i was out of town for most of the huge fire that threatened santa barbara but i did get a few photos of the water dropping helicopters as fire crews gained control of the blaze. jesusita fire photos.    

a bit late but here are a few photos from the 15th annual campout 🙂 photos

if you are lucky enough to have "grose" as your last name, the odds are slim that you can also make the perfect pig noise. kevin grose, however, hit the jackpot!without further ado, please enjoy kevin's rendition of "Swine song" (turn up yer speakers!)...

Little Rudy is finally at home in Santa Barbara with his family after an epic battle lasting his entire 6 month life! I spent a few hours with the Geylings taking photos of the great event. here is a slideshow of little rudy leaving UCLA medical center, his first car...

i took the kids down to the ice rink in oxnard on saturday for a brownie ice skating outing to celebrate a successful cookie selling season 🙂 here are some photos..    

janse introduced me to the following hilarious and useful instructional mp3 on how to speak english if you are afrikaans. [audio:http://www.zinkwazi.com/music/afrikaans.mp3] what i really need is a guide for communication with americans*. * disclaimer: some of my best...

the big kids and i headed out with chris to the desert on thursday. we spent the night at the harmony motel [*] where bono and the lads stayed when they were working on the joshua tree album. the next two days were spent climbing, hiking and enjoying the magic that is...

lots of fun as the lawler cousins visited for a few day from the cold chicago wasteland. as you can see from the photos, piper liked the chickens 🙂 the photos

i had some fun playing with the free poladroid application. you can see a slideshow of my polaroids here 🙂

the chickens finally started laying eggs, there was much excitement as we got our first three this weekend! the kids have checked for eggs at least 20 times today since finding the first one 🙂 i think the coop etc cost around $600 so that's $200 per egg, what a deal!...

macey had a play date with olivia on sunday so phoebe and i went on a "papa date" one of the things she really wanted to do (for some reason) was to ride macey's bike while i followed in my truck... this was almost as fun as pretending to be crocodiles and monkeys on...

we enjoyed the traditional new years get together in laguna beach. lots of kids on razor scooters, swimming, scotch, laughing and other tom-foolery! photos part 1 photos part 2 I used the waterproof housing that Sean gave me for the first time, what a blast! here are...

We didn't get a Christmas card out this year, instead we sent out an 8x12 photo collage, it turned out well and might be repeated for 2009 🙂 Click on the image below to see the online version... Happy 2009 everyone! [FYI I used the free MacOSaiX tool to make the card...