Most Excited About

I am most exited about Califonia.It will be fun. We are going to swim in our grand mother and grandfather's pool, it will be fun.
P.S. The pool has a diving board.

Most Excited About

I'm most excited about the pool. It's BIG. It has a diving board, and toys. It'll be really fun.

California Dreaming

The crew is on it's way to Cali. We leave this morning and arrive sometime after midnight tonight, CA time. Just in time to lose another hour (or is it gain)?

Updates this week with some frequency, hopefully.

Still Blogging

Haven't updated in awhile, and there's lots to update. For now, though, Joel and Erika successfully passed for their Tae Kwon Do Red Belts. One more step and they'll be Blackbelts.

Aweeeeeee - A New Nephew

Tennessee Snow

Last night an impossible thing happened. It snowed in Tennessee! Dad's not very happy about it. Me and Erika are really excited about the snow day, though

If You Give A Cat An Airblower...

... she'll want to run and hide.
And if she runs and hides,
She won't eat.
And if she doesn't eat,
She will meow and meow incessantly.
And if she does that,
You want to put her in front of the airblower even more.

But I've been good. I moved her next door where it's peaceful.

Sarcasm Alert!

What a perfect way to end yesterday.

Snow.

Wheeeeeee.

This photo was taken late last night.

Thought we'd end up w/ a school cancellation today, but it was not to be. Disappointed kids.

Dry Land To Separate The Waters

4 of these dryers scattered throughout the apartment. The carpet's gotta go in 2 days, but they're drying the underlying surfaces.

Repair - Step Dos

Color me impressed with their progress. We may have a living space before it's all over.

Repair - Step Uno

Remove offending dripping ceiling.

Riddle Me This

What do you get when you add:

1 Part Plugged Up Toilet Upstairs

+

1 Part (Same) Toilet Stuck In Full-On State

+

1 Part Child Who Flushes And Then Goes To Bed


So that said toilet is free to run for a long time. Until the sounds from the following alerted said child...

New Baby

Dear World,
We have gotten a new baby cousin he is really cute. We will have some pictures but right now we don't. He grows really fast so he probably looks a little bit diffrent by now. His full name is Samuel Cooksie Johnson. He is right now at most about one month old. He has a lot of hair for a baby at his age. any way I got to go.
Sincerally,
Erika

Watch The Future

Incredible. Simply incredible.

Well worth watching this 10 minute YouTube of Jeff Han demo'ing how we will interface with computers in the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ

Brrrrrrr!

I thought this was why we moved to the south. I guess there is nowhere safe right now, though, so I shouldn't complain.

But I will.

(Erika would like it known that she made tonight's fire.)

Earrings

See my earrings?

Honors

I got honors in my report card. We had an assebally to give everyone a chance to be given a award and shake the princable's hand and stuff like that. And the parents can come to. And then the parents can take pictures and stuff. First through third grade can come. So that was a great day.

School Days

Joel's in 5th, Erika in 3rd. Both consider themselves very lucky to have the teachers they do this year. Joel has two, Ms. Nanny and Ms. Butler. If you feel the need to make a joke here, don't stop yourself... everyone does.

Erika has Mr. Reeser, the only male teacher at school. He seems to be the perfect 3rd grade teacher, at least from what I gather from Erika's growing descriptions of him.

New Year's Resolution

Following the chaos of the last few years, one of my New Year's Resolutions is to settle in to a nice, consistant pattern of keeping in touch with those I love, and those who love me and my crew.

This is Step 1 toward that goal. First couple of posts will probably be generalized updates, but after that you can expect all the consistant ramblings of a group of folk that make blogs bloggy.