"I'll take care of this!"

Sunday morning Julie made breakfast. Actually for the last week Julie has been working on Sunday morning breakfast. She got a recipe for a dish called "French Toast Casserole". For the last week she has been collecting the ingredients she needed and spent saturday night preparing everything. All she had to do was through it in the oven and enjoy a nice relaxing gourmet Sunday morning before church. ( Well that was the plan anyway) With a triumphant look on her face she pulled the dish from the oven. It smelled fantastic and looked even better.

She called the boys to assemble for breakfast and layed out plates on the table. Will was the first on the scene. With a crinkled nose he declared "I'm not eating that!" John following Wills lead and declared that it was "Yucky". In a calm and rational voice (Maybe) it was explained to them that this was breakfast and if they wanted to eat today they would eat this.

John was crying, Will was frantic, Julie was loosing her "rope". Panic had entered into our peaceful Sunday morning. While Julie was explaining to John that he could remove the nuts from the top if he didn't like them Will declared loudly as he came out of the pantry, "I'll take care of this!" He quickly made his way to the stove that the pan was resting on and raised a bottle of Windex and was about squirt it on to the food. Fortunately Julie caught him and did not allow him to sabotage our food. I can not decribe how I felt. I have never been more infuriated yet doubled over laughing at the same time. I guess Will was prepared to dive on the preverbial culinary hand grenade and take one for the whole family. That or he thought it would taste better with Windex.

By the time I left for prechurch meetings the boys had there faces buried in their plates and were declaring their mommies proficiency at Nom, Nom making. All was well again and we finally had our peace, but I doubt it lasted long.

Johnny's Blog

Last Saturday Johnny asked if he could take a few pictures with Julies new pocket camera. He loves taking pictures. She said "Sure, go ahead." He went outside for about a half an hour and came back with over 200 pictures on the sd card. My photo professor at ASU would have been proud.

Here are just a few that I liked;


Johns version of 'Blue Steel'.



I guess a tract home looks like a mansion when you are 4 feet tall.


The neighborhood.

I can understand taking a lot of pictures here. That is one pretty truck. That isn't glare from the sun. My truck just naturally radiates light.


At six years old he has already perfected the Facebook profile picture.


The End.

Hawaii Slide show

Aloha

Sooo, What did you do for spring break?.... Us? Oh, we just went to freakn' HAWAII!! We did it on the cheap. Julie's parents snuck us in in there luggage and we only ate dryer lint and star light the entire week.

Okay. Dryer lint and cheese burgers.


Super rare family photo. I was just combining teaching John how to swim and weld at the same time.



This is any effective pose for hiding my 2nd, third, and fourth chins. The fifth was already tucked into my shirt.

Both John and Will did amazing learning how to swim this week. Now they know enough to really be dangerous around water. They used to be scared of the water now they think they have it all figured out. We have to really watch them now.


Some of our favorite pictures.

I took this on the flight home. I loved the rainbow around the shadow of our plane on the clouds.

Work Stuff

Here is a project we worked on for several years.

Another Student-O-the month

You may remember last November Will was student of the month in his class. If you don't remember I will wait while you go back and read about it.........................You're back? Good! Well while we were so proud of will, we were equally concerned for John because he was devastated. Everything they got to that point they shared. This was one thing they could not share.


Last week we got a note that John was selected to be the student of the month for his class.

Here is John at the beginning of the awards ceremony. He was so nervous. I don't know if it was because we were there, or he was concerned that Will would win another award with out him.

Then they called his name!!!!


Then just as John was taking his medal and certificate from the principal this lady stood up in front of me.
Good job John!!!
This is the look of uncontainable pride we had been looking for.


BTW what do you think of the pictures? I just got a new camera.

My Kids are awesome. Do you want one?

I have been battling a pretty bad cold for the last 2 weeks, So when the opportunity came for me to leave work early yesterday and pick up the boys from school I took it. All I wanted to do was fall on the couch and take a nap. The boys wanted to watch TV so they went up stair to watch in our bedroom while I sprawled on the couch. Just as I was dozing off I hear Will yell from up stairs "Dad, The toilet is clogged!". " I'll fix it later." was my reply. A nice dry boring documentary was playing quietly on the History Channel about WWII British submariners. Perfect Nap inducing white noise.

Suddenly I awake to John shaking me about an hour later saying "The water is still running. What should we do?" That is a phrase that will definitely pull you from a sound snooze.

Have you ever seen a water ring on the out side of a bathtub? I have. I now know that my master bath can hold an inch and a half of water. But only for a little while.