Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Park Camping June 08 from Nate Murray on Vimeo.
Please enjoy this video from our recent camping trip. It is about ten minutes long.
Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Park Camping June 08
Jr. Park Rangers
This weekend we went camping with some of our friends. Ashley and Gary worked very hard to earn their Jr. Ranger Badge (left). I’ll post an edited video of the whole trip in a few days. For now, see below for a great video of their inauguration.
Ashley’s Birthday
This weekend was Ashley’s Birthday. I decided to take her to San Diego. We usually like to stay at the Lafayette Hotel on El Cajon Blvd., but because we’re on one income we opted for the Good Nite Inn, San Diego.
There’s a photo booth we really love at the Balboa Park Museum of Photographic Arts. We visited the booth last year and we’re trying to make it a tradition.
Pre-teen mutant ninja turtle
Well you are in for a treat today. My parents have digitized a gang of photos from my childhood. I have uploaded them to flickr and you can view the set here (slideshow).
another halloween memory
Here’s a photo of Mat, Melissa, me, and Steph from a Halloween years ago.
Instant Shirt Removal
Here is a video that shows you how to save hours of your life by instantly removing your shirt.
Hawaii Pictures!
Here is a link to some Hawaii pictures.
camping trip
This weekend we had a blast going camping with some people from church. Ash and I are going to be posting a little more about it but I wanted to post these pictures as quickly as possible. Click here.
i got one…
Okay, I have no time to post now, but here’s a preview:
Haircut and Garlic Ice Cream
So for Christmas my boss gave me a gift certificate for the Amadeus Spa and Salon. I went there today with Leah, and we got haircuts. Here are pictures of my new hair. I love going there, I got a haircut there last year when I had a gift certificate, and I wish that I could get my hair cut there all the time. Its like $100 for a haircut though, so I’ll just have to be satisfied with Fantastic Sams. After that, Leah and I went shopping and then picked Nate up from work and we went to The Stinking Rose, a garlic themed restaraunt in Beverly Hills. We had garlic bread with garlic spread, garlic chicken, whole cooked garlic cloves, garlic mashed potatos, even garlic ice cream. The ice cream was suprisingly good. All in all, it was a great afternoon and evening and I was so happy for a break in my week. And I can say with certainty that there will be no vampires at our house tonight.
family circus
Sunday was my birthday. A while back I bought a slackline and on Sunday my parents gave me a unicycle. We went to the park to try out our new toys and the result is that we look like we’re training for a circus. I’ve posted a video below its not very long (or very good).
checking in
Ash and I got a new camera for my birthday. Here is a picture of us:
puppies!!! oh wait…
My company hit its revenue goal for the year so I got a Christmas bonus. I wanted to buy myself something fun with the money. I was in the mood for something electronic so we went to Curcuit City and walked around the store. It was weird because I looked around and thought to myself “I could buy anything I want here with no problem” (except the really big plasma TVs). It was a strange feeling to be able to afford an expensive toy. The problem was that now that i had the opportunity I couldn’t find any thing I actually wanted.
So the hunt continued. We went to the mall and walked around the whole thing. Again, every store I walked into I said to myself “Okay, basically anything in this store you can buy, just pick something.” I couldn’t find anything. It was all remote control UFO’s or “just-add-water snow” or a really expensive sweater, blar blar blar.
I wanted something more.
Saturday I morning I had a brilliant idea: we should get a puppy! We’d been talking about getting a puppy for a while and we thought a beagle would be a good idea. So Ash and I talked about it and I found a breeder in Victorville that had some ready to take home for Christmas. Perfect. There was still one problem though, we read that beagles can get lonely if they are left alone for long periods of time. Since we both work we were kind of worried this would happen to our dog. So then I got my second great idea:
We should get two puppies!
Not only would they keep each other company, the breeder was offering $100 off if you bought two to encourage this companionship. By now I was really excited. We drove an hour and a half to Victorville and picked up our friend Bekah and took her to the breeders house.
We picked out two male puppies, one from Group A and one from Group B. We put them in the back seat of our new car and they fell asleep. We think its funny when dogs have human names so we named them Herrold and Albert. Everything was right with the world.
That is, until we got them home.
As soon as the dogs were in our house the following list became very clear:
5 Reasons why we shouldn’t have a dog (right now)
5) We’re never home - We thought that this wouldn’t be a big issue if we got two. While this helps with the dog’s loneliness it just means they can chew twice as many pieces of furniture.
4) Our house is small - Even a little smell fills up the entire house.
3) We live on a second story - This means when they start to go on the floor we have to pick them up, walk down a flight of stairs and then find a patch of grass. By this time the pee is spread along all of that path and some is on my clothes.
2) We don’t have a yard - This means every time the dogs need to go outside we have to go with them and they have to be on a leash the entire time.
1) We have to pick up their “lawn-treats” in a bag.
That’s when we got The Fear. We realized that our lives were suddenly strapped to our house and these dogs. Our friends were going to ask us, “Want to come over sometime tonight?” Nope. No-can-do, gotta go home and take out the dogs.
We put the dogs in their crate and they only whined for about 5 minutes. But we barely slept. All we could think about was if the breeder would take them back in the morning. Ashley said that if he took them and only gave us $1 it would be worth it. I wasn’t ready to give them up so cheaply, but I wasn’t looking forward to trying to sell them either. I called the breeder in the morning and thankfully he let us return them and gave us most of the money back.
I was sad to leave Herrold and Albert, but I knew it was the right thing. Bekah left her keys in our car so we dropped them off at her house on our way out of town.
If you’re interested in beagle pups you can see the breeders website here. I guess the moral of the story is “Don’t impulse-buy something that can poop on your floor.”
lombardi ranch
We went to Lombardi Ranch this weekend. I’ll try to post some more pictures later on this week.
Be sure to check out our NorCal video below!
trip to nor cal
This last weekend we drove with Leah up to Aubrey’s Family’s house just north of Sacramento. Mark and Aubrey were back from Jerusalem for a short time, so we went up to visit them. You can view the pictures here. I’ll post a video soon.
a comic. the first of many?
Hey all. Ash and I made this comic. Its quite dumb but we find it entertaining. I made the first page, ash did the second.
incredible machine
| Okay. I usually don’t like to pass around internet videos. But this one is amazing. Watch it, you wont be disappointed. | |
labor day trip to utah
We went to Utah over this last weekend. I’ve compiled a video of our trip.
Downlaod the video: high res (19MB mp4), or low res (3.7MB mov).