Bryan & Brittney Austin

Yes that is right, we caught Santa Clause on his vacation in the Caribbean. Just kidding. We actually had the Association of Real Bearded Santas on our cruise line. Every corner you would turn you would see a Santa Clause. They dressed with red and white and wore all sorts of Santa vacation shirts and what not. These guys really get into it. It was awesome.

Here are some photos from my birthday dinner at McGrath's restaurant. Our food was wonderful except for Dad's because according to him "I am a salmon conesore and this salmon is terrible and it is more like Jordan River salmon." Padre is hilarious and this is quite often a memory that we continue to bring up at the table all the time.

I got the wonderful chance of a lifetime and got to go to the Rigby Temple erected just this last year with my cousin, aunt, and uncle. It was so beautiful inside and a wonderful place. This was right before my cousin, Jason left for his mission so it was something wonderful that I got to experience with him before he left for his two years. Man I miss him and I have missed my other cousin on his mission as well. He comes home in August and I am so excited to see him again. Richie we have been told looks like my twin and we have been close ever since we were little. I can't wait to see them both come home safely again.

We also took some updating photos of our little "kids" that take up most of our time. Daisy, Chewy, H-man, and Gretchen.

You maybe asking yourself what the hell is that in the picture above. That is Daisy laying against the shed in the sun. I could not resist taking this picture because see our destroyed yard... she did it all. She would destroy the grass by running on it with her massive paws, she had gotten a hold of the vacuum and used the attachment as a chew toy, ripped boards from the fence and chewed on them and managed to tear some of the garbage from the can and play with it in the yard. This picture says it all and doesn't she just look so innocent?

Chewy as a clean little man. Isn't he handsome?

We went camping in the high Uintas. The difference is you need a four wheel vehicle to get there and it is completely away from any civilization. You use tents not campers nor trailers and man it really is nature up there. Bryan and I sat for a good half hour listening to a moose calling in the distance at one point and every morning you could see new tracks through your camp site. It was the best.

Chewy as a rag mop. He camps best when he looks like this.

What a great Kodak moment. I love my little family.

Darcy and Danny kept arguing on where they wanted to hike so I thought I would snap a little lovely moment of silence they were taking.

Wow we have been seeing a lot of movies recently. It is really crazy. So in the past week we watched 4 new movies. Well okay one of them we did not make it all the way through. The first one was 13 Hours in a Warehouse. Well we did not even make it an hour into the film. Worst film ever. The cover looked cool but when a movie starts out with a statistic of how many woman in the world have vibrators, that is a dead give away that it is not a good one. It was slow moving, acting sucked, the vulgarity was not funny, amusing nor even necessary and it was the worst plot story and characters ever! I am not recommending this movie even for a red box. Do not waste a dollar on this one. For some reason the effects and filming skills really reminded us both of a porno. Really bad.






Well since the last movie did not make it we ended up taking it back that night and exchanging it for another movie. We got Taken. Good movie. The plott is good, the acting is pretty good, you want to see the good guy succeed and you really see some of the lower aspects of traveling alone and how tourist countries can be just very dangerous. A man's daughter goes to Europe with a friend unaware that they were going to be alone. They meet what seems to be a harmless man at the airport and are later kidnapped as a result. They are kidnapped and forced into protestution and drug use. Also you really find yourself enthralled in the tactics that the father uses to find his daughter. Great movie. Highly recommend it to anyone looking for a action film.

The last but not least one that we watched this past week was Gran Torino. Another great movie with a classic Clint Eastwood that we both grew to love as the film went on. It was a great plot, great acting, and wonderful deep characters that you could find yourself relating to and feeling sympathy and love for. We both loved and it is a great movie that we recommend to anyone. It is about an old man who loses his wife and finds himself befriending his asian neighbors especially the young son and daughter that are finding themselves unwilling involved with an Asian gang. The gang is a fellow cousin that is obsessed with turning the young man bad in his ways and wants him to join his crew. The boy agrees at first and his innitiation is to steal a car, the beautiful Gran Torino his old neighbor (Clint Eastwood) owns. His nieghbor spoils his plan in stealing the car and makes the boy realize it is not what he wants. The gang members sour over his decision try to force him into the gang Clint Eastwood steps in to save the family. He finds himself trying harder and harder to make his old neighbor nicer and protecting this family. It is really good!

Well considering we watched four movies and liked 3 of the 4 then I think that we did pretty well on our watching of the movies this week. Until next time...