Photogenic Friday

From the balcony, if you were to listen closely, you would hear lots of crackling as ice melts in that forest of trees.

It's Friday. It's payday. It's work-on-3rd-floor-with-the-guys day.

Like I said: Photogenic Friday.

Sour Face

What is it about parents that love to feed their kids lemons?

Weekend Update in 100 Words

-Friday night was Chili's. Wonderful family night.

-Saturday night was double date night at Olive Garden. I about spit breadsticks when our young married discussions climaxed. Then the Wii. In order to be good at the Wii hoola-hoop, you basically need to be Landon. Ask him for details.

-Sunday was a two service spectacular by Shakina Glory, separated by some 5 on 5 at the gym. Thumb looks like a plum from the ball jamming it. Late night followed by early Monday morning = time to kick butt again this week. God's good, all the time. All the time, God's good.

Give me a weekend highlight. What's memorable from the last three days?

NERDS

Needed to change things up a bit and put up a different header on this blog.

J isn't in the photo mainly because he's not as big of a nerd as his parents. HA! Just call me erkel.

Boulder Post by 6 Year Med

One of the blogs I follow is 6YearMed. I just read her post from Tuesday about a two year old girl headed for the inevitable. Here.

Man I am so blessed to have a healthy happy boy. God I pray you flood that family with Your peace.

How about you? (all 5 readers of mine)
Any blogs you follow that seem to shake you up once in a while?

He Was Naked

For the purpose of capturing a funny story:

Sunday night was a chill night. I cleaned up the kitchen while Sheen bathed J-man. He knows it's bathtime every night when he hears the water pouring into the tub and Sheen calls for "J"

As soon as she revealed his birthday suit, he took off running in the opposite direction of the tub. I was doing dishes and turned around to witness the naked boy running circles in the living room with a huge grin and his mini-thing bouncing around. Sheen was "chasing" him around the coffee table. Funny thing is, he has not learned how to run yet. Just walk quickly with wobbly steps. I was laughing so hard. I sounded like a girl.

He eventually led mom into the pantry; a dead-end.

But it was so cute. So funny. I'm glad he didn't water the carpet, I nearly watered my pants from laughter.

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Let the Weighting Begin

The Sheen and I are diving into yet another one-on-one competition. Basically, I would like to gain some weight and she wants to lose some.

We have set some parameters, including a desired outcome, and weekly weigh-ins, and endtime rewards.

Whether or not this actually comes to completion depends on priorities. Is getting on that tradmill or weight bench a priority over the 90 other things going on? I think it should fit in somewhere, don't you?

Last night was the first of many weigh-ins. I'm very excited about this...... but I have yet to lift a weight. HA!

How about you. Any physical goals/intentions for the year? =]

How to Receive Email via SMS

If you have unlimited text messaging on your phone plan, but are not able to check your email from your phone and you want to, I have a solution.

If you have an email account through Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, or others that have free email forwarding, then you’re in luck. In your email settings, you can setup email forwarding which will send a copy of every email you receive to another email address.

All you have to do is enter the email address of your phone in that field. Say what? Yes, enter the email address of your phone.

Go here to find out what your phone’s SMS email address is.

By setting up email forwarding to the SMS address of your phone, you will receive a text message every time you receive an email. This is especially handy for the people that have unlimited text messaging and are not able to check their email from their phone. OR, for those people who want to be notified via text message every time they receive a new email.

Standard text messaging rates apply, so check your plan before doing this. Otherwise you may be racking up quite a bill with all those emails, I mean text messages. =]

Kitchen Clutter

Here's the scenario:
You get home after running errands after church after 9pm on a Wednesday night. You remember that you left the house in a hurry with a messed up kitchen.

What do you do? You earn brownie points, of course:

Jeremiah is 13.5 Months Old

I haven’t done one of these updates in a while yet I think they are rather fun. After all, most of his relatives are Northern-dwelling folks. So here we go…

Every day with Jeremiah seems like more fun than the last, especially when he wakes up happy. But regardless, the first thing he wants after any minute of sleep is food. When we retrieve him from his crib, he immediately leads us with his pointer-fingers out of his room, into the kitchen, and up towards the fruit basket or cupboard. Once his mouth is filled with food, he is more willing to offer kisses.

"J" has been learning things faster than the speed of light. He often sits quietly on Mom’s lap while she reads to him. Story. After. Story.

He made his first basket on his little tikes hoop the other night. He was so proud.

A couple of other fun facts:

-He has 6 clearly visible teeth

-Can blow kisses, but only if he feels like it

-Says fun things like ball, momma, dadda, sock, num-num, bub-bye

-Knows to kick a soccer ball and shoot a basketball

-Loves the peek-a-boo game

-Pulls his socks off and then asks you to put them back on

-If he spots Mom and Dad hugging and kissing, he comes over to us, literally pulls our heads apart, and then dives in the middle of the action. He loves sugar =]

-Is very talented at making messes, but according to this picture he at least tries to help out:

It's fun being a daddy.

The Schwan's Letter

Dear Mr. Schwan's Man,
Thank you for coming by last night to drop off your 79 page book of delicacies. When I was 12 years old, I remember falling in love with your ice cream drumsticks and eating the entire box with my brother, Josh. When Dad asked "where did all the ice cream cones that I bought go?" we remained silent and shrugged our shoulders.

Any chance I can place an order delivered to Dad's? I'm about 21 drumsticks in the hole...

Weekend Wrapper

Allow me to recap my eventful weekend in bullet point form:

-Sang some karoake for LP's birthday (pictured left). Justin (with mic) is belting it out. His new name: Justin Timberlake. He sings like a dove.

-Beat Sheena in a game of Uno that lasted twenty minutes.

-Jeremiah woke up to high temperatures all weekend. I've never seen 104 on a thermometer so many times.

-Shopped outside at the Promenade for a couple of hours. Still can't believe it was 79 outside.

-Took a nap

-Got pulled over. 83 in a 70. Officer quickly returned a warning and said be careful (I was rushing J to clinic)

-Church: Final Instructions 5.

-Played 5 on 5 with the guys. Legs are soooo sore...

-Watched the Vikes on tivo, thanks to the Parkers. Glad I was able to fast forward through it. Maybe next year they'll do better.

-Oh, and I discovered that my wart on my wrist is almost gone. I have no idea how I got it, but it's going away.

FYI- Jeremiah is doing well with a normal temp. We think he was just teething (or maybe ear infection), but we’ll know more after Wednesday morning, in case any of you were concerned…. :)

Didn't make it to the clinic in time. Receptionist wouldn't let me speak with the doctor...God bless her.