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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Temple Trip/visit Rynearson's

JAN. 29,2011

We got the hang out with the Rynearson's again. The kids were so excited. I went to the Temple while my friend, Katie, watched the kids. We then went to Graeder's ice cream shop(Corbin and Ashlyn call it 3rd Graders:)). It was a great day.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Stolen Cookies

The song, Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar, keeps replaying in my mind every time I think of this story. 2 weeks ago I made chocolate chip cookies right before dinner. If the kids ate all of their dinner without me asking them to eat, they could have a cookie afterwards. Ashlyn was the only one to finish her dinner (and got a cookie) so the boys were out of luck until the following night. The boys started crying. Ashlyn went over and whispered something in their ears and they immediately stopped. Then Corbin kept asking me when I was going to bed over and over again. So, I knew something was up. I put the kids to bed, told them that I was going to bed right then and then hid behind my door (with a video camera in hand) to wait for the plot to unfold. The next several minutes consisted of the whispered plan. Corbin was being sent out to check and see if I had fallen asleep yet (I had stuffed my blankets with a pillow to make it look like I was in bed...yes I used to be the master of pranks in college). Then Trevor and Corbin were going to stay behind so that Ashlyn could sneak down tip-toe style to grab a cookie for Trevor and Corbin off the counter. The second she started sneaking down the stairs I followed far enough behind her with my video camera so that she couldn't see me. Trevor spotted me and started yelling for Ashlyn to abort! But not before I snapped this shot.... Does she look guilty or what?! We all laughed so hard!

planets

Trevor explaining the planets to Corbin and Ashlyn--
"On jupiter there are a bunch of meteors that blast each other!
On Neptune there is acid rain.
On mercury there are a bunch of whirl pools."

Ashlyn, "Really, there are whirl pools?!"

Trevor, "No, I'm just kidding but on Mars there really are alien robots."

Prayer

Trevor lost one of his Knex pieces and he can't finish the project until he finds it. I told him, don't worry we will be able to find it and he said, "I know. I prayed."

Yummy lotion

Ashlyn came to me yesterday (2-15-2011) and she smelled so good! I asked her about it and she said that she put lotion all over her arms and face. And then she said with a big smile, "I even licked it! hehehehe" I had her show me the lotion she used and it turns out that it was Dave's deodorant. :) yummy.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Corbin's friend

I love this picture of Corbin snuggled up to the frog. Precious.

Eyeball

I have to write this so that I remember. Ashlyn and Corbin's favorite word, starting last October 2010, is eyeball. They think it is HILARIOUS! If I asked them what they wanted to be for Halloween they would say, "EYEBALL!" and bust up laughing. Seriously for 3 months straight they would always bring up the word eyeball whenever they could.

NUMBER ONE SPEECH

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

"Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

"I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

--Vince Lombardi

In the Faith of Christ