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For the last few months I have stumbled across a few new sites that I seem to be using now on a daily basis. I thought I would go ahead and share just in case you haven’t come across them yourself.

Hulu.com is a site that grabs TV shows/videos from all the different networks and posts them on one site. The videos are played using FLASH instead of using windows meadow player, or quicktime.

Mint.com is a site that is very similar to quicken or microsoft money but everything is stored online. Mint goes out and grabs your banking transactions and balances every time you log in. It does a pretty job at sorting your transactions into different categories and lets you set and manage a monthly budget. The security of the site is legit but if your one of those people that are weary of internet security this isn’t for you.

getdropbox.com can be used many different ways. You can use it to share files back and forth with friends and family or you can use it to access files between your work computer and your home computer. You first need to download dropbox to your computer and then choose a place to drop your dropbox folders. At that point you need to setup the other computers you want to share that folder with. Any file you insert into that dropbox folder will then update any computer that is associated to that folder as well. To get a better understanding on how all this works, watch the video on the main site.

Nina had an appointment at 6:45 this morning to get her 4 wisdom teeth pulled. She was deathly scared to go under for the surgery but knew she didn’t want to be awake for it either. The surgery lasted only 45 minutes and we were on our way home. Everything went smoothly and we now have a diet of apple sauce, jell-o, soup and pasta. I took some pictures of the inside of Nina’s mouth but decided it would probably be best to leave those out. So here’s a solo shot of Nina right before the surgery.

Sunday night we were watching the Olympics with the Bockhackers when we get an interruption on the TV stating there had been a funnel cloud spotted 2 miles north of Castle Rock. 2 miles north of Castle Rock is Castle Pines and thats exactly where we live. So we opened our blinds and there it was. Eric and I ran outside to get a better view and had the girls update us with what was on the news. The tornado wasn’t powerful enough to cause any problems but was very cool to watch.

Shane & Shane were doing a worship conference down at Glen Eyrie in the springs. Friday night they had a concert open to the public. So Nina, Todd and I headed down to the Springs to hit it up. The concert was awesome, the room we were in only holds about 200, so it was a real cool night of worship. Glen Eyrie is a castle that was built decades ago and is now owned by The Navigators. The surrounding area is very similar to Forest Home. The pictures I took are not the best but here are a few to get an idea.

So we are going to be in California for 2 weeks. We head out early tomorrow morning. We should be arriving in California sometime tomorrow evening. The plan is around 7 but we’ll see how far we get. I will be working out of our Irvine office during the days and Nina will be hanging out with friends and family. But our evenings and weekends are free and we would love to see and catch up with everyone we can. If your free over the next 2 weeks give us a call.

I got so sick and tired of having to archive each and every page into each month and then update all the links. I don’t really need to impress anyone with my website skills, so I figured I would go the blog route. It will allow me to update the site no matter what my location is. I will still be doing picture albums as separate pages and you will be able to access everything that was on the site before.

I’m still working out all the kinks and hope to have everything up shortly.

Oh…and you can now leave us comments too.

Some of you have been asking me to put up our wedding photos. There are hundreds of photos so it might take awhile to load all of them. If you would like any of the originals just shoot me an e-mail along with the numbers of the one’s you want.

Our wedding photographer: Chris Humphreys

The 5 inches didn’t last long. Basically the next day it was all gone and was in the high 50’s. I’m thinking this will actually be the last snowfall we get. Crossing my fingers. Hoping for more thunder and lightening like last summer.

I can’t really complain because, although we had 2 days of snow, the days following we were back up to 70 degree weather.

We have some friends who drove their truck out in February to visit some of their family and ended up having to leave Colorado abruptly to get back to California. Well, Nina and Laura decided they would drive the truck back to California for them so they could visit some family and friends. It ended up working out really well because Nina was able to see her brand new niece. Here are a few pictures of her trip.