A few months ago, Holly had decided that we needed to go on a camping trip over the 24th of July weekend. I had Friday the 23rd off and she didn’t work at all that weekend so she thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get away. For reasons that I can’t seem to remember at the moment, the camping trip for the 24th got moved up a few weeks leaving us with a three-day weekend full of nothing to do. Sure, there are plenty of things that need to be done around the house, but where is the fun in doing chores over a holiday weekend? After a quick call to invite my sister, Chelsea, it was decided that the Zohners would once again travel into the mountains.
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Jul 2010
Jul 2010
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Jun 2009
Jun 2009
I know I’m late in posting this but a few weeks ago Hannah turned four years old. For her birthday we went to Winger’s for lunch and then went and saw Pixar’s Up. (Up was an amazing movie that I would recommend to anybody.) As soon as we walked into Winger’s, Hannah told the hostess that it was her birthday. This worked to her advantage since she got a free asphalt pie after the meal. As you can see, she enjoyed wearing it almost as much as she enjoyed eating it.
Hannah received some pretty cool birthday presents. Chelsea gave her some clothes and shoes but the clothes were too big and the shoes were too small so Holly had to exchange them. Yesterday she had some time so she took Hannah to the store and let her choose the clothes and shoes that she wanted. Hannah found some pink glitter covered shoes with Disney princesses on the inside so she had to have them. My response to Holly when Hannah showed them to me was “Really? You really let her get these? Really?”
Category: Hannah
Tags: asphalt pie, birthday, Chelsea, Demitri Martin, glitter, Hannah, Holly, movie, Pixar, shoes, styrofoam, Up, Winger's 2 Comments
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Jun 2009
Jun 2009
In 1993 my dad gave me three copies of Superman #75. Two of these were the “black bag” variant that contained assorted goodies and a variant cover all encased in a black poly bag with a bleeding Superman logo on the front. The third copy was the widely available basic newsstand version. In addition to the individual issues, he also gave me The Death of Superman trade paperback which contained the 11 comics detailing the entire Death of Superman storyline. Growing up, I was always been a fan of comic books but I hadn’t read them with any sort of regularity since I was in grade school so I was a bit surprised by this present but I was still grateful and excited nonetheless. Little did my dad know that his seemingly simple gift would send me down the long path to becoming a comic book geek.
Category: Comics, Jeremiah
Tags: Batman, Chelsea, comic book, Comics, Death of Superman, geek, Gotham, Holly, Knightfall, LDS, mission, reading, South Africa, Superman Leave a Comment
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Mar 2009
Mar 2009
Jeremiah and I worked out in the yard on Saturday cutting up sod and getting the garden ready. Alex and Hannah got tired of playing outside so they went inside and decided to play “barber”. Alex didn’t want his haircut but Hannah did. She said that she wanted her hair to look like her Aunt Chelsea’s. So Hannah came outside modeling her new hairdo. She was quite excited that Alex had cut her hair.
Jeremiah was not happy about that at all. Meanwhile Chelsea got to our house and was returning Emma from her sleepover and offered to take Hannah to Nick’s sister’s house so that her hair could be fixed. This is the after picture.
I guess her hair could look worse. Jeremiah is not happy about it and I am just relieved that it is just hair. It will grow back.
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Jan 2009
Jan 2009
This is a post that I’ve been wanting to write for quite a while but have not been sufficiently motivated to do so. Now I have a video clip to accompany my words so I’m glad that I waited. Videos make everything so much better.
Everyone is familiar with MySpace. I don’t like it. With all of the half naked ugly chicks, angsty pre-teens, and frat boys, it’s bad enough. When you add poorly designed pages that should come with seizure warnings into the mix, it becomes completly unbearable. However, millions of users would probably disagree with me. For years, it was the leader in social networking sites but that doesn’t change the fact that it makes my eyes want to bleed.
About a year ago, my sister Chelsea, started bugging me and Holly about setting up profiles on Facebook. After Holly finally capitulated, I decided that I better give in as well. (I feel shame over caving to peer pressure.)
Category: Friends, Holly, Jeremiah, Technology
Tags: blog, blogging, Chelsea, digg, facebook, Family, FriendFace, Friends, Holly, Jeremiah, LinkedIn, social networking sites, technorati, television, The IT Crowd, youtube One Comment
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Dec 2008
Dec 2008
I was talking with a friend at church the other day and he likened the Christmas season to a car accident. Despite how much preparation goes into getting ready for everything, it still manages to sneak up and leave everyone wondering what it was that just hit. Given how the past month has gone, I felt that this was a very appropriate analogy. Now that things have started to settle down, I decided that I finally better sit down and try and recap our activities over the past few weeks.
Category: Family, Holidays, Holly, School
Tags: black friday shopping, blog, Chelsea, Christmas, christmas season, Church, Emma, Family, funeral, gallery, graduation, holiday, Holly, large crowds, Nick, nursing school, Pictures, registered nurse, rn, Ryan, School, temple square, Wii, wrapping gifts Leave a Comment
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Nov 2008
Nov 2008
Some of you may have noticed some changes to our gallery page. I’ve recently started using the NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress. I like it much better than Coppermine which is what I was using before. When combined with the WP lightbox 2 plugin, it makes a very nice gallery.
At Holly’s request, I’ve also re-enabled the password protection on the page. It’s not 100% secure since I currently have a random preview image showing in the sidebar, but it should help keep unwanted visitors from lingering a bit too long.
To go along with this new gallery format, I’ve added pictures from Halloween and Nick and Chelsea’s wedding. I’ve also added a pic of me feeding a mouse to an owl and some random images of the kids. If you would like to check them out, and don’t remember the page password, please feel free to use the contact page to let us know that you want to see things. Or, you can just give us a call and we can tell you. Whatever is easier for you.
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Oct 2008
Oct 2008
Last night Chelsea came over for a few hours. She took the kids to a Halloween party and then we hung out and watched Heroes while she was fooling around on her laptop.
Shortly before she went home, her computer was sitting closed on the floor. She stood up to go to the bathroom and her cell phone flew off of her lap, bouncing off the top of the laptop. I made a comment about how it’s not a good idea to go throwing things at a laptop because screen breakage is inevitable but she just laughed me off.
Before she left, I told her that I needed to put something on her computer. She assumed that it was something cool like a game and handed over her laptop. Little did she know that I had no intentions of putting a game on her system. While she was gone, I replaced her very cool Batman wallpaper with this image:
Category: Chelsea, Technology
Tags: breakage, cell phone, Chelsea, computer, Heroes, laptop, Nick, practical joke, screen, wallpaper One Comment
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Oct 2008
Oct 2008
I know that it’s been a while since I posted anything. I actually have good reasons for not doing so. Last week was complete chaos in the Zohner home. Let me try and catch everyone up.
Last Friday, my sister Chelsea got married. Because of this, my mom came into town from Denver. The last time she was here, she made a comment about how the basement looked just as it had months earlier when she last saw it. I wasn’t about to let that happen again so I spent 35 hours over the weekend painting and installing the home theater speakers. I started on Friday afternoon and finally finished Sunday evening. Lucky for me, Chelsea and Nick came over and helped a bit which actually ended up helping a lot because without them, I wouldn’t have been ready on Monday when we had the flooring installed. Now I just have a few things left and then the basement will be complete. YAY!
Category: Chelsea, Emma, Family, House
Tags: Alex, basement, chaos, Chelsea, downstairs, Emma, flooring, home theater speakers, House, Nick, painting, shower drain, wedding, Work Leave a Comment
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Sep 2008
Sep 2008
Over the past week, a lot of things have been done to our house. First, I finally finished the drywall in the basement and have started working on installing baseboards. I also managed to get the doors hung but one of them is a bit tweaked so I’ll need to spend some time working on getting it corrected.
I’m hoping to have everything finished by the time that Chelsea gets married a the end of the month. That gives me three weeks to finish baseboards, prime and paint the walls, and get flooring installed. I’ll also need to get doorknobs and window coverings installed but that’s about it. It’s so nice to finally be able to see a light at the end of the tunnel that doesn’t resemble an oncoming train.
Category: House
Tags: backyard, basement, Chelsea, doors, drywall, Emma, fence, flooring, gates, home improvement, House, Kids, light at the end of the tunnel, neighborhood kids, Oscar, window Leave a Comment
