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Jack truns two!! Here is a look back at how it all began

2009-06-13T17:40:00.000-07:00

Pictures from Grandad G's birthday party

2009-06-08T13:10:00.000-07:00

St. George Pictures

2009-04-30T16:19:00.000-07:00

We went to St. George over the weekend and had a great time visiting with all the Grandparents, Mom and Pop and Jan and Mike. Here are a few pictures from the trip.

Charlton Heston reads the forward to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, February 1995

2009-04-23T09:24:00.000-07:00

A Tribute to Eath Day:

You have to imagine the Great Charlton Heston with his rythmic voice reading this passage.

HESTON: You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years.

Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. Might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not.

If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. You think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine.

When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. Hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Homestead Vids

2009-03-29T14:37:00.000-07:00

Moving Day

2009-03-06T07:16:00.000-08:00

We will be moving into our new home on March 21st. Not to be too presumptuous, but we could use all the help we can get. The new home is only about half a mile from where we live now, so it should be a very easy move. We will have plenty of food and drinks. After we settle in there will be a house warming party and we will notify everyone of that date once it's decided on.

2009-02-16T15:08:00.000-08:00

We are very excited to announce that we are buying a home. It's a very nice two story home built in 2003. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, and has 2645 sq. feet, and a nice size back yard with a deck.

We close on March 18.

We are under contract

2009-02-16T14:56:00.001-08:00

Pictures from the 2008 Christmas season

2009-01-04T10:02:00.000-08:00

We were plagued with illness all season long. Beginning in early September Jack caught everything you could imagine at his daycare, then passed it to me. The worst came in December when Jack caught a lower lobe pneumonia, which in turn gave me mild tachycardia for the next two weeks.

Despite all our woes we managed to have Christmas. The video of Christmas morning is entertaining to watch. I'm sick as a dog with the flu, and Jack is hanging on with double ear infections and pneumonia. The only one who came thru relatively unscathed was Belle.

2008 is over and it's a new year. Jack was yanked from Little Critters daycare and is now in home daycare. He is looked after by one of Belle's Filipino friends, Josie, who is fully licenced and has been doing daycare for 13 years or so. She only has five or six kids at a time and Jack loves it. He's healthy and happy and I'm finally over all of my afflictions, so we'll keep our fingers crossed.
That face says it all.

Jack Boy pictures are here just in time for Christmas

2008-12-10T15:21:00.000-08:00

These were taken at his daycare by a professional studio based photographer that makes the rounds at daycare facilities in the area. We had no idea they had taken them until we picked Jack up one night and they blindsided us with the proofs.

The photographer could not get Jack to smile, but I think they came out great none the less. We have some very cute Christmas cards that are forthcoming. Check a mailbox near you.

Belle's Filipino support group welcomes Elisa

2008-11-09T07:04:00.000-08:00

11/8/2008
Belle belongs to a Filipino support group that makes new arrivals to America and Utah feel more comfortable. Last night we attended a party for a young woman named Elisa, who just got married. Her husband, Bill, is an American. He met her online, flew to Cebu, married her and brought her back to the states. Belle is also from Cebu as is her childhood friend Grace who lives just a few miles from us. It was a nice evening with great food as is always the case at these parties. Jack ate ham until it came out of his ears, also grapes and watermelon.

Top: Jack (by himself) Grace is on the Karaoke machine.

Middle: (the three Cebuano's) Belle, Grace and Elisa, oh yeah Jack too.

Bottom: Grace, her two kids, Bill and Elisa.

Halloween 2008

2008-11-08T08:39:00.000-08:00

Finally we can post our Halloween pictures. We lost the USB cord for our camera and have been unable to add pictures to our site. We all had a wonderful time at the Thanksgiving Point corn Maze and extravaganza. (I'm not sure what it was called so I made that up) Jack ran around and had a great time. Belle made sure he got his picture taken on every possible display and contraption.

The corn maze was fun for about 10 minutes, then it was just cold and dark. I had to surrender my jacket to Belle who unlike me was never a Boy Scout and therefore not prepared for the cold. We made the best of it by making jokes. I can't remember them all, but rest assured the witty banter and back and forth was what you might expect from Carson boys, use your imagination.

By the time we made it out of the corn maze Jack was cold and tired. I don't know why, all he did was sit in his Jack Pack, I did all the work. But never the less we decided to make our way home, where Jack promptly fell asleep. On Halloween night Jack had to stay home instead of trick or treating due to a cold. It's OK though, I don't think he really understands the whole trick or treat thing anyway. Maybe next year.

Special thanks to Adabelle and Heather for putting together the Halloween party. It was a very nice evening, we were happy to be there.

You can view the rest of the pictures in this series in the photo album below.

Haloween 2008