Top Story:The AmazingWii
The Wii has many amazing features from the wireless controls, to the fun family games, to surfing the web! You tpye with an on screen keyboard were you click(A button) to select letters. Just another luxury of the Wii!!
Being reported from….the Wii!
02/21/2008 | jen | Comment [2]
I LOVE RUNNING!
Today I ran 5-1-8, for those (few) of you who are not running, that’s week 6 — session 1, run 5 minutes, walk 1 minute, 8 times.
Although the first 24 minutes wasn’t easy, it sure didn’t kill me. About halfway through I finally felt warmed up… started to look at the clouds… and drifted into the zone (which is a good thing)… calming endorphins… ah…
I listened to President Eyring and Elder Cook with my modified General Conference podcast. There just something about physical strains of running that opens the mind and heart to simple phrases and thoughts that I would otherwise forget, such as this quote from President Eyring’s talk:
“I wrote down a few lines every day for years. I never missed a day no matter how tired I was or how early I would have to start the next day. Before I would write, I would ponder this question: “Have I seen the hand of God reaching out to touch us or our children or our family today?” As I kept at it, something began to happen. As I would cast my mind over the day, I would see evidence of what God had done for one of us that I had not recognized in the busy moments of the day. As that happened, and it happened often, I realized that trying to remember had allowed God to show me what He had done.”
That’s something I need to do. Maybe this medium is a way to accomplish it. I’ll have to ponder that. Doug is a great albeit delayed example of this.
Anyways, I’m completely amazed that I was able to run 40 minutes with only 8 little one-minute breaks (and live to tell about it). I’m glad the next session is only 2-1-10. I’m still a slow runner (yes, that’s called a jogger), but my pace is improving and Lance Armstrong even told me I had my longest workout yet.
Photo courtesy of Doug.
02/21/2008 | hugh | Comment [4]
Prediction: Twitter
Tastes Kinda Minty will discover this new thing called Twitter in three years and thinks it’s the coolest thing since blogging. sojk
02/21/2008 | hugh | Comment [4]
Favorite Quote of the day
Found in a devotional address given at BYU-Idaho.
Ann Dibb daughter of President Monson.
“I’d like to share with you the most powerful testimony I’ve heard my father share. It was in his home ward during a sacrament meeting. He related his experience of going to the Holy Land, walking on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and walking where Jesus may have walked… Then he said, ‘I may have walked where Jesus once walked, but what is more important to me is that today, I can walk where Jesus would walk if he were still with us. I can listen to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and minister to those the Savior would minister to today,’” she said.
02/20/2008 | michele | Comment [1]
Family History
I’m getting ready to start working on family history again, which I’ve previously blogged about on family preserves.
Continue reading Family History...02/20/2008 | hugh | Comment [2]
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02/20/2008 | hugh | Comment [1]
Conversation with Quinan
Oops didn’t blog yesterday. I kept waiting around for something to blog about.About the most exciting thing that happened yesterday was this conversation with Quinan. I let him play Lego Star Wars for half an hour before quiet time. This conversation happened at the end of the half hour.
Mom: Quinan, time to turn Star Wars off
Quinan: One more minute mom
after one more minute
Mom: Quinan, time to turn Star Wars off
Quinan: After one more minute
one minute later
Mom: Come on Quinan quiet time
Quinan: one more minute
Mom: Quinan time to turn Star Wars off
Quinan: one more minute mom
Mom: Do you even know what one minute is?
Quinan: no
That made me laugh and he got an extra five minutes because I was laughing.
This morning I was looking at cnn.com and thought I saw Sarah on the front page! But after careful study with a magnifying glass i decided it wasn’t.
I think there is another element to blogging I should give a try because I rarely do it. I do it even less than posting. That is commenting. I don’t reply to comments left on our blog and I don’t comment on blogs I read. I think that might be a fun part of blogging. Maybe I will give that a try today.
02/20/2008 | michele | Comment [5]
Sweet Secrets?
Jen turns in her science project today, we are so excited for her.
02/19/2008 | jen | Comment [3]
Quinan relief at last
Well, I have found something that will keep Quinan occupied. Though unfortunately it is not the best of things. Ever since Quinan no longer stayed on the couch and moved all around he would never sit in any one place for more than about 7 seconds. I know because one day I spent the whole day timing him to see how long he could sit still before running off some place. There have been days when I would beg him to just sit for 20 minutes in front of the TV like every other normal kid in America. But he just couldn’t do it. So I have mixed emotions about his new hobby. It keeps him busy. Kept him busy for 3 hours today so I could help Jensen finish her science project (more about that below) But it is not the best hobby. He has discovered Lego Star Wars on the PlayStation. The amazing thing is he can actually play it. I can’t even figure out how to play it. So it is not good for a 3 year old to spend 3 hours on a video game and worse is when he did get off he was sword fighting everyone. And sword fighting like it was for real… he was in it to win and chop whoever walked in his path into pieces. But, Jensen did get to work on her project in peace so……
Science Project. This is our last one for a few years. YEA!!!! This year Jensen decided she wanted to see what ingredient in cookies affected the taste and looks the most. The over the past few weeks we have been making cookies and each time leaving out a different ingredient. What ingredient do you think affects cookies the most? Is it a different ingredient for looks than for taste? Leave your predictions and we will let you know tomorrow.
A couple of weeks ago my leg starting hurting. I don’t remember hurting it… I just noticed that it was hurting. I’m not even sure what hurts. I think it is the hip flexor are but not sure. Anyway, I kept exercising and running and it kept hurting. Then last Thursday I pushed myself through the run and then could hardly walk the rest of the day. So I decided maybe i should rest it until it felt better. It’s Monday and it isn’t feeling any better. I’m bummed. Exercising is a great stress reliever. Plus, I have to watch what I eat even more (or pretend like I do) when I am not burning anything off. Which is really hard to do with a two pound box of Sees Chocolate sitting on my counter.
I made something new for dinner that Hugh liked. I was suprised he liked it because it mixed fruit and meat. He doesn’t think a fruit should be mixed in with a meat in a dinner. But sometimes I slide it in anyways. When we were first married he didn’t like Blue Cheese and now he puts it on everything so who knows what he will like when. Anyway, everyone loved the Cuban-Style Chicken.
One last thing before I go. I POSTED ANOTHER POST ON THE BLOG!!!! This is 2 days in a row now! I’m pretty excited. Though it is 9:20 pm and I didn’t start until 9:00 pm…. didn’t work on it all day. And I didn’t take a camera with me anywhere or take any pictures today. Oh well. maybe tomorrow.
02/18/2008 | michele | Comment [4]
Remembering the Tattered Cover
After my two years in Minnesota, I went to a book signing with a friend and discovered the Tattered Cover bookstore in Cherry Creek (Colorado). Soon Michele and I were married and we loved to travel down to Denver just to visit this mecca of manuscripts.
Our kids probably aren’t aware of it, but this store had a profound effect on our family. I discovered a fantastic book for an aspiring graphic designer, Frederick Goudy, by D.J.R. Bruckner. Our three children each were given a name from a typeface cataloged in this book… Kennerley, Berkeley, and Quinan.
It’s been a long time since we lived in Colorado, and just as long since we frequented the Tattered Cover. But we’ve found that same book store magic here in Las Vegas. It’s The Never Ending Story. This book store doesn’t have a catalog of 150,000 titles in stock. It’s not part of a franchise. It caters just a single type of reader (children), yet it’s amazing place — for children of all ages.
We discover a new and fantastic treasure almost every time we visit. Two of my personal favorites (that I got for Quinan) are Tools and Ton by Japanese illustrator Taro Miura.
Kenn and Jen are voracious readers and whenever they are ready for something new to read, the Book Divas are ready with numerous suggestions tailored to our families values and tastes. They also offer our girls AR copies making us feel extra special for getting an exclusive look at upcoming books.
We even shop at the NeverEnding Story for presents, and it’s no surprise that the gifts we pick become loved presents. even by our young twin cousins (pictured above).
In this age of endless corporate franchises, there are only a few stores we absolutely love, and the Never Ending Story is at the top of the list.