State Capitol on a Cloudy Day

And the new Picasa pencil sketch filter

Baby Milestones

Recently Mimi has checked off a couple of those fun little first-year milestones.

Crawling (albeit a little bit sideways still)

Check

Pulling herself up against things to stand up?

Check

Enough hair in the back for some little pig tails?

Check!

Sunday Mimi

Mimi has begun to crawl in the last few days, and she's started to pull herself up against things as well. She's much happier with her new found mobility except when she's in the crib/holding cell. 

Mary surprised me with an upgrade in photography equipment, so we'll try to get some video of her crawling in the next few days. 

Rio Grande

Since the offices I support have split up, I find myself with two offices. The first one is the Rio Grande Train Station on 6th West and 3rd South.

The train station was acquired by the state around 1980. They've turned it into a museum and offices for the Department of Heritage and Arts, Division of State Archives, and Division of State History. There is also a healthy presence of the Division of Arts and Museums which means we almost always have art galleries in the grand lobby. (That's pretty much awesome)

This will make you cranky.

They recently found a photo which showed artisans hand painting gold leaf on the egg and dart decor in the grand lobby. When the state purchased the building, they just painted it white. . .

Big fan of the mezzanine above the gallery.

Farewell EA Sports Building

Both of the departments I support are moving out of the EA Sports Building on 300 S and State Street. I've only had my office there since June, but it was still kind of sad packing things up to move to a new location. 

Goodbye EA Sports Building

Goodbye old hotel advertisement

Goodbye scary mural on the building next door

 Goodbye State Street

Goodbye City-County building

 Goodbye funny parking garage where the the floors on the parking level don't match the building floors so I keep forgetting where I parked.

Goodbye big cement pylons one of which I backed into once.

Goodbye waiting room with the department names on a big mirror

Goodbye worn, green carpet

Goodbye little office with the chairs that don't match

Goodbye view of the very top of the Salt Lake Temple from the north windows

Goodbye garden of black and white satellite dishes

Family Vacation By the Numbers

745 and 11

Miles and hours driving to Disneyland (each way)


5

stops to use the bathroom and eat lunch on the way

2 and 1

Hours at Huntington Beach and kids buried in the sand.


9 and 4

Ages of the kids that got nervous in line waiting for rides.


3

Shows we watched at Sea World

8

Members of our family that had a great time on vacation