Prison Tattoos

I bet the title spikes at least some sort of interest...or worry.... Anyway, when I was on my mission I talked to this kid that had just gotten out of prison. He told me when he was in there he made a tattoo gun out of common household items and made money in prison. Well, I decided to make a tattoo gun too, but I'm not giving any person a tattoo. Instead I am tattooing my hard hat. I work at the hard hat steakhouse now and we have to wear hard hats, some kind of theme or something. lol Anyway we are supposed to personalize them to our personality and stuff. So I decided to tattoo mine.


Materials
-5 v output cell phone charger
-Motor(can be found in old vcr, cd player, printer or Radio Shack)
-Button
-Guitar String(used as needle)
-Bent spoon
-Mechanical Pencil
-Of course every good project must have a little Duct Tape



Since I'm not that great of an artist, I cut the designs into some duct tape and color inside the lines. So, here is what it looks like so far. It looks like I just did pointelism or dadaism(I think that's what it's called).

Halloween and Dorodangos

We had a halloween party with our ward the other day. So, as usual, we went to the DI to find our costumes. I found a karate shirt, that was too small, for my ninja outfit and wore sweat pants. Mindy found a scrubs top and some black pants. I think the costumes actually worked out pretty well. Anyway, here are some pics.






Now for the Dorodangos(aka: shining mud balls). We thought these were pretty cool. We saw a mythbusters where they made these balls out of mud, so we thought we would try it. They are a big hit in Japan apparently. Here's what they can look like if done with experience. Can you believe these are only made of mud?!


Here is what ours looked like. Mindy's is the first one and mine is the second one. If you want to try it out you could try this website: http://www.kyokyo-u.ac.jp/youkyou/4/english4.htm? Could be fun for the kids...I guess we're kids too.

Body Work

So, On the way back from Colorado we decided to do some custom body work to our car...We slid off the road and hit a pole. The roads were completely clear until we crossed over into WY, then they got really bad. There were several people sliding off, including a semi. Anyway here's some pics of the damage. Oh yeah, I almost missed the pole too. The sign had two poles and I was able to kind of steer the car in between the two poles. I was so close. Lol. The weird thing was that I hit the pole on the right of my car but the left pole broke.

Mindy's Sewing Projects

So... I bought a sewing machine and have now been making stuff. Here they are...



This is my most recent project was a purse... black and gray.











Next is my skirt. I really wanted one like this so I just made one how I wanted it.






When we first moved to our apartment we had a greenish couch so we bought tan curtains and tan pillows. Then we got rid of our green love seat an got a tan couch. It has always bugged me how tan everything is now. So I made pillow covers for the tan pillows.



My next project is to make thicker and longer red curtains to go behind the tan ones.

Because of Brenda's comment on my last post, I must clarify something....I did hike the 50 miles. I even lost 5 pounds! Chris is the only one that rode a horse because he was kicked by a horse a few months ago in the knee. Anyway, now you all know. lol

Hey everyone! That's right! We're updating our blog!!!!

These are some pictures of the 50 mile hike that I went on a couple weeks ago. They are low quality pictures because they were taken from a disposable camera. Anyway, the 50 miler was really fun.

This was taken and Jordan Lake. It was a really great mountain lake. Untouched it seemed. I caught over 50 fish at this lake(catch and release). I did keep two though because they were the biggest of the trip. :) Which as you can see weren't huge...

This is the first day of the trip. Me, Chris Hanson, and Ray Gorham. The rest of the pictures are just some amazing views. They don't do them justice though.

Snowboarding(videos)

First, I thought all of you would enjoy seeing our bloopers. This first video is my second jump of the day. You can hear and watch my head smack the ground. It really hurt for a little while and my neck is pretty stiff today. Haha. We all know I have a hard head though, so I'm doing good.

Mindy just thought this one was hilarious because I was rolling around.

I thought this one was hilarious because of the faceplant.

Then I did almost the very same thing!

Now our videos we actually landed!

Here is both of us redeeming ourselves on the boxes.

Here is my big jump of the day.

Here is Mindy's sweet 180's. She is way better than me at these. I landed a couple of 180's but then wrecked soon after.

Austin's new haircut

Well, I have always been curious about what I would look like with a buzzed head. So, with the encouragement of Mindy, I decided to try it out. Here it is. I don't think it looks too bad. I actually kind of like it, I especially like how low maintenance it is. I highly recommend buzzing your head...well to the guys atleast.

Better late than never?

Hey everyone, it's been a while so I figured I would update everyone a little bit. We went to Denver for Christmas and went snowboarding. It was awesome! Now we are in school and taking a snowboarding class. Life is good in the lives of the newlyweds! Here's some pictures of our snowboarding with the family in Denver.

Here's Mindy getting her board ready for her first ride on her new board.

Right before we head out on the mountain.

Good 'ol family fun!

Getting on the lift.

What's a family gathering without a little rough housing. He was trying to force me outside for a silly string fight but I wasn't having any of that.

Unfortunately there were a couple of casualties. Jack and Jill here didn't fair so well in the rough housing.

Jack and Jill ended up biting back when I tried crushing them with my hand.