A Day in My Life

It’s been well over a month since I last posted. As with everyone, a lot has happened in the last month, especially factoring in the holidays. So here’s a quick little wrap up from when I last wrote:

For Thanksgiving this year, we went up to my parents house in good ‘ol St. Francis. This was Bethany’s holiday to work so we ended up eating in the evening rather than the usual afternoon dinner. In the afternoon, I changed the oil and switched out the tires on her car to snow tires. (I later did the same procedure on my car the following Saturday.) We had a nice dinner before we had to head out for Bethany to get to work on time.

Also at about this time, I made a basic website for one of the guys that works for my dad. He runs a towing company with his brother based out of Coon Rapids. I just created a one page site for them to start getting some online exposure. You can check it out their site at AandJTowingLLC.com. The site went live in mid-December.

Over the past year, I have been reading and learning a lot about photography. You could call it a budding new hobby of mine. What was really holding me back from really getting into taking pictures was my old camera. It was very limiting what I was able to do. That all changed in the beginning of December when I got a new dSLR camera, a Nikon D90 to be specific.

After reading a million reviews from a ton of different places, I determined that this was the best camera for the money. Rather than getting the kit lens that they have it paired with, I opted to get the AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR lens with the plan to get the 55-200mm VR soon for the expanded zoom.

I read that this lens has better optics than the 18-105mm kit lens. It was also less expensive which helped to make my decision a little bit easier. I am now picture crazy. There are a ton of different settings on this camera than were on any camera I had previously used. It is so much fun to play with and will take me quite a while to become proficient with it. However, right out of the box, the camera can take pictures my old point-and-shoot could only dream of taking.

That brings us to Christmas. This year we made the trip up to Bethany’s parents house with Copland in tow. All of her siblings were able to be there this year which made it that much more fun. We were planning on heading up there on Christmas Eve, however, with the ensuing snow storm, we were able to both get off work and leave a day early and miss the storm. Copland did pretty well on the trip, both in the car and at their house. There were 15 people total in the house so it was a busy place. While we missed the bad weather driving up, it was incredibly cold while we were there. The snow didn’t pile up too much on the farm because the 30-40 mph wind blew it right away. As you could imagine, there were some pretty massive drifts around the house. We stayed there until the Sunday after Christmas. You can see picture from this trip here.

Following our visit to South Dakota, we went straight to my parents house in St. Francis. I was no less busy at my parents house than it had been at Bethany’s. Tyler had come home along with my family from the east coast and everyone was hanging out at the house when we arrived. While there weren’t any babies there, the volume seemed to be higher with all the jokes and stories being told. On Monday, we had a big game day where we played board games and watched the sorry Vikings lose. While we had never had a game day before, everyone had a great time with it and it was a great hit. We hung out with my family in St. Francis until about noon on Wednesday. You can see picture from this trip here.

Bethany had to work this New Years eve so Tyler and I ended up going over to Bethany Fast’s and Sarah Joy’s house for their party. They have a pretty fun old house with a bunch of odd storage and crawl spaces. There, we played a rousing game of boys vs. girls Trivial Pursuit. Even though the guys finished up the pie first, the girls ended up winning due to our poor rolling at the end. We had fun seeing old band people and talking about the good ‘ol times in the BWS. You can see my pictures from the party here.

Well, that about brings us up to today. I’ll work on a year round up like I did last year and hopefully get it posted in the next week. Until then, Happy New Year to you all and may 2010 be a blessed year for you!