Better Together

The Big Merge

2008-01-02T23:39:00.000-08:00

That's right, Scranton and Stamford.

This post is one of mixed emotions for me. For over the last year, Cory and I have shared many memories on this, our blog, Better Together. In the past year, we've shared some thoughts, witnessed the birth of live-blogging, seen photos with captions, and seen the face of my friend Jay Hobbs in practically every angle imaginable. We have been happy to share snippets from our lives as well as pictures of some of our favorite meals.

It is tonight that we announce the merge of Better Together into my photo blog- Bill Blakey Photography. (http://billblakeyphotography.blogspot.com) For those of you who have checked my photo blog, you will note that it has been a place where primarily I have wanted to share things that I have been doing in the realm of photography.

I have never been one to dichotomize. Those of you who know me well know my firm belief that a Frappuccino isn't quite right unless it is fully blended. And I believe that the same rings true for life. I don't believe that you should act a different way at church than you do at home, or at work. I want to be the same person, wherever I am.

Since I had business cards printed with my photo blog address on them, we decided to move our blog from here rather than the other way around. You will notice the newly revamped header with the new subtitle- "Life. Love. Photography." And that's what I hope the new blog will be. A place where my lovely wife Cory and I can share our lives, portray love (ours for each other, for our friends and clients) and do a little bit of photography. I hope to actually set out to write some blogs and to share more photos from life hopefully on a more regular basis.

So please! If you have a link to this blog, please update it! For those of you tech savvy, update your RSS feeds and check out the cool stuff of life. love. photography. at http://billblakeyphotography.blogspot.com!

And they have wild cherry pepsi!

2007-12-31T13:20:00.000-08:00

And now we're at Stonefire!

2007-12-31T13:08:00.000-08:00

This is possibly our FAVORITE place to eat! We are celebrating! More
on that in a bit...

We were at Ikea this morning!

2007-12-31T12:50:00.000-08:00

You can spin the carts...

We're recovering from this one this morning

2007-12-31T10:44:00.000-08:00

Cory and I went on a date let night!

You've got to love work christmas presents

2007-12-28T11:50:00.000-08:00

Good Providence

2007-12-27T16:04:00.001-08:00

You've got to be thankful when you are originally sitting two rows in
front of your wife in the middle seat and then the lady at check in
hooks you up with the exit row! On our way back to CA!

Here's proof

2007-12-26T17:11:00.000-08:00

Our last night in San Antonio!

The Riverwalk

2007-12-26T17:03:00.000-08:00

The riverwalk at night. It's a festival of lights. We head back to
CA tomorrow. Vacations go so fast!

We're in Texas

2007-12-24T10:43:00.001-08:00

What is a trip to San Antonio without a jaunt to downtown and what
else- the Alamo! Remember the Alamo!

This is what I am talking about

2007-12-22T16:02:00.000-08:00

Its good to be with family at Christmas time. Let the feasting begin!

It's a beautiful day outside

2007-12-19T15:03:00.000-08:00

But I am not outside...I may ask my boss if I can work from the roof
for the rest of the day...

Cory snagged one

2007-12-16T17:34:00.000-08:00

C stole this one from Auntie I

But then I stole this one

2007-12-16T17:31:00.000-08:00

That's what I call working it, working it, working it...

But look what I got next!

2007-12-16T17:27:00.000-08:00

Oh wait it just got stolen again!

Look what I got

2007-12-16T17:24:00.000-08:00

Wait, mine just stolen

Look what Ben got

2007-12-16T17:21:00.000-08:00

Ben got an owl ornament. Kind offitting for a lad that has been
mistaken for Harry Potter...

At an ornament exchange

2007-12-16T17:03:00.000-08:00

Here is my aunt explaining the rules...

We'll see what we can bring home.

Happy Anniversary!

2007-12-14T17:00:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow is C and I's first anniversary and we are celebrating at the
happiest place on earth, well,maybe. Blogging from my phone is sooooo
much fun!

The greatest thing in the world

2007-12-14T15:29:00.000-08:00

This one is for Ben, wish you were here.

Getting ready

2007-12-14T12:06:00.000-08:00

I'm at work.

2007-12-13T13:01:00.000-08:00

2007-11-03T23:10:00.000-07:00

This one's a blog about family. I dig my family and have been richly blessed by them and thank the Lord so much for them and how much they have shown me of His glory.

Lot's of things are happening in the life of the family. Bob and Christa are trying to keep up with the increasingly mobile Tyler (and they are doing a great job). Ben is stepping in to an RA position in the dorm of Hotchkiss at TMC (which abbreviated is Masters, not the Masters, as some would wrongly assume. This is not subjective, it is objective reality.)

My mom and dad recently moved to San Antonio and are very close to buying a house in the suburb of Shertz. They will have to beware of 20 mph speed limits and a town that is almost entirely funded by traffic violations.

Cory and I are doing well. There are a lot of things possibly in the works for us in the near future so stay posted to our blog! Life is exciting!

Oh, and in other news in the post before, my wife won the Pumpkin Carving contest on our blog by the slim margin of one vote. Thanks to all who participated and if you can't get enough of the carving action, there is another place for you to vote for even more pumpkins here.

Goodnight all! Enjoy the extra hour!

Oh, and here are some pics from our recent sibling trip to D-land of Bobby's familia. There is a sweet one of Ben and Cory and I to come.

B & C

El Pumpkin Carving Contest!!!

2007-10-24T23:45:00.000-07:00

Tonight was the annual college group pumpkin carving contest, one of the things that I look forward to every year. The smoke from the fires was not very thick tonight so it was fun to enjoy an evening in the Smith's backyard making some serious art.

But hey, it's not just about art, it's a contest! We need YOUR help to delcare a winner!!!

Below we have pictures of all the entries and we would like for you to post a comment and vote for which one you think is best! You don't have to be in the college group to vote, so please, show love to the one you love the most! We will hope to announce the winners soon, so I am thinking we need to have all votes in by Saturday by next Wednesday night (ummm Reformation Day). Hopefully we will get at least 95 votes...

We were really bummed that two of the fiercest competitors, Ken and Beth Flower weren't able to join us. We heard that they had to drive to Santa Clarita to visit their mom who was in the hospital. We are not sure of the details so please pray for them.

All of the entries minus those who had to go home earlier to study for midterms.

"M-I-C, K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E"

"The Elephant"

"The Mask"

"Northpoint"

"AHHHHH, SIDABANYA"

The look that inspired the pumpkin

"The Jay"

These two ladies with their submissions.

"The Picture within the Picture"

Angle 1

Angle 2

"Carving in Trees"

Please leave a comment and vote for your favorite!!!

Fight On

2007-10-07T16:13:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, was a great day. It started being great on Thursday. On Thursday I received a call from John Kooker (the man of the house of the awesome family that I was blessed to live with between my junior and my senior year). "Kooker," as he is affectionately called by my dad, said that he had tickets to the USC Stanford game that he wanted to give to my wife Cory and I. We jumped at the chance and were super excited. Cory had never been to a college game before and I had never been to a game at SC.

After fighting some crazy downtown LA driving conditions we found a parking spot and made our way to the campus.

Cory and I didn't exaclty have a plethora of Cardinal and Gold in our wardrobe, so we tried to match as good as we could.

The Campus is QUITE the happening place before a game. We walked down University Avenue and felt like we were swimming in a sea of Cardinal and Gold. I was also struck at how the architecture at SC stuck out a little bit more than North Campus at TMC.

After hiking up some stairs, we finally got up to see the field. It is an amazing thing to enter the Coliseum and to behold the field in all of its glory. Some might say "this is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen." I don't, Cory is pretty beautiful.

I was pretty stoked when we found our seats.

You gotta love the intensity of college athletics.
The SC marching band played the halftime show and did a good job of making fun of Stanford. However, I don't think they are laughing now.

This was on one of SC's touchdown drives.

Cory and I had a blast during the game. However, USC was upset by Stanford. Stanford scored with under a minute to play and the entire Coliseum was silent. John David Booty threw four interceptions, one of them ending any chance for a last minute comeback. The fans used his last name to the fullest.

Although we thoroughly enjoyed going, we were sad for the Kookers and for my folks. USC's national championship hopes may be shot for the rest of the year. We'll see if LSU can get upset.

Just a word to the Kookers.

THANK YOU!

2007-10-06T23:27:00.000-07:00

I am thinking that the purpose of our blog would not be accurately stated as informing you on what is going on currently in our lives, but rather telling you about what we did a few weeks ago. Because when we are currently doing something, we don't have time to stop and blog about it (although we could if we had an IPhone).

A few weeks ago it was my birthday and Cory and I met up with Bobby, Christa, Tyler and Mom and Dad for another Disneyland adventure.

Who looks more excited, Tyler or Bobby?

We can now officially say where I get the goofiness from. I think Dad got it from the original Goofy.

This is a good picture of my parents. They are in San Antonio. We are really excited for them but miss them as well.

He's growing up to be quite a young lad! Noggin dude!!!

I was officially higher than Cory on the Merry Go Round. It was my birthday, after all!!!!Hopefully we will have quite a few more posts coming soon so check back often to see more blogs about things that happened a while ago! (and one very recent event...)

B & C

The News

2007-08-27T23:40:00.000-07:00

Cory and I were thinking about the right time to share this news (sorry for those of you have constantly been checking your google reader for the news we promised in one of our last posts). We thought now would be a good time. No, we are not having a baby.

But yes, Cory is a licensed nurse!!!! We found out last weekend that she passed her state Nursing Board exam and we are so excited!!!

Please pray for us as Cory searches for a job that God would provide the right job at the right time!

Here is Cory excited to finally be done with school and to be a nurse. I think she really just wanted to be a nurse for the fashion....

Also, please scroll down to see another couple of entries in the flurry of posting we did tonight!!!!

And leave us some love! We greatly appreciate getting to hear some comments!!!

Disneyland Returns

2007-08-27T23:28:00.000-07:00

While there are many things that we are sad to see go from Summer, there are a few things that are nice.

Lower Air Conditioning Bills

Sweaters

Bouquets of sharpened pencils

Ends to summer re-run series

The return of Disneyland pass non-blacked-out days!!!!

(It's not deluxe, son!)

As I was preparing to leave work at 5:15 last monday, my friend Jay called me and said- what does the Super Bowl MVP say.

I responded - what else- "I'm going to Disneyland."

And with that, all plans for the evening were cast aside and we made our way to Disneyland for a fun night. We got to share Jay's inaugural ride of Indiana Jones.

Thanks Jay. Pictures below.

Our group.
Jay-nelle
That skeletal structure looks remarkably similar to Jays...
On Indiana Jones...

What potential...

2007-08-27T22:56:00.000-07:00

One of the things that Cory and I enjoy doing together on some evenings is going to Starbucks for a little Joe as well as some discussion, relaxation sometimes some John (Piper that is) or in the case of tonight, CJ. Our apartment is yay about 600 square feet and while it is definitely big enough to keep Cory and I from constantly bumping into each other, it is sometimes nice to be able to get out of "the house" for part of an evening.

In some towns (such as Santa Clarita) the would-be "get out of the housers for a while" have a plethora of options; the options are slightly less so here in Corona. There is the Starbucks in the shopping center that practically defines Corona; however, Cory and I find that Starbucks to be extremely busy and sometimes a bit loud. Add on to that the uncertainty of whether the large group outside is either holding a Bible study or looks like they would like to beat you up for your spare change, Cory and I usually opt for a bit of a further drive for a bit of a quieter spot (we hope).

Thus we go to the second-newest Starbucks in the Corona area. It is a drive-through starbucks but the inside has a really cool layout, sweet furniture and "nook" that you usually have to beat Mark Spansel off with a stick to sit in. Everything about it seems great, until you meet the employees. (Now, I have a friend who works at this Starbucks. However, we never seem to go when he is working and I think that perhaps we just go on all the off nights that the store has).

My friend Shay wrote a great blog about how his dying faith in Starbucks (aka the Third place) was restored by one faithful employee named Dave. Let me just say that I believe with the exception of my friend, their are no Daves working at this Starbucks. It seems as though every time Cory and I have gone into this Starbucks wanting to hang out, we have ended up being more annoyed with being there rather than enjoying our tasty beverages in a relaxing atmosphere. The music is usually a little loud for comfort (one time I couldn't turn up my headphones loud enough to drown it out), the automatic air conditioners above the doors seem to wash away your train of thought like oh-so many psunami waves and then there are the employees. I think that the last time I heard such an immature and blatantly loud employee to employee conversation was at the McDonalds in the Dallas airport when one employee, frustrated with the fact that the employees were focusing on serving the customers rather than providing her with break food, took two bags of customers food and walked off (in front of the customers who's food she took). The end of the conversation went like this

Employee to Manager: "You better check yourself!"

Manager to Employee: "You better check YOURSELF!!!"

Now, one might expect that kind of conversation from employees of the Golden Arches (you get what you pay for); but not from the Bucks!!!!

Tonight, as I sat with a fellow customer at the counter of Starbucks (we were united in the common bond of having our orders messed up) waiting to speak to an employee (of which there were 5) who, when no customers were at the register were busily preoccupied with things at the counter facing away from the customer. I looked around, Cory with her properly made beverage, reading. One other customer talking on a cell phone while playing on a laptop. And me and my fellow customer, waiting at the counter, ignored by the myriad of employees that seemed to have better things to do.

The last time Cory and I went to this Starbucks, I said I was going to write a letter ( and didn't). This time, I will finish the job.

But you know, as I was sitting there, after waiting at least 10 minutes in a remarkably unbusy store, finally with my beverage in hand I realized that I cannot place my hope in Starbucks. Not even In-n-Out Burger(I actually had a bad batch of fries there one day). Not even Stonefire. If I allow my expectations and hopes to be placed on the things that people are able to do for me, I will continue to be dissapointed in life. Even people with good intentions who know the Lord are not perfect and will bitterly dissapoint me if I expect them to be so.

Now, it may not be too much to ask for my beverage to made in the manner in which I ordered it, in a somewhat timely fashion, with employees who are thinking about the welfare of the customer rather than how they should be paid for showing up. However, when faced with the contrary, I control my attitude and my response. No lack of service should cause me to come to the place where in my mind I say to the barista "You better check yourself."

However, I am also faced with a choice, and if the staff at the Starbucks on Ontario Avenue east of the 15 freeway don't step it up, I will feel free to take the almost 4 molinas I pay for a frappucinno elsewhere. C'mon guys...

Right on!!!!

2007-08-20T00:27:00.000-07:00

So, lately things have been awesome! I originally wanted to write this post last Wednesday night. Wednesday nights are times that have been so awesome for Cory and I since we have been married. Wednesday nights are college group. This Wednesday was no exception. All summer long we have been spending our Wednesday nights in the palatial backyard of the Worthingtons. We play volleyball (which I love to play-especially when the net is not as high as a guys net. Highly enjoyable. I don't know if I laugh harder very often then when we are playing volleyball.

This Wednesday was the return to the table of teaching of my good friend Scott Burns. There are many things that I love about getting to hear Scott speak. One of them is that he loves God's word and doesn't mess around with it. The other is that I have never heard Scott get up and give a "sermon." And by that I mean that when he speaks to us he speaks to us. This Wednesday was no exception. Scott cares about us as a group and individuals but he cares even more about the gospel. It always amazes me how the gospel is so simple but yet I can get it confused in my head sometimes.

This Wednesday was a great time for me to check myselft to make sure that I don't make the cross of Christ to no effect in my daily life. It is often easy to get caught up in basing my acceptance before the Lord based on how I am doing that day and whether I am performing well. However, my acceptance is solely based on the cross of Christ and the righteousness that He purchased for me there!

It was so freeing and refreshing!!!

This past Wednesday was great and this weekend has just been an awesome time. We got some great news on Saturday that we will be posting about tonight! Stay tuned!!!

The Boys were back in town

2007-08-13T21:42:00.001-07:00

This past weekend I was able to attend the wedding of the now Tyler and Stephanie Flower. That's right, they're hitched!!! Being two of the nicest and kindest people I have ever met, I was very glad to be able to be a part of their wedding. There were only two unfortunate things about the experience-being away from Cory and humidity. It has been great to be back with C these past few days and get to hang out with her. Absence truly does make the heart grow fonder.

One thing I do really enjoy about weddings in the post-college era is that they are times of reunion. Times to be in the presence of those that you used to enjoy sweet fellowship with and now you know by the occasional phone call and the more regular blogstalking.

One such couple for me is Blake and Bekah Boys and their son Owen. Blake and Bekah are two of the coolest people and I am pretty sure that I have never had a non-exciting time hanging out with them. They made the pink place over 55 apartments a happening place. Blake and Bekah recently moved to a church outside of Houston where Blake is the worship and communication pastor. We got to talk quite a bit and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I took a few photos of the boys family during the wedding. Please take a look and vote fror which one is your favorite. The winner gets a prize.

For more photos from the wedding, check out my photo blog (by using the conveniant link to the right) as I will be updating more throughout the week.

"The Fam"
"The MC"
"Playing with Fire"
"Sippy Cup"
"Mr. Cool"

2007-08-05T16:37:00.000-07:00

One of the many blessings of marriage is being allowed to spend quality time together with the person that you dig being around the most. On Friday night Cory and I took some time to do something that possibly wasn't the most exciting thing to do and something else that was pretty exciting. The cool thing for us was that being able to be together made both things almost equally enjoyable, because we were able to experience them and enjoy them together. Truly we are better together. The first thing that we did was to go to the County-famous Orange County fair (hey, what could we do, our D-land passes are blacked out?).

It was an interesting place and unfortunately we were too cheap to pay the George Washington to get in to see the World's largest horse and world's largest steer. We did see the top of the steer at one point over the barricade that they put up so people like us don't get freebies. The backbone of the cow was literally 6'8"!!!! It must have been related to Babe the Blue Ox.

We walked around for a while and enjoyed the scenery and browsing through all the over-priced trinkets. The second thing we were able to do was actually quite exciting. We went to one of our favorite places to eat- Stonefire Grill. We crossed another one of the Stonefire locations off of our list (Stonefire-if you are reading this blog, we have got some good locations scouted out for you in Corona. Please have your people get in touch with my people.) The food was soooo good and we actually ended up getting our whole meal for 11:38 which was fabulous!!!!

However, the greatest thing about this night was that I got to spend it with the love of my life-Cory!!!!

Check out some pics below and some more artsy pics at http://billblakeyphotography.blogspot.com/.

Also, we may be trying to post some videos of a very exciting pig race that we watched in the near future....

This was actually Cory's first time to see an animal in the wild....
Doesn't she look happy!!!
Stonefire has the best breadsticks on the planet.
I devoured my meal....
That guy to my left wanted to eat my shirt.

The Ferris Wheel at night. Is that how you spell it?

WOW

2007-07-28T00:09:00.001-07:00

In our recent slew of sweet restaurant posts, let's talk WOW (that's World of Wings) Wingery.

Yesterday at lunch I got a call from my good friend Jay Hobbs saying that his new employer was hoping for a picture to be taken for the newspaper of their new restaurant at which Jay has recently started working.

Ever the eager-beaver for photo business opportunities, I decided to oblige and in return I was paid in wings!!!

So tonight, Cory and I decided to check out the "Wingery" and to do a little winging...

Cory saying pretty much the only thing that could be said.
Me echoing her sentiments...
The aftermath- we were pretty excited.
Here we are with our very talented and good looking server Jay.
Here are the remains of what we were too stuffed to finish. Our wings were covered in Thai Peanut sauce. You may not think that would be appetizing, but it was delish!!!

Thanks to Veena (the owner) and Jay for this opportunity and the great food!!!

What a night...

2007-07-27T23:45:00.000-07:00

Do you see me in this picture? I am excited. Let me tell you why. Two weeks ago (I know, we are behind on blogging...) Cory and I enjoyed a LOVELY dinner at the Summit House Restaurant in Fullerton. We were very graciously given a gift card and thoroughly enjoyed a lovely evening on the patio.

Cory can't even express how excited she is....

Wow. The steak there was probably one of the best steaks that I have ever had in my entire existence (and I have had a few...) So flavorful and perfectly cooked!

Here we are with our Delish dessert. It was scrut.

To the one who gave us the giftcard (and you know who you are...) thank you very much. It was incredibly awesome gift that was totally undeserved. You da man...

The Haps

2007-07-13T22:47:00.000-07:00

Well hello there! It has been a while since we have blogged and that is probably because we have been crazy busy!!! Life is very good and we are thoroughly enjoying it.

Last week was our annual beach camp. This camp is entirely high energy, high excitement. Cory and I had the awesome priviledge to be counselors along with and awesome group of folks pictured below!!! (You can tell that we are a serious bunch).
65 kids came with us to the camp with the theme of CHANGE.
Our speaker was Andrew Calloway. He brought it. Cory and I are still thinking through all the things from the Word that we heard. But here are some of the things that I have been thinking through. Holiness. It is commanded of us. One of the things that I have come away from camp with is a more earnest desire to ask God to make me hate sin the way that He hates it and love righteousness the way that He loves it.

I am praying for continual heart change in myself as well as all the high schoolers who came. I pray that God will continue to bless CHANGE for this year to come!!!

2007-06-19T23:30:00.000-07:00

In a word, this past weekend was-great. We will blog about it more hopefully soon but we will share some pictures for now.

Avery "Diggles" Burns-don't know where that one came from....
Father and Daughter
What would a college retreat be without a hearty helping of Kale Burns?
College retreat is great for having those conversations, or extemporaneous songwriting sesh's.
The Food was-great! Thanks so much to all those who cooked!!!
Our speaker Gunner Gundersen brought it and didn't mess around. I am thinking about a lot because of his opening the word for us. It was great to see him and his wife Cindy again.
Kevin apparently learned magic over college camp. He can just look at "the chalice" and it levitates.
More evidence of Kevin's magic skills. (Actually, it is not really magic, he is not using the power of dark forces, his name is not "legion for we are many." It is more-illusion.

What a weekend

2007-06-19T00:01:00.001-07:00

Cory and I had a great time this past weekend with the college group on Catalina. Pictures to come.

I got back on Sunday because I had to work today and had the chance to hang out and take engagement pictures for Tyler Flower and his fiance' Stephanie. It was a blast.

Check out the pictures at my photo blog at http://billblakeyphotography.blogspot.com

We need final votes for the "best pose with a fox" contest below!!! Deadline to enter your vote is Thursday night at 9:30 PM!!! Then a winner will be declared!!!!

Graduation!!!!

2007-06-12T22:44:00.000-07:00

I am proud to say that last week, my lovely and hard-working wife graduated from Nursing School!!! She is done!!! I am so excited for so many reasons. 1- because she will not have to go through the hard times of studying constantly any more and 2-I will get to hang out with her on weekends more (just to name a few)!!!!

Here are some pictures from the afterparty.

Here is Ben and I excited that Cory graduated (and that the pomp, circumstance and insane student speeches are over).
Cory's Parents, Ken and Susan (without them, none of this would have been possible...)
Mom and Dad Blakey- came all the way down for the event (and the after party).
The younger generation-including my wife the graduate!!!!

Please also be sure to scroll below and vote for the "best pose with a fox contest."

El Pasadena

2007-06-11T20:05:00.000-07:00

A few weekends ago, Cory and I went with a bunch of our friends to Old Town Pasadena to hang out and celebrate the birthday of one of my best friends, Ken Flower.

Ken is a guy that I serious lee respect and dig. I have a blast with him whenever we hang, and when he does his patented velociraptor, man, pop goes my heart. Took some photos of our trip to Pasadena. Be sure to vote for the best pose with the fox contest in the post below.

Even though Ken doesn't wear his waldo shirts any more, where's Kendo?
Here is the somewhat newly engaged couple of Tyler and Stephanie. They are two of the coolest people we know (and we know lots of people).

We took this picture inside Pottery Barn as they sampled the uber comfortable and fairly heavy bathrobes.

We went to a restaurant called Mi Piachi for dinner, and as you can tell, it was pretty good.

Me and my beautiful wife!!!

In Pasadena

2007-06-11T12:45:00.001-07:00

Please vote for the winner of the "Best Pose with the Fox" Award by leaving a comment!!!

What a weekend!!!

2007-06-02T21:42:00.000-07:00

Cory and I had a great weekend. After me getting off early on Friday we headed for one of our favorite spots- Disneyland. On our way we stopped by another of our favorite spots (Chick-Fil-A) for some grub.

Tonight we went to my cousin's graduation celebration and on our way home we stopped by a Starbucks that quickly became Cory and I's favorite layout of Starbucks for all time!!!

Enjoy the pictures!

The Blakeys

Disneyland Photos

2007-05-20T17:50:00.000-07:00

Check them out at Bill's Flickr Page

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8347558@N02/

Enjoy!

The happiest place on earth.

2007-05-15T22:26:00.000-07:00

Sunday and Monday of this past week, we got to spend a little time at the "Happiest Place on Earth" (no, not the Hotchkiss one). Cory and I are always interested to see the little snippets of conversation that you hear as you walk past other people. Sometimes it doesn't seem like people are having the happiest time on earth. We heard one dad say to his kid, "I have already taken.....away, keep it up and you will lose....". My dad overheard one set of parents reasoning with their three year old outside our hotel that if they went on the bus to go to Disneyland instead of taking a cab, that it would be one less ride that they could go on at Disneyland. What is that? What is that?

We are also intersted to see that some people would rather do things around Disneyland rather than enjoy Disneyland itself. After waiting for a painstakingly long time to catch the elevator down to breakfast, we found that it was because 10 young girls and one unlucky mom had decided that they were going to stop on every floor on the elevator. Oh brother....

But we decided that the thing that makes Disneyland great is the people. I heard some people complain about how the food at Disneyland is too simple, others lamented that the lines were too long. However, we were able to thoroughly enjoy our time because of the people!

This month brings a birthday milestone (25) for my mother. I have a great mom. For her birthday, she buys all of her kids and their spouses and kids passes to Disneyland and says we all have to go together. Her birthday. We get passes. Amazing. Who knows the next time that my whole family will be together at Disneyland. We really enjoyed getting to hang out with them and talk in line and take pictures!

So, thanks mom!!! Happy Birthday!!!!

Be looking for some more pics soon!

Cookie and Movie Night

2007-04-21T19:44:00.000-07:00

This past Friday night, the weather was not very agreeable for the college whiffle ball night that we had planned.

So, in lieu of that, Cory and I enjoyed getting to have our friends Jay and Janelle over for some cookie-making and a movie. The cookies turned out pretty good (although we want to ask my mom for some tips on making the recipe really work). However, the movie did not. Let's just say that some movies that were made in the 80's should stay in the 80's.

San Diego

2007-04-21T19:12:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we went to Encinitas and went camping with Cory's family on the beach.

Pasadena

2007-04-21T19:01:00.000-07:00

We went to Pasadena two weekends ago for Cory's birthday! It was a blast!!!

It's Time to Start Blogging...

2007-04-21T18:14:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the first official post of the Blakey flamily blog!

We may write some words, or share some pictures (they're worth a 1000).

Enjoy!

Bill and Cory