Family Time

Obligatory

What, you don't have baby pictures of you bathing with your siblings? What's wrong with you.

A Kind of Accolade

Have you ever visited the site ldschurchtemples.com?

It is extremely popular, and he posts up to date information on temples, both current and under construction.  Last Friday this news article appeared on his news section:

That is my Ogden Temple model video the webmaster e is promoting. He has linked to my best videos on his site. He has created pages just to display my videos for my Fort Lauderdale, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Paris, Gilbert and  Payson temple Models as well as the one he reported on, Ogden.

I was taken by surprise on this, suddenly out of nowhere I started getting comments on my videos. That morning, only the Payson video was well viewed, with nearly 300 views since last October when it was posted. The Ogden video had 50 views.  The following afternoon the Ogden video had 1160 (currently over 1700) views, and all except Ft Lauderdale have almost or over 300 views.

People have started to click the like button on my videos, going from one like for Payson to 22 for all the videos collectively.  AND I am getting views from around the world. Most of the views are from the US, but I also have views from Canada, Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, France, Colombia, Germany, Hungary, Australia, Italy, Chile, Argentina and New Zealand, just to name the countries that have had 5 - 100 visitors (US is well over 2,000 visitors.) All in all I have had views from over 44 countries, including such far flung places as Estonia and Trinidad and Tobago.

It really encourages me to keep doing what I am doing. I received an email from someone in Versailles France this morning thanking me for the Paris model.

Unbelievable

Growin a Backbone

Yep, Mr James has accomplished his first monumental feet. Unassisted (Ignore the pillows) sitting up.

And Taking a cue from his big sister, he is learning to guard his toys from grabbing hands.

Lilly has a new favorite phrase: "Eww, he drooly!"

That he is, little girl, that he is.

Peeping

A fact of life on the street we live on. Parents are anxious to get their kid to school on time. And Lilly is anxious to watch flashing lights.  That's right people. Keep speeding. You fulfill a need.

Happy Feet

Meet Steve

On Wednesday, we gained a new member of our household.

His name is Steve. Lilly adopted him off of Phineas and Ferb. He is the coolest North American chameleon friend ever.

Lilly loves to "find food for Steve" and "Mommy, look for Steve."
His favorite food is everything.
He lives in the back of Lilly's closet behind her hamper.

Want to know anything more about Steve? Ask Lilly; she's the expert.

Ogden Temple, Revised

New Render

The Original Render

The LDS Church recently revised the render for the Ogden Temple. I updated my model as well. Still off on a couple of Details, am I, but I like the way it looks.

Chocaholics Anonymous

And that, friends, is a photo you could end a blog on.

Not that I'm going to.

Music Monday

Here is a band from New Zealand I have been listening to for the last few months. This is some very clever video editing. Sparkadia: Talking Like I'm Falling Downstairs.

Soaring to New Lows

Last night I weighed in at 198 even. do you know what this means?  No, you don't, so I will tell you.

It means I officially weigh less than I did when I met Paige 5.5 years ago.

It means for the first time in probably 5 years I am no longer medically considered obese (greater than 203) and am now merely overweight.

It means the jacket and coat I wear now are ones I have not worn in over 4 years.

Paige is advancing as well. We both just went through a long period of little to no weight loss, but she can now wear her wedding ring for the first time since she was pregnant with Lilly.

PROGRESS!