We look forward to sharing our photos of the trip!

We are also going to be getting our photos done as a birthday gift for Rich. Chris from www.chriscupp.com will be doing that shoot on our last day in Alaska.

We will also hope to meet up with local photographer David Jensen from www.alaskaportraits.com.

Also check out some fun Alaskan art work on etsy.

Speaking of updates, we updated this blog to WordPress 3.0 (Theolonius) as well.  There are a host of nice improvements, though I’m not sure what we’ll implement yet.  I think we might do something with custom menus, depending which theme we go with.  And the bulk updating of plugins will be nice too.

Also, I’ve been playing around with Facebook connect.  If you’re logged into Facebook, you can “Like” any of our posts now!  I might add Facebook commenting, but then it doesn’t work for those few people not on Facebook  As always, stop by our Facebook page sometime!

Here is a shirt that I loved! I actually ended up getting it for Rich for our first anniversary of dating. He then wore it out when we went apple picking that day!

Camera Parts Shirt on Organic Cotton

I love the quality of the shirt. I love the contrast of the white on black. I think it is such a creative way to wear a camera. I found out that this seller no longer sells at this location on etsy, but if you want to see their page and profile click here.

Here is a photo of him wearing the shirt for the first time!

I love the fall colors, but sadly, they last but a short while. We found these beautiful maples outside our place. Leeann suggested that we take photos of them, and I thought I could do it later. The next day, we had cameras with us since we were returning from a family photo session. Again, we saw the trees. This time, I took a few shots before going inside. And I’m glad I did, because the next time I looked, the leaves were gone.

I originally thought to title this post “Carpe Diem”, until I looked up the wikipedia entry which brings up the existential connotations of a life without faith (“Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die” – 1 Corinthians 15:32)

Here are three features I like about WordPress so far:

1. Nicer looking.  I started off looking for blogger templates, but the really cool ones seemed to be for other services, such as WordPress.  However, even wordpress.com only has a limited selection, so I went with wordpress.org for the fullest flexibility.
2. Easier static pages.  I don’t know how to do this in blogger, but a quick “add new” button in WordPress lets them show up in menus and in the side bars.
3. Plugins and widgets!  I like being able to extend the functionality.  Already, I’ve added a contact page with the contactform7 plugin.

I could see how people could base entire websites off of just a WordPress site with some tweaking!