So, here I am with my Man323 class talking about how easy it is to put stuff on the web.
They're now going to learn how to create their own "dot-com."
Say "cheese" Karen!
Lacey Lines, the Holiday Edition
Monday, June 27, 2005
Sitting in class...
So, here I am with my Man323 class talking about how easy it is to put stuff on the web.
They're now going to learn how to create their own "dot-com."
Say "cheese" Karen!
Sunday, June 26, 2005
"Hemmee! Hemmee!" and other such Jacobisms
Hello family and friends,
This has been a busy but good week for us. It was finals week again at school (just like it is every 4 weeks) so I was scrambling trying to get everything together for my test. We also had a visit from our accreditation agency so we were dotting all of our i's and crossing all of our t's to make sure we had everything together for that. Specifically, I had to make sure that we had electronic and hard copies of syllabi for every computer class we teach.
Yesterday we spent the day cleaning out our garage. We hauled away the old freezer that Mom & Dad so generously brought down to us but didn't survive the trip. We also had to sweep out the 2 million flies that accumulated in the garage earlier this month. We then put up some shelves for our food storage and got everything all organized. It felt so good to get it finished. We even washed and pumped up the tires of our bikes and rode around the driveway. We then jumped in the car to spend a few hours over at the "kawatic center" (i.e. aquatic center) as Aaron calls it.
Amy had the chance to get back in the studio for a couple hours this week. She did some vocals for one of her friends that she has been collaborating with on some music. They are actually planning on putting together some bids for next year's EFY album. They have written some amazing songs that would be perfect for an EFY-type album.
The boys have been having so much fun playing together. They just run around and around chasing each other. I remember doing the same thing with Cherilyn when we were young (more on such memories later...) Whenever Jacob needs help doing something he runs up to Amy or I and says Hemmee! Hemmee! (translation: Help me! Help me!). He's also become quite the tease. All this week, whenever he sees Amy he points to her and says Dadda! She and Aaron were gone for a couple hours the other day and when Amy got home Jacob saw her, got all excited, and said Dadda! Dadda! It really miffs Amy but I think Jacob thinks it's funny.
We got some sad news this week. Dad called us the other day and told us that the guy that bought the ranch burned our house down. I guess he wanted to start from a clean slate or something. I was pretty much in shock. I immediately had a flood of memories of the house. From all of the Christmases with the beautiful trees, to hiding on the top shelf of the blanket closet while playing hide-n-seek in the family room, to throwing the baseball through my bedroom wall. Lots of tears have flowed but I'm glad that no one can take away all the memories. I am so glad that Mom & Dad made the house our home. Maybe we can all write up our favorite memories of our home and send them to each other. Or if you'd like to send them to me I can put them all together and send them all out. I've also got a bunch of pictures of the house and the ranch I took while we were up there for Christmas. I'll make sure I make copies for everyone and send them to you. If anyone has any other pictures they'd like to include in the collection, send them to me and I'll include them on the CD.
We hope you all are doing well. We're excited to see Jared, Becca, and Brielle this week. We wish all of you could come for a visit...or better yet, we wish we could get out to visit all of you. Brent, we hope you are adjusting to the heat down there. Every time I get into my un-air conditioned car I think of you. Oh, and speaking of the car...Natalie, I got the oil leak fixed. It took $1.45 for some pipe thread tape on the stripped-out oil plug. Much better than a $400 oil pan! Now I just need to fix the child-lock switch so I can roll down all of the other windows in the car...
We sure love you all and hope you have a great week.
Love,
Paul, Amy & the boyz.
This has been a busy but good week for us. It was finals week again at school (just like it is every 4 weeks) so I was scrambling trying to get everything together for my test. We also had a visit from our accreditation agency so we were dotting all of our i's and crossing all of our t's to make sure we had everything together for that. Specifically, I had to make sure that we had electronic and hard copies of syllabi for every computer class we teach.
Yesterday we spent the day cleaning out our garage. We hauled away the old freezer that Mom & Dad so generously brought down to us but didn't survive the trip. We also had to sweep out the 2 million flies that accumulated in the garage earlier this month. We then put up some shelves for our food storage and got everything all organized. It felt so good to get it finished. We even washed and pumped up the tires of our bikes and rode around the driveway. We then jumped in the car to spend a few hours over at the "kawatic center" (i.e. aquatic center) as Aaron calls it.
Amy had the chance to get back in the studio for a couple hours this week. She did some vocals for one of her friends that she has been collaborating with on some music. They are actually planning on putting together some bids for next year's EFY album. They have written some amazing songs that would be perfect for an EFY-type album.
The boys have been having so much fun playing together. They just run around and around chasing each other. I remember doing the same thing with Cherilyn when we were young (more on such memories later...) Whenever Jacob needs help doing something he runs up to Amy or I and says Hemmee! Hemmee! (translation: Help me! Help me!). He's also become quite the tease. All this week, whenever he sees Amy he points to her and says Dadda! She and Aaron were gone for a couple hours the other day and when Amy got home Jacob saw her, got all excited, and said Dadda! Dadda! It really miffs Amy but I think Jacob thinks it's funny.
We got some sad news this week. Dad called us the other day and told us that the guy that bought the ranch burned our house down. I guess he wanted to start from a clean slate or something. I was pretty much in shock. I immediately had a flood of memories of the house. From all of the Christmases with the beautiful trees, to hiding on the top shelf of the blanket closet while playing hide-n-seek in the family room, to throwing the baseball through my bedroom wall. Lots of tears have flowed but I'm glad that no one can take away all the memories. I am so glad that Mom & Dad made the house our home. Maybe we can all write up our favorite memories of our home and send them to each other. Or if you'd like to send them to me I can put them all together and send them all out. I've also got a bunch of pictures of the house and the ranch I took while we were up there for Christmas. I'll make sure I make copies for everyone and send them to you. If anyone has any other pictures they'd like to include in the collection, send them to me and I'll include them on the CD.We hope you all are doing well. We're excited to see Jared, Becca, and Brielle this week. We wish all of you could come for a visit...or better yet, we wish we could get out to visit all of you. Brent, we hope you are adjusting to the heat down there. Every time I get into my un-air conditioned car I think of you. Oh, and speaking of the car...Natalie, I got the oil leak fixed. It took $1.45 for some pipe thread tape on the stripped-out oil plug. Much better than a $400 oil pan! Now I just need to fix the child-lock switch so I can roll down all of the other windows in the car...
We sure love you all and hope you have a great week.
Love,
Paul, Amy & the boyz.
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Happy Father's Day!
Hi all,
We're going to try publishing Lacey Lines (our weekly family e-mail) on our family blog. For those of you new to blogging, a blog is short for web log. It's just an easy way to put stuff on a website. We'll test it out then make recommendations to anyone interested in creating their own.
First of all, Happy Father's Day to all our fathers, brothers, brothers-in-law, etc.! We had a great day here. Amy and the boys totally spoiled me. I got a new hat, a new white shirt, and a new reversible belt. They also made me some cool hand prints of the boys in plaster. Amy then cooked a delicious spinach quiche for brunch that we had after my morning meetings. We were able to have some good down time just watching the boys playing. We got some cute video of Jacob getting himself dizzy as we sang I Love to See the Temple. You can download the video and take a look (if you don't have a high-speed connection you may want to right-click the link, select Save As... then open it up on your computer).
Church was good. Aaron was supposed to give a talk today in Primary, but he "got a little nervous" and didn't want to go up. So Daddy got to read the poem that Aaron had helped pick out of the Friend. He also didn't want to sing during the Primary's musical numbers during sacrament meeting. He told me later he didn't want the people to clap when they were done. I said, "people don't clap during church, they just might smile." Aaron said, "I don't want them to smile, either!" I hear that Dallin had a similar experience today, but that some reverse psychology was able to work. Way to go Brett!
After church Amy's family came over for dinner. Amy cooked the most amazing Cashew Chicken dinner. She also made this yummy pineapple salsa to go with it. It was like going out to a fancy restaurant. I'll have to have her share the recipe with you all.
After dinner we went downstairs and listened to Amy sing some songs she's working on. She has written the most beautiful, tender song about a mom singing a lullaby to her baby. It's amazing. We also demo'd part of a "power ballad" that we started writing for our date the other night (Amy has done most of it - I just threw in a word or two). It's called Love's Worth Fighting For. Just envision the high school gymnasium during senior prom filled with kids dancing to an 80's rock band singing a slow song (kinda like The Search Is Over or Carrie by Survivor, Amanda by Boston, Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison, or any other song on found on the More Romantic Power Ballads CD for that matter). Fun stuff!
Well, I probably better sign off. We hope you are all doing well.
Love,
Paul, Amy & the boyz
We're going to try publishing Lacey Lines (our weekly family e-mail) on our family blog. For those of you new to blogging, a blog is short for web log. It's just an easy way to put stuff on a website. We'll test it out then make recommendations to anyone interested in creating their own.
First of all, Happy Father's Day to all our fathers, brothers, brothers-in-law, etc.! We had a great day here. Amy and the boys totally spoiled me. I got a new hat, a new white shirt, and a new reversible belt. They also made me some cool hand prints of the boys in plaster. Amy then cooked a delicious spinach quiche for brunch that we had after my morning meetings. We were able to have some good down time just watching the boys playing. We got some cute video of Jacob getting himself dizzy as we sang I Love to See the Temple. You can download the video and take a look (if you don't have a high-speed connection you may want to right-click the link, select Save As... then open it up on your computer).
Church was good. Aaron was supposed to give a talk today in Primary, but he "got a little nervous" and didn't want to go up. So Daddy got to read the poem that Aaron had helped pick out of the Friend. He also didn't want to sing during the Primary's musical numbers during sacrament meeting. He told me later he didn't want the people to clap when they were done. I said, "people don't clap during church, they just might smile." Aaron said, "I don't want them to smile, either!" I hear that Dallin had a similar experience today, but that some reverse psychology was able to work. Way to go Brett!
After church Amy's family came over for dinner. Amy cooked the most amazing Cashew Chicken dinner. She also made this yummy pineapple salsa to go with it. It was like going out to a fancy restaurant. I'll have to have her share the recipe with you all.
After dinner we went downstairs and listened to Amy sing some songs she's working on. She has written the most beautiful, tender song about a mom singing a lullaby to her baby. It's amazing. We also demo'd part of a "power ballad" that we started writing for our date the other night (Amy has done most of it - I just threw in a word or two). It's called Love's Worth Fighting For. Just envision the high school gymnasium during senior prom filled with kids dancing to an 80's rock band singing a slow song (kinda like The Search Is Over or Carrie by Survivor, Amanda by Boston, Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison, or any other song on found on the More Romantic Power Ballads CD for that matter). Fun stuff!
Well, I probably better sign off. We hope you are all doing well.
Love,
Paul, Amy & the boyz
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Aaron's Letter Song
Last night I was able to convince Aaron into letting me record him singing his "letter song." He picked it up off of a show he was watching. Click below to listen.
Aaron's Letter Song
Aaron's Letter Song
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