Merry Christmas

I know. Technically, I'm writing this in the wee-early morning hours of the day AFTER Christmas. Eric and I had a wonderful - but very long - Christmas.

I took my mom to the airport at 4:30 in the morning. Santa visited our house at about 5:00 in the morning, leaving presents for me and Eric and, of course, the dogs.

We spent the morning at Eric's mom's house opening presents and having breakfast. The afternoon was spent at Eric's dad's house with the family and friends...that's always very nice.

We drove to Kamas to spend the evening with Richard and his kids and to give them the presents we had for them.

All in all, I had about 3 hours of sleep and now here I am working the graveyard shift and trying to find things to occupy my mind.

SO!

This leads me to the Friday night movies list for this week:
What to get your boss if you forgot his Christmas gift...or if what you gave isn't quite enough:

2010 movie trailers of movies I can see myself paying to see in the theater:

Shrek Forever After:

Alice in Wonderland:

Iron Man 2:


Finally: I hope you and yours had a happy Christmas.

I will add my favorite Christmas and December photos soon.

Friday Night Videos

I don't have many videos to add today, but here's what I found this week.

The Pink Glove Dance:
St Vincent Medical Center made this video for Breast Cancer Awareness.


Bob & Doug share their 12 Days of Christmas. I found this song last year and love that someone added animation to it.


Another song at the Holden residence in Lindon, Utah:


A Christmas montage...Can you guess every movie?


My favorite part of the Charlie Brown Christmas movie.

Growing Up

I've been learning to use Photoshop at work and in the practice, I've been using my own pictures. I scanned in several pictures from my childhood and then decided to see what I could do. Here they are:

My Great Grandma Flint:
Before:

After:

My Great Grandma Lisonbee with me and Sandy. We were about 18 months old, I guess.
Before: After:
My Great Grandpa Lisonbee with me and Sandy - the same day as the previous picture.
Before: After:
My brother's blessing day with my Great Grandpa and Grandma Lisonbee. I really like the way this one refurbished.
Before: After:
This is my single most FAVORITE pictures of me and Sandy. Love, love, love it!
Before: After:
This picture of me has some serious damage on it! I will continue to work on it, but here's what I have so far:
Before: After:
Such a cute picture of Sandy!
Before: After:
That's it for now, but I'm working on others of my siblings and hoping they turn out better, too.
I would appreciate any feedback! Thanks!

Friday Night Videos

This week's video finds:

This has to be one of the weirdest commercials EVER! I can't even fathom where it would have played, but here it is - and 'I feel great!' It makes me laugh.


What do you want for Christmas? Well, here's the perfect gift for the lady in your life. A gift that even Santa can't deliver. LOL!


I love to use photoshop to enhance my pictures. You know: fix lighting issues, adjust contrast, and 'hide' my unsightly blemishes. The person who used photoshop in this video has some serious talent and serious patience:


Still not sure what to give for Christmas? Check these new ideas out:


I posted this last year, and thought it would be nice to post it again:


A family in Lindon has been doing these lights for 4 years now. I've never seen the house, but I'm sure if you stop in Lindon, someone can point you in the right direction of the Holden house. This is from 2008:


Here's a story the news did on the house/family this year:

Friday in Morro Bay

The day after Thanksgiving, Eric and I joined Sandy, April and Elida on a little road trip to Morro Bay (north of Santa Barbara). It was a beautiful drive through some wine country where all the grape vines were the various shades of fall. (I didn't get any picture, which is a shame.)
It was cold and windy in Morro Bay, but it was beautiful. We went to a wonderful restaurant - the food was so fantastic, I had to get pictures:

After we enjoyed a magnificent meal, we enjoyed the cold sites of Morro Bay.
First, we crammed into Sandy's car to decide where to start our site seeing. This is one of the only pictures I have of Eric. Beautiful Morro Bay:
Sandy and I having some fun: I definitely recommend the journey to Morro Bay if you find yourself even remotely close by.

Thanksgiving in LA

Eric and I were so happy to fly to LA for our Thanksgiving holiday. We left SLC on Monday morning and spent the week in 70 degree weather. Yay!

On Wednesday Eric and I went to Elida's house and made pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. We also made some empanadas for dinner and took them back to Sandy and April's that evening. They were delicious, if I say so myself.

Thanksgiving Day was a beautiful sunny day...it was a wonderful contrast to what we are used to in SLC. Loved it! April made a perfect turkey - I mean PERFECT! We were happy to find that we had plenty of potatoes and gravy (LOL!).

Here are my favorite pictures through Thanksgiving:
Making the pumpkin pie filling: Me and Sandy: April preps the turkey: The table is set: Damon carves the turkey: Elida and Mason await the food. Mason has mastered the Lisonbee blank stare: The table is almost ready for the eating to begin. Mmmm, rolls: Did I mention that the turkey was really tasty? Cuz it was: Of course, after all that food comes the turkey stupor: Sandy and Elida: We ended the evening with some Phase 10...and we were begging to be put out of our misery by about Phase 6..but we made it all the way through. (note to self: Sandy is picking up a yellow two. That's a 'yellow two') Thanksgiving rocked! We just might have to do it again next year.

Friday Night Videos

Back again from vacation. I will post the rest of my favorite vacation pictures in the coming week.

In the mean time, here are the videos that captured my attention (if only for a brief moment).

Tee Hee Hee! My guilty pleasure. I can't help it! I just really like Masterpiece Theater! I always have and I'm looking forward to watching this in January:


Another one. I missed this because I was in California, but I'm hoping to catch a re-run of it:


I was planning on posting this prior to Thanksgiving, but here it is now. I just love it!


I think I posted this video last year, but I totally don't care. It's great!


Okay. Seriously!?!? Crazy technology! It's like we're living in a Star Trek world!


I loves me some U2. This is a great time lapse video of getting ready for the concert, the concert and then taking down the space ship:

There's nothing more to add. I mean, U2, has to end this, right? *sigh* I loves me some U2.