McAlister Matters

We finally made it to Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. We'd been delayed by a very rainy spring. It was a hot time of year to go but we still enjoyed visiting this park for the first time.  Capitol Reef is located in between Arches and Zion National Parks. It took us about 4 hours to drive there through some pretty country. We called it a 'mini Zions park' because it was a lot less crowded. There were probably 10 times less people there than at Zions or Arches. So we liked that and enjoyed hiking on practically empty trails. One unique thing about the park is that they grow fruit trees in the middle of it. You can pick the fruit for free to eat and they have a shop that sells fresh fruit pies. So we enjoyed a few pies!

We had a fun trip visiting the family in California. We enjoyed staying at the Russian River for a few days, visiting Turlock and Ripon, and taking Kahlan to the Oakland zoo. On the way back from Ripon Kahlan practiced her ABC's in the car.

We went back to get some more family photos from Target. It was a LOT cheaper this time (only go if you have coupons) and Kahlan did a lot better.

Kahlan has a random talent for eating her toast from the middle out. Notice the hole in the middle of her toast and the butter on her face. ;)

We've been doing more Blender lately and have completed some more projects. Our project goal was to model an existing object with exactness and precision. Here are the results. Sarah modeled some of Kahlan's mega-blocks in the form of a dog. It came out really cool looking! I made a replica of our record player. I had to simplify it a bit. I created a short animation too just for fun :)

We've moved our family blog to Blogger ! I've spent the last few days migrating it over from our self-hosted WordPress site. Why? Security WordPress sites have lots of vulnerabilities if you are not super careful. Our site had been hacked! Ease of maintenance We don't need to have a dedicated up-to-date server running all the time. Speed Our internet service isn't designed to host content so our site was really slow. Google has amazing bandwidth. Free Blogger is completely free and has no ads. You get up to 15 gigs of space which is quite generous and will likely grow in the coming years. Please bookmark our new site and enjoy!