Jim Goings

I wanted to practice playing with my camera and doing some special effect editing.  I’ve been an avid fan of the tutorials on videocopilot.net, so I thought I’d try one.  Here’s the result…. Miriam’s Dark Side!

Hannah has really flourished under the instruction of her great Piano teacher, Olga (@olgapyles). She’s had about a year of weekly lessons and is doing far better than we could have hoped for.

I went rafting this past Saturday with Steve and Christian.  It’s been years since I’ve been, but it was awesome!  As always, All Adventures Rafting was excellent!  We had a great time!

Here we are at the top of Husum Falls.  I’m the only one in the boat actually paddling with any shred of power.  Of course, I have lots of experience paddling.  Yeah, I pretty much just tooted my own horn.

Hunkered down in the “crash” position, we’re take the plunge!

We’re going under!

We have achieved submarine status!

Steve almost fell out!  Luckily our guide had quick reflexes and grabbed him before he did!

We’re alive!

My three oldest girls are sick today.  They came back from a sleepover and starting throwing up.  They can’t even keep a little water down.  Poor things.  They’ll probably hate me when their older for taking pics of them when they were sick, but why not remember moments when mommy and daddy waited on you hand and foot all day?

Hannah resting in the living room

Miriam resting in the living room

Simone in our bed after a shower to clean up after an accident.  My poor baby. She’s still so cute though!

We had some family portraits done yesterday.  They were taken by Robert at Silocore Photography, a friend of mine from work.

You can some of our favorites from the entire shoot on my Flickr page.