Old Photos

A few years ago Casey was given all the old photos my dad had of him and his family and he scanned then all and touched them up. I'm grateful he was able to do that. I love looking at old photos and getting a glimpse of the past. And I love hearing my Dad's stories ab0ut when he was growing up and what his life was like. Our trip to New York reminded me of these photos so I thought I would share a few. Well, actually it was very hard for me to choose so I am sharing a lot of them.

My dad Ed, in his crib outside of the farmhouse on Hosenfeld Road

Little Eddie

My dad and his Aunt Better who we got to see on our visit.

He looks a lot like my nephew Ethan here.

My personal favorite. What a great photo of the essence of childhood.

What a sharp lookin' fella.

May dad and his Aunt Betty blowing bubbles. Now that's America!

I love this one too.

Look at those ears! Just kidding dad, you look very nice in your suit.

That is one sweet bike! I wish I had a cruiser like that.

My Grandparents wedding picture.

My Grandma and her little sister.

My dad was a band geek! A man loves his trumpet.

My dad with his mom and my great grandparents. Are those brownies on the kitchen table? No boxed brownies back then just pure homemade goodness.

Another shot of Eddie with his trumpet case in hand. Probably on his way to a very important performance.

When we went to see his childhood friend Richard and his wife Carolyn, they brought out their old photo albums and many more entertaining photos were revealed. There was a phase when my dad looked like a logger with a big beard and there were some other shots where he resembled a young and rebellious Paul Newman. Doesn't it just fascinate you a little to think about what your parents were like before you were around?

New York

Casey and I had a fantastic trip to NY with my family.  We hit up the Big Apple and then went upstate to where my dad grew up.  

I love vacations. . . 

That's right, I have a road named after me in NY.  Don't mess.

Here's the fam hanging out at Watkins Glen.  It was beautiful.

my dad sitting on the porch outside the house he grew up in

It was fun to see him at his old stomping grounds.

I can't get enough of the next three photos that Casey took.  I know he already posted them on his photo blog but I love them.  This one is at the Sacred Grove in Palmyra.

Niagara Falls

Watkins Glen

Rockefeller Center

Hatches has some major competition with their hot chocolate.  We went to Max Brenner and just about died of  rich chocolate overload.  If we had this place in Utah I would be spending all my money there and I would be about 75 pounds heavier.

Thanks mom and dad for taking us, we loved it.  Let's start planning the next trip!

Friday Funny

Casey and I found this pretty dang entertaining.  Casey works with someone who talks like this after drinking a whole mug of hot chocolate from Hatch Family Chocolate.  It's pretty much 100% melted chocolate.  So he was not so much nervous as hyper.

p.s. Hatches has the best hot dark chocolate and frozen bananas dipped in caramel and chocolate I have ever tasted.  Check it out, it is so yummy. . .

This has kind of turned into a post more about how delicious Hatches is, oh well you should still go there.

this one is pretty good too.

New images for Julie

Hey guys, check out the lasted photo shoot for Julie on my photo blog and web site.  I convinced Alisa to be one of the models.  On my site they are under the people link.

New Blog for Casey's Photos

Hey guys, please add my photo blog to your list! I would really appreciate it.
Anyways, I just got back from Maple Canyon. I posted some pics on my other blog. I even got a photo of myself climbing just for Susan (Alisa's mom).
check it out.

New York List of things to do

I'm going to New York with Alisa and her family soon, and I'm trying to put together a list of things to do while we are there. Anybody have any input? We are only going to be in the city for 2 days, then off to upstate.

Here are the few things that have been suggested

Central Park
The Met
Rosa Mexicano is highly recommended
Max Brenners (Where have you been all my life)

Baptist Draw

Just got back from Baptist Draw with Alisa and some of her family. It was a pretty sweet 8 mile canyon in the middle of no where. Special thanks to Jared and Nanette for going a few weeks ago to check it out for us. It would have been crazy to find our way around without him! And even though Nanette couldn't go, we appreciated her weather insights.

Here are some images from that morning.

What a babe!

The group

Ryland on the first rappel.

Second rappel

There was a ton of mud! It was kind of nasty, but it did stay pretty the whole way through.

Dried mud is much more fun than wet mud. In case you didn't know.

8 miles of this. It never really got old.

Great Weekend!

Hey all,
so we had a great weekend. Me and Alisa went up to the Uintas and had a great time hiking around. We did the Lofty Lake Loop and took pics the whole time. It was really pretty and really fun. Alisa is really cute and a lot of fun!

Music Help

Hey, I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestions for music for my site. I put a few songs on there but I want to know what songs you would put on. Any suggestions would be great! No country please.

Fringe

Casey and I just watched the Pilot for Fringe and I'm thinking it has potential.  Here's what I like about it:

• J.J. Abrams helped create it (also created LOST which I am a huge fan of).  The opening scene takes place on a plane just like LOST, but I just don't think it can live up to it.
• There are some really cool effects with words and fonts (I like the attention to detail)
• Joshua Jackson is in it, and he did a really good job in my opinion.  Welcome back Pacey, we've missed you.
• It was entertaining enough for me to want to see another episode.

Did anyone else see it? What did you think?

A few more from Maple

Here is another shot from Maple. This is the forever long 12c that we did a bunch at the end of the day. Everyone styled it like a champ. Good times!

Here is another pic from a premium breakfast that morning. Prepared by the Duncan household.

Richarson Kids

I just did these portraits with the Richardsons kids. They were allot of fun, also they looked pretty sharp in there tux and white dress. Cute kids and fun to work with. Also their parents are really great. -Casey

New Site for Casey

Hey guys, I just got a new site for my photo stuff. It is super sweet. It has an amazing back-end to the site were I can upload super easy and make changes in no time.

www.caseyhyer.com

Please let me know if you see anything weird of if something does not work.
It had some errors last night, but everything is working today.

Also let me know what you love/hate or if it loaded slow/fast.

Thanks!
-Casey

blast from the past

Okay, I totally stole this from my friend Paige but I couldn't resist.

This is a photo of Casey and I oh so long ago:

Isn't he a hunk!

Yeah that's right, this is me.

Here are a few more pictures of Casey throughout the years:

I stuck by Casey through his not so thin years. I'm so accepting.

This is what I look like before I go to school every morning.  Appropriate isn't it?

I had quite the hair and apparently neck back then.

I really liked seeing how we would have looked in the 50s and 60s.  I think we would have fit in nicely.  Thanks Paige, we had fun with this.

Weekend in Maple

Ok, I just had an amazing weekend in Maple with some peeps. It was Mike D's b-day and a good friend Masumi drove up from New Mexico. Also there were several other people there that were really great to be around. Here are a few pics, I'll put up more later.


Masumi

Scott on one of the many 12+ we tried this weekend

The crew