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Quist Family Reunion | Camp Lomia
#30DaysofGOOD Challenge | November 2011
@GOOD on Twitter have monthly reoccurring #30DaysofGOOD where they focus on different things. Last month was health, and this month is photography. I thought it would be fun to keep up with it, and post the pictures I take onto our blog. Enjoy, and join in the fun. Follow me @wesmcb on Twitter to see my updates there.
Day 23 – Document a mentor | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Here’s the newest life in our lives.
Day 22 – Document the thing you spend most of the day looking at | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Here’s the newest life in our lives.
Day 21 – Document a neighbor | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Here’s the newest life in our lives.
Day 20 – Document the inside of your fridge | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Here’s the newest life in our lives.
Day 19 – Document a room in your house | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Here’s the newest life in our lives.
Day 18 – Document boredom | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Here’s the newest life in our lives.
Day 17 – Document something you made | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Here’s the newest life in our lives.
Day 16 – Document a life | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Here’s the newest life in our lives.
Day 15 – Document your commute | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | During certain parts of the year it is completely black out, other parts of the year the sun is out already, but for a portion of the year this is what I drive to work looking at.
Day 14 – Document a friend | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | Here are two friends at the park in Blanding, UT on the way home from seeing family.
Day 13 – Document hopfulness | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | This is the scale at work where I weigh in. It is going to the left which instills hopefulness.
Day 12 – Document the highlight of your day | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | This was the highlight of my weekend because a friends came up and we got to stay up way too late and play it together.
Day 11 – Document your favorite shoes | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – | Hoping Amanda will fill the gap on this one..
Day 10 – Document your coffee break | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | Hmmm, don’t drink coffee.. Here’s my morning shake and a little TRS.
Day 9 – Document inspiration | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | While I do like this picture it is not the picture or event that is inspiration. The inspiration is the woman in it. It has been a pretty interesting year, and she has dealt with a lot. She is truly inspiring. So many other things should be on here, namely my wife and kids. They keep me going everyday, and there are many pictures of them underneath so here are a few other random things. A scale, it has been motivating as I am trying to lose weight. It sure is motivating to see that slide to the left. A sunset, there’s just something about them that is indescribable. Thirdly is a picture from the Wallow Fire where I was live streaming a press conference. It was such an intense expereience and few weeks, but I was inspried to keep information posted to http://wallow.us during those few weeks.
Day 8 – Document something funny | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | Not much to say about this one. We were helping Mylea with her goat for 4-H, and had some time to kil before we hauled it back to the ranch. This is what Rustyn found. Today’s honorable mention is my Great Aunt Gwen. My uncle Jeff has given her a hard time that he was going to dye her hair purple for years. This is what the family brought her right before Halloween. The other is a picture of Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear which is both a funny show, and it is also a funny screen grab.
Day 7 – Document autumn | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | Yesterday found me home not feeling well, and getting Rustyn feeling better as well, but the weather did not disappoint. While I would have hoped for a drive into the mountains, not scarred by the Wallow Fire, for some leaf coloring changing goodness this is what we ended up getting. It snowed again, and this is what my Autumn is looking like.
Day 6 – Document art | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | It seemed odd taking pictures of pictures, kind of like some Inception action going on. I ended up choosing the work done by a high school auto class with a plasma cutter. It was a Christmas present a few years ago. The honorable mention is another plasma cut cow head, and a pencil drawing done by Kim Trickey of my father and grandfather at his last roping before he died of cancer in Reserve, New Mexico.
Day 5 – Document something new | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | I totally called that yesterday with my daughter in the dress! Last night the wind blew in the first snow of the season, which I was always told growing up that you didn’t eat the first snow of the season because it was cleaning everything out of the air or something like that. Looks like old man winter decided to join us. It is pretty chilly outside this morning with the wind blowing.
Day 4 – Document something old | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | Alex is obviously not old, but her blessing dress was the same one worn by her mom. Not that her mom is old, but to an infant that is a pretty old dress. Something old, and something new. Honorable mention goes to the Salt Lake Temple when we went up to see Chubbz get sealed. The other two are the carnival (which I’d rather no know how old the rides are, and the other is our football field. Again, it’s not the field that’s old, but the past time of Friday Night Football!
Day 3 – Document happiness | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | I went through a few pictures recently taken and this hit me and what happiness really is. I have a few pictures of my kids with huge smiles on their faces, my mother riding on of her new colts, and my mom and Rustyn wrestling yet this is by far the winner. After all, it envelopes all the other pictures mentioned above.
Day 2 – Document a pet | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | My wife informed me that she in fact had taken the picture below so I submit one of my own. This is a baby goat born on the ranch in 2011 that was named Tangled. It was the runt of the littler, or whatever you call goats born at the same time, and still to this day is smaller than the rest. Below it are two honorable mentions that I had to post up as well. The first is Rustyn holding Tangled as well, and then the other is Luna and Ko resting.
Day 2 – Document a pet | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Amanda | This is my son’s pet, Little Bit. She is a miniature horse that my parents won in a silent auction. If you can’t tell, they are friends.
Day 1 – Document Street Style | Camera – iPhone 4 | Photographer – Wes | Here is a photo I took on my way to DJ a Homecoming dance. It was very cold and gray when I left town, and the further I drove towards Sanders, the prettier the sunset got. Here is the road on my way.
Trick or Treating!!
Trick or Treating!! That’s what Rustyn was saying anyway. Last night Rustyn and Alex got dressed up, and got to trick or treat. Mylea came along as well and we had a really good time. When we dropped Mylea off at a party we found Rustyn was a ‘bit’ wet so we had to cut the fun short, and headed home. It was fun being home for the trick or treaters though as we are usually out. Thanks Sally and Shelia for Alex’s great costume! She work it all night, and loved it!
Dare Family Pig Roast 2011
Every year my wife’s family has a pig roast that was a company get together, but now is more of a neighborhood get together of friends and family. We were able to head up for the weekend, and had a great time. Rustyn and Alex were able to meet their Uncle Mike that recently moved from Iowa with his family to Colorado. Were able to have a great time seeing Chad & Mindy’s daughters play soccer and go play on Uncle Mike’s quad’s and papa Dean’s side-by-side. We stopped on the way and the way home in Blanding at their park and had a good break and lunch. Always great to get to see almost the entire Double D Dare family.
Just a ‘Little Bit’ of Fun
Another week started with Rustyn getting to ride the new mini-horse named ‘Little Bit’. After he helped out with the chores and making ‘Little Bit’ her new corral. On Saturday we headed to St. Johns to watch Marlen play volleyball, and Mylea at a barrel race. We ate at El Cupidos, which I would recommend as pretty good ‘fast’ mexican food. Sunday we went and saw Gwen and worked away at a puzzle that had just been started on a foyer of the Hinkson Assisted Living Home.
Apache County Fair Weekend
The County Fair is always fun to go to, but much less fun now that the Horse Races don’t come to St. Johns any more. Mylea showed her goats Ryan and Agnus on Thursday, the first day of the fair, and Rustyn found the train. He and Mylea rode it over, and over again. We had our curly fries, snowcones, and other fair food goodness until 4pm when the carnival opened. Rustyn got his wristband and it was all over. He ran from ride to ride and went down the slide about 20 times. Emily, Dustin, Ty, and Jax showed up as well and everyone had some fun until the rain came. Saturday Mylea sold her goat Ryan for 410 dollars, and was very excited. We took some videos and you can check them out below. On the way home Rustyn crashed hard, and there was even a beautiful sunset to end the weekend.
Football, Roping, & a Reception
Football season has started, and we were able to make it to the Freshman, 8th Grade, and the Varsity games this week. I took some fun panorama shots with my iPhone, and each one turned out different. Saint Johns played Round Valley in Saint Johns, and we sat on the track, and even though the Elks lost it was exciting to see the game and be a small part of the action again. Today my dad roped in Linden, and we stopped by on the way to Green’s Peak to see Amanda’s family that has a nice camp established up there. The roping was also great, and a good time watching my dad get to rope. Alex and Rustyn even got to ride Terry in between runs. I am blown away at the caliber of photo that the iPhone 4’s sensor is capable of. With Camera+’s clarity post-edit I have my new wallpaper for my iPhone. IMG_0717 and IMG_0719 are my two favorites (719 is the image a the top, and 717 is below the gallery).
Hot is an understatement!
We drove down to the valley for the weekend for Eben’s Mission Farewell. (http://www.ebenwhiting.com) We started on Friday with some work at a client’s office. After they offered to babysit our kids so we met Jenn at the Temple and was able to do some “work” there. I think that the picture I took looks a bit fake because it looks so pristine. Later that day we went and had dinner with some friends and then headed back to the Hotel Atkin. The next morning the kids got to swim again, and they both really enjoy the water. It makes me sad that we don’t have a pool locally now. We finished the weekend at Jeff’s house and had a great time. You can see that Rustyn had wat too much fun and feel asleep while still trying to play. Eben’s farewell was nice, and it was amazing to see all the people that came to see him off. Rows of people i’ve never met before came to hear him speak. Rustyn, MeeMaw, and I went and saw Blue Dog before we left, and he seems to be doing well even though he doesn’t look very healthy. When we get back to Round Valley we ran out to the ranch to pick up Luna and our truck. When we got there Rustyn got to met a new friend. Tentatively name “Jean” at the moment, the miniature horse is the same height as Rustyn. You can tell by the picture that he’s a bit excited about the new horse.
