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Here it is!  As promised, my 12 on the 12th included pictures from a wedding – my friends Ryan and Karen.  Congrats to them!  Outside of the wedding, I tried my best to stay on top of my picture-taking – check them out below:

I begin my day by heading out to run my pre-wedding errands. This is my car outside of my apartment. Lately I’ve been parking right under the tree so the shade can cool-off my car.

First stop of the day: filling up the tank for the week. Ouch – gas prices are hurting my wallet. At times like these I wonder about having an SUV.

Next, over to target to get the wedding gift. I’m not really into registries, so I just opted for the gift card.

This is the inside of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s in Fort Collins, where the wedding was held. I didn’t want to take a picture during that Mass, so this is right after the wedding as we were all heading out.

One of the great parts about weddings is seeing all of your good friends again. From left: Emily, myself, Joel & Shannon

This is a picture of the church hall next to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s – it’s beautiful! My friends Meghan and Michael are in front.

I broke out my camera during the toast and took a picture of Michael through my champagne glass.

Joel chowing down on the good food – I think this was his second plate!

Dancing at weddings, doing the "Electric Slide". I was glad to have my camera at this point – anything to avoid dancing!

After the wedding I went to my mom’s to visit my uncle who is in town. They were replacing the wooden gates with vinyl – hopefully the dog won’t tear these up!

My sister and her boyfriend came over. We played with the dog for a while and then threw the football around. This is my mom’s back yard.

My sister Christina and Cole our cat. We call her the "Mafia Cat" because her fur looks like a tuxedo: black on the outside with white up her stomach.

My fifth 12 on the 12th is in the books!  Next month’s edition should actually include the Dave Matthews Concert! I’m definitely looking forward to that!

Where has the time gone this week?  It’s a bummer I haven’t kept up with my blog this week.  I have a lot of really funny stories to share as well, I’ll make time in the next day or two to share them.  However, I quickly wanted to invite everyone to participate in 12 on the 12th, as Saturday is fast approaching:

The concept is simple: Throughout the 12th of the month, take your camera with you and snap 12 pictures during the day.  At the end of the day, take the pictures and post them onto your Flickr account, blog, MySpace or web site! The hope is that you’ll give others a glimpse of your typical day through the pictures you take.

Please consider taking part and sharing your pictures!  I’ve heard many people saying that they’d like to try it, this is the perfect month to do it! 

 Getting a Flickr! account is free, and probably the easiest way to  do this.  When you’ve posted your pictures, here are a few places you could share the link:

• The Daily Breakfast podcast forum
• A 12 on the 12th Flickr group
• Make a Bulletin posting on MySpace for your friends to see!

To get an idea of how it works, check out my 12 on the 12th for July, June, May & April. I hope to see your pictures on Saturday the 12th!  My pictures will involve a wedding!

Well, it’s definitely been a long day, but also pretty uneventful as well.  Here is my day captured in 12 pictures!  As always, you can view these on Flickr as well!

This morning I had an early teleconference (at 7:30am), so I was sleeping right up to the minute I had to join. I didn’t want to get up…

Bright & chipper on my early-morning phone conference. I’ll eventually make it into the office.

I went out to lunch with a few members from my department. This is us walking out of Red Robin – mmm Freckled Lemonade!

I’m ready to go home! This is the view right before I get in my car to leave.

Making the drive home (along Harmony & Lemay in Fort Collins)

I dropped off my movie rentals on the way home…

For dinner we were making salmon! I came home and prepared the herbs & seasonings before my next phone conference (this time a 5:30pm)

Bethany’s over now and we’re finishing our cooking. I’m having too much fun making salad.

After dinner we played some video games. Bethany was beating me pretty badly and I was starting to get frustrated.

I did win a few rounds, but Bethany eventually kicked my butt. This was me before my defeat…

Because it was too dark to bike, I took Bethany home. On the way back my car hit 50,000 miles. This is a horrible picture from my camera phone, but if you look closely you’ll see that my car is at 49,999.9 miles!

I get home and continue to work. Things are really busy right now. I’m trying to figure out a solution to a bug in our application.

Also be sure to check out my friend Matt’s 12 on 12, and my girlfriend Bethany, did a 12 on 12 too!  I hope you enjoyed it, and I look forward to new month’s 12 on the 12th!