The Kennecot Copper Mine is the worlds largest man made excavation. Haven't been here since fourth grade, but it hasn't gotten any smaller.

Big tire.



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So this is late and I don't have any pictures from the brunch fir her birthday (12 bottles of champagne and 10 lbs of brown sugar bacon though, so you know it was awesome) but here are Katie's birthday presents from me.

Shiney!





They are both practical AND awesome.

On Monday our office built out 2009 entry to the CANstruction competition. If anyone is unaware, CANstruction is an event where architects and contractors get together and build sculptures out of cans that will eventually be donated to the local food bank.

This year, our entry was titled "1 in 8" which represented the statistic that 1 out of every 8 people in our country go without enough food every day. That works out to about 36 million people suffer from food insecurity. See if you can tell which entry was ours!




This is a good view of the whole field, so you can see what every one did. One is a pair of curving planes of cans (that fell down 3 times during construction), the state of Utah, the Cat in the Hat's hat, and 1 in 8.


Our entry. Last year we won 4 of the 5 awards that were given. We are hoping to win a couple this year. If you're in Salt Lake, swing by and check them out...and vote for ours for people's choice.

There are 5 more pans just like this in my fridge, just waiting for brown sugar.

Yum.

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Who knew I married such a lady.

Congratulations! Katie is done with testing and nailed them all. I married a smart lady.

Katie is 1/2 of a pharmacist as of yesterday. One more to go. Good luck baby.

Katie, Mary and I went to the Carbon Leaf show at the Urban Lounge last night. It was a really good show, a good 2 hour set from one of our favorite bands. The turnout was about 10 times what it was the last time they came to Salt Lake (there were about 6 people in the audience with Katie and I being two of them), so it's cool to see them gaining an audience. Check out their website and new album if you like good music.

Terry rocks out, what a head of hair on that one.

Terry, Barry and Carter doing an unplugged song which was really, really good. They mostly just look sleepy though.

Yes, my wife is touching Barry.

We went to this really great wedding for some friends over the weekend up Millcreek canyon. Everything was incredibly green because of the monsoon we have been having. It was an outdoor wedding and it kept raining off and on, but there were tents and an indoor part so all was good. Unfortunately the rain kept knocking out the power...so much so that everyone there had to hum "here comes the bride," or at least as much as anyone knew. All in all though, quite the beautiful wedding.

So we sat on the brides side, which was arbitrary since we are friends with both parties, but I realized that the brides side should actually be on the opposite side, since all I could see was the bride's back the whole wedding.





The only picture of Katie and I from the wedding wasn't actually from the wedding but another friend's graduation party. Note: I had been wearing a suit but had to dress it down for this after party.