Eric's account of meeting the President Micheletti, the President of Honduras:

So I want to tell you about what I just did. I had to leave early because we had an appointment at 11 at the president's house (the president of Honduras). There is a lady in my ward who has a television show in the morning for the president. She works in the "white house" of Honduras and, being and absolutely awesome lady, hooked us up with an all access tour. We showed up and hung out in the television studio for a while, then she took us around and showed us the place where the president makes all the announcements on tv. Then we went outside and took pictures with really old statues. While we were doing that some really important military guy came up and he was friends with one of the ladies who was taking us around, so he exercised some of his power and let us into the president's office. So we went into where he meets with diplomats and stuff, and we even took a picture at his desk sitting in his chair. The military guy liked it so much he even took a picure himself. So I have a picture of myself in micheletti's chair, at his desk. Then they walked in and interrupted micheletti in one of his meetings, and he said he could meet with us for 2 minutes for a photo. So we walked into some other room and we got to meet him and take a quick photo with him. He was actually a really nice guy, and he asked us for a book of mormon. Not knowing that we would actually meet anybody we didn't bring one, so we're going to send him a nice hard cover one. Then afterward we went to the room where the president meets with his cabinet, and then to the president's dining hall for a quick snack before we left. All in all a pretty freaking sweet trip. We also got to talk to the reporters about some of the inside stuff that the public didn't know about micheletti and zalaya. Basically zalaya is a pretty dang scummy dude, and micheletti isn't that scummy.

My first blog giveaway!!!!

I feel the need to put four exclamation marks (a record for me) because I have won something, something good, for telling a joke!! It all started on the second of December. I was skimming cjane's blog when I stumbled across a post announcing...

My heart raced with excitement. I quickly read the few comments at the time an discovered...

I quickly wrote something before I went to seminary. Shelley wasn't too happy. It went something like...

This was the best I had. The sad part was that I sort of forgot ab

out it, and so I failed to check back at the end of the day to see if I had won. Five days later I was perusing the cjane blog, and to my supreme joy and excitement I found...

Perhaps this will justify the four exclamation marks, Hmmmm?

The long Awaited Diana Photos!!!

Diana, the Greek Goddess of the Hunt, is the name of a lovely analogue camera that I bought this year. It is a delightful nostalgic blue with a hugo flash that is the only thing that requires batteries.

Everything else; the focus, the aperture, the shutter speed, and even the shutter itself, are completely manual. Mom and Dad still don't understand the reason I don't just go with digital, and I'll admit, it is a ton easier and simpler. But there is one reason that outweighs everything, in my mind at least. That thing is the flaws.

In a digital camera only

one thing is put to chance. That is if the picture will upload or

not. But with the Diana, everything

is entirely up in the air. This is the beauty. I'll let the pictures

speak for themselves.

A Little Music

Esplin to Morgan

Things to be Thankful for

I think I speak for all of the Esplin clan when I say we're very grateful Cordell escaped a most terrible doom today.

I Am Leslie Hall.

This Saturday I attended a Halloween Party with my Father. We won't be in town on the 31st so I didn't have a costume prepared. No need to fear, it only takes a day and a trip to Hobby Lobby* to become Leslie. *Hobby Lobby is Ms. Hall's preferred craft outlet.


I even be-gemed my own sweater from Savers! I call it Galactic Blossom.


This party was for older folks but I did find two adults who had actually heard of Leslie Hall.


Favorite?



The hair was a toughy, I just couldn't quite match her volume.


Don't worry, I haven't chubbed out. Brookalicious helped me create a butt/thigh/belly combo.


Leslie Hall, you are my Hero.

Helmet Head

Tonight we hung out at my grandma & grandpa Newton's house. It was so fun to take Penelope into the play room to play with the same toys I did when I was her age. She had so much fun with the vintage dolls and super old-school rocking horse. But. . .




Her favorite item to play with was the helmet. She kept it on until I took it off (about 5 minutes).