane Prigmore's drawings

Ben, done Shane Prigmore style

Stephen Silver sketches

Ben, Silver style

Study sketches of Alex Ross

Super Ben, Alex Ross style

Study sketch of Jose Lopez (this guy's stuff is awesome)

Ben, Lopez style

Rach and I can't WAIT to drive out to California and see you all!! Woohoolihoo!!

Love, the Kev

Something's up . . .

Hey!

Well, I got the letter from the Manti temple today, see if you can tell what's wrong with it, I'll transcribe it for you:

Kevin WALTON
1130 East 450 North
Apt 45
Provo UT 84606

Dear Brother WALTON & Sister DORNBUSH, please read this together:

As the Manti Utah Temple Presidency we have been informed that you will be coming to the temple for your marriage. We are happy about this wonderful occasion and we extend to you our love and congratulations. It is our desire to make this day and your time at the temple a special memory.

This letter confirms your appointment to be MARRIED on:
Date Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Marriage Time 3:00 PM
Room #5 which has a capacity of 50
Time you should arrive 2:00 PM
Time your guests should arrive 2:30 PM

If there are changes or you are unable to keep your appointment please notify the temple at (435) 835-2291.

Sounds like I'd better give them a call . . . .

So this is where it comes from...

If you haven't seen Emmy's photos, they're below this posting, so don't miss them....

I thought this is hilarious... We've all seen Dad get up in arms about a thing or two and send a letter to the editor of the local newspapers and Jessie follow suit with her American Apparel outcry...

I found this letter and just thought, "okay, it makes a little more sense now..."

Check it out... Grandpa wrote this 12 years ago:

"December 14, 1995
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

After several days with no electrical power because of the nearly unprecedented rain and wind storm, we finally have the electrical power restored here in the East hills of Los Gatos. No more generator noise, at a cost of 30 dollars per day, no more candles and flashlights, no more Coleman stove cooking (until we go camping next summer), and we are now once again warm. We have had numerous outages before, and we would be naive to expect that this would be the last. My wife just called the PG&E to say thanks for the great effort of all concerned, and the shocked representative thanked her in return and said 'We rarely get any thanks at all.'

As an affluent society based on world living standards, we have become so accustomed to having every convenience that we take for granted the almost miraculous infrastructure we are so privileged to enjoy. Some even consider it an inalienable right to have every comfort readily available 24 hours of every day, when in many parts of the world such electrical power sources are at best, meager or non existent.

It is both humorous and pitiful to hear the braying of political hacks, be they mayors or members of the legislature, as they use a wide spread electrical outage as an excuse to gain public attention so they can prance and express such righteous indignation at the suffering they and their constituencies are experiencing. No less annoying is the cackly and prattle of the consumer activists who consider the general public so dimwitted and inept that they need governmental regulation of every product and service provider. They and the political hacks use such an outage to castigate the PG&E and to enflame our communities against the people who comprise the management and the rank and file of the utility company. This makes it easy for the TV field crews to find and film those who are angry and anxious to blame someone for their so-called suffering.

I have lived in the Santa Clara Valley since before WWII, and have experienced the awesome population growth in this valley. I have continued to be amazed at the ability of the PG&E to keep ahead of the gas and electrical demands of the housing and commercial developments, in spite of the never-ending battles with the consumer activists and the environmentalists with "the world is flat" mentalities. These doomsday activists successfully destroyed this valley's opportunity to become the world leader of safe and efficient nuclear-generated electrical power, with the instigation and propogation of totally impractical structural demands and over regulation by governmental agencies. Yet in spite of these activists' constant nipping at its heels, PG&E has been able to successfully and efficiently meet all of the increasing demands.

When there are outages, even during the worst of storms in the middle of the night, the field crews work under these extremely hazardous and difficult circumstances, often on hillsides in the poison oak, it the mud, often where traffic is a hazard, and yet in spite of these difficulties, we always get our power restored. To expect that the PG&E or the telephone company should maintain such an excess of employees so that on those extremely rare occasions such as our recent storm they can replace and erect all of the fallen power poles, restring all of the broken power lines, and remove all of the fallen trees in a matter of a few hours is the height of stupidity or naivete. I am grateful that we have non-governmental private utility companies which to efficiently provide gas, electrical power, and telephone services and that when the storms do come, that they do such an excellent job, under extremely hazardous conditions, to restore these precious services.

-Wesley K Walton"

*******

just a few random pics from TFY..... the first one is from the first day when we welcomed our group... the next few we are dressed up for the skit we had to put on at the beginning for the kids about the rules. and this last one is shane, i have no idea why is dressed up this way or what it means.

:)

OKAY so the first picture is of the group leaders from my Troop at TFY... Naomi, Ephraim, me, Chris, Lisette, and Boydie.... We had a happy unbirthday party themed dance one of the nights so i dressed up as alice in wonderland and im with Lisette and Tim. The next pic is marcus and a little guy named ammon- my favorite kid.. sooo cute. The next pic is marcus and his invention- a cooler with a cd player and speakers built in... awesome. Marcus reminds me a ton of brian stanton. and the last pic is me looking like an idiot- aimee loves to play with my hair, and this is one of her most creative hair styles. hot huh?

and congratulations to kevin and rachael. i am very excited for you both! CHEERS!

CHEERS!!!

*clinking of knife against glass*

Hello family!! I don't come on this blog thing nearly as often as I should...but here am I now sitting in front of the computer...on the blog...a day after Kevin's unofficial/official wedding announcement...and nothing has been said about it!! That's madness! So let this be an online toast to Kevin and Rachel and their love and commitment to each other for ETERNITY, which I hear is a long, long time! That is very exciting! Hip hip hooray! Love you Kevin!!

*some deep male voice says "I'll drink to that!"*

CHEERS!

Billy's Balloon

Friends!! I thought I'd post my 3D animation final for this year up here so you all could see it. I based it on a pretty crazy cartoon that I saw in my History of Animation class called Billy's Balloon, it's pretty dumb, but I hope you guys like it!

Happy 420!

I thought this image looked vaguely familiar, but then I remembered why . . .

Sick.

Easter Fun

Can you tell who decorated which eggs??????

We all decided that Curt won for the most creative easter eggs.

Eric showing off his awesome easter egg decorating skills.

Giants Game

Day Trip to ASU

I don't know exactly what Jessie is laughing at, but she looks funny.

Eric on the drive... He stayed pretty sane considering all the time we spent in the car for one day.

The beautiful landscape...

My beautiful hair... and forever stretched out in front of us...

The sunset would be a lot more beautiful if the camera would stop focusing on all the dead bugs on the windshield.

Dana Point!

To celebrate my graduation/our 6 month anniversary, Steve & I took a mini-vacation: two nights at a cute bed & breakfast in Dana Point (about an hour north of us, on the beach). It was sooo fun and sooo relaxing.

Our cute hotel, "The Blue Lantern Inn."


Steve getting ready for our tandem bike ride along the beach.
I've never been on a tandem before!

We visited the mission in San Juan Capistrano.


They had me-sized doors!!!
(See next picture to understand how short this door is.)

See??? Steve had to duck a bit. :-)


The pretty mission fountain (+ Steve looking a little angry
in the background) had koi living in it! Lots of them!


This one got up close & personal with me.
Kind of looks like he's got a fu man chu started.


And then, back to the hotel where we discovered...

You know you're living in style when your toilet paper is folded
into a rose.

Steve's favorite part of the trip was the yummy food. We
ate our breakfast and afternoon snack out on the patio with
this panoramic view of the ocean. It was nice to take the time to
actually look at the view. :-)

At breakfast.
Steve searching for tide pools.