First, Mike acts the same way my dad does right before vacation.  Grumpy and mad because things arn’t happening as fast as he would like. The only differance is as soon as my dad gets on the road he actually enjoys the vacation. I think Mike’s problem is he doesn’t like the beach thing.  Next time we go camping we will go to the mountains close by with no lake and lots of hiking and bike riding. I think that is his idea of fun camping. Me on the other hand grew up in the water and therefore can’t get enough of it.

I had a great time and would love to go to pineview every year if my hubby liked it as well. I guess we will have to compromise and venture out to other things. We also went to the dinosaur museum in Ogden. It was like the zoo except with dinosaurs instead of animals. The dinosaurs were fake but they had good sound effects. We were able to pretend we were in Jurassic Park!  We also went to see the Monks at a little church. They chant seven times a day starting at 3:30 am. They also sell honey that they make and Jam that their other monk friends make from another state.  We bought some jam we ate it within the next week. It was good.

I also found out that I love to cook even when camping! That was nice because my mom hates to cook while camping and I thought I might be like her. I also didn’t throw up once while on this trip! It was a nice break. Although right when I got back I started up again. aarrggg.

We did not spend as much time on the beach as Mike would make you believe, instead we had a nice balance.

It was fun.

Okay okay okay…so it’s been almost a month since the last post on here. Life has been busy. We’ve had a vacation to Pineview Reservoir (and we forgot to take the camera…GAH!) and some really good days at work (any day with a $500 bonus is good). I plan on making a more detailed post tomorrow, but for now, I am obligated to put up some pictures for my siblings.

You see, Mary has taken my advice and stopped sending everyone huge attachments. Instead, she is emailing me the pictures, and I post them on the blog for the family to enjoy at their leisure, without cluttering their inboxes. So a number of these pictures are from her.

In addition, Sam is flying out to Washington DC for his internship, and as part of the trip he is making a stop in Oklahoma to see Sarah and family. Of course, Leah is in the “everyone needs to play princess tea party with me” stage, and Sam is no exception. So there is some real quality stuff on here from his visit to OK.

It was the longest ultrasound I have ever been to. She recorded the whole thing I think, and the recording was something like 37 minutes long! Much more then the last video I got which was maybe a minute long. I told her to tell us what the sex was after it was over, but I was regretting it towards the end.

I am in the process of potty training James. He is doing much better then a week ago! I am very happy. He has been in the same underwear all day and has gone twice in the toilet. I think he will be out of diapers completley before his brother comes! Yeah!

First off, if you had to click my “read more” link, then w.bloggar did the trick in splitting my blog up into the teaser and the main content (what you are reading now.) That is one thing I could never really get working on the other tools, and it is really important to me to have that working. It keeps my blog posts a lot cleaner and easier to read.

Next, I the software claims to be entirely portable, meaning I could put it on a USB drive and take in anywhere, make posts, and either publish them immediately, or save them for later. Pretty neat, if I do say so myself.

The “Windows Live Writer” software is also working well. It does the same stuff the w.bloggar does, and possibly a lot more. The interface is sure a lot spiffier, but the downside is that it is a Microsoft tool, and when you install it you have to uncheck all the stuff they are trying to force upon you (use Live Search as your default search, install this toolbar, use Live photos, etc.)

I may try this thing out for a couple of days more, see how well it works. If I can convince Johanna to use it, and she likes it, that might be the last thing.

In addition, I migrated the blog from Serendipity to WordPress, partly as an experiment to help the guys at work evaluate the blog software, but also because version 2.5 was just released, and it has some integration that I want to look into a lot. The theme has changed to something a lot more polished…let us know what you think!