Happy Halloween!
Love, our lumberjack family.
10.31.2011
10.30.2011
Some exciting news...
I just wanted to take a minute to brag about my husband and his awesomeness.
Many of you probably know that Trevor has been working on a feature length documentary about Cambodia almost since he got home from his mission. The year after we were married, he left me for a month to go shoot it with a few mission/film friends. And he has pretty much been working on it since then. He finished editing it about a year ago, but has had little success garnering attention or getting distribution for a student made film and a student budget.
This week though, the International Documentary Association announced its nominations for their annual IDA awards. It is a big awards show, but just for documentaries, and many of the documentaries go on to be nominated or even win Oscars. One of the awards they give out is a student documentary award, which Trevor's film was nominated for! Only 4 other student films were nominated, 3 of which were foreign made, and the other 1 was from a master's student from Stanford's film program, so we were pretty surprised that it was chosen. I think it is an amazing film, but there was so much competition, and no BYU student-made documentary has ever been nominated. Links to the IDA nomination page and news story about the nomination can be found here and here.
I am so happy to see all of his hard work being rewarding. I am glad the film will get a little more attention now too, because it is such an amazing story. His film, River of Victory, follows the life of a awesome Cambodian woman and her young family who lives in a garbage dump near the capital city. She is such a strong example of resilience and of a good mother. You can watch the trailer and read more about the film here if you are interested.
We are excited to go to LA for the awards in December (hopefully I will be able to make it there with him), and even if his film doesn't win, I am so proud of Trevor for this HUGE achievement!
Many of you probably know that Trevor has been working on a feature length documentary about Cambodia almost since he got home from his mission. The year after we were married, he left me for a month to go shoot it with a few mission/film friends. And he has pretty much been working on it since then. He finished editing it about a year ago, but has had little success garnering attention or getting distribution for a student made film and a student budget.
This week though, the International Documentary Association announced its nominations for their annual IDA awards. It is a big awards show, but just for documentaries, and many of the documentaries go on to be nominated or even win Oscars. One of the awards they give out is a student documentary award, which Trevor's film was nominated for! Only 4 other student films were nominated, 3 of which were foreign made, and the other 1 was from a master's student from Stanford's film program, so we were pretty surprised that it was chosen. I think it is an amazing film, but there was so much competition, and no BYU student-made documentary has ever been nominated. Links to the IDA nomination page and news story about the nomination can be found here and here.
I am so happy to see all of his hard work being rewarding. I am glad the film will get a little more attention now too, because it is such an amazing story. His film, River of Victory, follows the life of a awesome Cambodian woman and her young family who lives in a garbage dump near the capital city. She is such a strong example of resilience and of a good mother. You can watch the trailer and read more about the film here if you are interested.
We are excited to go to LA for the awards in December (hopefully I will be able to make it there with him), and even if his film doesn't win, I am so proud of Trevor for this HUGE achievement!
Some pictures from the pumpkin farm.
Last weekend we took Thompson to the pumpkin farm. For the first half hour he did a pretty good job of being bored by everything we thought he would enjoy.
He was also a little freaked out by the animals there. To be honest though, I was too. They were tenacious little creatures.
They also had a giant box of corn that looked like the fastest way to ensure our child would choke to death. It kind of just looked like a big child killer to me (not unlike the goat in the above pictures). But Trevor convinced me to let him take Thompson in. It was actually the first thing Thompson showed interest in all day.
After averting death by corn-choking, we discovered that all Thompson really wanted to do was crawl in the hay.
And play in the corn maze. (Side note: this on one knee thing is his new favorite thing. I think one day he is just going to stand up and start walking. It freaks me out.)
And of course pick out his pumpkin. Except he seemed to want them them all.
He was also a little freaked out by the animals there. To be honest though, I was too. They were tenacious little creatures.
They also had a giant box of corn that looked like the fastest way to ensure our child would choke to death. It kind of just looked like a big child killer to me (not unlike the goat in the above pictures). But Trevor convinced me to let him take Thompson in. It was actually the first thing Thompson showed interest in all day.
After averting death by corn-choking, we discovered that all Thompson really wanted to do was crawl in the hay.
And play in the corn maze. (Side note: this on one knee thing is his new favorite thing. I think one day he is just going to stand up and start walking. It freaks me out.)
And of course pick out his pumpkin. Except he seemed to want them them all.
Captured: an ambitious and successful first attempt at baking a cake
One week. One picture. One memory.
A delicious birthday present: German chocolate cake made completely from scratch by Trevor.
10.23.2011
Captured: which one to pick
One week. One picture. One memory.
Thompson's first time at the pumpkin patch.
10.17.2011
Captured: first race together
One week. One picture. One memory.
Getting ready to run the Highland Oktoberfest 10k.
10.15.2011
A birthday bash...
Over conference weekend we threw a little party for T-man's big day. We were lucky enough to have my dad and brother in town to help celebrate, and loved having Trevor's parent's, sister, and both sets of grandparents there to join us.
The song "You are My Sunshine" has always been one of Thompson's favorite, so we chose that for the theme of his party.
We had soup and grilled cheese -- Thompson's favorite -- as well as lots of other delicious fall food and treats (even though the weather was most definitely not fall).
After chowing down, Thompson got to open all his presents. He was pretty interested in his first one, a book, and didn't want to open any others.
With a little help, we got through the rest eventually. Well, mostly. We still have one we decide to save for Christmas because a.) he didn't seem to care enough to unwrap it and b.) his family was so generous that he had plenty of new toys to keep him busy.
After presents, we moved on to cake. Despite the fact that he has never really had much more than a few random bites of sweets in his life, I made him his own mini cake and was fully prepared to let him eat as much as he wanted.
Unfortunately, by the time we got to the cake, he was getting a little tired. He had 3 molars coming in at once, and hadn't slept in like 2 weeks. (Or that's what it felt like for all of us).
Sadly, this sleep deprivation translated into complete disinterest in eating cake, even when we tried to force feed him.
Despite missing out on his one and only opportunity to eat as much cake as he wanted (at least for one more year), we had a great time and Thompson is LOVING all of his presents. Thanks to all our family who made it a great day!
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