DOG SLEDDING!

The story potential of today was at an all time high. My creative (and not to mention beautiful) wife took me Dog Sledding for my 24th Birthday today! WE LOVED IT! The dogs were so eager to pull the sled and barked uncontrollably every time we took a break. They live to run together and are unsatisfied doing anything else. It was an amazing day and the story potential was rising with every turn! We first went dog sledding and then headed up to Mt. Bachelor to snowboard. We had a little fender bender in the parking lot (story potential rising) and then Court had a huge wipe out (destroying her hip) on our first run, so we called it a day :) We went out with some friends for steaks and a movie, and then had them over for coffee. At that moment Courtney's Barista espresso machine went crazy and we think it fried itself! Smoke was everywhere! So in all, today ended up being a great story and a lot of things ended up BUSTED!!! What a crazy birthday...chalk full of memories :) SEE MORE PICTURES (click here)

Taking on the Arts

Below you'll find examples of my new focus on becoming a career freelance graphic designer and photographer.

Upon moving to Bend, I (gary) went out on a limb to see if I could survive as a freelance artist. And surprisingly, so far the plan is half way working! I've allowed myself 20 hours a week of freelance design and photography time, and the rest of my week is taken up by the evil empire of Star$'s :)

My dream is to become a mobile (traveling) freelance designer and photographer. I'd need some pretty killer gear, but the goal is to work from anywhere in the world, and I believe that technology these days would allow for such flexibility. Since the Fall, I have been working for six different companies almost entirely through the web! So who says Courtney and I can't live the dream of traveling while "working" in the states :) Plus it really frees up our time to do the things we'd love to do in life! Like serving in ministry and having crazy adventures!

As a photographer, I now represent Obsidian Photography and iStock Photos (I'm tyring to get into the photography world as well) Wish me luck everybody!!! These are exciting times.

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Blowing up our Neighborhood!

Snow Shoeing

After a crazy downpoor of snow over the past couple days, we made it a point to get up in the mountains and play in the snow. So we decided to try our luck at snowshoeing...and it was super fun! We didn't have the clear blue skies we had yesterday (so the photo op wasn't the greatest), but we had a great time stomping around the dry powder of the Cascades.

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Uncles and Aunteees...again!

Our little niece was born at a young age of zero yesterday morning!!! Her name is Lindey Noelle Stewart (my oldest sisters daughter). She is totally healthy and drop dead beautiful :) Angela is completely fine and recovering well. NO COMPLICATIONS. Thanks for all your prayers, it really made a huge difference. We're so stoked!!!

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Our Wedding in a Magazine!!!

Pacific Rim Wedding Magazine just hit the stands and we just so happen to be in it! Crazy! We have a few pages of pictures and stories highlighting our SoCal wedding back in October. David Hessemer (Gary's mentor and dear friend) flew in from Maui and shot our wedding. Pacific Rim got ahold of his slideshow and the next thing we know we are in a wedding magazine! Pretty exciting! David is launching his new site "Hawaiian Images Online" and we are featured in his site as well...probably because we're so gosh darn cuddly...so check out his site (I also did some designing on this site with David) and if you're ever in need a photographer, he's your man! And if you ever need some designing, I'm your man :) Much love & be blessed friends!

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