Face Average

Matt and I were playing on a website that Alan introduced us to. You can upload a picture of your face and it will morph it in a variety of ways. Masculinize it, feminize it, age it, etc.

There is also a feature where you can take pictures of two people and make a composite of the images. Below is a picture which is an average of Matt's and my face.


To Matt, it looks more like me, to me it looks more like Matt. I think the 5 o'clock shadow tips the scale.

www.faceresearch.org

Please Vote for Me!

Matt and I watched a great documentary, "Please Vote for Me". Five stars from both of us. Students in an elementary school class in China hold an election to decide who the class monitor will be. The kids in this class are around eight years old and are totally adorable and hilarious.

Here is the trailer (which doesn't do it justice):



The best parts are when the three candidates are at home with their parents, being coached on what to say for debates and what to do to win over their classmates. It is some good stuff. It is available for viewing online with Netflix.

Our kid-loving cats

Two of our three cats are amazingly good with kids. A lot of cats don't like small children, but Rufus and Gizmo just soak up the attention. They tolerate things I wouldn't expect.

Matt's friends Barrett and Katie came for a BBQ a few weeks ago with their two daughters. The youngest, Claire, and Rufus got along quite well.

The 4th and the 24th

Yay for the July Holidays!

The 4th, we watched the fireworks from inside Red Butte Gardens. We expected a great view of U of U stadium fireworks, but they didn't have any this year, so we watched the Sugarhouse show from a distance instead.

Before the fireworks, we hiked through a stream and over and under some daunting obstacles to find a camping spot nearby for the night. We found a really cool spot next to a stream. The space was tight, but we set up there anyway to be close to the water. It was the first time using some of the new camping year Matt has been collecting for us. It was a fun overnight camp out.








On the 24th, we went to Liberty park to catch the fireworks. A guy there had two pet pygmy goats he walked on a leash. They kind of looked like dogs with heads that were too small.





Over the 24th weekend, we went to Mom Paula and Mark's cabin again. On the way, we stopped at the Manti temple. Matt saw so many people he knew there. Even more crazy, his parents were there at the time--someone clued us in, and we found their car outside afterwards. Matt left a message on the windshield. We really love that temple. It is so beautiful on the inside and the outside. We are really jealous of the people in that temple district.





After the temple, on our way to the cabin, we stopped at the store to get food and find some dental wax because Matt was getting a sore from his braces. Walmart didn't carry it, so we looked all over the store trying to improvise a solution. Something sticky to cover his braces. We picked up some chapstick, in hopes that sticking a chunk on his braces would help. Next, we asked a Walmart employee in the fishing section if they carried fishing wax, but we found out there is no such thing. The employee recommended we borrow some from his wife, who has braces, or look for some beeswax in the snack section. I think beeswax for snacking is as fake as fishing wax. We looked anyway. Before leaving, we bought some caramels as a back-up solution in case the chapstick failed. Fortunately, at another store we found some dental wax, so we were able to eat the caramels rather than use them for medical purposes.