AAU Ward

Maren Hansen made an Alumni website for the Ann Arbor University Ward. I figured, why not register now, you never know when some old friend from the ward will loose our phone number (-;

The AAU Ward "Moving Crew".

Mom in the news

Did you know that Mom was in the newspaper? Yep, well, she's probably been written up many times for plays, etc. Remember that dance number our whole family did, "Stretch marks", for her senior thesis at the University of Michgan? Well, I was googling recently and found it. Have a look-see:


http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1998/nov/11-23-98/arts/arts5.html

Listen to mission music and farewell

How about some more mission multimedia?

On P-Days, Elder Rose liked to play his Gee-tar. Shortly before the incredible Draper Zone was broken up by certain people going home, we recorded some music as a zone. Elder Rose wrote some wonderful music - "Shiloh" is particularly nostalgic, because it expresses his testimony of the Savior, and we performed it in a special missionary fireside of our own organizing. I'm proud of our rendition of "If You Could Hie to Kolob" - For the first verse, I am playing the accompaniment and singing all four parts.

• Shiloh - Composed and sung by Elder Michael Rose (Elder Lassen vocals)


• Ave Maria - Violin by Elder Gary Parente accompanied by Elder Jon Andersen


• If You Could Hie to Kolob - Draper Zone accompanied by Elder Jon Andersen (instrumental only)


• Composition 1 - Composed by Elder Michael Rose


• Composition 2 - Composed by Elder Gary Parante

All of this audio was ripped from CDs. I ripped the mission farewell in iTunes into MPEG-4 audio format (m4a). I ripped Elder Rose's music in Windows Media Player into Windows Media Audio (wma). Those formats aren't the most portable and preservable, however; so I re-encoded them into the standard and well-supported MPEG-3 audio format (mp3) using Xilisoft WMA MP3 Converter (shareware).

Dancing Ryan Montage(s)

I found some Old Timey movies of Ryan dancing. You really should watch them - Ryan has some sweet dance moves! He'll be a star at the single's dances.

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  Dancing Ryan #1
  



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  Dancing Ryan #2
  



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  Dancing Ryan #3
  

To view the movies, you may need to right-click on the movie and save it first. You may also need to install a QuickTime movie viewer in order to view these movies.

The thumbnail images were captured in the QuickTime movie viewer, copy-n-pasted into Word, and then exported from Word as a web page.

P.S. StrongBad also likes to dance.

Kristen Mission Photos

New photos of Kristen's mission, and also a chronological look at her early life...

• Many pictures from Kristen's mission


• Young Kristen, from three to twenty

If you'd like to print any of these pictures, contact us. We have higher resolution images stashed away.

The pictures were organized in Picasa on Windows (you can download it for free), and then exported to HTML.

New picture albums

Vacation continues... And so we've organized and uploaded a bunch of pictures. Check them out!

• The latest from the Sunny Shores of Hawaii (Thanksgiving and Graduation)


• Our Engagement & Wedding



• Mission pics


• Miscellaneous Makeovers

If you'd like to print any of these pictures, contact us. We have higher resolution images stashed away.

The pictures were organized in iPhoto on my Mac, and then exported to HTML through the BetterHTMLExport plugin.

Hawaii Video Tour

We figured out how to use my video conferencing camera to take movies for you! If you were here, we'd give you a tour of our place; but since you're not, here is a virtual tour.

P.S. Mom, these videos are for you. Now you can check on the living conditions of your son and daughter-in-law (-;

• Movie of Living Room


• Movie of House Innerds


• Movie of Deck and Ocean View


• Movie of Entrance Jungle

If you can't see the videos, try downloading and installing DivX. If that doesn't work, email me (-;

Wonder how I did it? These movies were taken with my Apple iSight camera, using the Boinx iVeZeen movie capture software. They were then recompressed to DivX using Bink Video's Rad Video Tools.

Blogging

BLOGGER
I just found out about blogging. Perhaps I can use this as my bookmarks list, so that my favorite sites are available to me everywhere. Cool!

First post

First post (-:!