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What's New for the New Year?

Between moving and ice storms blogging has been scarce around here. There is some exciting news though...I have been working hard on some new additions to my website, blog and a completely new Fine Art website! My hope is to launch all of this after the new year. Stay tuned!

Here is a picture from today. It's cold and foggy here in Oklahoma City! I wish I took some cool pictures of the storm. Check out some here, they're awesome.

Northwest, Day 3 (of 3)

For our last full day in Oregon, Cara and I went with my family to the beach. It was cold, misty and perfect! Here are some cool shots from the day.
Haystack Rock - Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Cara :) Haystack Rock reflection in her sunglasses.





Our Christmas Card this year!


The family.

Another family on the beach made a huge bonfire then left... so we took it over! Lastly, we ate at Mo's at Cannon Beach. It was an awesome evening to end a great trip to the Northwest. Can't wait to go back.

Northwest, Day 2 (of 3)

Multnomah Falls, Oregon.




Wednesday of last week. My good friend Stephen took his girlfriend Cheryl to Multnomah Falls in Oregon and proposed to her! The fun part of the day was getting a heads up about the proposal and racing to beat them there in hopes to photograph the big event. It was COLD (so cold the bridge you see in the photographs was completely iced over), but awesome nonetheless. Here is the crazy part of the event... We raced up the hill thinking they already headed up to the waterfall (there is only one trail leading to the top). Once we reached the top we (my wife, Thomas and Jonathan- brothers) realized that we beat them up! We were scared and worried that we would now cross paths and create suspicion in Cheryl's mind. So my wife, brother and myself pretend that we were tourists looking into the woods with our back to the trail and they walked right by us! They didn't notice us at all...phew. As soon as they started across the bridge I found a good vantage point and started shooting away. Here are a few shots...she said yes :)

Congratulations Stephen and Cheryl!

Later we went to Crown Point which is a historic building/area that overlooks the Columbia River Gorge. The winds were close to 70mph! It was nuts! So we had our fun leaning into the wind. It was awesome.


After that we enjoyed some awesome local food and went on home to hang out with the rest of the fam. Posting the last day of the trip soon, check back!

For now...lean into the wind.

Northwest, Day 1 (of 3)

Cara and I flew into Portland last Tuesday, rented a car early the next morning with my brother and did a little day trip to Seattle to see my Dad, step-mom and step-brothers. We met my Dad for lunch at Boing field where he teaches flight school. We were able to eat at a restaurant called Randy's. I remembered eating at that restaurant as a child when I would fly with my dad early in the morning, so it was sweet to revisit. It seemed like the same grumpy waitresses worked there that did when I was there over ten years ago. That's the character of the place, which I thought was awesome. Randy's, don't ever change. After we ate lunch, Thomas, Cara and I went to burn some time at Pikes Place Market. Cara and I hadn't been there since our honeymoon last June so it was cool to get back there. Check out some of the pictures from our earlier trip there, the guy playing the piano was at the same street intersection this week as he was when we went last summer, crazy!



(Thanks Thomas for the pic)
This guy had is parrot trained better than most people have their dogs trained, it was sweet. He was showing off the tricks his parrot could do, one in which was to play dead (as he is doing in my hand). The guy also taught his parrot to remain in the "dead" position while he threw him from hand to hand. That was the point at which I asked if I could try it! Really, I was trying to see what kind of excuse he would give me that wouldn't allow me to hold or toss around his parrot. "Sure!" he said. "Whaaaaat!?" I thought. So there I was, tossing the parrot back and forth from hand to hand. It bit me a few times, but fair enough...I haven't shaved in weeks.


My wife took this in Seattle's Best Coffee escaping the cold.

Gum wall in an alley on our way back to the car. Look closely, someone wrote their initials in gum.

Thomas playing dead.

My wife, Abbey Road inspired.

(Thanks for the pic dad)
All of us with my dad after he got home from work.

Later that evening we drove back to Portland and got started with Thanksgiving and beach/waterfall visiting (those posts coming soon).

left coast...

My wife and I went home to Oregon/Washington for thanksgiving. It was one of my favorite trips home since I lived in Portland.

I will try to post pictures from the trip within the next few days, things are pretty busy right now as we are in the midst of a move! Out of the trip I had three favorite days, all in which have pictures to prove it. I will try to post a day at a time within this next week so check back.

For now, this is for Kaleb...a fixie in pikes place downtown Seattle. Even the lock matches. I thought of you when I saw this bike, enjoy man!
(Kaleb recently broke his wrist and rode in an alley cat race here in OKC, racing through the streets in an arm cast he took 4th out of 60 some odd people. Congrats man!) I would love to see you do that race in a body cast, that would be sweet.

I am thankful for...

her.


I love my wife!