Hello all. I have tried sending all of you emails about my new bird video. Some of the emails did not work though so some of you will not receive them. The video is called "Classical Birds of Oregon." It is at www.youtube.com/skipdipdawg. It is about five minutes long so make sure you have that long before watching. See you later.
Nathan
Monday, February 26, 2007
Emily's week
Well, this week should be fun. It's almost time for midterms. My short story for creative writing is due on Thursday. I completely rewrote it, so you would hardly know it was the same story, except that the names of the characters are still the same -- mostly. I've signed up for intermediate creative writing during the summer term, more commonly called "Maymester." I have to take it twice for my minor. I'm still getting nowhere on my history term papers -- it is getting rather irritating. Fortunately, the teachers know about this.
On Sunday, there was a fireside. Elder Wirkman of the Seventy was the speaker, and he talked about sacrifice. It was good.
What do I want my wedding day to be like? There will be a temple ceremony, lots of pictures, a traditional reception. Really, I haven't thought much about it.
And in other news, the academic quiz bowl team went to the regional tournament over the weekend. I practice with them, but they can only take five players to a tournament. They swept the competition and will go to nationals in California.
On Sunday, there was a fireside. Elder Wirkman of the Seventy was the speaker, and he talked about sacrifice. It was good.
What do I want my wedding day to be like? There will be a temple ceremony, lots of pictures, a traditional reception. Really, I haven't thought much about it.
And in other news, the academic quiz bowl team went to the regional tournament over the weekend. I practice with them, but they can only take five players to a tournament. They swept the competition and will go to nationals in California.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Adam's big week and some other stuff
Adam had a big week this week. He had an interview for a summer internship at the Department of Defense, working with 2 military attorneys assigned to defend some of the detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay (also called Gitmo). Adam was offered the position on the spot. He's very excited about it - he will do some travel, definitely to Gitmo and possibly to Europe. He will get a security clearance and be allowed to work with sensitive military information. The Colonel already told him that they have a lot of work for him the minute he walks in the door ... which isn't until May 14. They also want him to continue part time through the next school year when they actually go to trial. The only catch is, he does NOT get paid. All this work - no money. I'm not particularly excited about that, but a paid position after your first year of law school is darn near impossible. So whatever. But he's going to do it for credit, so we can get financial aid.
Adam also competed in a moot court trial yesterday, and made the school's team (the easiest way to explain it is it's a version of debate in law school). He's also very excited about this, because of all of the things he's been recommended to have on his resume for after graduation, this is one of the top two.
Mom, we'd be happy to "put some movies online" of Summer ... if we HAD any. Did you not remember that we don't have a camcorder? And since Adam isn't getting paid this summer, we won't be getting one any time soon either. Our digital camera does have a video feature, but there's no sound card. And you can't have a video of a baby with no sound - it just wouldn't work. Tawnia took some video of Summer while she was here last week so hopefully that will appease the masses for awhile.
What was our wedding day like ... huh. I'll bet you could all tell me better than I could. I remember it through a haze. Adam remembers next to nothing. The only parts both of us remember clearly are not for public consumption (and quite honestly, more comical than anything). I remember being very, very scatter-brained. I couldn't settle on anything or do anything - I would stand there and look at things, and not know what to do with them. Like lunch. I was hungry, but I just stood there looking at all the food. (Note to self for the next family wedding: dish up a plate of food, physically put the bride in a chair, and hand her the plate. Feed it to her myself until she remembers how to use a fork. Repeat with the groom. ... You think I'm kidding! But I'm not!) I remember other people being agitated and rushing around, but I couldn't figure out why. I'm okay with not remembering very much, because while the ceremony is the most important ordinance, it's just ONE DAY. It's the rest of your life that makes that one day count or not.
P.S. Adam just came in - he remembers having a very goofy grin on his face for most of the day.
Adam also competed in a moot court trial yesterday, and made the school's team (the easiest way to explain it is it's a version of debate in law school). He's also very excited about this, because of all of the things he's been recommended to have on his resume for after graduation, this is one of the top two.
Mom, we'd be happy to "put some movies online" of Summer ... if we HAD any. Did you not remember that we don't have a camcorder? And since Adam isn't getting paid this summer, we won't be getting one any time soon either. Our digital camera does have a video feature, but there's no sound card. And you can't have a video of a baby with no sound - it just wouldn't work. Tawnia took some video of Summer while she was here last week so hopefully that will appease the masses for awhile.
What was our wedding day like ... huh. I'll bet you could all tell me better than I could. I remember it through a haze. Adam remembers next to nothing. The only parts both of us remember clearly are not for public consumption (and quite honestly, more comical than anything). I remember being very, very scatter-brained. I couldn't settle on anything or do anything - I would stand there and look at things, and not know what to do with them. Like lunch. I was hungry, but I just stood there looking at all the food. (Note to self for the next family wedding: dish up a plate of food, physically put the bride in a chair, and hand her the plate. Feed it to her myself until she remembers how to use a fork. Repeat with the groom. ... You think I'm kidding! But I'm not!) I remember other people being agitated and rushing around, but I couldn't figure out why. I'm okay with not remembering very much, because while the ceremony is the most important ordinance, it's just ONE DAY. It's the rest of your life that makes that one day count or not.
P.S. Adam just came in - he remembers having a very goofy grin on his face for most of the day.
responses
Good job Mom on finding my new picture without me saying anything about it. I'll say something about it now though, because I changed it. For those of you who didn't see the original, that's okay, because it's better now.
Thank you Eric for the wonderful Stevie movies! He's so cute! With Trina and Adam's permission, Tawnia and I can upload some movies of Summer that Tawnia took while in DC. She's home safe and sound, currently sleeping on her giant beanbag.
As for what I want my wedding day to be like - completely different from the first one. Married in the temple, pictures afterwords, and then ... a party. Afterwords, we'll FLY for a honeymoon somewhere (I'm actually going to have one this time), hopefully Europe or Hawaii, or somewhere on my list of places to go. It'll be a million times better than the first wedding day, because this time he'll have his family there too, and EVERYONE will be honestly happy for us, because we'll have an eternal marriage, and not just a wedding.
Thank you Eric for the wonderful Stevie movies! He's so cute! With Trina and Adam's permission, Tawnia and I can upload some movies of Summer that Tawnia took while in DC. She's home safe and sound, currently sleeping on her giant beanbag.
As for what I want my wedding day to be like - completely different from the first one. Married in the temple, pictures afterwords, and then ... a party. Afterwords, we'll FLY for a honeymoon somewhere (I'm actually going to have one this time), hopefully Europe or Hawaii, or somewhere on my list of places to go. It'll be a million times better than the first wedding day, because this time he'll have his family there too, and EVERYONE will be honestly happy for us, because we'll have an eternal marriage, and not just a wedding.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Happy Half-Birthday Stevie!
In his celebration with his half a cake, are you going to let him half open some presents, or fully open half his presents? Or only give him half presents? Will you only celebrate half the day? However it goes, I hope you send pictures (and more than just half of them) or post a new movie on YouTube. I watch those thirty seconds of Stevie Being Cute over and over again.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Welcome Back
I'm glad we're up and running again. I think it's time for a new question. For the married folk: "What was your wedding day like?" It will be interesting to hear it from your point of view. As your mom I have my own memories of your weddings but I'm sure you saw some things a bit differently. For the singles: "What do you want your wedding day to be like?"
Brooke and Bryan, sorry about the head lice. I remember the first time we discovered it here at home, it was your daddy who had it the worst - and it was just after a den meeting that I discovered it so I had to call all the cub scout parents and let them know.
Stevie, I wish we could be there for your "half-birthday" please have daddy post some pictures or a movie of it.
Summer, thank you for the beautiful valentine. It came today and I'll keep it always. I can tell from the size of your hand print that you're growing bigger each day. You should ask Mommy and Daddy to put some movies of you online. We'd all love to see them.
Love to you all,
Mom (Grandma)
Brooke and Bryan, sorry about the head lice. I remember the first time we discovered it here at home, it was your daddy who had it the worst - and it was just after a den meeting that I discovered it so I had to call all the cub scout parents and let them know.
Stevie, I wish we could be there for your "half-birthday" please have daddy post some pictures or a movie of it.
Summer, thank you for the beautiful valentine. It came today and I'll keep it always. I can tell from the size of your hand print that you're growing bigger each day. You should ask Mommy and Daddy to put some movies of you online. We'd all love to see them.
Love to you all,
Mom (Grandma)
Thursday, February 22, 2007
The SUSPENDED web site
Hi everybody.
Sorry about the suspended website. Hopefully it will be back up soon. Dad gave me a call and let me know about a half hour ago. It turns out my account's email was outdated and so when my credit card expired last year, the auto-renew didn't work today.
Anyway, I've updated my information and we should be good to go.
Be on the lookout for an email from Mom and Dad about paying for the website in the future.
Meanwhile, I can give you a little update on what's up here. Preparations are well in hand for Stevie's half birthday. Laurel's planning on baking him a half cake to be served at a small gathering in his honor this weekend.
In other news, I love the games page. Great idea. Great work.
Sorry about the suspended website. Hopefully it will be back up soon. Dad gave me a call and let me know about a half hour ago. It turns out my account's email was outdated and so when my credit card expired last year, the auto-renew didn't work today.
Anyway, I've updated my information and we should be good to go.
Be on the lookout for an email from Mom and Dad about paying for the website in the future.
Meanwhile, I can give you a little update on what's up here. Preparations are well in hand for Stevie's half birthday. Laurel's planning on baking him a half cake to be served at a small gathering in his honor this weekend.
In other news, I love the games page. Great idea. Great work.
Texas report
Here are all the latest updates from the southern branch of Insanity Inc. Let's start with Bryan - He's perfectly fine after cracking his head a couple weeks ago, and we've signed him up for t-ball. They're supposed to call us back when they're ready to start forming the teams. Today we found that both Bryan and Brooke have head lice. So she's home from school today, and we're going through the shampoo treatments. Brooke is doing really well is school and girl scouts. Her troop went to the science museum last weekend. Oh, by the way, the we'll get the girl scout cookies this week.
I'm taking this week off frrom work. Actually, I did go to work Monday, but only for a field trip. I went with a few others out to Cameron TX - about a three hour drive - to tour the oil rig there. The rest of the week I'm taking vacation days just because I was getting close to the max and wouldn't be able to accumulate any more. I'm using this time to get all the stuff done that I never have time to do, like renewing my drivers license, maintenance on the moped, cleaning out the back of my closet, and stuff like that. Michelle's niece is having her birthday party on Saturday in Killeen (which is close to Cameron) so we're planning to make it a sightseeing trip as well, probably to Brenham. Michelle has a cold this week, and I think I've got just a touch of it too.
I'm the one that's been updating the games, Mom. I tried to post a comment about it a couple days ago, but blogger was being stupid. Anyway, you're welcome. I've just been adding one or two once every couple of days.
I think that's all from us. We're always happy to hear from everyone, so call us, email us, and whatever.
I'm taking this week off frrom work. Actually, I did go to work Monday, but only for a field trip. I went with a few others out to Cameron TX - about a three hour drive - to tour the oil rig there. The rest of the week I'm taking vacation days just because I was getting close to the max and wouldn't be able to accumulate any more. I'm using this time to get all the stuff done that I never have time to do, like renewing my drivers license, maintenance on the moped, cleaning out the back of my closet, and stuff like that. Michelle's niece is having her birthday party on Saturday in Killeen (which is close to Cameron) so we're planning to make it a sightseeing trip as well, probably to Brenham. Michelle has a cold this week, and I think I've got just a touch of it too.
I'm the one that's been updating the games, Mom. I tried to post a comment about it a couple days ago, but blogger was being stupid. Anyway, you're welcome. I've just been adding one or two once every couple of days.
I think that's all from us. We're always happy to hear from everyone, so call us, email us, and whatever.
empty nesters
Well, Mom and Dad? How does it feel to have the house ALL to yourselves after 34 1/2 years? Are you bored without us there yet? Or are you finally able to focus on some of your own projects instead of worrying about all of ours?
We've been sick around here for about 3 weeks now - Adam and I are taking turns. Adam had the flu, and now I have a really bad head cold. Thankfully, Summer has gotten neither. Hopefully things will clear out now that the weather is getting warmer.
We've had a weird winter. December was so warm - we didn't even wear coats, just sweaters. A couple of days before Christmas, it was about 70 degrees. Then in January, the temperature plummeted down to the 20s in just a couple of days, and stayed there (and the wind chill dropped it into the single digits). It snowed a bunch of times, and we had a huge ice storm last week. This past weekend, the temperature took another jump back up to about 50 degrees and it's supposed to stay there for at least the 10-day forecast. More mild weather would be nice.
We had Tawnia here for a couple of days before her work conference downtown (and now she's at her really nice hotel). We didn't do much because of my being sick, but did go to the zoo and had a nice visit. Summer figured out how to clap her hands while Tawnia was here - it's very cute. Tawnia took lots of pictures, which she's going to have to email to me when she gets home and downloads.
We've been sick around here for about 3 weeks now - Adam and I are taking turns. Adam had the flu, and now I have a really bad head cold. Thankfully, Summer has gotten neither. Hopefully things will clear out now that the weather is getting warmer.
We've had a weird winter. December was so warm - we didn't even wear coats, just sweaters. A couple of days before Christmas, it was about 70 degrees. Then in January, the temperature plummeted down to the 20s in just a couple of days, and stayed there (and the wind chill dropped it into the single digits). It snowed a bunch of times, and we had a huge ice storm last week. This past weekend, the temperature took another jump back up to about 50 degrees and it's supposed to stay there for at least the 10-day forecast. More mild weather would be nice.
We had Tawnia here for a couple of days before her work conference downtown (and now she's at her really nice hotel). We didn't do much because of my being sick, but did go to the zoo and had a nice visit. Summer figured out how to clap her hands while Tawnia was here - it's very cute. Tawnia took lots of pictures, which she's going to have to email to me when she gets home and downloads.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
What's New
I updated my What's New page. I also want to thank whoever has been adding to the game page. We still have several games we need to put up the rules for. I found some rules for 10,000 and added them. The timeline is looking good. I need to go through and add more pictures to it. Manda, you're getting bigger, which means that Joshua is growing. Clarissa said you should finish the series with a picture of you in the same outfit, holding baby Joshua.
Is it time again for a new question?
Love ya,
MOM
(Dad says "Hi.")
Is it time again for a new question?
Love ya,
MOM
(Dad says "Hi.")
Friday, February 16, 2007
Look how big my tummy is!!
Hi everyone,
I'm going to sleep now, but I just wanted to let everyone know that Nathan put another picture of me with my big fat belly on the site :c) It was taken about an hour ago!
Love you all,
Manda
I'm going to sleep now, but I just wanted to let everyone know that Nathan put another picture of me with my big fat belly on the site :c) It was taken about an hour ago!
Love you all,
Manda
They made me do it.
I had to sign up for the new blogger in order to get on tonight. Before, I could always use the old one but not this time.
Tomorrow morning we're heading southward, taking Clarissa to California for her new adventure. Pray that the weather will be good to us.
I also wanted to let you know that I answered the movie question a few days ago. I know Jared saw it but I'm not sure who else has.
Thanks, Trina for the adorable pictures of Summer. I wish I was going back to see her, too. I'm glad that Tawnia can go and visit you guys and I hope she gets to see Emily while she's back there.
Clarissa commented that her High School graduation was accidentally deleted from the timeline. She graduated June 6, 2004, so maybe when Nate made the upgrades he missed that one. Good job on the upgrades Nate. Thanks for adding the pictures. I'm working on getting more up there, too.
I also enjoyed Jared's birthday pictures and Mindy's new drawing. I noticed that a few more games have been added to the list, but where are the rules to them? If you want me to add pictures or backgrounds, email me the rules and I'll put them up. Should we add a new category to the game list? Car Games. Some of them , like the Song Game or 20 Questions could be moved to that list. Or would there be enough to make a list?
I need to get to bed so I can get a little sleep before we leave.
Love ya,
MOM
Tomorrow morning we're heading southward, taking Clarissa to California for her new adventure. Pray that the weather will be good to us.
I also wanted to let you know that I answered the movie question a few days ago. I know Jared saw it but I'm not sure who else has.
Thanks, Trina for the adorable pictures of Summer. I wish I was going back to see her, too. I'm glad that Tawnia can go and visit you guys and I hope she gets to see Emily while she's back there.
Clarissa commented that her High School graduation was accidentally deleted from the timeline. She graduated June 6, 2004, so maybe when Nate made the upgrades he missed that one. Good job on the upgrades Nate. Thanks for adding the pictures. I'm working on getting more up there, too.
I also enjoyed Jared's birthday pictures and Mindy's new drawing. I noticed that a few more games have been added to the list, but where are the rules to them? If you want me to add pictures or backgrounds, email me the rules and I'll put them up. Should we add a new category to the game list? Car Games. Some of them , like the Song Game or 20 Questions could be moved to that list. Or would there be enough to make a list?
I need to get to bed so I can get a little sleep before we leave.
Love ya,
MOM
timeline again
I went ahead and finished up the timeline through today. If I missed anything or anything is wrong please do not hesitate to change it. I know that this is being beat into your heads but please remember to always copy it anew when changing anything because I delete it off of my hard drive each time incase something has been changed.
Nathan
Nathan
another drawing
Just a little message to let you know I have another new drawing up on my page. I should just let you find them for yourself, but I get so excited about them that I want to share. And I changed it so you'll go straight to my artwork section, because that's the only thing getting updated these days.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
timeline
Hello everyone. I added four more years to the timeline so if you want to change anything make sure you copy the new stuff I added. I hope I got all the ages and anniversary numbers correct.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
A Post by Eric
Hello my beloved family. I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted. I've been an avid reader, and I keep meaning to post, but I never can quite get to it. But here I am.
There's just so much to respond to. I liked Nathan's long post from yesterday. I could "amen" most of it, except maybe the staple remover bit. I also have a youtube page: www.youtube.com/ericpalmer.
I loved Mindy and Tawnia's tap dancing video as well. I'm working on a video response.
The big news of the weekend is that I finished the Beers Reunion DVD. Only problem is, I haven't been able to burn a good copy of it yet. I'm not sure if the problems I'm having are with my PC or with the disc, but I have some troubleshooting to do.
The other big news is that Laurel and I attended the PBR on Friday night at the Honda Center. That's professional bull riding. It was pretty darn awesome. Lots of bulls bucking off cowboys.
Laurel is pregnant and still in the early stages so she's pretty sick. I went with her a few weeks ago and saw the little guy in the ultrasound. He/she was taking a snooze, unlike Stevie when I saw him at 12 weeks. He was swimming around like a little frog in there.
I'm excited for Amanda and Nathan. You have a lot of wonderful days ahead.
I'm glad to hear that Adam is doing better. I'm sad you were so sick.
I'm also glad that Bryan is okay.
I'm excited for Clarissa. We talked on your birthday and now you're almost on your way, earlier than planned. Why not? You'll do great. I'm really proud of you.
And Emily is writing a paper on US-China relations, which is pretty awesome. Call me if you need more help choosing a topic Emily, but I hope our conversation helped.
Let's see... I'll probably be seeing Trina and Adam and Summer next month if I actually do travel to Virginia for work.
Mom and Dad, I love you and I'm glad Dad is willing to let Mom come for what is hopefully a long time before the baby is born.
I think there was more I was supposed to write but I didn't really prepare an outline or anything, and it's getting pretty late. I was interupted in writing this when our friends Ben and Katie came by with their 2-month old daughter Ruby. She's really sweet. Stevie loved her so much he wanted to grab her face.
Talk to you later!
Eric
There's just so much to respond to. I liked Nathan's long post from yesterday. I could "amen" most of it, except maybe the staple remover bit. I also have a youtube page: www.youtube.com/ericpalmer.
I loved Mindy and Tawnia's tap dancing video as well. I'm working on a video response.
The big news of the weekend is that I finished the Beers Reunion DVD. Only problem is, I haven't been able to burn a good copy of it yet. I'm not sure if the problems I'm having are with my PC or with the disc, but I have some troubleshooting to do.
The other big news is that Laurel and I attended the PBR on Friday night at the Honda Center. That's professional bull riding. It was pretty darn awesome. Lots of bulls bucking off cowboys.
Laurel is pregnant and still in the early stages so she's pretty sick. I went with her a few weeks ago and saw the little guy in the ultrasound. He/she was taking a snooze, unlike Stevie when I saw him at 12 weeks. He was swimming around like a little frog in there.
I'm excited for Amanda and Nathan. You have a lot of wonderful days ahead.
I'm glad to hear that Adam is doing better. I'm sad you were so sick.
I'm also glad that Bryan is okay.
I'm excited for Clarissa. We talked on your birthday and now you're almost on your way, earlier than planned. Why not? You'll do great. I'm really proud of you.
And Emily is writing a paper on US-China relations, which is pretty awesome. Call me if you need more help choosing a topic Emily, but I hope our conversation helped.
Let's see... I'll probably be seeing Trina and Adam and Summer next month if I actually do travel to Virginia for work.
Mom and Dad, I love you and I'm glad Dad is willing to let Mom come for what is hopefully a long time before the baby is born.
I think there was more I was supposed to write but I didn't really prepare an outline or anything, and it's getting pretty late. I was interupted in writing this when our friends Ben and Katie came by with their 2-month old daughter Ruby. She's really sweet. Stevie loved her so much he wanted to grab her face.
Talk to you later!
Eric
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
wait a minute
Brooke is selling Girl Scout cookies? And Nathan bought some? When were you planning to tell the rest of us so WE could buy some? I've never bought Girl Scout cookies - I've always mooched off other people. But I would buy them from Brooke.
Friday
Hello, family. Well, another week is coming to an end. So today, I had a couple of classes -- though in German we spent the whole time looking at slides of Austria. Friday will become culture day in German class.
We had our weekly forum. This time our speaker was Ron Carter -- he wrote the Revolutionary War "Prelude to Glory" series, so he told us lots of tidbits of information. I've only read the first two or three books, and there's a total of nine. Tonight I'm going to a concert with music based on that series. There is also going to be the annual SVU Idol.
Snow is still covering the ground, so it's a little difficult going up and down the hill. So I usually stay up on campus for a while; I do some studying in the library or something. I always have studying. I plan on spending the weekend going over the stack of books I checked on on America's foriegn relations with China. I need to find a topic for my paper.
We had our weekly forum. This time our speaker was Ron Carter -- he wrote the Revolutionary War "Prelude to Glory" series, so he told us lots of tidbits of information. I've only read the first two or three books, and there's a total of nine. Tonight I'm going to a concert with music based on that series. There is also going to be the annual SVU Idol.
Snow is still covering the ground, so it's a little difficult going up and down the hill. So I usually stay up on campus for a while; I do some studying in the library or something. I always have studying. I plan on spending the weekend going over the stack of books I checked on on America's foriegn relations with China. I need to find a topic for my paper.
What's up with me
I didn't mean for this post to get as long as it is. Highlights: There a some personal notes to people and a link to my youtube channel which has more videos and hopefully more to come.
Well on Wednesday Amanda and I went to our first birthing class. We got to watch a video of ladies going through the labor process and then giving birth. Our the memories of Junior health. We also went over different exercises and some breathing techniques. We still have three more weeks. And the classes are each three hours long.
Yesterday I got a phone call from the director of A Few Good Men, the last Gallery play I was in, and he wanted to know if I could do a part for him again in the Foriegner (a funny play that I would love to do). I actually would have tried out for this play had I not been having a baby. Now he is asking me to be in it without trying out? The temptation is great but the play starts in April and so maybe if it paid or if he could get an understudy to do it for the entire run of the show. I just wish they were doing it at a different time of the pregnancy. Either before or after. so I have to call him back because he left a message.
I posted a couple of videos yesterday. I then I posted a couple more. Check them out. They are teasers of what's to come. Here is the link www.youtube.com/skipdipdawg. I hope that you enjoy them. Share them with your friends. They might not like them as much though. You guys are family and have to like them.
The job search continues. I didn't want to go back to Capitol Honda and wash cars, though I could have, so I turned that job down. Sorry mom, I know you wanted me closer. As soon as Clarissa moves out we'll move in so you guys won't be lonely. No we won't. I have another offer doing manual labor for a guy in our church which doesn't sound too exciting but I might do that until I find something else. He owns a tile business.
So on to you guys. Adam, I am sorry that you have been sick and that you had to go to the emergency room. I have done that twice in the last year and had the IV stuck in me. I know exactly what you mean about wanting to stay there. Especially once the stuff is running through your veins and they put those heated blankets on you. Comfy. Then they kick you out because someone else needs the room. Lame. Anyway, I hope you get better soon. That Europe adventure sounds great Trina. I guess my question is how many kids do you plan on having and taking with you and how young will the youngest be? As if you know. But depending on how long you plan on being gone I would suggest getting a decent place to stay intermittently so that way you could be comfprtable sometimes and have a definate place to stay sometimes. But that might hold you back too much. Just a thought.
Clarissa, good luck with the move. I hope that you have room for everything that you want to take. I hope that you get everything out of this experience that you are hoping to get. don't come back to live with Mom and Dad ever. Even if you have to live on the street. Just kidding.
Mindy and Tawnia, I loved the tap dancing video. Wish Miss Provo good luck from Mr. and Mrs. skipdipdawg. I hope you guys continue the dancing stuff. And I know it doesn't mean a lot coming from your brother but you ladies are both beautiful and I could tell the difference between the two of you.
Brooke, I hope that you sold the most out of state cookies. I can't wait to get our order and eat them all in one night. Except then I would get sick. So I won't do that. Besides, Amanda is here and pregnant so she'll eat at least half of them. How is Bryan doing? He got staples in his head right? Do doctors just use staple removers to get those out? Again Jared, I am sorry for that email. I really thought you hadn't gotten the first one. Michelle, I hope that your football team won the superbowl, but i don't remember who you were cheering for nor who won. I didn't watch this year. Amanda and I went bird watching.
Eric and Laurel, one of my favorite lines was "Sorry, baby. Sometimes I just respond to yelling." I thought that was pretty good.
Emily, be careful in the snow and ice. Walk slowly and with people so that if you slip and fall you can pull someone down with you. I'll send you a video of what happens when people don't know how to drive on ice. In reality no one should have been driving on this ice.
Again, sorry for the long post. Maybe you guys should have read it in installments such as bed time stories to your kids. If there are spelling errors I am sorry some of the time I wasn't looking and it's not like I am going to read through this thing looking for them.
Nathan
Well on Wednesday Amanda and I went to our first birthing class. We got to watch a video of ladies going through the labor process and then giving birth. Our the memories of Junior health. We also went over different exercises and some breathing techniques. We still have three more weeks. And the classes are each three hours long.
Yesterday I got a phone call from the director of A Few Good Men, the last Gallery play I was in, and he wanted to know if I could do a part for him again in the Foriegner (a funny play that I would love to do). I actually would have tried out for this play had I not been having a baby. Now he is asking me to be in it without trying out? The temptation is great but the play starts in April and so maybe if it paid or if he could get an understudy to do it for the entire run of the show. I just wish they were doing it at a different time of the pregnancy. Either before or after. so I have to call him back because he left a message.
I posted a couple of videos yesterday. I then I posted a couple more. Check them out. They are teasers of what's to come. Here is the link www.youtube.com/skipdipdawg. I hope that you enjoy them. Share them with your friends. They might not like them as much though. You guys are family and have to like them.
The job search continues. I didn't want to go back to Capitol Honda and wash cars, though I could have, so I turned that job down. Sorry mom, I know you wanted me closer. As soon as Clarissa moves out we'll move in so you guys won't be lonely. No we won't. I have another offer doing manual labor for a guy in our church which doesn't sound too exciting but I might do that until I find something else. He owns a tile business.
So on to you guys. Adam, I am sorry that you have been sick and that you had to go to the emergency room. I have done that twice in the last year and had the IV stuck in me. I know exactly what you mean about wanting to stay there. Especially once the stuff is running through your veins and they put those heated blankets on you. Comfy. Then they kick you out because someone else needs the room. Lame. Anyway, I hope you get better soon. That Europe adventure sounds great Trina. I guess my question is how many kids do you plan on having and taking with you and how young will the youngest be? As if you know. But depending on how long you plan on being gone I would suggest getting a decent place to stay intermittently so that way you could be comfprtable sometimes and have a definate place to stay sometimes. But that might hold you back too much. Just a thought.
Clarissa, good luck with the move. I hope that you have room for everything that you want to take. I hope that you get everything out of this experience that you are hoping to get. don't come back to live with Mom and Dad ever. Even if you have to live on the street. Just kidding.
Mindy and Tawnia, I loved the tap dancing video. Wish Miss Provo good luck from Mr. and Mrs. skipdipdawg. I hope you guys continue the dancing stuff. And I know it doesn't mean a lot coming from your brother but you ladies are both beautiful and I could tell the difference between the two of you.
Brooke, I hope that you sold the most out of state cookies. I can't wait to get our order and eat them all in one night. Except then I would get sick. So I won't do that. Besides, Amanda is here and pregnant so she'll eat at least half of them. How is Bryan doing? He got staples in his head right? Do doctors just use staple removers to get those out? Again Jared, I am sorry for that email. I really thought you hadn't gotten the first one. Michelle, I hope that your football team won the superbowl, but i don't remember who you were cheering for nor who won. I didn't watch this year. Amanda and I went bird watching.
Eric and Laurel, one of my favorite lines was "Sorry, baby. Sometimes I just respond to yelling." I thought that was pretty good.
Emily, be careful in the snow and ice. Walk slowly and with people so that if you slip and fall you can pull someone down with you. I'll send you a video of what happens when people don't know how to drive on ice. In reality no one should have been driving on this ice.
Again, sorry for the long post. Maybe you guys should have read it in installments such as bed time stories to your kids. If there are spelling errors I am sorry some of the time I wasn't looking and it's not like I am going to read through this thing looking for them.
Nathan
Thursday, February 08, 2007
I'm not dead yet.
As some of you may heard, I'm not dead yet. I spent several wonderful hours in the ER yesterday being treated for dehydration from the flu. I never thought that I would say this, but I actually was quite comfortable for the last hour or so there and didn't want to leave. I mean, after being nauseous and very sick for most of the day, who wouldn't want to be hooked up to a wonderful IV bag w/ anti-nauseous medication flowing into your veins. So anyway, we got home late last night and Trina, being the superstar that she is, went out and got my prescription filled at midnight. Ain't she the greatest! So I'll be in bed for the next few days.
Adam
Adam
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Snow
Last night, we must have gotten two inches of snow, so now there's a nice layer of it all over campus. Classes are still taking place, but only half the people showed up in my British history class, and I don't know if the ballet teacher is going to make it out here. I slipped while heading up the hill. It's cold, powdery snow, not good for building snowmen or anything.
Classes are keeping me very busy, you know. I spent about six hours reading assignments for my diplomatic history class, and I still haven't gone through the huge stacks of books I've checked out so I can figure out what to do for my term papers. I'll have to write two. We had a test in German yesterday.
Classes are keeping me very busy, you know. I spent about six hours reading assignments for my diplomatic history class, and I still haven't gone through the huge stacks of books I've checked out so I can figure out what to do for my term papers. I'll have to write two. We had a test in German yesterday.
Monday, February 05, 2007
12 days and counting...
Well, I'm moving to California. Instead of leaving March 29, I'm leaving February 17. The next few days will be a mad rush of packing. Dad and Mom are driving me down.
Trina, you didn't want that bookcase anymore did you?
Trina, you didn't want that bookcase anymore did you?
Sunday, February 04, 2007
The day has arrived
I am a father... I mean we put our pictures and journal up from our Europe Adventure. If you click on our pictures link it will show you the way.
the end
the end
Tap Dance Video
With the recent surge of YouTube movies from our family, and the need to subcribe to it because of Eric's movie, I decided it was time to add my own movie. A friend took a video of Tawnia and I at our dance recital. The quality isn't very good, and you might have to turn the volume up to actually hear it, but you can get the basic idea of what we danced like. You can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7viDt1JX1GY
I'm glad to hear Bryan is okay. Both Tawnia and I combined haven't been to the emergency room as many times as he has, and he's only four!
I'm glad to hear Bryan is okay. Both Tawnia and I combined haven't been to the emergency room as many times as he has, and he's only four!
Bryan is OK
This morning at church, Bryan was sitting on the back of the bench and flipped off backwards and hit his head. We called the paramedics and they took him to the hospital where he had two staples put in. He was really scared and hurting at first, but calmed down during the ambulance ride and he did really great when they were treating him. He's all fine now, and he'll get the staples out sometime next week.
In other news, I did indeed have a happy birthday. We went out for lunch, and then shopping for birthday presents. Michelle and her parents got me the latest Star Wars book, Brooke got me a candle, a teddy bear, and Men in Black II, and Bryan got me a puzzle and a huge Charleston Chew. I also got the Happy Birthday song several times (yes, including the one on the machine from Tawnia and Mindy).
As for the timeline thing, I know I'm still missing lots of information. Trina's got the right idea - if you see something missing, either fix it up yourself or have me, or somebody else, fix it for you. And like Mom said, make sure you update the current version (in case somebody else just updated the same page). As for the missing years, I'll try to populate the rest of them some time this week. And I'll add the info Trina gave me. I want to include not only graduations but also anytime someone started a new school - ie, middle school, high school, new colleges, etc. Basically, any major life changes. If you want to include job changes yo can, but I won't - I've had way too many to count, and so it would be more significant to me to have a second year on a job than a first.
Anywho, there's the news from us. I'm older, and Bryan is OK. Have a nice day!
In other news, I did indeed have a happy birthday. We went out for lunch, and then shopping for birthday presents. Michelle and her parents got me the latest Star Wars book, Brooke got me a candle, a teddy bear, and Men in Black II, and Bryan got me a puzzle and a huge Charleston Chew. I also got the Happy Birthday song several times (yes, including the one on the machine from Tawnia and Mindy).
As for the timeline thing, I know I'm still missing lots of information. Trina's got the right idea - if you see something missing, either fix it up yourself or have me, or somebody else, fix it for you. And like Mom said, make sure you update the current version (in case somebody else just updated the same page). As for the missing years, I'll try to populate the rest of them some time this week. And I'll add the info Trina gave me. I want to include not only graduations but also anytime someone started a new school - ie, middle school, high school, new colleges, etc. Basically, any major life changes. If you want to include job changes yo can, but I won't - I've had way too many to count, and so it would be more significant to me to have a second year on a job than a first.
Anywho, there's the news from us. I'm older, and Bryan is OK. Have a nice day!
timeline additions
Hey Jared - The timeline looks cool! Thanks for putting that together! A couple of corrections for you:
1980 - I was actually baptized in November, not October. (Nov. 1)
1982 - Adam Caudle was born on June 25 in Gainesville, Florida. I noticed you don't have Amanda on there either, but I don't know what year or where she was born. 1983?
Can't wait to see what you put on the remaining years!! For future reference, since I don't know if you know this, Tawnia and I walked in our college graduation ceremonies in the spring of 2001, but both of our official graduation dates were December 2000. (Utah State, Elementary Education. Western Oregon University, Social Science.) I think we even finished on the same day, within a couple of hours of each other. Also, Adam completed his Bachelor's degree at Georgetown University in December 2005 (Sociology and Government), and began law school at American University in August 2006.
We're doing well here. Summer is scooting around in her army crawl and babbling like there's no tomorrow. She's starting to pull up on things. Adam is super busy with school - he has another moot court thing this month. The writing is due on Feb. 13 and the oral arguments are Feb. 24. This is the competition to get on the team - he won the 1L (first year) competition a couple of weeks ago, so he should make the team pretty easily. I'm staying busy with studying - I'm into the 700-some audio files now - and general household and Relief Society things.
Also, we're starting to talk about moving in May. We need to get into a 2-bedroom place. There's really nothing we can afford in the city, so it looks like we're headed a little bit north up to Rockville, Maryland. It's still on the Metro line - it would only be 6 stops for Adam to school. (It's 9 stops from here to downtown where we were working.) I found a complex listing online that I want to look at - dishwasher, patio, decent parking, and a POOL!!! All the more reason to move in May instead of waiting until August ... Plus I want to get a big planter pot for the patio and put a couple of tomato bushes in it.
1980 - I was actually baptized in November, not October. (Nov. 1)
1982 - Adam Caudle was born on June 25 in Gainesville, Florida. I noticed you don't have Amanda on there either, but I don't know what year or where she was born. 1983?
Can't wait to see what you put on the remaining years!! For future reference, since I don't know if you know this, Tawnia and I walked in our college graduation ceremonies in the spring of 2001, but both of our official graduation dates were December 2000. (Utah State, Elementary Education. Western Oregon University, Social Science.) I think we even finished on the same day, within a couple of hours of each other. Also, Adam completed his Bachelor's degree at Georgetown University in December 2005 (Sociology and Government), and began law school at American University in August 2006.
We're doing well here. Summer is scooting around in her army crawl and babbling like there's no tomorrow. She's starting to pull up on things. Adam is super busy with school - he has another moot court thing this month. The writing is due on Feb. 13 and the oral arguments are Feb. 24. This is the competition to get on the team - he won the 1L (first year) competition a couple of weeks ago, so he should make the team pretty easily. I'm staying busy with studying - I'm into the 700-some audio files now - and general household and Relief Society things.
Also, we're starting to talk about moving in May. We need to get into a 2-bedroom place. There's really nothing we can afford in the city, so it looks like we're headed a little bit north up to Rockville, Maryland. It's still on the Metro line - it would only be 6 stops for Adam to school. (It's 9 stops from here to downtown where we were working.) I found a complex listing online that I want to look at - dishwasher, patio, decent parking, and a POOL!!! All the more reason to move in May instead of waiting until August ... Plus I want to get a big planter pot for the patio and put a couple of tomato bushes in it.
Videos, etc.
I was hoping that Eric would reinvite me to view his cute Stevie videos. I got to see them because Mindy showed me, but then I accidentally erased my invitation to view them. The invite went to my junk mail and as I was deleting my junk mail I saw it was there.... but I'd already hit delete. Blast! So I'd like you to reinvite me and I'll try not to delete it this time! Thanks.
Jared has been bugging me about the video of Mindy and I tap dancing. I guess I'll put it on if I join youtube... for private viewing only that is.
Mindy was saying that she wanted to see video of Stevie walking... well in a dream I had last night Summer was walking. I think I'm getting excited for my trip to D.C. I doubt Summer will be walking by then, but you never know.
I hope that Emily is at least reading these posts, even though she is struggling with getting to post on the sites.
I think Michelle is cool too.
Mindy and I thought of a game to add on to the game page -- Huckle Buckle Beansnitch. Or however you spell that.
I like the timeline idea Jared has put up, but I think it should have pictures.
Have we thought of making our website passworded, so that not everyone in the world can see it. I just think sometimes that the entire world doesn't need to know this much about our family, though why anyone out in cyberspace would take the time to read our family blog, I don't know, but... yeah... passwording is a good way to make things private.
Okay... that's enough random stuff from me.
Happy Birthday Jared. Did you get the message from Mindy and me?
-Tawnia
Jared has been bugging me about the video of Mindy and I tap dancing. I guess I'll put it on if I join youtube... for private viewing only that is.
Mindy was saying that she wanted to see video of Stevie walking... well in a dream I had last night Summer was walking. I think I'm getting excited for my trip to D.C. I doubt Summer will be walking by then, but you never know.
I hope that Emily is at least reading these posts, even though she is struggling with getting to post on the sites.
I think Michelle is cool too.
Mindy and I thought of a game to add on to the game page -- Huckle Buckle Beansnitch. Or however you spell that.
I like the timeline idea Jared has put up, but I think it should have pictures.
Have we thought of making our website passworded, so that not everyone in the world can see it. I just think sometimes that the entire world doesn't need to know this much about our family, though why anyone out in cyberspace would take the time to read our family blog, I don't know, but... yeah... passwording is a good way to make things private.
Okay... that's enough random stuff from me.
Happy Birthday Jared. Did you get the message from Mindy and me?
-Tawnia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JARED!!!
I totally forgot to post a birthday wish for you until now. Sorry about that. I hope that when you went back to work tonight that you did take the car and that the test was a success. Have fun being 31 and share those lemonade cookies with your wife. Unless she doesn't want any.
Nathan
Nathan
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Michelle is cool!
Just hadda hava title. I am doing well. Same-o, same-o. I got tons of housework, but having fun today sound, well, like more fun. I will have to make sure Jared has a happy birthday. So far he has celebrated by going to working very early, then coming back home by 8:30 and going to sleep. Party on! Kids are great. Both love reading. Bryan is into Curious George and Magic School bus right now. Brooke is reading full novels now like Annette, Heidi, The Black Stallion, Sand Dune Poney, and Julie B. Jones. They are also into video games, no suprise. We obtained an old Sega Genesis. Pretty cool. I'm finding the games at pawns shop for about $3 each. Also, the individually own video store and the corner has a few to rent out. Cool beans. My stomach hurts this morning, bleh-unfortunate side effect that I occasionally get from one of my medications. Seems to happen if I don't take it at exactly 24 intervals. Huzzah!
The groundhog saw his shadow yesterday. To early spring, I say bring it on. I even had to get out a jacket this week. Whoa. I didn't read the sisters blog, but I did read Adam's post. Instead of looking up Luddite, I had to look up pervasive. Pervasive mean spread throughout. I suppose that it rains on both the good and the bad. Pervasive internet is spread thoughout the honest and upright, as well as the dishonest and criminal. Pervasive internet is a great technology that benefits individual user, medical sector, businesses, machine 2 machine, and others. Of course that also means more vulnerablity and risk of infilteration. I believe that you gotta protect yourself. Use common sense. Unfortunately, there will always be those with ill intentions no matter what the circumstance. It is their fault this is even an issue. Let's "Take all the rope in Texas find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys and hang 'em high in the street for all the people to see." Then we'll "raise up out glasses agains evil forces, whiskey for my men, beer for my horses"Toby Keith. As far as influential movies, I would pick Jerry Maguire. "I love the man he want to be and the man he almost is." It is a great movie, check it out. it is all about inspiration, love, and what really mattters. And who doesn't love football. Root for the bears tomorrow! Super Bowl Sunday! Yeah!!!!
The groundhog saw his shadow yesterday. To early spring, I say bring it on. I even had to get out a jacket this week. Whoa. I didn't read the sisters blog, but I did read Adam's post. Instead of looking up Luddite, I had to look up pervasive. Pervasive mean spread throughout. I suppose that it rains on both the good and the bad. Pervasive internet is spread thoughout the honest and upright, as well as the dishonest and criminal. Pervasive internet is a great technology that benefits individual user, medical sector, businesses, machine 2 machine, and others. Of course that also means more vulnerablity and risk of infilteration. I believe that you gotta protect yourself. Use common sense. Unfortunately, there will always be those with ill intentions no matter what the circumstance. It is their fault this is even an issue. Let's "Take all the rope in Texas find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys and hang 'em high in the street for all the people to see." Then we'll "raise up out glasses agains evil forces, whiskey for my men, beer for my horses"Toby Keith. As far as influential movies, I would pick Jerry Maguire. "I love the man he want to be and the man he almost is." It is a great movie, check it out. it is all about inspiration, love, and what really mattters. And who doesn't love football. Root for the bears tomorrow! Super Bowl Sunday! Yeah!!!!
Friday, February 02, 2007
a new topic for discussion (kinda)
Okay. So I'm a little behind. I read Emily's post on the Sister's Blog today. (Why is it called the "Sister's Blog" if everyone reads it?) It stirred the pot in my head and a question popped out. How/what does everyone feel/think about the pervasive use of the Internet and/or privacy concerns about the Internet(s if you're George Bush.) ? It seems that we have Luddite in one corner and the technogeeks in the other. So what's up?
Adam
Adam
I did it
Yesterday I was practically forced to switch to the new blogger sign-in thing. It offers you the option of signing into the new blogger or old blogger, but in reality makes you sign up with google when you try to sign up with old blogger. At least that is what I found. I will try to sign in with Amanda's account and see if she can still sign in with the old one. I am writing this after having read Emily's blog. I think the trouble came for me when I first signed over to the google sign-in way. Today I had no trouble at all. And Emily, I don't think you have to worry about google search engines taking over the world. I know you don't trust them but I think we are safe from a googlopolis. Unless of course you are worried about the cyber world. we could be in grave danger...
Nathan
Nathan
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Updated, again
I know I know, another little message from me, saying that I've added more art. This time it's on the fourth row down (or eight, if the rows don't go all the way across on your screen), far right. It's something that I've been working on for a few days, and it's completely different from anything I've done before. I did it entirely in Photoshop, and I'm very excited about it. I think it looks great, and I'm pretty proud of myself. Let me know what you think!
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