Thank you all for the feathers. It was fun to get them and see what you all wrote. Here are the pictures. We are still getting stragglers so we will probably keep it up for a few more weeks to see how many more we get and post a final picture then. Love you all and we are thankful that you took the time to send them to us. You all rock!!

BTW, does anyone like the new Christmas blog?

Or am I wasting my time? :)

Since Doug just posted a video - and I have one to post as well, this will be super fun for everyone. Forget TV - just watch YouTube forever!


Also, this guy is not the actual performers of this super corny song. If you are interested in more super corniness click Here

bring cleats for turkey bowl flag football

Too much time on your hands?

all i want for christmas...

well i may have missed the christmas package, but if i haven't, for the first time i've ever done so to my recollection, i have wants for this christmas!!!!! (cheering settles) you may not care but if there are those among you who do... i would like a pair of adidas(10.5-11) and two or three AAA plain t-shirts. i know its a hefty list, but shall we not go on in so great a cause? i would ask that joe or rem choose the pair of adidas and yellow blue and mystery color would be the choices on the shirts. now if i have by chance missed the christmas boat and by the time you get this from chicago(after all the usps is pretty incompetant) you've moved on to bigger and better things, theres always time for my birthday in april.the fourth by the way. i realized the other day that i can't remember with certainty a single birthday other than moms(dec 10) so i figured you guys don't remember either. anyway as you can tell theat i have nothing to say, i will sign off.
-to infinity, and beyond!(weston blasts off into space in his homemade rocket suit)

A HOUSE DIVIDED

Anyone else excited for the big game!!!

Oil Hits $53

Hmmm, I didn't really think it would happen this fast when I told you about Lindsey Williams saying the price would drop to $50 back in Sept.

Hey mom Weston's package is sent. Just letting you know so you don't have to worry about us getting ours in the mail.

A timely quote for a past talk from Elder Neil A. Maxwell (1978): 

'Make no mistake about it, brothers and sisters, in the months and years ahead, events are likely to require each member to decide whether or not he will follow the First Presidency.  Members will find it more difficult to halt longer between two opinions. President Marion G. Romney said, many years ago, that he had 'never hesitated to follow the counsel of the Authorities of the Church even though it crossed my social, professional or political life.'

'This is hard doctrine, but it is particularly vital doctrine in a society which is becoming more wicked.  In short, brothers and sisters, not being
ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ includes not being ashamed of the prophets of Jesus Christ.  . . . Your discipleship may see the time when such religious convictions are discounted. . . . This new irreligious imperialism seeks to disallow certain opinions simply because those opinions grow out of religious convictions.

'Resistance to abortion will be seen as primitive.  Concern over the institution of the family will be viewed as untrendy and unenlightened....
Before the ultimate victory of the forces of righteousness, some skirmishes will be lost.  Even in these, however, let us leave a record so that the choices are clear, letting others do as they will in the face of prophetic counsel.  There will also be times, happily, when a minor defeat seems probable, but others will step forward, having been rallied to rightness by what we do.  We will know the joy, on occasion, of having awakened a slumbering majority of the decent people of all races and creeds which was, till then, unconscious of itself.  Jesus said that when the fig trees put forth their leaves, 'summer is nigh.'  Thus warned that summer is upon us, let us not then complain of the heat.'
                                  --- Elder Neal A. Maxwell

It Speaks!

Jonas' first word, spoken in my classroom today, was a pretty cool word: COOL

I WIN I WIN I WIN

Let me preface this by saying - I never win - ANYTHING! So, even when I COULD win- but don't ACTUALLY win - I get all warm and fuzzy. I'm sure I've lost you. Well, take a gander at this people!


Just perusing the blog - I happened to glance at the visit meter thingy. I WAS NUMBER 7777. I must be pretty desperate to feel special.

Well It is official. He is now crawling. The day after his seven month birthday he decided to finally stop rocking back and forth like he has been for about three weeks now and actually moved forward. Thanks to Joe crawling around and showing him how.

Just a little late...

So, here are some cute pictures for you all to enjoy. It took awhile because we don't have a camera (another story-ask Kirk) so I had to get them from a friends camera. Porter was fine with his costume until the black paint went on the eyes. Then here was scared of himself and refused to look in the mirror the rest of the evening. It made for a somber Halloween. But he had tons of fun trick-or-treating. He wouldn't say it or thank you but was good at 'Happy Halloween' and 'Next house'. It was a fun night.
Nothing else is happening other than getting over a four day head cold and letting my kids watch as many movies as they wanted. Go Tarzan! Unfortunatly, now that I'm feeling a little better, I'm going to have to deal with their TV withdrawls.
Kirk's excited to go down to Cali. for Christmas and thats the only thing we have comin gup that we know of. Pretty fun stuff. Love to all.

cold as .....................<-wow thats a lot of dots

its forty here with seventy percent humidity and i haven't seen the sun in an unexagerrated(is that even a word?) two weeks. i've never been in a more depressing place and i long for those purple mountains and alabaster cities all those songs lie about. if chicago was a popcicle it would be a dirty, freezer-burned, orange soda one, served of course with fried chickenfrom a mafia owned restaurant. on a lighter note i now found out that the only way to get root beer extract in chicago is by going through your local people. the stores have every other type of flavoring and extract but aparently fat tony decided that root beer extract was the key to shutting down the police force. kind of a random thing for the mafia to control if you ask me, but now i have an excuse not to make homemade rootbeer, other than the obvious reason of laziness. also i'm trying to think af a hobby that i can adopt that will occupy five hours of everyday from now until february. it's against the rules of our mission to go out past dark, and since it gets dark at four-thiry, five ish, that leaves a lot of down time. any suggestions?

That's funny I'm not seeing any Halloween costumes. Where is everyone?

It is no longer Summertime...

But I wish it was.

Proposition 8

It Passed!
But there is already a lawsuit in the courts by civil rights groups trying to throw it out.

Well I guess it is official. Our American nation is now an Obamanation.

Halloween costumes

Just showing off the kids yet again.

But, do you think it's funny?

For all of you Footloose lovers in the world - Flight of the Concords tribute is here.