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chasing the spaz dog

Elliott kicking with dad's help

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"stop that dad and pick me up!"

Old videos, but good videos

So i finally got all of the videos we had on our little videocamera onto the computer, and many of the videos are good enough, i think, for everyone. Most of them the focus is Elliott but that is ok. hopefully everything works because i've had to try three times before and stuff messes up.

I just had to barge in and almost ruin Elliott's cuteness display

Elliott and his adorable Grassophobia. I love how in his complaining he also takes time to smile once

Guess what? i went kayaking

So pretty much the only thing that is worth noting, as always, is what i've been doing on the weekends which is pretty much just kayaking. not "just kayaking", KAYAKING!!! yay! but anyways, i'm just working 40 hours a week and doing Krav Maga after work for three of those days so i'm really not doing much extra exciting stuff.

First of all i tried to teach a couple people to roll in a kayak (in a pool) on friday, which was fun and gratifying when they were able to roll up on their own. but not consistently enough in my opinion so i'm not much of a teacher. though i did read up so i might be better now, but don't count on it.

The recent time i went kayaking (this recent saturday)was with the Kerr family and whoever they invited (a good amount of vehwigs (i used to be able to spell their name, probably wrong now) on rafts. i was with Brother Kerr and Garrett in kayaks and it was way fun because i finally let out and really tried to play around in the river (previously i had been to cautious to do anything other than go straight down) I was able to do a little surfing which actually felt AMAZING, so fun/cool. so i had a blast. i didn't get any pictures however, but i will post some from a previous trip that i haven't put on my blog yet. (which explains me still in a wetsuit and with my goggles i don't use anymore)

i actually don't like this picture

SAM DOUGLASS!!! and me

Someone seal launching (in a kayak) off of that large rock - you can see their yellow paddle above their large splash

A totally different trip than described/in the rest of the pictures. That's me Guiding a three-man raft with Adam and Aaron Purcell. it was way fun (like the 90's oakleys? i use them for kayaking too!)

a nice view down the "mighty main"

Steve Fischer's Black Book

I decided to be like Karene and tell everyone what i like (i think it's because you're in advertising that you do that so much) . At my work we have been continually looping a DVD that we got called Steve Fischer's Black Book, and so i've seen every second of it, but never in one sitting (or standing or walking, hehe). Steve Fischer is a South African kayaker, and nowadays recognized as one of the best (arguably the best, and which many people would argue for that case) kayakers of all time. It's a pretty funny and well-made movie, and really shows you what the ultimate is in kayaking, and it really can take your breath away in parts. If i inspired you to somehow watch it i will say that there is one rap song on it that swears a few times but other than that they did an amazing job with the music. i'll post a little piece of it i think.

Part of my Girls Camp experience...

So i lived the dream of Matt Burningham and was able to go up to girls camp, albeit for only part of a day but still. I just kayaked alongside their rafts and then helped with their faithwalk. I'll post up the pics of the raft trip - it was really stormy the day before and so there were some mudslides on the south fork that fed into the main, so as you'll probably notice the water looks like chocolate milk. (wouldn't drink it though) it made it a little hard to tell what was what or if what was there. and by that i mean if there was a hole, wave, or rock it was hard to tell sometimes. No whitewater, just brown. still fun though!

AMF coming up - Rachel's raft just behind me (i tended to stick with them)

Little off balance

WAY off balance (and a bad brace stroke)

letting the Nesquik rabbit out at the end

Rachel's raft at Chief Parrish

Just before Mixmaster pretending i know enough to tell the boat what to do

(insert pump up rock music *here*)

i'm smiling because i'm kayaking, even if it is in choco milk

me and Rachel's raft - i'm sure you can pick out here huge hair

MMMM!!! Nesquik! or Ovaltine!!!

Where's Waldo? i'm in there somewhere

Rachel's raft at GLOYF

Other than that i've just been working for Inland Surf Company, getting ready for the mish, and just now started some self-defense classes - Krav Maga if you were wondering

Gloyf Video, nice of Caitlyn to miss me as i go darting past the camera