Christmas 2010

For Christmas this year my family met at my sister Britt's house in Salt Lake City. As usual it was a great time, with lots of game playing and tons of eating. From there I flew over to Colorado to meet up with some old friends. Colorado has the craziest weather in the winter, one day I was playing golf in 60 degree weather, and a couple days later I was snowboarding in zero degree weather. I somehow didn't manage to take my camera out of my bad one single time while in Colorado. My good friend Chris drove to Colorado from St. Louis. Since road trips are just about my favorite thing, I decided to drive back to St. Louis with Chris. I thought St. Louis was amazing, and had lots of fun there. If anyone is ever going through St. Louis, you have to check out City Museum, it is my new favorite place. Here are a couple photo's from my trip. To see more click here.

Jack decorating his Christmas stocking. We make new one's every year out of tube socks and puff paint.

Riian putting skulls on her stocking, yup skulls she is that cool.

Zoe is tired

Riian and Britt playing a christmas song

Izzy being awesome

The arch is awesome

A bunch of photo's put together to show the arch

View from the Arch

Old abandoned building

Cool old buildings

LA and Vegas

My whole family decided to go visit my sister Shea and my Dad in Las Vegas. There were two things to celebrate, first Shea had a new baby girl (Bia) that we all needed to see. There was also the birthday of her oldest daughter Riley to celebrate. I unfortunately was on a plane while everyone else had an awesome pool party to celebrate Riley's 8th birthday. It was a very short trip for everyone, but we still had fun and ate good food.

I had purchased the Jet Blue all you can jet ticket, which allowed me to fly as much as I wanted from September 7th through October 6th. So from Las Vegas I flew to Los Angeles, to visit some friends. My trip was cut a little short, due to selling my condo and needing to move. So here are some photo's from my trip, if you would like to see more click here.

Baby Bia

Grandpa holding Bia

Riley opening presents

Izzy and Jack watching Riley open presents (not as fun as opening)

Izzy climbing in Grandpa's tree and wearing the cutest outfit ever

Zoe playing with her toys

Zoe playing with uncle Justin (me) in the pool, I felt left out for missing the pool party

Cole and Britt watching the water show at the Belagio

Riian watching the same water show

Bike ride from Santa Monica to Venice with Mark and Jon, these guys are the best

Mark skating in Venice

Random ripper at Venice park

Chris putting his wet suit on for early surf mission, I got destroyed

Beach down in Laguna (thanks Jon and Marley for hosting me)

Family Reunion

So just about every 4 or 5 years my extended family has a family reunion. Since my family is giant (my mom is one of 7 kids, and they all had lots of kids) getting together can be difficult. We had the reunion in El Centro California, if you haven't heard of it than you are lucky. Just imagine what the surface of the sun feels like, then double that and you might be getting close to how hot El Centro is. We went to El Centro because that is were my Grandma lives and she can't travel anymore. We did spend a day in San Diego at the beach which was very nice. Here are a few photo's of my younger family members playing in the pool and at the beach. Thanks Kjersti for hosting us all at your house. If you want to see more photo's I have posted them here.

My niece Izzy

It was so hot out the pool was 92 degrees, I'm not kidding

My nephew Cole

My niece Riian

Emma building a sand castle

Anne being awesome with tons of sand on her face

Izzy walking with grandma

If my eyes matched a pool like Coles do, I would be swimming in mud

Lucile Party

Here is a video I put together of our studio opening party. Thanks to everyone who made it to the party, we had a great time.

Nintendo shoot

About a month ago one of my partners with Lucile, Dennis Wise was hired for a two day shoot here in Seattle. Here is a video I made of the shoot

New Website

So after several months of working on it, my new website is up. I would like to thank Michelle Yang for the design of the site, and Mike Keran for building it. Please take a look around the site and let me know what you think. 

Birthdays in Mexico

Last year for my 30th birthday a bunch of my friends and I went to mexico to celebrate. This year my friend Maddy turned 30 and we decided to do it again. This year there were two birthdays to Celebrate. Maddy and Caroline both have the same birthday, which made for a fun night. We rented the most amazing house in Sayulita Mexico. It was this giant orange house on a hill over looking the town. It was built like a tree house, there were many different levels and about one million stairs to climb. All in all I would say the trip was a success. There were a few hiccups on the trip, first being Alissa and my room got robbed. They only took some cash so considering what they could have taken, I think we got off pretty easy. The second problem was about six people got stuck in Mexico one extra night, due to some mechanical problems with there plain. Personally I think staying an extra night would be fun, but waiting in the airport for 6 hours sounds horrible. To see more photo's from the trip click here.

View from the house

Surfers walking down the street

Alissa playing in the ocean

Sayulita at night

Gang on the rock

Alissa and Michelle walking to the beach

Old man playing guitar on the beach

Kihan reading a book

Road to Playa de los muertos