We are moving! (as long as everything goes as planned). We are under contract after like 9 days being listed with two really good offers. Pretty darn excited...now we need to find a place to live before we are homeless!

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So this year has been really busy. For anyone following this blog, however, it looks like we've done like 6 things all year. But that is not the case! We have some good stuff that happened this year and I'm hoping to be able share some of it here, if for no other reason than to remember what has happened while we go forward onto new adventures.

So in light of that, here are a couple of pictures from Katie's graduation party way back in May. It was a fun celebration and Kona and I are all still pretty darned proud of her, though Kona frequently has a funny way of showing it.

We just finished decorating our tree and now we are taking a well deserved opportunity to enjoy it.

View from the couch.

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We were tired of wearing our main costumes (after 4 times, pictures to follow) so we dug through our costume collection to come up with some impromptu costumes. We looked pretty darned good, if I do say so myself.

1 sexy devil and 1 less than sexy little red riding hood, made to order.
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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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