Weight

I have gained quite a bit of weight since I started my gluten-free diet. This is a picture of me since my recent weight gain (I'm the one in the black bathing suit). Ok, so it's not that extreme, but I have gained 15 pounds, and I don't know what to do becuase my pants don't fit me anymore! And I hate shopping, so really the only option is the rip the waistbands of my pants so that I can put them on. Then I will pretend that I look really good and fashionable because I'm wearing the fashonable derelicked style.

My life would be complete...

If only... My life would be complete if cybart were to marry vegetable oil. Then we would have walking vegetable oil clip art.

Oh, wait. I found one:

Okay, I'm happy now.

mom is hilarious

Ok, so the reason I don't ever write anything on this blog is because I mistakenly think I am not funny. HOWEVER, I now have correctly discovered that I am extremely funny and clever. For instance, I was writing the notes for my college algebra class about circles. Circles aren't naturally funny, but boy did I ever make them funny as you can see. These are the actual exact notes I am giving my students: (You aren't going to get the formulas because this bloggityblogblog can't read formulas evidently, but you can still get the hilarity of it anyway)
Pythagorean Theorem is used to find the distance between two points. Use your imagination and pretend that you want to find the distance between point (0, 0) and any point (x, y). You can use the following formula to find the distance: or you can simplify it like this: or . Now use your imaginations again and pretend you light one end of your “distance” on fire and you are swinging it around in the dark. What shape would you see? (Don’t really try this at home without adult supervision) The answer is you would see the shape of a circle
I bet my students will be rolling on the floor when they read this one. What think ye?

Oh for the Oil of it all

I don't know what everyone's worried about. Apparently there's enough oil to fill your car (see advertisement on side of car) and surplus enough to have a drink on a hot day. You have a swig (talking to your car), I'll have a swig. You may be wondering where I'm getting all these pictures of people drinking oil... on the internet. Perhaps you're not wondering that.

The New Face of Oil

The secret's out. Here's how you make vegetable oil.

Here's One

I love this guy! My grandpa just turned 80 last week. 80! He doesn't look like it to me. He's still got a lot of grandpa fire left in him too. Okay, he wouldn't ride the go-carts at the Larry Miller race track (neither would I for that matter) but he does want to write a play about the after life. He also does a pretty good job of caring for my cute grandma. I will be lucky if I have someone like grandpa standing by me for the next 60 years of my life (I am, I have Bennett).
I guess he wasn't ready for this picture. He's got the deer-in-the-headlight-syndrome.

Hello Again

I just wanted to give a big rowdie welcome to Jake, Josh and Andrew for joining the blogity blog blog. There's only one rule here: no making fun of me. Bennett isn't following that rule very well.

BlabLablA

I've been working on a way in which I can sing a little ditty and the birds will come nest in my hair.

Obviously I joined Katie's Bloooooooooooooog. Why didn't you invite me sooner? I would like to write about nonsense and symbolic fodder.

Oh to be a woodland creature free to run an frolic in the forest.

The Wife formerly Known as Katie

For the record, Katie's velvet jacket is not maroon it is purple. As you can see in the photo her vest is clearly purple, and as we all know purple is an evil color. It has come to my attention that the vest's previous owner was known other than the artist formerly known as Prince. The second photo confirms this allegation as it clearly shows Prince being controlled by the vest's demonic powers. It is my beleif that Katie has been taken over by this fowl linen spawned from the depths of Mount Doom, probably at the same time as that ring of power from Lord of the Rings (evil has learned to be very efficient), and she is slowly becoming a reincarnation of the artist formerly known as Prince in an evil attempt to once again flood the airwaves with horrible music about berret's and corvettes and a bunch of doves crying, which will result in the entire human race punching out their own ear drums in order to stop the insanity. Just look at the evidence: Katie was seen eating pancakes this morning, and as we all know Prince loves pancakes. And Katie has suddenly taken up an interest in music. Out of nowhere she can sing, play the piano and now even the guitar. Unless someone can throw that vest into the fiery pits from whence it came ( or donate it to the D.I.) we will suffer a fate worse than the 80's. Also I have learned that the delightfully insane people over at P.E.T.A. are willing to help in the fight against the velvet vest of varletry, vassalage and vermiculation because it is now beleived that said vest was made from the pelt of the beloved velveteen rabbit. (see photo above)

What's this about Velvet Jackets?

The other day I was shopping for a velvet jacket. I carefully chose two jackets; one light blue and the other maroon. I showed Bennett and asked him if these two specimins were not the most wonderful clothing items he had seen and which one did he like better. He replied with, "Did you just go around the store and pick out the ugliest things?" I bought the maroon one.

The Spider of Death!

Ah!! It's hideous! Look at it! No, don't look at it! You'll throw up and start screaming. Then you'll choke to death. Well, this isn't a picture of an actual spider but I'm going to tell you a story about a horrible, venomous, ferocious, petty spider. He doesn't have a name but I'll call him Lucifer. One morning I just got out of the shower and I walked into my bedroom. Usually water is dripping down your back but I felt something a little more sickening than water. I looked over my shoulder and saw this humongous tarantula flash across my back. What did I do? What would any sane person do? I started screaming (loud!) and smacking it (I know, brave of me). Prior to this horrible scene of blood and screaming Bennett was sleeping. T’was the case no more! When the first scream sounded he jumped straight out of bed and started yelling. I yelled too, "A spider was on me!" He stared at me for a second then fell back down into bed. I asked him to check the rest of my back and pick up the spider off the floor that I had killed before he came back to life. He did so but after telling me he thought that my screaming meant that someone was attacking me, like there was a ravenous dog in our house. It was worse. It was the spider of death.

Walk down memory lane

I would just like to notify Katie and Leesa that I just heard that LDS song that you love so much. The one that states "We can think of this journey like a walk down memory lane" and then it talks about some cotton trees and jazz like that. I remember we argued about that song for hours! I don't remember what the argument was about, but I'm sure it was something that needed to be passionately argued about. Just thought I'de let you know.

I Found It!

Remember the walking pie? The walking hat? Let me introduce you to all the family. Here's walking vice, walking gas pump dispenser, walking golf ball, walking smoking lamp, walking beehive hair-do, oh and let's not forget the ever popular walking log on a plate. That clip art comes in handy more times than you would think. Stumped (ha!) in the area of clip art? Need something flashy for that inner-office memo? Pull out the walking log on a plate and you'll be satisfied every time. My personal favorite is the walking orange carrying a big pointing hand. Oh, man! Before I found that one what did I use? These actually have a name too! It's called Cybart and it probably has a website but I'm too lazy to look it up. Anyway, enjoy basking in the warming glowing glow glow of the Cybart/walking everything clip art.

Now this is my dream home

I think that this home has all of the charm that that other home does that Katie was looking into. It's got the red brick, the somewhat flat roof (I don't know if you would want you garden up there, though, it would probably end up inside your house) But the best thing this house has is that basketball hoop, without the basket part. You can't beat that. Andrew and I are moving in tomorrow. Rent is free since it was abandoned. And I'm sure we'll have enough to eat since we're planning on eating all of the cockroaches and fleas. We might have to fight the transients for it, but our fish can take them.

Makes me want to pee my pants!!!!

Ever since Beverly Hills 90210 and Saved by the Bell were both cancelled during the same season there has been a dark shadow over my soul. I tried to brighten it with Oprah, Julia Child's and even Pogs. All failures. But now my life mission will be complete. Yes, those are tickets to Yankee Stadium!!!! I haven't been this excited since Ross Perot ran for President.

The next best thing: a walking hat

I just wanted to be popular like Katie, so I found a clipart of a walking hat. I know it's not quite as good as a walking pie.

Mystery Solved: Lulu's Identity Revealed

One important person has been asking one important question: Who is Lulu? Let me tell you.

Introducing Lulu:

AKA Lindsey Darley

Favorite phrases: poo sauce, cool-bi-jewel

Once had a tattoo on forehead stating "Property of Bennett Johnson"

Has a Lindsey Jr. named Louis

Probably still has hand stand contests

SOLD

I know you're all disappointed but I contacted the realtor and he said that this "house" was sold a couple of months ago. Oh, well. I guess I'll have to come up with a new dream home.

Dream House

I’ve been dreaming of moving to Logan to buy a house. Now, those with an untrained eye would see a dilapidated, unattractive brick shack here. But I see potential! It’s only $51,000 and has 3 bedrooms and 1 bath. I know you can’t believe that someone actually lived there. Yes, that green thing on the side is the car port. Isn’t it great?!! I don’t think Bennett was as excited as I was when I showed it to him. Imagine the possibilities! You could have a garden/porch on the roof! The front of “house” could use some awesome doors so when people come over they would be distracted from looking at the “office type” outer shell. I haven’t seen the inside of this potentially gorgeous investment but if it’s in the same condition as the outside then we found ourselves a new office/repair shop/home!

goochie goochie

I have a terrible confession to make, I dislike the cooworker next to my cubicle so much!! I have an eversion to her just like I have an eversion to parasites. SHE IS A parasite! AHHHH! Everytime she gets near me I back away because she is a walking bacterial infestation. Oh, and the best part is that she's smoked for so long whenever she laughs her horrible laugh (which is frequently) she get's her "smokers cough" and I run and hide from all the foul microbes exiting her mouth. I literally cannot think of anything to say when she is around because I'm concentrating so hard on avioding her. Anyone elese have disgusting, repulsive, ancient, cooworkers that they would love to write a blog about? If you're like me, you probably don't want to gossip about them at work, but would love to post it on the internet for everyone to see!!!! HAHAHAH

our beloved peeps all pink and ready for easter!

well, easter is almost here and we all know what that means? PEEPS!! yep, its that time again to pull out the old easter baskets and fill them full of delightful peeps of all shapes and sizes. Recently there has been an article about peeps that I read and it was very shocking! "Peeps are primarily used to fill Easter baskets, although the Just Born company is trying to change that by introducing new shapes and advertising "Peeps - Always in Season". When I read this I thought "this is an outrage (in an english accent)", they cannot commercialize our specail easter peeps for all seasons, it would be a disgrace. I just wanted to bring this haneous news to your attention so that maybe we can all write a letter to "just born" executives expressing our love and admiration of the peeps and how they should not become all year peeps, they wont be special anymore! thank you that is all, and have a good peep filled easter!!

Bowels

I thought you would all like to look at my small intestines (exciting I know)!!!

Taylor Elizabeth Allison

Isn't she cute? She has red hair and looks just like Michael. She even has his clef chin! She already knows her multiplication tables, she's a big fan of the ballet and she prefers long walks on the beach to congressional hearings. (Bennett told me to write all that stuff). Right now she has blue eyes but that can change. Taylor and Spencer both have the Thomas mouth. I got to see her for the first time today and she is tiny! She was born on March 4th and weighed about 7 pounds and was about 20 inches long.

Another Clear Picture

Christine, Christine... Is this where you live? I got this picture off Google Street View. Pretty cool huh? You can go down any street in the US (but apparently not ones that are gaited like yours). Those white rectangles were the coordinates but I whited them out so no one can stock you. She lives in Vermont everyone (good cover up by me...).

Logan A-hoy!

As you all know this is a building, grass, and some trees at Utah State University. I’ll bet you don’t know why I’m posting it (okay, most of you do.) Because I got accepted to the Music Therapy program there! I just wanted to say thanks to all those who helped me get this far (wiping away a tear and pulling out the tissue). I want to thank my manager Bennett for all his support. I don’t know where I would be without him. I want to dedicate this award to him. I also want to thank Lee Ann, Kendal Ayres and Mat Edvik for writing me letters of recommendation. Thanks goes to the staff at Utah State for accepting me. And a special thanks goes to Daniel for letting me borrow his guitar for 3 months straight so I could take lessons and audition. I swear I’ll get that back to you sometime. Seriously though, thanks everyone for all your support. I’m really excited to go and a lot of people helped me get to this point.

Walking Pie Everyone

Let me introduce you to the legendary walking pie clip art e-mail. It all began one foggy day at work where I was busy looking for some good clip art for an inner office letter. Suddenly I stumbled upon this: the walking pie clip art. It was so fantastic, so irreverent, so spectacular, so magnificent I just had to share it with everyone. The following is a copy of the e-mails that were sent out concerning “The Walking Pie.”

My original e-mail to my family (may have been adjusted for spelling errors and appropriate content):

Hey, look everyone, a walking pie! Who doesn't want a walking pie? (I saw this in my clipart and thought, "This clipart works on so many levels. Can't find a clip art for the agenda? Use the walking pie. Need something inspirational for the memo? Wha La: insert the walking pie!")

I tried to paste the clip art in the e-mail but sometimes these things don’t work. Here’s the second follow up e-mail from me to my familiy:

Hi again Family,
I hope after all my hard work in trying to pass along the walking pie clipart it doesn't show up on anyone’s e-mail. As much as this e-mail makes sense it would be even better without the actual walking pie clipart.

Jake responded:

I didn't see anything. Maybe the walking pie left my screen.

I then followed up by forwarding a hard copy to all. Jake responded:

Me: "Wow! I want a job where I can sit at my desk and do nothing, just like my sister Katie the Financial Analysis Assistant".
Genie: "Your wish is granted."
Me: "Now I can sit at my desk and eat some walking pie. Or maybe I will sit here and stare at the wall thinking about some crawling cake, or some strolling parfait, or some running cherry cobbler." He said with much delight.
Genie: "Wishful thinking isn't going to make it so. You must get to work. Maybe some wondering apple strudel..."
Me: "Don't I have two more wishes?" He interjected.
Genie: "Ha Ha Ha!" The genie mockingly chuckled spitting small flecks of spit and drool.
The conversation went well into the night before he realized that it was time to go home, and that he had wasted his wishes on frivolous items such as a thumb tack and a 1.5 million dollar Verion Bugatti that can do speeds up to 250MPH. Oh yeah, he also wished for more wishes, which really does work.

Just remember that a mistake we all make is thinking that the state appointed psychologist is our friend.

Daniel then responded:

I like the walking pie, and quit making fun of those of us who have to browse through the clip art to make a living...
Also, send that Genie over to my house, I need him to make Isaac start using the toilet (slightly edited for your convenience).

Daniel

Jake then responded:

Drinking lots and lots of vegetable oil will cure that. Also a continuous steady note from the harmonica will do the trick.

endoscopy fun

I thought this was a really gross depiction of the endoscopy I'm going to have tomorrow. I hope I won't be too out and that I'll be able to watch, that would be awesome! I'll let ya'll know how much fun it was tomorrow.

Cost So Much Money!

I love thumbtanic, I especially like them big. To recreate something like that on film would cost so much money! I think that we should all exit out of the tail of the monkey. Why were the poor people so sad, becuase they weren't rich!!! You can add whatever non-sensical thing to this entry.

Blogie Blog Blog!

I love this blog! It's the greatest thing ever! Thanks for posting everybody. You make me laugh while I'm sitting in my cubicle at work.

The Old Man and the Sea!!!!!????

All I can say is that I'm appauled that anyone could actually like Old Man and the Sea. I don't know of many scenerios that could be more boring, but perhaps a book titled The Starfish and the Log would be. Old Man and the Sea isn't a very long book, but I tell you what it seemed like it was a thousand times longer than Les Mis. Anyway, here is my list (but I can't remember most of the authors, and I'm too lazy to look them up):

A little Princess
Les Mis
Great Expectations
Jayne Eyre
Persuasion by Jane Austen
my Pathophysiology book
Crime and Punishment
The Scarlet Letter
Andrew's anatomy picture book (it has tons of gross pictures)!

Alrighty Benideto

After Bennett wrote about his favorite books he made me read it and then told me two or three times to make my own list. Here ya go sickie (he’s been sick lately).

My Favorite Books:
Book of Mormon
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe series by C.S. Lewis
Anything by Agatha Christy
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Good Earth (this is the book I thought about for months after reading it) by Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Almost anything by Alexander McCall Smith (The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs was pretty funny and I like his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)
Firstlight by Sue Monk Kidd
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowlings
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Almost anything by Mark Twain
Charlottes Web by E.B. White
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Anything by P.G. Wodehouse (if you’ve never heard of him pick up any of his books! You’ll love him, he’s hilarious.)

Okay, so I’m not a civilized reader like Bennett. I mostly like little kids book and books that make me want to be a better person for a good reason. I think I like kids books because I want to write a children’s book about a dog that corresponds with his owner while on a poetry tour (the dog is on the poetry tour for his own poetry, not the owner). Christine and I are in the process of putting this book together. It’s going to be a blockbuster hit (but in the book form).

Bicycle!! BICYCLE!!!

My wish list is growing like belly fat. I’ve wanted a bike for quite a while but now that I’ve seen these little bike-ees around the town I want one just like it. Ah, la couleur est belle. (For all you non-Frenchies that means something about the color being beautiful). Baby blue, mint green or beige would also suffice. It’s only $159 (plus $40 s&h) at http://justbicycles.com/bike_category.php?item=28. I’m a living advertisement! Yah!

Wow! What a list

Well, as everyone knows my favorite book is Julie's Story because all pubescent women can relate to her. The best part about the book is the yellow cover, once you get past that it loses its allure. Do you guys remember when Mom stood up in young women's for my birthday and stated that my favorite book was Julie's Story? I remember it vividly because it has been scarred upon my brain. The best part about this blog is that the spell checker didn't find any words spelled incorrectly!!!!!

I just finished reading "The Kite Runner" which was a sad, excellent book. In the spirit of Katie's list of her favorite websites I was just wondering which books would be on people's list. My favorite books are:

1. "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

Best book I have ever read.

2. "The Sun Also Rises" Ernest Hemingway

Delightfully depressing romp about losers who waste their lives

3. "Beloved" Toni Morrison

I couldn't stop thinking about this book for months.

4. "Moby Dick" Herman Melville

Not for everyone but I was blown away by this book

5. "Catch 22" Joseph Heller

Funniest book ever written

6. "Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte

7. "The Trial" Franz Kafka

This book literally makes you want to punch someone in the face out of frustration.

8. "The Ox-Bow Incident" Walter Van Tilburg Clark

A really good "western" with classical themes.

9. "Pride and Prejudice"

Mostly because Mr. Collins is one of the great charachters in all of literature. I would give my left leg to be as cool as that guy.

10. "The Count of Monte Cristo" Alexander Dumas

This is the book that made me fall in love with books when I was a kid.

11. "Othello" Shakespeare

Not a book, but this is my favorite Shakespeare play. I also like "Death of a Salesman" and "The Way of the World" a lot, which are not by Shakespeare but are amazing as well.

So if anyone else wants to share their favorite books I would really be interested.

Sad day in the neighborhood

Katie and Bennett's story is so scary! Good thing it had a spiritual connection. Andrew and I also had something very similar happen to us, but there is no uplifting ending or spiritual significance. The story is as follows:

As we were moving into our house, a few weeks ago, Andrew was carrying in our huge TV. It's an old TV and it's heavy and bulky. So Andrew is carrying it down the hall and into the living room when he starts to stumble, I figured he was joking so I started to laugh. And then I see hum lunge forward with the huge TV, barely missing the couch. He ends up smashing the TV between himself and the floor. So when he gets up he has this huge gouge in his arm, but he doesn't care about that, all he can think about is whether the TV is going to work or not. He plugs the TV in and turns it on and nothing happens. Continuing to believe that he can get it to work he starts chanting, "it's still OK, it can work, it can work!" I stood there watching him try to get the cracked, smashed TV to work and laughed and laughed and laughed. It really was quite a sight. Needless to say, I did not pray that it would work (I didn't even think about doing that). Perhaps Andrew was praying, but obviously God didn't answer his supplication in the way Andrew wanted. Which really is too bad since we had to go buy a new TV and we're really cheap, so spending money on a new flat-screen TV was not our cup of tea.

Wow, that's blurry

As you can see I'm lookin hot and blurry in my apron while putting the dishes away. Here's a little story for you: Bennett and Katie were outside the whole of a January Saturday taking "fake" bridal pictures because Katie wanted to. (I've already discussed in previous blogs how weird I am so see those to verify.) Anyway, Bennett and Katie ended up at Memorial Grove and were taking the last set of pictures by the river when Bennett turned away from the camera tripod for one second and quick as a hog on fire it falls in the river. They both began screaming at this point (me more so than Bennett). Bennett jumped into the river and grabed the camera, took out the batteries and jumped back up on shore. Bennett was really cold now because he didn't plan on getting into a frozen river of camera distroying water. They decided to call it quits for the day and drive home. While driving home Katie and Bennett said a small prayer saying that it didn't matter in the eternal scheme of things if the camera and pictures survived but it did matter to them and asked if the camera could be okay (this camera is Bennett's baby! He loves it! He could spend a whole week doing nothing but taking pictures and he has). They both felt embarrassed for asking but did so anyway. When they got home they tried the memory card in a card reader and wha-la! It worked! All the pictures they took that day were in perfect condition. They let the camera dry out during the night and the next day Bennett took this picture of Katie doing the dishes. The camera turned on and took a picture but sadly it wouldn't focus. They decided to let it rest for another day and miracles of miracles it worked perfectly! It does all the things it did before and as far as they could tell it isn't damaged because of falling into a frozen, raging river. They did have to amputate Bennett's toes though.

This just goes to show that:

1. You should never leave your expensive camera by a river unattended.

2. If you plan on doing the aforementioned #1 bring an extra pair of pants and shoes in case of river jumping.

3. God does answer prayers. Even one's we don't think really matter in the eternal scheme of things.

This is a real email!

this is from a boy (14 years old) that I met this past summer and made the mistake of giving him my email address.. now that I think about it it might have been the best thing I have ever done because look at all the laughs this has and will provide!!

"ok everyone knows what it is like to be in love especially me but most people when they like someone they do not like them back so for me this girl (Abby Jane christianson) will not even talk to me anymore so like anyone else I am very depressed so now you know whats up what can you do to help you ask well do this for me
1 send the email at the end of this one to Abby at mexi_chacha@yahoo.com 2 add your own little comment but please no bad stuff I am trying to impress her
3 tell her that I miss her very bad
4 if you do this I will be very no depressed anymore
what to email her You may not know me and I may not know you but this is a special request from David Klc asking if you will at least talk to him ( tell her the most desperate thing that you think I would do to talk to her) he deserves for you to at least talk to him(for people that live near me say) he is always depressed and is never full of joy anymore all he does is look down and looks like he is just going to fall over and die( then for the people who are not living around me say) in his emails/texts all he ever talks about is you and how hopeless he is without you next to him please call him so he just might cheer up for once maybe if we get enough people doing this then she might actually listen please do this for me that is all I ask and tell everyone on your contacts to do this too"

Hey Whaddaya Know

So me and Katie were looking at this book at Barnes and Noble about each chain restaurant and it listed the calories and fat contained in the most popular items on the menu. It really made me want to eat out every night of my life. And this hamburger looks like it has worts growing on it and I still ate it after I took this picture. This entry is really pointless.

Straight lines

Well, I have another life-changing thought. Andrew and I went to the science center here in Phoenix this last week. While we were there this girl that worked there came up to us to show us some optical illusions. So she shows us this one, and tells us that it's made of completely straight lines. Well, I didn't believe her so I put a paper up to the edge of the star, and behold it's a curved line! So I tell her, "that isn't a straight line" and she replies, yes it is it's a whole bunch of straight lines put together to make a curved line. Well, let me tell you I thought that was the dumbest thing I've ever heard! I was like, duh you could argue that all lines are just small straight lines put together. And if any of you have taken calculus you will know that that's what integrals are based on. Needless to say, I wasn't very impressed with the science center's optical illusions.

Oh the irony

"The painting of Bob Ross painting" comment reminded me of something Andrew said a few days ago. If you watch American Idol you will know that Brook sang that song that says, "you're so vain, you probably think this song is about you, don't you". Andrew was thinking about this song for days and finally realized that the song is about whoever "you" is because they are referring to that person by stating that they are "vain". I thought this was pretty obvious, but it was a life changing thought for him. This paragraph is dedicated to all those who have random awakenings of their brain.

I'm going to be an Aunt again!

My sister-in-law Traci is due on Friday. She's having a girl! Yeah! She's going to be beautiful. They don't know what the name is yet but I have a few suggestions:

Sparkle
Opal
Oprah
Seinfeld
"L"
Marsha Brady Allison

Actually the only name I like up there is Sparkle. She's going to love that name (until she's 12 or so then she'll realize it's a stupid name).

Here's a list of names that I really do like but Christine will probably steal one of them before we get a chance to use it:

Eva (Eve in portugese, Christine like's Evangline which is pretty close, hopefully they have a boy first. If they steal this name Bennett will be so mad.)
Elise
Christine (I could still pull this name off and have a sister named Christine)
Madeline
Meg
Annie
Anna
Maggie
Soren (for a boy but it sounds too much like soaring or something of Lord of the Rings)
Denethor (Bennett thinks we should name our boy this. He'll have to be on American Gladiator then.)

Chucky Cheese Everybody!

Well, there we all were, fulfilling the birthday wish of a three year old at Chuchy Cheese. Tyler's giving me an awesome face here.

I told Isaac to put his arm around the dog but it would have been cute if he did it all by himself.
Jake stole all the little kids tokens so he could play this game. Strange... he only wanted to play this game. It's because it spit out tickets like a faucet. I think he had about 300 tickets when the night was over.

Can you see his pile of tickets falling on the floor? He thought that was pretty funny.

Here's Leesa, excited to be at Chucky Cheese.

Incredible!

I love this picture Bennett found!!! It's a painting of Bob Ross painting.