ambitions of my sons

Last night I went to my little brother's play. He was the Tin Man in his high school's rendition of The Wizard of Oz. He was truly amazing and it was so awesome. Anyway, I got home late and the Sons were still awake so I went in to tell them goodnight. They had the following to say:

"When I grow up I want to be an ice cream man so that I can give everyone ice cream," said Big Son.

Then Little Son shouted, "I want to be an apple man!! And give everyone apples!! And when I am done eating my apple I want ICE CREAM!"

Cute, huh? ... And I was hoping for a genius computer scientist and a doctor. Oh well.

big son isn't big enough

This morning Big Son woke up whining:

"It's not working dad!"

"What's not working son?"

"I'm not a grown up yet!"

(chuckling) "Huh?"

"I'm just sleeping a lot so I can grow up!"

a churro sounds good right now...

The Wife writes:

Little Son came running to me. "I pooped."

I said, "Uh oh, where is it?" (thinking he'd pooped in his underwear).

"In the potty."

So we go to the bathroom and sure enough he got up by himself and pooped in the potty. I congratulated him and told him to flush it down.

"That poop looks like a churro!" he said.

Yay for The Wife and Little Son on the success.

happy birthday the wife!

Today is The Wife's birthday, but I know that she would just spank my hind if I glorified her here (even though she deserves it dearly). So I will just say, "I love you my wife." And leave everyone else with some good birthday laughs in commemoration of The Wife's most excellent life thus far:

The Wife bought this for me to wear on Halloween. Scariest thing ever.

This was last year when Big Son was just learning how to read/spell.

Little Son's silly face.

And finally I'd like to share a family conversation that was spoken during one of our family Costco runs:

Me: Big Son, mom and dad made you.

Big Son: No, a monkey just made me.

Me: Really?

Big Son: And somebody else made Babe. A TIGER MADE BABE!! (giggles)

Me: What about mom?

Big Son: A lion made mom... AND a giraffe!!

Me: And what about dad?

Big Son: An elephant. And a cupcake. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THE WIFE!!

how could she be saying that?!

So I was listening to some old schoo' No Doubt today and it reminded me of a story. Soon after I turned sixteen I asked my crush out on a date. I can't remember who I doubled with, but while me and my date and the other couple were sitting in the car (mid-date) my date started talking about me by name as if I were not myself. So let's pretend my name is "Tom Cruise", the conversation went kinda like this:

My Date: So the other day in chemistry "Tom Cruise" did the weirdest thing...

Me: Huh?!

My Date: Oh wait! You're "Tom Cruise"!! I feel so stupid!!

Me: Wow. Get out of my car you hobo.

I made up that last part and kind of made up the first part because I can't remember exactly how the dialog went, but she mentioned me in a story without realizing I was me. I was kind of let down! This was my crush I was taking out for the first time! Needless to say, I wasn't too interested in this girl after that date. Jerk.

On a more positive note, I am on a roll. I've played volleyball twice the last two Saturdays and a long couple of games of basketball tonight--I almost died a couple of times. I am SO out of shape. I thought I'd fair better since I have hanged pretty well with the volleyball... I forgot that you have to run in basketball. Dang. I scored a bunch though so that is awesome.

valentine's day's night

Our Valentine's Day's night progressed as following:

1. Ate delicious pork chop dinner made by The Wife
2. Made white chocolate covered strawberries
3. Had FHE lesson about John 3:16
4. Opened Valentine's Day gifts for The Wife and the Sons
5. Ate covered strawberries
6. Put kids to bed
7. Busted out the Ben and Jerry's (I needed MORE sugar)
8. Interpreted poetry
9. Watched Pride and Prejudice

Very good day indeed.

enjoying valentine's day

The Wife really did good today with her Valentine's Day gift to me. Back on my mission a good friend of mine (a fellow Elder) drew me an awesome picture of the Tree of Life. Up until today it sat in a degrading poster frame. Now it shines in this (sorry, I couldn't get a good shot with my office lighting and iPhone camera):

Also Big and Little Sons were having a BLAST playing "Just Dance for Kids" (their Valentine's Day gift from The Wife). Check out this video to see how they boogie (it gets good in the middle and watch Big Son at the very end):

Like I said, I think The Wife did great... now the ball's in my court.

little son is on a roll today...

Little Son (singing):
I AM A KIDNEY BEAN IN THIS WORLD!!!

Little Son (after being busted for doing a naughty thing):
No mom! You are a bad guy!

Little Son (singing):

IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT CLAP YOUR FEEEEEET!

bubble bath

Big Son: Look! I'm like Jesus!

Me: Why do you say that son?

Big Son: That's just why I have white hair.

big son is rubbing off on little son

So Saturday night I was bathing the sons when Big Son asked me what I wanted to eat:

Big Son: What do you want me to make you dad? Smashed potatoes? (He was cooking bath water.)

Me: Sure dude.

Big Son: Here you go dad.

Me: Oooh! Yum, yum, yum.

Big Son: Dad, you want soda? [Little Son] is getting you soda.

Little Son: THIS IS MINNESOTA!!!!

i did it!

So I was on an adventure this weekend! I wanted to launch an internet start-up (you know, just for kicks?). I started Friday night at about 10pm (The Wife and I watched a movie for date night so I got a late start) and, well, I finished about 10 minutes shy of 12:01am Monday morning (today, right now)! Let me tell you, I am very impressed with myself. All in all I believe I spent about 16 hours on it and I think it works great. 

Whether or not it'll be a hit with the interwebs isn't really my concern. I am just pleased to have been able to do it within such a small time frame. (I really stole this whole weekend idea from the Startup Weekend Philadelphia event that happened recently. I wasn't able to go, so I had my very own.) I think it will also be nice on my resume.

So without any further ado (and hindrance on my trip to my warm bed) I give you Proove.it:

So what is it? Well it's a extremely simple way to prove to all your friends on all your social networks that you did something, have something, etc. For example, proove.it would come in mighty handy in the following conversation:

Boy Toy: Guess what I just did!
Gal Pal: Huh?
Boy Toy: I just barely had your face tattooed on the bottom of my left foot!
Gal Pal: Nuh-uh.
Boy Toy: Don't believe me?
Gal Pal: Nope.
Boy Toy: I'll proove.it.

Then the Boy Toy in this tale would hop on http://proove.it and post a couple of shots of the bottom of his left foot (and perhaps one of his cat being thrown into his swimming pool) and the conflict would be resolved! Simple, right? I know.

I have put a little "demo" together to show you what this junk it all about:

http://proove.it/proof

Like I said, it really isn't important whether or not this becomes a hit, I'm just glad that my Office Assistant came up with the idea and I implemented it all this weekend.

Cheers!

all before lunch

So that last 24 hours kind of remind me of this written-in-the-point-of-view-of-a-drug-addict poem I wrote some years back. You see, I have this major project that I hope to get finished by the end of the weekend. Because of the urgency of the task I was up until just about 3am last night working on it. I went to bed with the vain thought of getting six hours of sleep and not waking up until 9am. I tried my best, but when The Wife was up at 7:45am doing Saturday chores I couldn't not wake up and do some of my own.

First off was hanging our humongous clock. This proved a lot more difficult than I imagined. I don't know if it was due to my shakiness and lack of sleep or just pure wussiness, but I could NOT hold that clock up long enough to get in on the hooks. I tried and tried and finally I was so tired I fell on the ground in a dizzy haze wishing I would just puke so I could return to the battle. Then I looked over my shoulder and The Wife had climbed up the ladder and was putting that junk up there without any problems. I have concluded that I'm just a wuss.

Then I went to check on the boys and they had made this out of Legos...

Then it was time to finish fixing my driver's side window on my car (the piece arrived from the Amazon yesterday). Took about 30 minutes to get all the pieces in there and put back together. It was time for the moment of truth! I went and grabbed my keys, started the engine, and I rolled down the window. It worked! Nope. When I went to roll the window back up it just got stuck! I assumed that I had tightened things too tightly so I took everything apart again and loosened some of the bolts. That worked great. But I had to take things apart and back together probably about 4 times before I finished. Things work as they did previously now and I only lost a little lightbulb in the process (on the 2nd to last time putting everything back together I forgot to plug the light into it's little compartment--I did it every other time!--I slammed the door and pop went the bulb).

Now it's time for lunch!

Anger

Brightly shines the holy sea lamp

Lighting slightly the way ahead

I can’t fall with one knee broken

Head is turning on a dime

Marshmallow heaven, fiery furnace

Red coals burn the tip of my tongue

Flying slowly to the center of this World

No one can catch this Gingerbread Man

Who said anything about killing the snail?

Forward time goes, never once stopping

Taking a break for changing his clothes

False teeth work just the same my friend

Romeo and Juliet were false identities

The Headless Horseman’s manless horse

Lava lamp crashing, lave house burning

Onward & onward to grandma’s we go…

Where does this end?

Does anyone know?

what we've been doing recently...

Big and Little Sons have been playing with their laptops.

I have been pretending like I have a chance at working at a place like Zappos.com. The book I am holding is the Zapponians' 2009 Culture Book. The Wife's Bro is gonna get hired there--he's two interviews into it. What a lucky duck.

Yesterday the driver's side window motor broke in my car. I'm currently waiting for the part to arrive so that I can finish the job. (I <3 Amazon.com.)

I've also been working on some projects that include: some games for Facebook, iDevices, and XBox and a major website project. (I'll write about them as soon as they leave the Top Secret factory.)

And for that one person who asked if I quit the blogging scene: nope. You should be ashamed of yourself! You know who you are. For you, I offer the following sagesse: you should go get a spoon, dip it in honey, and rub it all over your face. Yep, definitely do that. Cheers.