is suz the next santa barbara hippie?

suz grew up on a cow farm, moved to a big city for college, now she just might be the next santa barbara hippie. well thats what she's been saying lately. her and I are taking a ceramics class with my sister and some other friends. we have a blast. notice the size of bowl suzy is throwing. she's a natural.

the new additions to the family.....

the new boys to the family. franks and zaden. before zaden was born, I called them franks and beans. the fam went for a hike on the beach in Goleta, after viewing the Butterflies at Elwood.

first thursday of the month

art. who can be without it. who can ignore it and who doesn't have it in them. art is a magical thing. we all have artistic abilities. some claim not to, but I would say "Everybody" has art in them. I think its God given creation that sparks our internal being with his art. we know how beautiful a sunset can be, or the ah we can get from snow tipped mountains.  so, that all said, I'm pushing the involvement of people in art. 

santa Barbara has a complete art show every First thursday of the month. there can be up to 3o or more different art galleries going on, all packed with people and refreshments. its awesome. today is the first thursday of February. it all takes place between 5 and 8pm downtown. here is a website of todays galleries. www.santabarbaradowntown.com

scroll down to the map. click on it to see where all the magic is happening. in addition, there is a free movie tonight at metro 4, at 8pm. The free screening of The Silly Age, is set in Havana Cuba.

see you tonight.

new header.....

got a new header. its the first time I knelt before Suz. only a week after I met her. some might not now the story so here it is. I met suz the day before new years eve. New Years Eve, I new I wanted to be with her for a long time. A few days later I asked her if she wanted to go to Hawaii. she said yes. so the next weeked we were off to Hawaii for..... the weekend. then the rest just kept rolling on. this picture was taken in the most beautiful bay by a friend, Anna Walden. we didn't even know she was taking pictures. we just turned around, I dropped to my knee and click we had my first quiet proposal. ha ha ha. it felt pretty good and by the time we left hawaii, I knew that suz wasn't going very far from me. so I drove down to san diego every other weekend to see her, and she came up here the other weekends. it only lasted 7 months till the luring natural wonders of santa barbara brought suz up here, instead of me going down there. phewwww, lucky me.

and so it was, 3 months after she moved up here, I proposed. Two months later, we were married. Exactly one year from the day I met her. the rest of the story will be explained in this blog.

Blog.... whats that. oh yeah, I have one

well, I could give a million excuses of why I haven't posted anything. and why I haven't  posted any costa rica pictures either. and so on....

but I think I'm going to try hard to make this blog thing happen. maybe with suzy, we can get some info about us out there. oh yeah, I got married.  ha ha ha. pretty darn cool. and I got married to the coolest girl in the world. love her more and more everyday.

got married at Westmont Prayer chapel. reception at Stella Mares. honeymoon in NorCal.

costa and back.... way to fast.

pictures are coming. I need to upload them from my camera, which is lost somewhere. but what wouldn't be lost if you came into your room with your hands full of a weeks worth of vacation stuff.... at 3:30 in the morning. arrrrrr........ but we made it back from costa rica. had a great  10 days of surfing, serving and seeing Gods creation. it was and will change the way I view this world I live in. for everyone that hasn't left the comfort of the USA, get the heck up and split for a while. there is a entire world awaiting your arrival.

more of costa rica to come

jUly 4tH

well, another july 4 came and gone. so did the millions of people that flock to santa barbara to enjoy our great weather and outdoors.