today is SUZYs BIRTHDAY

yahoo. shes turning a big 18 years old. just old enough for me to legally be married to her. I can't believe how much I love this girl.

Happy Birthday Suzy-Que, may you have a blessed day. love ya.

and look at what a beautiful day today is. picture taken from the pier early this morning. I wonder why we're living here and not Nebraska. I like our winters here.

early morning surf...

life is so good. why do we sometimes go through trials and doubt that this life is good. we are all so blessed. I think sometimes its easier to understand this when we feeling good and healthy and doing something we want to do. something we dream of while work. dreaming of insane surf. now the quest is have that stoke in all times of our life. even when sick, or going through trials. to feel stoked at all times would be a great thing. a God thing.

Hiking in the rain

well suzy and I tried to find this waterfall a few weeks ago, but got lost and never found it. so on Sunday, while it was raining and stormy out, we grabbed our rainwear, headlights, some food and set off for a crazy adventure. the hike was the most insane thing I've done in a while. I'm still getting goose bumps from the whole thing. it was like hiking in a tropical rain forest. super green, lush, santa barbara mountains. and the waterfall, we found it. It is the most insane waterfall I've ever seen in santa barbara. about 75 feet high. And since we've had some rain lately, it was gushing. on the way back it got dark, so we put our headlights on and hike out. to top it all off, we headed down to get some grubby tacos at some hole in the wall. what a great way to end the weekend.

Serenity & Jon Wedding

our good friends Jon and Serenity got married on Saturday. it was awesome. wedding and reception took place at the Greek Orthodox Church. They're not Greek, if you were wondering. here's a few pics of the event. Suzy was the Maid of Honor. pretty cool.

Banff Mountain Film Festival

Another great two nights of the Banff Mountain Film Festival next week, tues and wed. Suz and I have tickets to both nights. its going to awesome. can't wait. if anyone wants to go and sit with us, let us know. here is what the intro on the internet says about it.

Banff at UCSB
Celebrate the spirit of adventure with this perennial A&L audience favorite. Featuring the world’s best films and videos on mountain subjects, the Banff Festival Tour awes viewers with thrills and grandeur captured in exotic locations from rural Canada to Réunion island. The show’s wide variety of film subjects – from extreme sports to mountain culture and environment – will amaze audiences. An entirely different program screens each evening.

General public $12.00 / Student/Youth $10.00

a blast from the past...

80s trash...

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.