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Saturday General Conference (Hang Gliding) Session

Unloading

Tracey sharing some pre-flight pointers with Dave (don't crash) and then the "Launch"

Helmet Cam View

Who is this....

So I was asked to scan some pictures for the family reunion and thought we should do a who/what is this? Wendi can't play because she has the pictures and put them together on a posterboard.

Picture #1 - who are the two people in the middle and which one of the kids is our relative (what is his/her name?) . Which person bet Tracey that he couldn't eat a whole raw egg, then after Tracey did so, he told Tracey he needed to eat the shell too?

Picture #2 - Whose house is this? Is there a name it was called? Name one memory you have had here.

Picture #3 - Who are these two people and how are we related? Also, does Tracey, Brian or David look more like this gentleman?

Picture #4 - Without cheating and reading the small print, whose horse is being shoed here. Also who is doing the shoeing?

Time to get this things moving again

So how does everyone like the new background and header? I am not sure what I was thinking with the last one. I looked at it the other day and though egads, that looks horrific. I think perhaps I was wanting something springy, but that looked like it sprang up from the 80's.

So a new question. If you were stuck on an uncharted island, what or who would you take with you. You are limited to 3 items or people. My family will be posting their comments by tomorrow. Just a fun curious question.

Who's in for Sharkfest 2010

Mom says I need to get on our blog and make a fool of myself like everyone else -here goes. I am in for Sharkfest 2010, I have a longer 2nd toe and it doesn't bother me a bit, and I am the old man of the family at 44 (except for DAD of course.) I am not as strong as Brian, nice as Dave, well presented as Wendi, witty as Lorri, or as funny as Steff, -I am OK with it though because I fly jets. My meager attempts at scheduling a midlife crisis have mostly failed -my little red biplane is my last hold out. I have most recently noticed a propensity to increase in volume around my mid section and have therefore rescheduled my midlife crisis event 2002 -the conditioning for and ascent of Mt Rainier. I am planning on swimming Sharkfest 2010 as next years continuation of the battle of the bulge. I can't think of anything else to say right now as I am wearing my purple bracelet. It's OK though as I have rambled on sufficiently to feel foolish enough to be apart of the family -I'll switch my bracelet!

Tracey

Happy Birthday Steff!

Favorite Christmas Movies

So we started going through our Christmas movies and of course I then started thinking, what are my top 5 favorite Christmas movies. So here are mine (unless I decide to edit and alter because I forgot one), what are yours?

A Christmas Story
Elf
It's a Wonderful Life
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (doesn't everyone have at least one Cousin Eddie?)
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Loaded Questions Part 2

So here are the people who sent an answer AND their answer (in random order). So now each person needs to post in comments who they think said what. Good Luck and Mom and Dad said whoever wins gets a new car, or at least one from Florida off ebay.

Question...
What is the first thing you notice when you meet someone?

People who entered the contest:

Wendi
Lorri
Dave
Matt
Steff

The answers:

1. The first thing I notice about someone is their imperfections. Not in a judging way.. I just can't help observing if their nose is a little pointy or if they have a double chin (he he). If this akes me a bad person, let the tomato throwing begin.

2. I notice toes. Especially peanut shaped toes. The worst is when their second toe is longer than their big toe. It looks freaky like E.T. or something.

3. My eyes can't help but be drawn to a persons ready to be popped zit. If they don't have that, then I would say teeth. Hate to say it, but teeth say a lot about a person.

4. Their body language.

5. Their face, how they do their hair and what they are wearing. So basically personal grooming habits.

Now in the comments, write each person name and the number you think their answer is. You can only use each answer and name once. We will be running a total over the next couple of months and yep you guessed it, whoever wins... gets the CAR!



Answers:

Matt-
1. steff
2. me
3. lorri
4. wendi
5. dave

Wendi-
1. Lorri
2. Matt
3. Wendi
4. Dave
5. Steff

And since I already know the answers here are they are correct (in no specific order)...

1. Steff
2. Matt
3. Wendi
4. Dave
5. Lorri

Thanks for everyone who played over the last month. Maybe when I think of a new way to post answers we will do it again :)

Ryan turns 8

Can you believe how fast Ryan is growing up? We celebrated by having a football tailgate party. The boys played flag football and lightning, the day was beautiful and most importantly Ryan was happy.

Isn't he great - boy do we love him!

DisneyWorld or bust

We had the best time at DisneyWorld! I look at the pictures and want to go back, really, is there anything better than sun, ocean, beach and Disney? I'm only posting one picture here, I'm working on a slideshow for our blog, I'm sure you are all dying to see the pictures, haha.

This is us at the Polynesian resort, we are waiting for the bus to take us to the cruise ship,

ahhh good times.

More pumpkin Fun

I'm trying to get Tanner hooked on blogging ( kind of like hooked on phonics, but funner- so you guys keep telling me:)) so I showed him how to post some pictures and encouraged him to add some funny dialog to go with it. I gave him some ideas and let him loose, hence the "Sweet Pumpkins" post. I will say one thing, he knows how to get to the point and keep it short and sweet. We did have fun carving pumpkins, everyone got involved and very creative.

The creations all lined up
Tanner and Coty got pretty precise, no jack-0-lanterns here

Rebecca and roommates stayed with us for the weekend. She didn't stay to carve pumpkins with us but we enjoyed going to lunch and visiting while some guys nobody seemed to know hung out at the house playing rock band.

Coty is getting involved, he was part of a group of students that offered to run the games at our school carnival. My Ironman liked his game the best.

(btw, notice the rug burn on Coty's forehead, I'm thinking he should think twice before wrestling his roommate again :)

Coty helping Matthew get three in a row at the Twister tic-tac-toe game. Thanks Coty, you're the best!

Sweet Pumpkins

Tanner and Coty carving Pumpkins after they got images off the internet.

Coty's finished design
Tanner's finished design

Loaded Questions....

Since this site is getting BBBOOOORRRRRIIINNNNGGGG! I thought I would spice it up with a game. Remember that game we played "Loaded Questions" where one person asks a questions and everyone gives their response and then one player had to guess whose answer went with what person.

So to do this online, I will post the question on Saturday (or Friday evening). Each person then emails me their answer within the week. I will post all the answers and who is participating. Everyone then has one week to give me their matchups which I will post with the answers at the bottom.

Sounds fun huh? I knew you would be excited!

Question...
What is the first thing you notice when you meet someone?

You can all email me at my skynetbb.com email. Let the games begin! You have until 10/31 to answer so I can post on Saturday.

Seriously? Sharkfest 2010?

Tracey was talking (aka hasseling) me in the foyer at church the other day. He said he had a commitment from the following people to swim Sharkfest in 2010...

Steff
Wendi
Tracey
Brandon

I can't remember if he mentioned Brian and Dave because I was still hyperventaliating. Who is seriously in for Sharkfest 2010? I keep thinking that once in a lifetime is good for me. Maybe it is because I am a little older and can I add wiser? Anyways, thought we needed a post AND I am definitely curious about those who are in.

Thanks!

Yo! Can someone (Lorri) give this blog a new look because it is LAME! Thanks.

I would do it but I don't know how. That should be obvious...just look at mine. :( Wah wah wah!

Our trip to Washington

The Taco Lady

Lorri told me that Rebecca was going to be cooking for everyone on Sunday and seeing as we will not be there I thought I would post these pictures in her honor. While we were in Washington the Butler/Erikson families crashed Taco Time to harass Rebecca at work - isn't family great? Of course being the dedicated employee all our chaos didn't even faze her. Thanks for not kicking us out - we had a great time!

Do you want fries, I mean mexi-fries with that?

Notice Tanner and David swinging Brett by his hands and feet - where are those kids parents?

Is that a future Taco Time employee?

Yes, we were pigs! Rebecca had to clean up after everyone - but she did it with a smile on her face, I'm thinking "Employee of the Month"

Wendi and Chad come to visit

We had fun while Wendi, Chad and family came to visit. It was pretty low key. We didn't try and do anything big or time consuming, but just tried to spend time together. We had several weenie roasts, went swimming at Dave Morin's swim pool, played a game of baseball and of course made fun of each other all week. Here are some of the pictures I took, I thought I had more but they must be on Wendi's camera. So Wendi, you HAVE to post the ones at the pool and any you have of the weenie roast.

Bored?

This could be entertaining?

This is compliments of Courtney. And the beauty of it is, you guys are all the way in Idaho and there is nothing you can do about it ah hah hah ha!

Edit: the piece of paper says "least favorites" in case your eyes are all wrinkled around the edges like mine and hinders your eyesight.