Team Saki

This past weekend I went on an awesome Mens Retreat with my church at Calvary Chapel Conference Center in Twin Peaks.
The center was really nice and well maintained which made the experience even greater. We spent two whole days there and got to fellowship and hear from God's word. God changed a lot of guys at this retreat and I got some really good fellowship and was able to meet and get to know more guys from church.


This is me and Lee Bud in the dining room on the first evening.


Jason in the dining room, which used to be a fancy dining lodge for the rich and famous in the 60's. The church bought it in the seventies.


Jason and Lee in the morning in our room. We roomed with Jose also. We nicknamed Lee "Darth Maul"
and Jose "Smegal" form Lord of the Rings because of their unique snoring noises.


Lee and Ed outside the conference room after the first meeting.


We had some free time on Saturday so we went to the Lake Arrowhead village, there was a bunch of us there.


Casey K walking up the steps in front of Lee Roys.


Jason jumped the rails for this awesome boogie board.


Our new friend Esteban aka EsteLeche and Jason on the scenic village walkway.


Esteban and BuBua battling at chess which we played a lot of both nights we were there till late.

Another photo of the Bud on the morning we left a t breakfast.

Bobby Fischer, iconic and elusive, was one of histories greatest chess players. He disappeared for two decades after defeating Russian player Spassky: a match that violated US sanctions at the time and caused Fischer to flee to Iceland. He resurfaced 20 years later and in 1992 defeated Spassky again in a rematch that won him $3.5 million. In 2005 he was captured at a Japan airport and was held for nine months before Iceland accepted him as a resident as he renounced his US citizenship. He showed great interest to his friends in Iceland that he wished to play a final tournament before he died, which he was unable to do before he passed away from kidney failure in Iceland on Thursday. He was 64.

2007 is over and so is my photo a day challenge with my friend Aaron. I made a good go at it, but it did get tougher and tougher as the year went by. Out of the 365 days in the year I took a photo a day 332 of those days. The challenge was to take a photo of yourself every 24 hours and there must be a unique object touching your head or neck in the photo. We uploaded our photos onto the popular photo hosting site Flickr and I'm going to share the top five most viewed photos by Flickr memebers from both of us. If you would like to check out the entire set visit our Flickr page here.

Here are Aarons Top Five most viewed Pics.






These are my top five most viewed pics.

Sarah, Martha, and Amanda went to Pumpkin Patches and Petting Zoos in Late October.


We went to Lake Havasu to visit Sarah's grandparents, it was hot but a good day. It was the first time they had met Silas.






Danielle, Sarah, and Ashley went to see Nickel Creek in Hollywood. Ariel and I drove around LA til they were done.


Thanksgiving day we went to Sarah's parents all day and hung out with the family.


Thanksgiving night Erik and Kelli stopped by to say Hello.


We skated doubles on the mega-ramp.




We celebrated Sarah's 24th birthday on the 24th of November.


Jessica and Fidel stopped by on the 24th to say Hi and play Facey Bitey.


We had a small party for Sarah at Danielle's and a few special guests showed up.


We went to the new Oggi's in Apple Valley with Andy and Amy and their Russian friend Oleg on the 25th.


Ariel and I saw Band of Horses in Pomona on the 26th it was really good.




The 28th we saw Iron and Wine at the Orpheum with Aaron and Jackie.






Vincent is getting ready for Christmas.

Last Night was the premiere for Lakai at the UCLA Royce Hall. There were a lot of people there, not sure how many, but definitly more than the Skate More premiere. All I have to say without spoiling anything is the intro is awesome and everyones parts are good. My favorite part hands down was Mike Mo with Guys part in Second place. Great Video.



I got to see Aaron and we went to Fat Burger somewhere in LA. I had never had one but it was good. I woke up this morning with fat burger seeping from my pores though, I had to immediately get in the shower and brush my teeth.

To Celebrate my 100th Blog Entry I made a quicktime video of our 4 day Mammoth Trip that we just got home from today. ( You must have Quicktime for Mac or Quicktime for PC installed to view movie.)

(I've realised that this video isn't showing up on a lot of PC machines and I'm working to fix this, if you can't see this on your computer leave me a message)

Were in Mammoth this weekend til Monday, we went to Mono
Lake today, check out more photos at Team Saki Flickr

Friday Mornings I go to Starbucks and meet Chris, Jesse, and Jason and we have been going over one chapter of Romans. It's the earliest I get up all week but it's really fun and seeing the sunrise is cool.


After work Sarah and I went to the B.A.R.F (Bring a Real Friend) night at church for the Jr. Highers. It's an event when the kids that nirmally come invite a friend that doesnt know God. We all hang out play games ( I played touch football-winded) , eat burgers and dogs, and then Chris pressents the Gospel to everyone. It was good night.


This is about everyone a few groups are cut out.


A girl Worshiping in front of me.


My friend Dr. Justin Davenport.

We had our 1 Year Anniveersary on the 19th and went to Disneyland for a few days. It was kind of crowded but we had a good time.




We must have caught some germs at the happiest place on earth because we both ended up sick the whole week after we got home.

The dat before I got really sick though I worked on creating a office for myself.
Here is a few shots of the work in progress. The progress is mostly removing all the junk and clutter that was in this room.

Sarah & Vincent


Elvis promoter of Chiwowow clothing see him here.


Jessica and Fidel


Some big Dogs were in attendance, there was actually a few bigger than these guys too!

Lately I have been taking a lot of my blog photos with my phone and emailing them straight into my flickr account.

Two weekends ago we went to ASR tradeshow in San Diego and also to a wedding of our Friend Hannah and Brandon in Laguna Canyon. Saturday night we also got to see my pal Andy's band Echo Body play in Apple Valley. That monday we also visited the Mueseum of Tolerance in LA. I took photosof all this, and if you want to check them out they are on my flickr.

Sarah and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary this last wednesday so this weekend we are going to Anaheim and staying around The Magical Kingdom for a couple days. I will be emailing photos in during the day all weekend and you can check them out on
flickr. if you have some time on your hands. Text message me with any Disneyland advice or souvenier requests.

We went to the Blonde Redhead show, they are really good live.

The game was really good. Went into extra innings and the
Angels won 7-6.



Crazy Californian Yankee fans all around me!