After months of going back and forth over who I’m going to vote for in the presidential election this fall, I think I’ve finally made up my mind. I’m voting for Peyton. Who cares if he’s TECHNICALLY not old enough? Who cares if he hasn’t even finished 2nd grade? He has a GREAT platform that I’d like to share with everyone. Apparently this was a writing assignment where they practiced brainstorming ideas and then turning those ideas into a paper. So I’ve posted the rough draft and final versions below. I was just going to post the final version, but his rough draft has some pretty classic tidbits in it. So here they are:

Rough Draft

Final Version

So that does it for me. Any president who would make a store called Get Coins and ensure that ALL robbers are caught has got to be good. Heck, at least as good as any of the current choices. So forget that whole “35 years old” rule!

Vote Peyt in ’08!

We had an award show at work to highlight the best work done by the agency over the last year. The award they give out is a salt shaker on a glass base and is called a Salty. Apparently this title is simply because we are the Salt Lake agency of McCann Worldgroup, therefore Salty’s. The salt shakers are completely random, ranging from the Pillsbury Dough Boy, to a mermaid, to a cow, to this gold prospector. My trophy above is for the Cart Whisperer website. From a programming perspective, this one was fun because it was completely my baby. Much of agency website programming is done as a team, and that’s great, but it’s fun to have a project now and then that is completely your own, from architecture on through completion, especially when the project has a bunch of fun functionality like this one did, with the photos, movies, poems, and wallpapers. The whole campaign consisted of many different aspects, of which the website was just one part, and as a whole, the campaign took home a bunch of awards for one thing or another and was nominated for quite a few that it didn’t win. Additionally, various parts of the campaign are being considered for national marketing association awards of different types. It was definitely a fun project to be a part of and ended up being a VERY successful viral marketing campaign, perhaps McCann SLC’s best ever. We wanted to follow it up, keep Liberty’s momentum (and carts) rolling, with commercials, a blog, etc, etc, but VeriSign doesn’t have it in their marketing budget. So if you don’t know who Liberty Fillmore is yet, GIT ON OVER TO THE SITE!!!

So I missed blogging for the last couple weeks, but a bunch has happened.

Easter was fun. Saturday, we went to the South Jordan city easter egg hunt which was supposed to start at 10:00. Well, it actually started accidentally at 9:57 and was over by 9:58. Pretty crazy. After, we had the Sorensen breakfast of crepes, eggs, and sausage and it was all excellent. Sunday morning we did the usual easter egg and basket hunt. Soren won the search for the “Gross Brown Egg”, a yearly tradition where we make the last egg as gross looking as possible by dipping it repeatedly in every color. The kids got new clothes for Easter and all looked really nice.

We celebrated Soren’s birthday last weekend. HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY, SOREN! His birthday is on April Fools Day but he wanted to have a sleepover with his cousins Friday night instead, so we did that and watched Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest. All of our kids were OUT before the movie ended at midnight but Nate and Jentz were wide-awake and hyper. So I put on Star Wars but evidently it’s been scratched up quite a bit. So eventually I turned it off and Nate and Jentz reluctantly went to sleep. In the morning I made waffles with berries and cream on them per Soren’s request. One of Soren’s gifts was a digital camera from Grammy and Gramps. It’s better than mine! And he loves it and is taking all sorts of pictures. It is nice that he is so into it because he gets lots of pictures of things that Julie and I don’t even think of photographing. I haven’t yet shown him how to download his pics to the computer so we can put them on Flickr, so there’s none of his photos to show yet.

The twins are both starting to sleep better at night which has been SOOOO NICE. Maren actually sleeps consistently 10 and even 12 HOURS a night. Crazy! Roman, however, is obviously starving (as you can see from this photo) and needs to still eat at least once or twice during the night. But overall, MUCH BETTER!

And finally, CONGRATS TO KATIE AND TAGG!!! It’s finally OFFICIAL, even though we’ve all known this was happening for a couple weeks. Well, really, I talked to Tagg about this over a month ago when I informed him that I’d made a bet with Katie regarding how quickly they would be engaged. I’m glad it’s official now and we all look forward to having Tagg in the family. He’s a great guy. Here’s a photo of him with Logan.