College Bound

Well folks, I've heard it all now. Our total UofU fan teenager was accepted to BYU. The acceptance came like the day after the deadline. Wow! Now the big decisions start. He will still audition on the trumpet at the U and the Y and we'll see what happens. (Oh yeah, he was accepted to the U too)lbh

Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year! At least the 1st graders thought so on Friday, Feb. 1st. Heather played the drums while walking the parade route which lasted a magnificient ten minutes. One of the worst drawbacks of working is that Mom couldn't be there to watch, but Dad sure was since his job is so lay back and easy and non stressful and he can work from home all the time and... Okay I'm done. Below is Heather with Melia and Sarah who not only live by her but are also in her class. Awesome! lbh

Tribute to President Hinckley

President Hinckley has been on my thoughts constantly this past week. I am so thankful that we have prophets on the earth and that we have been able to sit at President Hinckley's feet and be taught by him for many years. I want you all to know that I love him, I honor him, and I am so grateful for his testimony he has shared with us. What an experience to go to his viewing, thanks to Ann who encouraged it. I checked the kids out of school on a whim and rode trax to the Conference Center to pay our respects. Little did we know we would end up waiting one hour outside in line and then another three hours inside before we got to see him. Heather asked while we were sitting inside the center if President Hinckley would have his glasses on. (He did) She was in sincere thought about him. As it was our turn to walk by his casket, I can only describe it as the Spirit in all His magnitude bore witness of who President Hinckley was. My kids unanimously agreed that the four hours of waiting was all worth the ten seconds of spiritual bliss we felt honoring our prophet. I especially want my family to know that I know he was a prophet and that I love him. lbh

Disclaimer

Just so everyone knows, I am adding a disclaimer to our posts. Kent was just as excited to get a blog going and to post on it and so as soon as I set it all up, he took over the computer and wrote most of the blogs. Just so we can differentiate who is writing which blog (since sometimes I feel like I need to edit his), I will put my initials after my entries. Love you honey and keep posting. lbh

Happy Birthday

Today was Daddy's birthday. He got lots of boring stuff and not one doll to play with. He took back the Guitar Hero III I got him but its okay because he traded it in for Apples to Apples Junior so now I can play with him, Jamie, Mommy and Sammy. The first game we played I won because I'm real good at matching. Dad had chocolate cake which was real good and we went to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. I had this real good drink from the waitress because one of the boys in the play place was real mean to me and made me cry. The drink was so good that mommy and daddy got the same drink too. Only they had neater glasses for their drink. Daddy and Jamie had crab and mom has salmon but I ate chicken fingers and boy were they good. A bunch of the waiters came and sang to dad which he didn't like but Jamie, Mom and I thought it was real fun. I can't wait until next year when they will sing to him again.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

So we spent the new year at the Provo Town Center listening to our favorite Jazz / Swing band perform. The star of the band didn't have a solo but their rendition of Van Halen's jump got everyone ready for what was about to come and then the last song (Jazz Police) was when everyone was dancing in the aisles. After that it was off to Arby's and Wendy's for some real gourmet food to kick off the year. We then went home, watched Pirates of the Caribean and off to bed. Do we know how to party or what?

Enjoy the new year, we wish all of you prosperity and health in 2008.

Tips about Sound

So we added some of our favorite songs to this blog. Interesting little tidbit is that we originally tried Last.Fm since it was the first on their list. Do not use it. Not only did it make us add a minimum of 15 songs but it took over our computer and locked it up. We had to cancel the process that took over our system and find an alternative. It literally took 10 minutes for the task bar to come up so we could figure out what was wrong with our computer. This is why we settled for Playlist. We can have fewer songs if we want as long as we can find them on the web someplace. But we can't figure out how to get rid of the boxes on the bottom.

We have posted our first video, It's from Christmas. Its a video of Heather and her cousins racing on little electric cars they all received from Santa. It's a small clip we affectionatly call the Christmas Autobahn. Parker is a hoot at the beginning of this video as he tries to prove his skills are better than anyone else's in the room. He's lucky he didn't get rug rash. The kids got real good at it even though their racing skills need a little work.