With so many pictures of other people on my blog, I thought it would be time for you guys to see some more of me.  After all, that is what the world needs right… joking.  Anyways, I thought I’d take a more personal note to this blog post for a number of reasons, but mostly because I’d like to talk (brag) about how awesome my girlfriend, Allison is.  Here are some little known facts about Allison and myself:

1. We enjoy nachos 100% of the time.  We even reserved two domain names (www.deleriouslyfull.com and nachobuzz.com) to blog about our affinity for nachos.  You’ll see we have yet to actually post anything there.  Our goal is to eventually get free nachos from restaurants in order to review them.
2. Allison has a funny thing about arm spasms.  Sometimes she likes them and says things like “my arm is spasming again… that’s my workout for the day”.  Other times she wants to destroy her arm because it bugs the crap out of her.  My goal is to get one of these reactions on video
3. I love the temperature in the car a bit colder than she does.  In fact, I think she just likes it blazing hot.  I believe her quote was, “I don’t turn down the heat until my eyes are dried out”.  Yup, that is how hot she likes it in the car.  Whenever she drives, I always roll down the window for hopes of retaining some sort of normal body temperature.  This inevitably ends in her rolling up the window and me trapping my arm in it.  I always lose the debate over temperature and have learned not to wear any coats in the car.
4. There are many debates I actually always lose to Allison and my married friends say to just get used to it and that the quicker I learn the better.  The one debate I will not give up, however, is the usefulness of the iPhone.  Allison is sort of a purist and tries to make fun of me for using my iPhone all of the time.  I think she believes that phones are for talking and texting.  Part of me thinks she is just jealous of the superior Bejeweled capabilities.  In fact, whenever I leave the dinner table, or walk away from my phone at any time, I always find her attempting to, and eventually completing the task of beating every high score on every game.  It drives me crazy how she beats all of my high scores so quickly.  Here are some examples from Doodle Jump and Bejeweled (all of my games look like this): 
5. Also, make sure you check out Allison’s Etsy Store to buy some awesome crocheted hats.

Now to explain a bit of what I did on Valentine’s Day.  It was basically a very random and very fun hodge-podge of events that included a speed dating challenge, target shooting with a .22 rifle, catch phrase, squash carving, poetry/acrostic competition, shuffleboard competition, and a few other challenges.  Take a look at some of our date:

After a late night adventure up to Rocky Butte Viewpoint in Portland, Oregon Allison and I decided to return at 6:00am the next morning.  Here are all of the photos we took on Valentine’s Day as well as the next morning.

 

During the blistering winter storms along the east coast, the left coast was filled with sunlight and warmth.  I was watching my twitter feed (@Onephotonerd) when @DaleChumbley chimes in with the idea to go on a photowalk.  Here are some of the shots from our photowalk:

My Fav:

 

I’m sitting at my desk looking down 2,600 images from one wedding, 1,500 from another, a TTD (trash the dress) session, and preparations for two more weddings this weekend when I realize… I have not had any “me” time!  This happens frequently and just as frequently as it happens, Daniel Wood is always there to save me from #facemelt.  He mentioned ice cream which sounded good but what is the one thing that is better than ice cream you ask? Homemade popsicles!!!  Allison gave me the idea last week and I had forgotten about them in the freezer.  I thoroughly enjoyed my popsicle but Daniel broke his popsicle stick (stir stick from Starbucks) and then we just filmed his popsicle melting for a cool HD time-lapse.  Check out our office shenanigans!

My first video.  I’m still learning the software but I’m loving video stuff!

http://www.focusdesigns.com

These.

are.

so.

much.

fun.

Seriously.

I have the priveledge of working near this guy, Daniel Wood.  We both occupy the same building, VERTO, which is a business incubator in downtown Vancouver, Washington.  There are many other really cool people here, Logan Thompson of Blinksource is our newest addition and he has helped me with the new design of davidmartschinske.com Thanks Logan!  Also included in VERTO are Indelisa Montoro who I partner with as a wedding florist.  She has delivered some of the most amazing displays of flowers! not to mention that they smell amazing.  Check out her company, Belle Jour.  If you end up ordering from her, tell her I sent you and she’ll give you $100 off!

You may not know it if you’re new to Camas but EVERY citizen knows (or should know) about the Camas Lily Fields.  As you walk around Lacamas Lake you fill find them located on the upper-most part of the trail. It’s a great place for taking your dog.  Once we let Tucker off of his leash he ran all over the place!

My original goal for taking Tucker to the Lily Fields was to do some promotional work for Camas.  99.2% of Americans agree that Camas is the best place to live in the world.  The other .8% live by the Mill.  Actually, I have heard from a few different people that the City of Camas is particularly interested in photos showing off what there is to do in Camas.   Here is round 1 of what I dub The Camas Promotional Tour.

Meet Tucker, he likes fetch on the Lacamas Lake trail!

Here we are in the Lily Fields, Tucker needs a quick breather.

He may or may not have tried to eat the Camas Lilies at one point.

I think he’s rather studious.

By the way, my dog is single and I’m looking to breed him. Any purebread yellow labs out there?

Also, my brother is single. He would really like a girlfriend.

Quick! Before Tucker eats his head!

Here’s a macro of some lilies

I don’t know what these are called, I just call them buttercups.

And now wrapping up a day with the dog…