James is Married!

I was encouraged to post a couple of photos from the blessed occasion.  James married Christy Nielson on May 5, 2011.  They are having an open house on May 21, come one come all.  These photos were taken with a Canon Rebel T2i - which I flippin love!!!

Everyone!

Just Married!

The Techmeyer's

James and his siblings

The 3 boys - look closely!

Bountiful, UT Temple

Cute!

How do you move a train?

I have to start out by saying that Gpa Nebeker knew how to build stuff to last.  When he built the train set up in his loft, he wasn't planning on taking it out - ever!  So he was our biggest foe in trying to prove him wrong in thinking that it could be done.  In reality it could be done, but I would not attach the word simple to any part of moving that train set.

Brandon and Carl in the loft

Mike w Brandon tieing the ropes on

Video Capture of the "over the rail moment"

Step 1: Get it out of the loft. Done. Step 2: Take a break. Doing.

Kyle brought the trailer over and it fit quite nicely.

What goes out has to come back in...except it's not that easy.

Brandon is moving mountains to get this to work. And that mountain wasn't just going to bust off.  I told you that Gpa knew how to build.

We had almost 0 damage in the move.  The control box broke off, and a few trees.  That's about it.

And this is where it sits today, relocated in the Case's Basement.  It'll need some re-assembly and a bit of touch up paint, but amazingly the track is all intact after all that.

 

 

 

 

 

Gma graciously agreed to take the video.  It doesn't quite do it justice, but it gives you the idea of the peril that I was in as we were taking it out of the loft.

I love Summer!

We just got back from a long weekend camping with the Utah Techmeyer siblings (I have to distinguish, just in case you are confused). It felt good to relax and do nothing for a few days. Of course "nothing" is a relative term, because we did a lot!
It was an exciting start when we found out that we were in Skunk territory.

We came across a couple of them over the course of a couple of days. We tried to avoid them, except when we were chasing them down to get a picture....
We played in the water all weekend - river, pool, and the lake.

The river ran parallel to our camp, so we had a private and free reign of the river.

I sat out in the river and ate my lunch with Sarah and Neil. Very refreshing

The resort also had a pool, that we went to a couple of times. Pools are always a good time.

We also enjoyed a day at the lake, that was only about 2 miles from the resort. We took our rubber raft and paddled around the lake. We had a lot of fun.

Jenni fell over in her chair, and naturally, we took pictures before helping her up.

Here's some more pictures of the group.





This is a panoramic picture of our camp, all set up and full of fun.

Renaissance Faire

Over the past year(s) David and James and I guess now I have been hobby-ing with leather work, metal work and the such. Mom has always been good at fabric-ing together beautiful articles of clothing our of anything. A couple of years ago we went to the the "Ren Faire" and have enjoyed going, and have gone back each year since. Little by little, we have pieced together costumes either through making, buying, or by gifts.
I'll start with us in our "period" clothing. Then we'll add in the iconic "3 Musketeers"

Mom is responsible for all of the clothing. A few years ago she bought the 3 of us real knee high boots. She made all of the shirts, and pants. She made hers and Hollie's and the little girls' dresses. She also gifted us the tunic's in order to complete the Musketeer attire. David made his own sword, as well as the one James used. James initiated the leather work and assisted or did all of the leather belting and harnessing with David (Baldric's). I bought my sword a couple years ago for a Zorro costume that has worked quite well for this too.

And here we are - "The 3". So here's a little story: Last Halloween I dressed up as a Musketeer and went to a party and the only question I got was "where's the other 2?" Ironically, David and James went to a party as 2 musketeers, and the only question they got was "where is the other one?" So we decided that under no terms would be ever not dress up together. So we get the the Renaissance Faire and undoubtedly the most common question was "Where's D'Artagnan"? So we figured we can't please people.



BA BA BA BAAAAAAMMMM!!! Introducing his Majesty, the King of Scotland!!! We were permitted into The King's Court - visiting from Scotland - and were asked to escort the King's Court in the precession to the Jousting Event. So we stood in line behind the king and passed through the Faire. The Bugler bloated his horn parting the crowds with bows and respect so the King and his court could pass. I obtained a couple of pictures from Rudy Van Bree Photography (Kind Regards)



And here is a group picture of the King's Court following the Jousting Event.