California McMillans

Like tradition, we rolled out of town Wednesday after work.  The van ran great.  We got to Utah at 5:37 am Thanksgiving morning.   Family photos by yours truly and the 70-200L 2.8IS ii My favorite part of Boondocks was driving the go-karts.  Scott and I took notes on which ones were the fastest and then would select those.  Even if they were at the back of the lineup, we could still finish first.  I was proud of Scott for how he drove the line.  Maybe he learns from the best, ha! The weather was unusually warm. Tyler and Turin were stoked to cash in their points for yo-yos.  Dan-o visited Autumn's family.  They live in WA now.  Zach is on the left and is Andrea's youngest.  Dan-o is expecting a boy next year. On Saturday we visited Laurel and Ryan.  Costco pizzas are pretty good bang for your buck but I'm not crazy about the taste.  I wanted to hit the Brick Oven and the creamery.  Next time.  I think it was a pr

Scott is really liking middle school.  His favorite subjects are band and PE.  He really likes studying math but is pretty bored and wishes it was harder.  Whenever he talks about how slow they learn, I remind him how much he missed his friends the when we home schooled and then he quickly changes his attitude about how much better school is to be with his friends.  I am grateful we homeschooled for a semester so he has something to compare it to.  Homeschooling was great to go at your own level and speed but not great learning alone most of the time. He has a good group of friends at school.  The school district gives the kids the day after halloween off which is kind of nice.  Sports give a day off so the kids can go trick or treating so we had a day with nothing to do which was nice.  After he had cross country he called to tell me he was going to a friends house and was going to go trick or treating later. I told him to touch base if he needed rides, etc.  He had fun with his f

And just like that, we're in November.  Here are a couple of pictures from October.   Tyler wanted a better picture from the one that we took on Hanna's blessing day. Kira was barely recognizable with her heat-straightened hair. Tyler loved his Dustin costume and was in good spirits all day. This is my first attempt at sports photography with the 70-200.  It was pretty dimly lit in the gymnastics studio and even with the ISO at 1600, the max, there still wasn't enough light to have fast shutter speeds.  But a bad photo is better than no photo. Got the white balance all dialed in for this one.