The Infamous Nissan

As many or most of you know, Kevin has been driving the same car since high school. It has been passed down through the years to various family members. I loved the fact that he had a car when we got married. It was low maintenance, although it had some problems we chose not to fix.

I guess I've already mentioned that Kevin got a new car a few months back because the Nissan was tortured to death. It really didn't want to pass the saftey and emissions test in Utah so it decided to quit working.

We were planning on taking it to a junk yard when we heard that Low Book Sales will give you a better deal than anyone else or hand you $250. We figured they wouldn't give us more than the junk yard and went to drive the car there to claim our $250. Well... the lovely thing wouldn't start.





That was over a month ago and it continued to sit in our parking lot, not working. I was driving home from the grocery store on Wednesday, enjoying the beautiful sunshine, when I decided I would go take pictures of the Nissan and list it on KSL classifieds for a little more than the junk yard would give us.



I got home, took pictures and posted the listing. I kid you not, 30 seconds later I had an email in my inbox with a guy asking me to call him. 30 seconds after that someone was ready to drive down and get it. 45 seconds after that we had a second call with a guy who was willing to give us $50 more than we were asking. While on the phone with him we missed 3 calls (one of which was the email guy who didn't answer his phone when I called back, too bad for him). While we were waiting and figuring out what to do (we wanted the extra $50 but thought it was bad etiquette to
tell the first guy no) we missed a few more calls.


As it turns out... the first person who called was persuaded not to buy the car as a fixer upper. We told him it would probably be best as a parts car. After we told him the whole story of the car he agreed. So we sold it to the second guy who was building the same car and thought it was worth $250 to have a second car with identical parts. So it's gone. It was a little sad to see it go, but in the end it is worth having a newer car that works properly.

Stop Motion

For one of my final projects I was assigned a random song to which I was to make a stop motion video. I asked Rosie if she would be my model. After 2.5 hours of photographing and several hours editing and figuring out software... I ended up with 1103 images in 3 min and 40 sec of stop motion video. Here it is!

Snorkeling

Here are some pictures from Sharks Cove and Hunauma Bay:






Matt, we're working on a picture for y0u.

Hawaii -- Day 1,2&3

We've been in Hawaii now for three days. Kind of crazy, but super fun! Here are a few of the highlights:

Sunrise at Turtle Bay

Breaking Open a Coconut -- Palm Fish in Devin's Bag -- Dolly with a Fireknife

The Samoan Village -- Dad Being a Drummer in Tonga

Making Palm Leaf Fish -- Tiki Man

Delicious Dinner at the PCC



Kevin Being Cheif in New Zealand -- Mom Participating in Fiji



Mango Smoothie at the PCC



Snorkeling at Shark's Cove



Kevin's Creamy Shaved Ice at Motsumoto -- Devin and Dolly Jumping into Sunset



More Jumping into the Sunset

Snow!

This is the view from our front door yesterday, May 24. Go figure.

A long time coming...

I've really been meaning to update. Really. I just never get around to it. So here is the sum up of our life in the last month (in no particular order):

- I am going to school for summer term and love it! I'm taking photo illustration and alternative photography. We are learning historic processes in Alt which is really fun and we spend a lot of time out in the sun waiting for our prints to expose. The first day we took a 20 minute nap while we all laid on a large piece of fabric (already coated with the proper chemicals) and made a giant photogram.
- Kevin and I both bought Chacos in anticipation of Hawaii in 3 weeks. They are awesome!
- We went to Salt Lake for our friend Seth's wedding. The tulips were gorgeous!



- My little brother had a birthday and we gave him stickers from all the bike places we buy things from :) and I made awesome strawberry shortcake (featured on my other blog...)





- I've been shooting lots for Jewel Kade which has been pretty fun and a great learning experience.



- We've been exercising! Kevin is gaining 2lbs a week (we are super excited about it -- it's something he hasn't experienced since birth) and I've become more toned and possibly lost weight (I haven't really checked). Thank you to Megan Whitney for introducing me to the 100 pushups program. We are very sad that we've only been able to go on one bike ride
- I've also been attempting to eat healthier... I think it's going pretty well.
- My dad's birthday is today (and Rio's and Linda Moore's)! Happy Birthday!


- As mentioned in a previous bullet point... it's been raining cats and dogs here lately. We get a few warm days and then it dumps rain and pretends to snow some days. I love the rain but I wish we could have had more of this in the winter when we needed snow for skiing.



This is the view from our back/kitchen door, by the way...



Those are waves in case you were wondering... the streets were covered in about half an inch of water.

So there you have a brief summary of our life. I promise I will be better (hopefully a post each week). I'm guessing Hawaii will bring lots of posts :). But nonetheless... I will post. Also... for more pictures and projects see my photo blog. There are more tulips, some food, stock birthday images, etc. Love!

Moab Jeep Safari

We went to Moab with my cousins this weekend for the Jeep Safari. I haven't closely gone through all my photos yet, but I wanted to post this one. I've been wanting to try something like this and Moab provided a great opportunity! Something that made me laugh is all the people in the Jeep were looking at me at some point. So, I should have more photos soon, but for now...

(You can click on it to see it bigger)

It's been awhile!

So... it's been a while. Yeah... life has been really busy with work and school Mostly school for me. Kevin's enjoyed having free time, although he's running out of things to do. He went to the Biophysical Society Annual Conference in San Francisco a few weeks ago to present a poster for the research he did last semester with BYU. It was the first time we've been apart during our 1.5 years of marriage.

Kevin's car pretty much died after being in the shop for two weeks in an attempt to repair it. So... Kevin got a new car! It is a VW Jetta. We weren't planning on adding to our VW collection but it was a really good deal for the price range we were looking for. I'll post some pictures soon.

I've been making a lot of food and taking lots of pictures. My latest project was to recreate a magazine article for Real Simple. Here are the pages I created: (for those of you that subscribe to Real Simple... or if you want to take a look at one... this article is their Weeknight Meals column in the Food section)