Tracey and Harper playing Fruit Ninja

...at Grandma's house on Uncle's B's Kinect.

Good Name for a Horse

Samara: Hey, dad---know what's a good name for a horse? Plossy.

Harper singing

Green Bean Juice

Asher, after dinner tonight, holding a straw: "Can I please have a drink of the green bean juice?" We let him. Afterward, he said it was delightful and warm.

Hyrum

My Hy turned 10 today. Wow. A whole decade. I feel old thinking about it, but it feels right.

Hy is kind, helpful, precocious, considerate, intelligent, thoughtful, observant, easy-going, sweet, and analytical.

...and awesome...

Best prayer ever... so far

During the prayer tonight, Isaac ended with "and please bless that tomorrow we will have a proud and happy day and please bless that tomorrow Mom won't be so anxious."

Harper's Laptop

Harper modeling what she observes (with a Nintendo DS).

Baby Luke

We have our first ever nephew!! His name is Lucas, but we call him baby Luke.

Congrats Whitney and Marcus!!

Burnin' Cowboy

We had just crossed into Texas. Isaac noticed a large bonfire about 50 yards off the freeway and he said, "Ya think they're burnin' a cowboy?" Upon further questioning, he was wondering if they were burning a cowboy like they burn Darth Vader in Star Wars. Cremation people. Cremation, not torture.

Samara: "And it came to pass that the Lord of the princess and the dad..."

ROAD TRIP!

On our way to Texas!

Samara: What would happen if we had 3 moons? Would we all be cows? Cows live in barns.
Me: Maybe so.

The name of the blog

This chica is the little lady that first uttered the words, "Dad's a super villain" in the summer of 2011 when he caught a fly in his hand.

Story

Hyrum and Isaac are collaborating on a comic/movie project. They've written and illustrated a prologue and the first chapter. Here's the Prologue (written by Hyrum):

"It is 2030 in San Fransisco. War is raging in the streets. The Ultimate Spy Association (U. S. A.) is battling against the evil wizard's army. Many USA agents fall. Only one remains. Meanwhile, on the Golden Gate Bridge, the wizard's army threatens to take over the city. The one remaining agent, Dark Chameleon, arrives on the scene..."

Harper singing Ob-La-Di

Harper singing the Beatles Ob-La-Di

Hot Air

We had the chance to go on a hot air balloon here on campus a few weeks ago. Here's a lot of pics from that night.

Here's Brad, Isaac, and Samara. Can you believe they wouldn't let all 7 of us on at once...? so strict ;)...

Then, here's me, Hyrum, and Asher. No ride for Harper. She's not quite steady enough on her feet on her own. And she has no idea she missed anything.

I'm gonna try to do better re: updating more often, but I make no promises.