The Koch Co.

In honor of my mom

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:54:10 GMT

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This picture is taken in honor of my mom's birthday today (Happy Birthday, Ma!). For those of you who know her, this picture makes perfect sense. For those of you who don't, you may be scratching your heads in befuddlement, but you'll just get to scratch.

License Plate Game

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:50:58 GMT

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I actually took a different picture today with work's camera at a work related event, but it got lost in the cybersphere somewhere when I tried to e-mail it to myself. So you get a placeholder - a pic I took on the way home. I always think it's funny when foreign license plates spell words :)

And You Thought Cheez Whiz Was Bad

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:49:09 GMT

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The goal was to take a picture when I went grocery shopping today. This is the display of tube cheeses. You can get shrimp cheese and ham cheese and salami cheese and lobster cheese and crayfish cheese. Yummer.

Dancing With The Stars

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:46:19 GMT

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My grandma is so cute. Because we're living overseas, she tapes Dancing With the Stars for us and sends the tapes so that we can get our American TV fix. I guess we've been watching too much Dancing lately, because we found this drawing in Audrey's room. If you read it semi-phonetically, it's easy to see how "Care & Inobin" is actually "Carrie Ann Inaba." Audrey even drew three paddles, although I don't really think the judges would give a 10, an 11 and a 1 for the same dance!

Chet

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:44:48 GMT

Canon EOS 30D
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Not the sharpest of pictures, but a couple cute shots of Chester nonetheless.

Good Night

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:42:56 GMT

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This was the last light I turned off tonight before I went to bed.

Happy Birthday Audj!

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:59:58 GMT

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Today was Audrey's Birthday! Poor Audrey. She was sick for her birthday last year, so we had to cancel her party, and her brothers are sick for her birthday this year, so we had to cancel her party. We still had fun at home, though. We hung up all sorts of Hello Kitty stuff, opened presents, ate Princess Tårta, took some birthday portraits, webcammed with the grandparents and had a wonderful day. As far as the portraits go, the second to last one wasn't posed, I just happened to get her looking like a rocker, and the bottom one is with her new blanket, one of her presents.

bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:54:17 GMT

Canon EOS 30D
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Alien Bees 800 Studio Lights x2

This is me trying to look mean whilst showing off my new beanie and my new 'burns. I think the bottom pic, although the light is messed up, makes me look like a cat burglar getting caught in the headlights.

Dishes

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:03:49 GMT

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I did the dishes tonight.

Kinda Freaked Out

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:01:46 GMT

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This little guy has been hanging out in our kitchen for the last few days. I don't really know why. He's a lego. And he's pretty scary. Right now he's by the spices. Tomorrow, who knows?

Almost Famous

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:30 GMT

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I was doing a little shopping tonight and wandered into the Adidas store. Apparently the winners of the Swedish Football (i.e. Soccer) championship were also there. Cool.

Drive by shooting

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:57:58 GMT

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Crossing the bridge. I personally like the bus (red blur) on the right the best.

Countdown!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:22 GMT

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Laura wanted us to turn November into a month of Thanks, leading up to Thanksgiving, so we made this countdown calendar from Sugardoodle. It promises to be a fun exercise. Especially the day we get to go eat ice cream. :)

Lost and Found

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:04:31 GMT

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During the past 2 days, Laura's lost the back to this earring TWICE, and I have found it for her TWICE. Who's da man? Yeah, that's right.

Halloween Part 2

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:36:30 GMT

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Some more Halloween pics. The family pic shows off all of our costumes, and then I tried to get more of the kids, since yesterday's wasn't that great. Neither are these, for that matter, so you may get some more costume pics as I'll probably set up the studio and take some of the kids in there. In case you're wondering, Laura was a farmer to match Timothy's chicken, and I was an MTC teacher, which, as my former missionaries would attest, is one of the scariest costumes ever.

Halloween Part 1

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:32:21 GMT

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Today was work's Halloween party, so I tried to get some pictures of the kids to show off how incredible Laura is. Laura made both Audrey's and Chester's costumes this year. Audrey is a peacock, and Chester is a marching band guy with a drum (inspired not by Laura, amazingly enough, but by his many many repeated viewings of "The Music Man." The chicken costume is Old Navy (and you've seen it elsewhere on this site, we got it for Audrey's first Halloween.)

Pumpkins

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:28:14 GMT

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We carved pumpkins today. Or rather, I carved the kids pumpkins. After opening them up, Chester didn't want anything to do with "gut removal," and Audrey, although she made a valiant effort, was done after about 5 minutes. The kids did draw what they wanted, however, and I carved their pictures. Audrey's is on the left, and Chester's on the right.

Laura's Trip to Italy

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:42:41 GMT

I finally got around to posting some pics that Laura took when she took her trip to Italy a few weeks ago to visit friends. Say hi to Florence, Pisa, and the Cinque Terre.

I like this pic because of all of the "look I'm holding up the leaning tower of pisa" goofballs.

Projects

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:33:30 GMT

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Laura worked long and hard on Chester's Halloween costume today. He's going to be a marching band guy (with a drum!) a la "The Music Man."

Raukar

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:32:07 GMT

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Today we took a little drive to see some limestone (I think?) formations caused by wind and water erosion. They said that the stone was originally coral reefs, and there were all these little circles in the rocks, presumably the old coral? I don't know, but it's what it looked like to me. It also reminded me a lot of Goblin Valley in Southern Utah. Then we went to the local museum, which was fun, and took the ferry back to Stockholm. A quick trip, but a wonderful one!

Trip to Gotland!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:28:18 GMT

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We took off today for a mini-vacation to Gotland, the big island southeast of Stockholm. A pretty quick trip, we took the ferry down to Visby (the capital there), arriving about 2. On the way we played a new game called Zingo that my folks had sent us. We arrived in time for a walk around the old part of the city, including the botanical gardens (with a weirdo tree called the "Monkey's Puzzle" - deciduous, but with a pine feel). Then we had dinner and went back to the hotel for the night.

Fall Leaves

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:16:04 GMT

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We wanted to take some family pictures with the fall leaves, only it's been wet for the last two weeks and now most of the leaves are already on the ground. Oh well. Maybe next year.

Day-in-the-life

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:10:24 GMT

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Hooray for Day-in-the-lifes! Today was supposed to be fairly relaxed, but it got busy.

Day starts out waaaayyyy earlier than it needs to thanks to this guy.

Soon my youngest joins the fun. He's learned that he likes having his picture taken and frequently crawls as fast as he can to get in front of the camera. Drool = cutting his top two teeth, by the way.

Since I'm up and it's a Saturday, I decide to make some pancakes for breakfast.

With Daddy's secret ingredient, of course.

Tim sure gets a kick out of them, at least.

My wife takes off for the grocery store, so I finish my book. I justify this is my mind so that the book won't be a 'distraction' later in the day.

Back from the grocery store, Laura presents her gifts. This is a new kind of chocolate... with ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. It's wonderful.

Another treat... Curly fries!

Which calls for homemade fry sauce. If you've never lived in Utah, fry sauce is roughly equal parts mayo and ketchup, although I prefer mine a little more ketchup heavy.

We also have a little ice cream left over, so the kids get a tiny milk shake to share.

Then the fun begins! We are defrosting the freezer today. Great fun, I know, but it's needed.

While it defrosts, though, I get to take my daughter swimming! She is a little frog. She loves swimming. (Takes after her old man!)

Back from the pool, Laura gives the older two haircuts.

Then I'm off again. I'm going out with the LDS missionaries today. I pause to take a picture of the leaves.

At the appointment's house. He had these cool candles all over the place.

Leaving the appointment, the missionaries are very happy!

I drop them off at their next appointment, then head back to the pool for a little lap swimming. I haven't done that in forever, and it felt GOOD!

Come home to find Laura busily working on the kitchen. I do what I can and mop the floor while she finishes the dishes.

She also made yummy yummy bolognese sauce while I was out.

Timothy has found a new hiding place, but once he sees the camera....

...he's right in front of the lens again! We get the kids ready and then we're out, again, to a good-bye party for some of our friends.

The kids are out waaay past their bedtime already, and are getting a little hyper. Chester shows off his new scary face, which goes well with the big gash on his forehead (he just got his stitches out yesterday). I think I'm going to start calling him Frankenstein.

Our hostess shows off her way cool necklace. I love the necklace, but the gloves really make the ensemble, I think.

Leaving the party, the rain makes the pavement shine like silver. All the kids fall asleep in the car on the way home. Audrey and Timothy wake up enough to help us get them up to bed...

...but Chester is out for the count.

...kids are in bed, Laura and I unwind with a little TV, and some cookies.

Here I'm showing off the superior dunking technique I learned from my wife. Get's the whole cookie dunked, and you don't get milk on your fingers. A win-win if I ever heard of one!

3 years!

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:29:56 GMT

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Hooray for 3 years of photo-a-day!!!! 2006, 2007, 2008, and now 2009. As you know, it's also mole day, the anniversary of our engagement, and, as I found out today, Weird Al Yankovic's birthday. Now, if that isn't cause to celebrate, I don't know what is.

ironing.... again.

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:27:46 GMT

Canon EOS 30D
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I think it would be interesting to go through my photo-a-day pictures, to see just how many of them have to do with me ironing my shirts... On ironing days, there's not much time for anything else, I guess...