Not that anyone else cares, but I love my music. And I have lots of it. So, in an effort to help the world find some great new tunes to enjoy, I thought I’d share a bit.

I’ve added a nifty new Last.fm player to the bottom of the navigation on the right. If you’d like to listen to any of the tracks I’ve got listed in the playlist, just click the big fat play button. If you’d like to see what else I’ve been listening to lately, simply click on the “View Profile” link to check out my Last.fm profile page.

Enjoy!

Sorry that this post is a tad belated. We were planning to take a few more costume pics to stick in the collection, but we sorta forgot. Anyway, the collection below has a few pictures from Nana and Papa’s house, some pictures from the Omniture Halloween bash and a few pictures of the twins in their costumes at home. As you can probably tell, Halloween was a busy day for us, but the girls got lots of treats and we all had a good time.

Just to give a quick explanation of the (somewhat hard to see) pictures from my office… every year Omniture puts on a Halloween party where all the kids can come walk through the building and see the costumes and decorations. Each team throughout the building is given a “theme” and is then charged with decorating their workspace. In effect, this turned my entire office into a giant haunted house of sorts, except for the fact that our overall theme this year was Disney (because we just landed them as a client) so it was pretty kid friendly for the most part.

Of the pictures from my office you will notice the following: a conference room turned into a Finding Nemo aquarium (that was my group), a team that brought in a piece of basketball flooring to fit in with their High School Musical theme, lots of Pirates who I assume are from the Carribean, the seagulls from finding Nemo (my group again), Mickey and Minny Mouse (the upper management group did the Magic Kingdom with all associated princesses), Snow White and 7 actual dwarfs that were hired in from Las Vegas, a petting zoo (which was actually inside the office in case you’re wondering), the Indiana Jones experience/Jungle ride, as well as a Haunted Mansion area. And those were just the area’s that I took pictures of. There was also an Alice in Wonderland area (all black lit and very cool), Star Tours and a Buzz Lightyear section. It’s hard to describe just how insane it was around my office for 2 whole days as we set everything up and then let the kiddies come to visit. In fact, it was a big enough deal that KSL even came by to film us for a bit. The put together a little story about “Halloween in the workplace” so it’s not just about Omniture, but you can see the video they put together HERE.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures. In case you’re wondering, Hailey and Mallory were both Rapunzel. Emily made some long wigs for them out of yarn, but they were a bit heavy and kept falling off.

So after 2 months we finally got around to blessing the twins yesterday. It was a beautiful fall day and lots of family showed up to attend. Afterwards we all headed over to our house for chocolate dipped snacks of all sorts (Emily bought a new chocolate fountain for the occasion). Laura even traveled all the way from England to be we us on this special day (she actually just happened to be in town, but it was good to have her there). Thanks to everyone who came and shared in the twins special day.

Disclaimer: “EVAR” is spelled wrong in the title on purpose. I added this disclaimer for Emily’s benefit because she figured our visitors would think I was an idiot. For reference, please visit this link.
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So tomorrow marks the 2 month point. It’s hard to believe that Jack and Annie have been with us that long already, but it’s true. Just the other day at Stake Conference a couple sitting behind us pointed out their 7 year-old twins and said “time seemed to speed up once we had the twins.” I tend to believe them.

The past 2 months have been full of tiredness, frustration, mental exhaustion and lots and lots of love. We’re coping pretty well so far, but I use the term “we” loosely. Emily is taking the brunt of the late night duties which is good, because I don’t deal well with less than 10 hours of sleep a night.

We’re all so excited to have Jack & Annie with us and we’re super glad they’re both (relatively) happy and healthy. This past weekend made me think of all the future fun we’re going to have as a family as they get older. In one way I can’t wait until they’re old enough to go and do stuff, but in another way I’m sad that they can’t stay this squishy age forever. But I’m sure I’m not the first person to feel that way. And so the wheel of time keeps on rollin’.

Well… another deer hunt has come and gone and as usual, it was loads of fun. Both Tony and Chase bagged good sized bucks this year even though we just about got blown off the mountain. The winds this year were pretty crazy and on Saturday afternoon a blizzard rolled in that would have been quite miserable to hunt in. Luckily though, Chase brought down his deer about 30 minutes before it hit so we decided to head back to the cabin for a gourmet breakfast courtesy of Ryan (he’s the one dressed all in camo in front of the stove below).

It was a little weird this year because a few of our party weren’t able to make it up due to work and missions. Scott, Steven and Austin weren’t there and our weekend was a bit short due to some odd scheduling, but we still had fun hiking around the mountain kickin’ up game. We didn’t do any recreational shooting this year because of the snow that decided to dump on Saturday, but we saw quite a few deer and lots of moose around the canyon on Friday afternoon. Plus we got to throw the chains on and get the Jeeps dirty. Check out the slide show below for some pics of the hunters and their trophies.