Buddy's Photo Blog

Kameron & Marinne – Spring 2012 Studio Session

Buddy — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:07:14 +0000

I took some updated pictures of the kids tonight in the studio. They did awesome for me with a little M&M bribery.

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Pinewood Derby 2012 preparation

Buddy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:04:35 +0000

We finished up Kameron’s pinewood derby car tonight. It weighs in right under 5 oz ready for the race.

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Kameron – Taekwondo (Feb 13, 2012)

Buddy — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:49:37 +0000

Here are some shots from Kameron’s Taekwondo practice tonight. He is eating that stuff up.

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Kameron’s Flag Football game

Buddy — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:10:30 +0000

Kameron had a football game under the lights the other night. Here are some shots from the game:

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Fall Family Pictures

Buddy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:35:46 +0000

Got the tripod and timer setup last weekend to take some family shots at the park. Here are some pics from the session:

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Marinne & Kameron’s birthday party with our family

Buddy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:44:18 +0000

We traveled back to our home town to have a joint birthday party for Kameron and Marinne this past weekend. We had the party at Rhodes Family Pumpkin Farm in Staunton, Illinois. It was an awesome day and the kids had a blast. Here are pics from the day:

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Marinne’s Birthday Party at Decatur Children’s Museum

Buddy — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:41:21 +0000

We had Marinne’s birthday party with her friends at the Decatur Children’s Museum. Here are some pics from the day:

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Marinne’s 3rd Birthday at home and a trip to Curtis Orchard

Buddy — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:36:59 +0000

Marinne just turned 3 years old and we had a little celebration at home followed by a short trip to Curtis Orchard in Champaign. Here are some pics from our day:

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First shot at brewing my own beer

Buddy — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:19:17 +0000

I’ve been wanting to brew my own beer for a while now and finally decided to give it a shot (thanks to a good friend letting me borrow all the equipment). I went with a Brewers Best kit for a “English Brown Ale” to start out with. The process for this kit consisted of steeping grains in a grain bag for 20 minutes, followed by adding a mix of liquid malt and dried powder malt, then boiling it all for an hour along with a few different hops in the mix. There’s nothing like the smell of boiling hops…the house truly smelled like a brewery last night. After cooking the wort for an hour, I cooled it down with a coiled wort cooler that had cold water running through it. After cooling, I syphoned (“racked”) the wort into a primary fermenter (plastic bucket), added the yeast, sealed it and put in the airlock. In 4-7 days from now, I’ll rack it (syphon) over to a glass carboy container for secondary fermentation for another 1-2 weeks. Then it’s bottling time and waiting another 2-3 weeks for carbonation. It’s a long wait but hopefully it will be worth it! Here are a few snapshots of some of the different stages last night:

Boiling the “wort” (malt and hops):

Cooling down the wort:

Racking the wort into the primary:

Ready to seal after the yeast was added:

Union Pier (Lake Michigan) Beach Vacation 2011

Buddy — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:35:15 +0000

We went on a little vacation to Lake Michigan this week with some friends. Here are some pics from the trip:

My camera:

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Danelle’s camera:

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