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Started with a basketball hoop for the Trist

( by the way I got to watch another game with the Trist and it was intense. Trist's team was down by one with about a minute left to play and Trist got fouled and went to the line. He made both his foul shots and then ended up making one more basket after that to really seal thier victory. What a game!)

I caught a shot of dad having to give it a try

Then we moved on to the bathroom

The plan was to rip everything out and then move it over for a shower/bath to be added.

at that point we had to just wait for the plumber. And because the guest room was going to have it's own shower dad wanted some changes on his bathroom. We fixed the ceilings and took out a door.

So no more getting through from the guest room. This is really weird for everyone that is used to going through here.

I was excited to take on these projects because we're looking into buying a house. I want to start working on our own place so bad. This helped give me an idea of some possible changes I might be able to make on the places we consider.

Inception!

First of all, I have no intention of mentioning everyone's birthdays when they come by, it's just too hard. However I wanted to say Ash and I recently went to Stuart's party and played some fun games and that Tristan's birthday just went by and I got to watch him play some basketball. What a game. Went into over time and the Trist lead the team in rebounds.

Now I have to tell everyone, even though no one really cares, that my favorite director Christopher Nolan has finally posted his next movie. It's a sci-fi called "Inception" which means the establishment or starting point for an institution or activity. It's listed to star Ellen Page and Leonardo DiCaprio. I'm pumped to see it, but it doesn't come out until 2010.

Games and Activities

We haven't been posting much but we've been keeping busy. Recently Ash and I got some tickets from Sal (thanks Sal) and we got to watch a couple ASU basketball games. For those of you that don't know, both games were really close and ASU still came out on top. The UofA game was packed! Ash hates when I post pictures of here but here's a cell phone pic anyways.

I also got to go indoor rock climbing with my cousin Josh and played paintball with Jordan. Both of which made me want to own the gear to go all the time.

Ash and I also went Whitney's birthday party last weekend. Happy Birthday again Whitney, sorry our gift was so small.

I can't remember what other activities we've done recently but it's never enough. I love how many fun things there are to get into and it's so hard for me to just stick with a couple. Anyway if anybody has any fun things lined up for the future be sure to send Ash and me and invite. We're usually down for anything.

Book Clubs

I hate that I never read! I feel like I have read some good religious books, even though I can always read more, but I never just read casually.
A while back a couple friends of mine started a book club and I thought it was great, but everyone quit out pretty quick and it made me sad. So I got this genus idea of starting a book club on a blog. Then people could join in whenever they wanted and participate whenever they wanted. We wouldn't have to meet up to talk about the books, we could just leave comments.

After making the blog page I decided it wasn't such a genus idea because I started realizing I couldn't think of anyone that would want to do this. I decided to continue with it anyways. Alone. It truly is Mike's Book Club, just Mike's. Anyway I'm going to try and read one book every month for the rest of this year. Join me if you ever feel like reading the same book as me. Oh and you can vote on the next book I read.


My first book is going to be Jurrasic Park by Michael Crichton. It will be my book for March.
You can click here to see the blog.

Photo Retouch

I'm always learning new things with photography. I recently learned some techniques to make images look a little less flat. This is an image I took and gave to Jacob and Heidi.

Although I think it looks alright I feel this next image is brighter and has more depth.

The difference is kind of small but I'm excited about it. So if you have an image taken by us and want it retouched let us know.