Memorial day weekend we went to Chincoteague Island. While in Assateague National something park we stopped off and saw this light house. I took 9 photos and stiched them together. I probably could have just stood farther away and got the whole thing in one shot, but why not stitch them together right?

I left this in the shower stall at my in-laws with the red baby paint for the tub.

This is Mason being very serious.

Panda - Some of the best licorice in the world...but be careful of eating the whole box in one sitting.

Mason is gettin' chubbier every day.

 

Mason wanted to wear my jeans. They fit him okay at the waist but they were too long.

Chef Mason was getting a little angry after a hard days work.

4 Year Anniversary of the "Proposal"

Jen this blog post is for you honey! 4 years ago we went to that awesome hockey game that changed our lives forever.

Hangin' with the Parentals. My mom and dad flew in on January 16th at the request of Jenny to give me some pointers on how to raise a child. While they were here they gave a few parenting classes, got sick, and witnessed history of the first president whose mother was caucasian and father was Afrikan and...I forget what else.

It was a fun week to have them here and it made me miss the whole family back home in Utahr.

PS...the guy behind me is not part of the immediate family...however as they say "Were all brothers and sisters".

Family Trip to the US Capitol. I felt like I looked in that picture...Scruffy!

TOP TEN WORST CARS IN MY GENERATION

In copying my sisters ten fer tuesday themes and being trapped at my in-laws with no pictures to post to my blog I came up with the following post.

10. Chevy Celebrity (Okay I actually like this car)
9. Mazda Miata (Cool at first, annoying later)
8. Buick Rendezvous (Are you serious Tiger?)
7. Anything made by Oldsmobile
6. Chevy Uplander Van
5. Saab
4. Anything made by Saturn before 2006
3. Pontiac Sunfire
2. Ford Aerostar van
1. Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz

Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus...he is just really little.

Mason Duke Roane

Jen and I had a very special gift given to us on December 9, 2008. Mason Duke Roane came into our lives at 7:33 pm that day weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces. It was an emotional high for me as I imagine it is for most new dads to see their first child. The first few screams were amazing to hear in the operating room as stood up to see over the operating sheet and see our baby. I felt like jumping for joy and kept looking around the room wanting to tell everyone in the room that that is our boy...that we made that little baby you just pulled out of my wife. I didn't thought because I had a muzzle on me to keep the germs in my mouth and nose to myself. After seeing the boy I really wanted Jen to see him put she wasn't able to until a few minutes later after they had him cleaned up. It was a one of the greatest experiences I've ever had in my life. And I just want to thank my wife for all the pain and suffering she went through to our little masonite into the world. And thank Heavenly Father for this great opportunity he has given us to raise this child. And thanks to my parents and family for their support. And Jen's family deserve a special thanks, especially Carmen for coming all the way from Morgantown in the middle of the night to be with Jen. And to our friends, especially the ones that have let us hang around their babies and learn from them.

Having bought a new camera in June, a Canon XSi, I had realized that cameras can be really expensive...and that lenses that go on the camera body can add even more to the expense...so it is semi depressing to realize that a lot of the shots you see everywhere are not just thanks to somebody being able to capture the moment just right, but that their camera equipment lets them take a decent picture in unperfect circumstances. Anyways, Cameras are like most material things we set our hearts on...you can spend a lot of money on them to get the very best...and that is why the video clip above is so funny to me.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Jen eating Thanksgiving dinner. It was a glorious dinner thanks in large part to the Johnsons who made a great turkey and some killer gravy. Dinner also included some great rolls, stuffing, potatoes, green bean casserole and black olives! I made some cranberry sauce from my cranberry pie and I liked it better than the can stuffed. In ode to my uncle Cary who made a cranberry-orange sauce for Thanksgiving one year I made half of the cranberry sauce with orange rinds and little bit of grandpa's orange cough medicine (really just some orange flavoring).

For the finale there were five different pies all of which were great.

Simple Cranberry Pie

I made this simple cranberry pie for Thanksgiving. It is really much simpler than it looks here in the photo. All you really have to be worried about is having a clean pie dish and washing the cranberries. After that it is all downhill.

The Baby Crib

I was finally able to set the crib up last Saturday and it came with a lot of cool parts. The photos explain why it took me 5 hours to set it up, but it was a good experience. I really felt the bonding between me and the baby.

I love Jenny so much that the other night I set my camera on a longer exposure and proceeded to take a series of 5 photos with each representing a letter of her name. Then with a photo stitching program I created this little gem.

Recently we went to Arlington Cemetary and watched the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It is quite the event. It is a time to be reverant and unfortunately the guard had to step off his guard twice to remind the crowd that was gathered to be quiet and respect the area they were in.