Mood? Blogging

Im in a blogging mood. Maybe it has to do with the fact that my laptop is dead and so I cant play games, or check email, or whatever. So all I can do is surf and blog. Or maybe now that I have blogged twice already, Im in such a bloggy mood I may as well continue.

Rooker
What a pooper-pants. He gets into everything. And he makes you feel horrible for spanking him. His latest adventures include opening a tub of butter and wiping it all over his face and hair and table and chair in the kitchen. Getting into the babys formula and... thats right... wiping it all over his face and hair and floor. He still has a cow if he doesnt get his binky, and now that we are on our 3rd child, we are WAY more lax about whatever binky requirements we laid down with Crystal. So he gets it when he goes to bed or needs a nap. Everyone loves the way he runs, it is funny to watch. He loves mud, he loves to roar like a dinosaur, he loves watching action movies, and he loves his grandparents.

Crystal
Im not sure what it is. It seems her IQ went up 2000 points in the last month or two. She is way to smart. In fact, she has all the stop signs memorized in Stockton and gets on my case if I dont stop at one. She says "That sign said stop daddy. You forgot. You need to remember to stop". What am I supposed to say? That its all right because no one was around? The I never stop at that sign ever? Yeah right. So whilst I have her in the car, I become the best dang driver in the universe, coming to a complete stop at every stop sign in Stockton, no matter what. She even knows how to put on her own clothes. She knows how to go to the fridge and get something to eat. She knows when we are trying to put her to bed too early. She knows when Rooker and Bailey are getting into something they shouldnt cause she will make sure and let her parents know. We are still working on the whole wetting the bed thing, but she still hasnt mastered it yet.

Bailey
Oh my. Oh my oh my. Oh my oh my oh my. What a sweetie pie. Her smile is mana from heaven. She smiles probably 90% of her day. Well, at least 90% of the %10 I spend at home and not work. Im sure Amy could have a totally different story. But she is definitely a smiler, and its so fun to wrestle and tickle her just to see that smile. She does have one drawback however. If you close a door on her at all, she screams as though you left her alone in the bottom of a morgue at midnight halloween during a power outage. Im talking about going to the bathroom. WAAAHAHAHAHA, BLAHWIOWHAHRIEHWHA, WEEHEHELABLRRHAHHAH. Sheesh girl! Im just going to the restroom!

Amy
Amy seems to be fairing quite well in her Stockton Castle. She keeps the house clean as best she can with 3 kids. She will get it all clean when I am 5 mins from home and in that 5 mins the kids will make sure it becomes messier than it was before it was cleaned. She cooks good meals. She balances our finances. She keeps her sanity all day with 3 wild kids. She does alot. I get to sit my fat rear on a nice comfy chair all day at work for 8 hours a day. Im sure Amy's schedule is somewhat different and a little more stressful. Its nice to have a wife that is nice to come home to.

MDB 34

Memorial Day was fun. I dont think those who dont come just dont understand. Our family is close only because we do everything together. No matter how hard, no matter how boring, no matter how uninteresting, no matter how busy, no matter how expensive, no matter how long or short, no matter how much we get paid, no matter how blah, no matter blah blah, no blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah.

That is the reason our 2nd cousins are more like brothers. Thats why we can work at the same job and get along and avoid all the political crap. Thats why we hang out all the fetchin time. And those who choose not to come, miss all of it. ALL OF IT! ALL OF IT!

We played softball till our arms turned to rubber.
We swam and played hack-a-lack water basketball till we were red everywhere and our eyes burned from chlorine.
We ate who-knows-how-many hot dogs with that weird-sauce-they-put-on till we had weird-sauce-they-put-on poisoning.
We sang till our voices gave out.
We sat in the same flippin chapel for all 3 hours of church.
We ate candy and food till we couldnt see straight, and then went back for more.
We laughed our guts out at the program while ppl attempted to make twists to the traditional skits.
We mixed 85 gallons of pancake dough.
We cooked 800+ eggs, pancakes, and ham.
We laughed at the rain, thunder, hail, and lightning at its feeble attempt to halt our MDB celebration.

Where else you gonna go to get that? Work? School? Home? Bahamas? Disneyland? Alone? At a Party?

Shyeah right.

Everyone works, Everyone goes to School, Everyone has a Home, Everyone can go to the Bahamas and Disneyland, Everyone can be alone, and Everyone parties. But no one has an MDB. NO ONE!

So try your best to make it next time. Let the world do its thing for a few days without you, and then you can dive back in. The world wont give a rats-patoot that you were even gone.

Next year is the big kahuna, the one that is a reunion.

So be there or be dead.

Blog Day

Its just a blog day. Members of the "Brethren" are here at the office meeting with the big guys about church broadcasts. I think Elder Scott is here with 2 members of the 70. I heard a rumor that Elder Holland was coming too, but who knows. You can feel the tension in the office while they are meeting. We have lots of demo stuff setup so they can test things and see how the broadcast would work through us, and how you could also use the internet, voip, vid conferencing, etc, all on the same link that you would do the church broadcasts on. Currently the church's system will ONLY do broadcasts and thats it. So this will add alot more capability to their system and plus it will actually be cheaper than what they currently pay to just do video. There are some other features too that are pretty nice like the ability to do 40 languages on the same link instead of 1 like they do now.