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If you haven't seen Google Street View in action yet, it's pretty cool.  They basically stitch together a whole bunch of photos to create a 360 degree view that you can pan around and move along, as if you were walking down the street.  Anyway, they just added Dallas to the cities that have it, and they made it so you can easily embed panoramic views into a web page, so I decided to give a little personal tour of some places in Dallas.

Click 'Read more' for the whole tour:

I'm sorry, I accidentally put in the wrong date for the radio concert!! It's actually Wednesday, December 5th (I changed it on the post, but I wanted to make sure everyone got the message). I hope you're still able to listen.

On Wednesday this week at 12pm Central time (12:06pm to be exact, after the news break), the choir I sing in, Evening Song, will perform live on the classical station here in Dallas, WRR. So, if you're in the area, you can here us on FM 101.1. But the cool thing is, if you're not in the area, you can listen to us online through WRR's website. Here is the link:

http://www.wrr101.com/stream.shtml

If you're interested, I would go to the site beforehand to make sure you can stream okay.  The best quality I found was using Internet Explorer with the 64K stream, but I think the other two options sound good as well.  Give it a listen and let me know what you think!

Again, the time is: 12pm CST (10am Pacific), on Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Lincoln has really started picking up speed with learning words, which is good, because we were a bit worried. Anyway, the other night we were playing with recording ourselves on my laptop, and Lincoln loved to talk into the microphone and then hear himself. We got him to say a good list of his common words, and so I thought I would post them, so you could all enjoy his rather cute voice. If you can't catch what all of the words are, here's a list for reference:

mom
dad
kate
bubble
go
no
banana
I love you

These definitely aren't his entire vocabulary, but it's the most common ones. Today, for example, Kate taught him how to say "zero" and "nine" and point them out on his number puzzle. He says them really well, too! ("zero" really took us by suprise)

Enjoy!

This Halloween is really the first holiday Lincoln actively participated in.  After failing with a lion and dog costume, we finally found something we could get him to wear, only because it was similar to real clothes and because we bribed him with a Twix bar (not a usual tactic, but desperate times...).  We went and ate chili at Grandma's, then 6 of us went down the street behind Lincoln so he could hit up a few houses for candy.  He really didn't understand much of it, but when people started letting him grab treats out of bowls, he got the hang of it pretty well.

In other news, Naomi's sister Kate is visiting us for the entire month of November.  It's been great having her around, and Lincoln seems to enjoy having a roommate.

Smugmug now has an embeddable slideshow for pictures, so I'm trying it out below. Let me know if you have problems or what you think.

Lincoln, Naomi, and Kate.  His costume is Peter Pan, but you can also interpret it as Robin Hood or Link from Zelda.

Lincoln's cousin, Sydney, dressed up as a cow.  Her other grandpa is a dairy farmer, so they even put the right brand on her.

I really liked this shot.

FULL GALLERY | SLIDESHOW

About a year ago when I started really getting into reading blogs and subscribing to feeds, I found a small blog that really caught my eye called FreshArrival. Basically, it posts about one really cool thing every day. It can tend towards the geeky side, but it also posts about art, photography, shopping, music, and anything else that is worth considering. I enjoy it because it doesn't overload me with junk, just one great post a day.

Anyway, they had a survey on the site several months ago, which I filled out, and at the very end was a checkbox asking if we were interested in contributing to the blog ourselves. I checked it, thinking it would be cool, but didn't think much of it. Well, about a week ago, I got an email from the main author of the site, asking if I wanted to write for the blog, and ...(skip to present)... my first post is on the front page today! If you don't read this on Saturday, October 27, 2007, then here is the permanent link:

http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2007/10/26/usb-keyboard-vacuum-done/

It's really my first writing in any type of professional setting, and I really enjoy doing it. I hope to contribute at least once a week to the site.

I finally have up clips from the last month and a half. Hopefully they're not too boring; I tried to edit them down to the highlights.

First, some random clips from September (in roughly the order they happened):

Then, a day at the fountain in Flower Mound:

And finally, Lincoln demonstrating his super-sliding ability:

I've uploaded some pictures as well, but we'll hopefully post in more detail about them later. Feel free to explore them now, however, here and here.

We'll be going back with grandma and grandpa soon, but Lincoln and I were able to go for a bit this morning with some ladies in the ward and their kids.

Last Saturday, we decided to take a small family trip into Plano to see the annual Plano Balloon Festival.  Lincoln is so obsessed with balls (or anything round like a ball) and airplanes, we thought he'd love to see some Hot Air balloons up close.  While we only stayed for about an hour and a half and had to walk what seemed like miles just to get there and back from our parking spot, I would say it was quite enjoyable for all. Click on a picture below to see the entire gallery.

Well, we think he liked it, although his facial expressions may indicate otherwise.