This is NOT What We Meant When We Said "White Christmas"

So as you may or may not have heard by now, on my drive back to Norman, from Dallas, my car took a detour ... right into the middle of the median on I-35 (more details on that to follow later). When I got back to Norman last night, though, the roads were pretty much cleared. All except for Stinson Street, the long road that leads up to my apartment complex. No, no, this road is completely covered in snow, and hasn't even been TOUCHED by a snow plow of any kind.

Well, neither has the parking lot of my complex. Cars are stranded and abandoned all over the parking lot. Somehow, my car (bless it's soul) managed to maneuver through the entire lot without getting stranded, but I'm not taking any chances. My roommate's car (which is actually much lower to the ground than mine is anyway) is completely stranded, and our efforts last night to try to free it were unsuccessful. So for now, I'm parked just a little ways down from my building, on a patch of ground that has miraculously no snow or ice. While this video doesn't quite show you the entire extent of this parking lot circus, it kind of gives you an idea.

The cats know how I feel...part 2

Hi everyone!

sorry I haven't been speaking much, but Senior year is when every one decides to question your future, or your ability to have one. Counselor scouts and parents, is there no hiddy hole from the collage maddens? it just makes you want to...to....



But I did find a good collage I want to go to. in the top 20 at lest most likely the top 15 for creative writing. Hollins! (do-do-do-dooo). The Texas scout know me by name now, and Dad approves because it's a privet all girls school in Vergina, far away from 'the boy'. Still the Psychology department is solid and and the Acting department is recognized! It makes me feel the magic inside of me!



Ethan things are okay, were just in one of those times. Not fighting but not really doing much ether, both of us kinda tiered after the trimester, where going to go on a date but I felt kinda quizy and food didn't sound good. Now with Winter Guard and all the Ap classes jumping on us when we finely get some time its just like,



Key club has started up for Sachse high school too, so add that to my list of Beta club, Girl Scouts, Band, Ap every thing, NSHS, and society of hug a puppy. With Key Club I'm heeding to DFW airport for a welcome home on December 23 for a bunch of troops. That should be fun!


I had to take one regulars class this trimester. Economics. I'm kinda going to miss that free class. I could have skipped the whole trimester except for tests and still made my A+. I saw it as my writing time. Ap economics was first period and there was no way no how I was giving up Ap Psychology!!! Coach Halac was amazing!!! Even if it is the most awkward class to go through with your boyfriend sitting right behind you. Especially in that Motivations chapter. Never thought I'd have to hide a text book from my parents but that is the wonder of Psychology. We also got hypnotized twice!
now people with vivid imaginations and such are really good at getting hypnotized. I fell out of my chair both times!! Of corse when your telling someone the day before that your getting hypnotized and they're all ' oh thats fake' and 'blablabla' it really gets on your nerves. Those people are such kill joys!



And then fourth period was Computer Science! I made my own Video game! From scratch! on Dark Basic!! I am now the computer expert at the house. what I can't fix with resin I fix with threats to tare out it's hard-drive and then call Computer Ghost. Yes Zeke haunts our computer complete with messages lest on the screen and mouses moving on their own. But aside from Computer Ghost I am the Computer Guru!

Speaking of fallowing older children, Lucy is becoming the next Swing-aholic! *sniff* I'm so proud! she was out there with me twice yesterday, and had Bella push her once!

Now on to Finn. the new little baby boy. I feel sorry for him mostly for two resins. 1) he's a boy, after a bunch of girls. when girls live together their monthly gifts start happening at the same time....Run Finn run far away!!!! Think Manly thoughts! 2) mom will not give him a pa-shu! Every baby needs their pa-shu!!! Other than that he lays around, bobbles his baby noggin, eats, crys, toots and poops in that order. I don't feel sorry for him because it get dad off my back about my sleep patters. Oh sure, she's crazy to wake up at 3:45 till it means you don't have to pick up the baby, and she redirect nightmare woken children to her bed.

See not nutty now is it Daddy-o?

Writing has been fine, but Aunt Wally still holds my main story hostage, so I've had complete author ADD. (so would it be AADD?) And it's bad I've sprouted at lest five new stories. One of which I've already been ordered not to kill a few people in by my readers.

See I once made the mistake of telling Miranda Sweet how my mind works for stories. Your best of as a background carter when I'm having a bad day. If I have bad days, my carters have super days, if I have a good day they will had a very sad day. If your just there to add more depth but not really a part of the story, your life is great! If I like you, I'll beat up on you a bit and you might die. If I don't like you you will die, it's just a question of how and when.

Now she and little Miranda, Justén and Faith have forbidden me under penalty of death from killing off cretin people. (Luke and May from 'the Call', Aden and Cyrus from 'Prince of the Void', any of the Phoenix team from the books aunt Wally has hostage. Those people.) so I was nearly killed for my last chapter of the Call.

(No I have not finished the book, I have a skip around journal in witch I writ down ideas or short chapters from books before they fly away)

See it looked like I killed Luke. Two almost cried and 3 nearly jumped to attack me. I hastily pointed out that if they killed me who would be able to bring Luke back. I think it worked for now...it's not like they'd....oh they would....oh dear....

But other than that....no that's all I can think of right now. So if there is any company scholarships out there let me know. Especially for artsy or Psychological items. Can't wait to major in Psych! I'll get to do all kinds of experiments!

That will be fun! (Muahahahahaha!!!) well good bye every body, keep in touch! I have to go put the peaces together. After all it's my life and;

Hey Family!

Good evening everyone!
It's been forever since I've posted on the family blog, and I've noticed that people seem to have kind of fallen out of practice with it. So I guess I'll throw something up and see if there are still people out there!

This semester is going pretty well so far. I'm not a fan of my online class, because it's deceptively time consuming. I didn't expect it to take as much time and effort as it really does. I guess not having an actual class to go to really kind of makes the "Out of sight, out of mind" rule apply pretty hardcore.

Either way, classes are going well. Extracurriculars, though, that's another matter.

I'm BUSY. Just to give everyone a general idea of what I do on campus, here's my email signature:
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ZEKIEL F. T. JOHNSON
Psychology & International Security Studies Undergraduate
Minor in Russian Language and Culture

Teaching Assistant | Department of Psychology
Councilor | UOSA Integrity Council
Coordinator of Graduation & Retention | UOSA Dept. of Academics
Chairman Pro-tem | Student Graduation and Retention Task Force
Campus Disciplinary Advocate | UOSA Dept. of Interior Campus Affairs
Student Publications Advocate | UOSA Dept. of Interior Campus Affairs
UOSA Appointee | OU Publications Board, Student Media
Board Member | Transit Appeals Board
Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Global Affairs
Crisis Counselor | OU Counseling Psychology Clinic, Number NYNE
Treasurer, President Emeritus | Russian Club
Sooner Ally | Women's Outreach Centre

University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK, United States
[Contact information omitted]
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And there are a couple other things that I do here and there that aren't on that list! Needless to say, I'm always pretty busy with something.

And then there's work. For anyone who hasn't heard, I'm working at Blockbuster. Also, I'm not a fan of the company. Blockbuster, in my opinion, is like the Titanic, except if the captain was playing some kind of version of "Pong" off of icebergs. They are constantly implementing plans and strategies that are so obviously going to make them lose money, it's ridiculous. I'll call it early on, too. And sure enough, a month or two later, store managers are told frantically to pull the program, effective immediately, because the idea lost the company thousands upon thousands of dollars. Who knew?

But it's money, and so for now, I put on a smiling face and go to work whenever I can. It's my second job, really. I still work for the university's Residence Life department as a weekend RA.

And, on top of that, I just interviewed today at Express, a clothing store at the mall here in Norman (which, for the record, is about 68% [seriously, I just did the math] closer than Blockbuster). I'm really hoping I get the job, because it's a MUCH more convenient location, and I like the company QUITE a bit more. Still, It will probably end up being a third job, because I need the money to pay bills and such.

As far as classes for next term go, I've decided to start taking somewhat easier terms, because I'm quickly getting burnt out on school, and I suspect it has something to do with the outrageously heavy terms I'm taking. Next term, I'm only enrolled in 16 hours right now, which is a nice change from my 24 hours that I was originally enrolled in THIS term (I'm now at 21, after dropping Russian, which I'll pick back up again later).

One of the classes I really want to take next term is Illicit Trafficking. It's an irregularly scheduled course — it only meets five or six times throughout the entire semester. But the actual bulk of the course comes in the middle of the term, during Spring Break, when the class takes a trip to Italy to actually conduct research and interviews with government officials and such. Unfortunately, the cost of the course is about $2900 for all of the travel, lodging, meals, etc. And although I get a stipend from National Merit for international travel of $1500, I don't think I can actually use it for a week-long getaway, even if it is with a class. I'm pretty sure that stipend is supposed to be used for study abroad and stuff like that. So I have a meeting with the coordinator of my SIAS major (who also happens to be teaching the class) to see if there are funding opportunities within the university. Keep a good thought; I'm really hoping to get into this course!

And lastly, I have a quick favor to ask of everyone out there in Internetland. I do a *lot* around campus, and have a pretty busy schedule, between work, classes, and my extracurriculars. I've been lucky so far in that Mom and Dad have let me take the Grandmamobile for use so far, but I'll have to give it back probably around Thanksgiving, leaving me without reliable transportation. Unfortunately, I'm pretty reliant on the car. So, if you know of anyone — friends, family, etc. — who may be selling their car or just getting rid of it soon, *please* keep me in mind, as I desperately search for an alternative for when I must part with the white car. Much thanks!

Time for bed.
Love you all,
Zekiel

It's dark thirty do you know where you newborn is

I sure do, right here, looking at me at 0421 in the morning. Sorry no new posts for awhile, we have been busy and I started following stuff on facebook so I could get more connected to what the kids were doing on line (just finished up a "chat" with Zeke a minute ago). What better way to straighten you kids up than posting "I love you" on thier wall in facebook.

Finn is doing pretty good, follow up appointment this afternoon with the pediatrician. My folks are down here with us the rest of this week then the training wheels come off and we are on our own. Although, I did tell my folks we could forward thier mail down here, no problem and Eli could just sleep on the inflatable mattress in the game room for an indefinte period of time.

Here's a picture of Finnian Charles MacSteven Johnson

now I need to go take some of that lovely

"will make you so drowsy that you better take this in bed cold medicne"

Phantom Family

our computer is haunted.

I'd logged bella out when the mouse on the screan just started moving it's self, loged in to mom and dad's screan, pulled up a chillie burgger resapie and a word doc and typed out 'yummy that looks good.'

In my head, This is an amasing virus, how do you program something like this!?!?! then whait mabye it's a ghost!! (cliks on doc) A ghost like ME!!!

Well it was zeke, and so beagin a long lovly super-natural chat between him and us.

This so kicked, IM and texting's booty.

Oo-Ray!!

Katie had the best day yesterday!!!! Ap Psychology is still amazing, and the general population did not drive me up the wall!!! What's more other than my words wrap around the screan in Dark Basic when you program for random colors and cordents with the print commands Computer Science is a blast. Their computers also seem to have no blocks in that lab, I can get on to every scholarship search engen on my screen. Yay!! Aaaaannnnndddd.....I have it fourth the longest class of the day and advisory!! So Yesterday I finally got on to the schools Rosetta Stone (Because I can't buy my one yet) and started learning Vietnamese!!!!! Don't ask me to spell it, there's nothing sound out-ish about it!!! But I remember how to say dog, under, car and the girl is on the plane!!!
And Then, Guard finally got it's Drill which they've been keeping from us!! And we're learning our thered movement, "Barn Dance" and Guard got to do our Barn Dance!!!!!
How will today compare?

Yes, I'm Alive

Just to reassure everyone, YES, I'm still alive. Just very busy what with school and everything else. I *still* have not quite moved all the way into my room, partially because I just don't have time to unpack everything, and partially because (much to my roommate's chagrin), I can't find a furniture arrangement that really is satisfying. I think later today after classes, I'm going to go home and try a different one out; I had a flash of furniture-related brilliance this morning when I got out of my shower.

So far, classes are going pretty well. I'm in 21 hours of classes, although I'm thinking about dropping one of my classes. I'm not sure which, but it's pretty much a toss-up between my 9 AM Russian class or my 6:30-8:50 PM Psych Stats class. Not that I don't like either of them, I just don't like the times. Speaking of Russian, I *did* manage to miss that class yesterday. Turns out yesterday was NOT a Monday. Unfortunately, setting my alarm the night before, I forgot that it was Labor Day weekend, and so I set my alarm to wake me up for my Monday classes. Here's the problem: Russian is at 9 AM. My Monday/Wednesday classes don't start until 1:30 PM. You do the math.

But whatever. I have the notes and homework, so it's all good. I'm about to go to personality this morning. I had to get up a little bit earlier today to go in so I could help collate and number the exams for the Intro to Psych section I'm a TA for. All 460 of the exams. *Whew*.

We finished pretty early, but it was still not the most exciting of experiences. Today's a pretty easy day. I have two classes today, then I'm going back to the apartment complex to deal with an eviction notice I received earlier this week. Relax, I'm not being evicted, but apparently the Reserve mixed up the order they do their paperwork in, and did the eviction notices before they did the paperwork about who gets to turn in rent late for financial aid reasons. Either way, I saved the notice in case Mom wants to scrapbook her baby's first eviction notice. And hopefully the last.

Anyway, Feroz and I both have a lot of homework/other stuff to do tonight, so we decided that we're both treating ourselves to something nice for dinner, then going to a room in the Union later and studying away our night. After, of course, my UOSA Coordinators meeting at 8:30. Then tomorrow, I have four classes, UOSA office hours, Psychology Club, an Advocacy Rep meeting, a meeting with the Graduation Retention office for UOSA, and then to bring my busy day to a close, a shift at the crisis line. *Whew*. I feel tired already.

Later, Internetland.

Labor Day, almost train splat!

I almost got hit by the DART rail. Aparently they don't stop durning the labor day parade. As the last band to go on we got to walk around in the Texas heat. Well My line cansisting of Olivia and me are half way over the first set of traks when we hear the ding-ding indacating you to move your tush out of the way. Over Half our Gaurd darted across the traks and the nice sicrity man pushed me back, about twelve gardlings and the band who hadent even reached the trak, off the tracks on the other side cuting us off from our Drill team and other Gaurd children. Must have looked like we got ran over.

Yay Parades!!!!!

My missing son

I really haven't talked to Zeke much since he went back up to college, other than a call for some cash and to make sure I sent him a textbook that came in after he left. So if you see him/talk to him/email him/facebook him tell him to call his Mommy.

She worries.

Pictures from Eli's trip to the Philmont Scout Ranch

This is what 11 days on the trail will make you act like.

The view out of Hidden Valley

Finally starting to see some of the pictures from Eli's trip this summer to the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. Here is a local camp resident.

AP Psychology

I spelled that on my own so if it's right I get a cookie!!!

Any way It's the end of the first weekend of the first week of school, My favorite classes so far is AP Psychology and Computer Science!!
Just to give you a glimps, Comp. Sci. imagen me with short hair teaching a computer class (with computer know-how) and that's my teacher.
Ap Pychology is taught by Coach Halic. Here are our safty rules in the event of a Drill or Real Life (There's a big diffrince)

Fire DRILL: Coach will calmly line us up ("Come now children") and we will walk out to the baseball feald and join as on Psychological mind in a Kum-by-ya circle.
REAL Fire: Coach will dart out of the room throwing desks in our way lock the door and sprint down the stairs throwing small freashmen girls out of his way, he will then get in his car and drive away incase the fire becomes explody. When asked about his calss he will sadly reply "They didn't make it"

Tornado DRILL: Coach will take us down stairs to where we will asume the 'Kiss your bum good bye' position in the math halland rutenly cheak on us to see if we need a new change of pants.
REAL Tornado: Coach will leave us to go to the secrit tornado room in the sience hall so he will be safe as we are sucked up in to the land of OZ. (Aperintly our sience hall is fire proof and and steal inforced) ((In the event of a real tornado, I will eather be joining Coach or need a bathroom brake and hide in the tolits in the center of the school))

LockDown DRILL: We will hide togeather, and stay quite. coach lockes the door
REAL LockDown: One of us locks the door. Coach will hide under his desk, and we will form a three layer human protection ring around him. in the event that the crazed gun man brakes into our room we are all to atack him seal his gun and subdue him on the floor. Yes some of us will die bu that's a risk Coach is willing to take. When we get the gun we're to give it to coach and cheak the hall for any other gun men in need of a Psychology smack down. When assured that it is completly safe Coach will get off the phone with his Mommy, dry his eyes and call the news paper to run to the school. He will then put one foot on the subdued gunman and hold the confencated wepone tryumfently. when the princapuls and reporters arive he will then smile and say, "Don't worry I saved them all."

Coach says these drills are okay becuse once we get into Dreams, we'll all have one that he dies in.

Proof of community service

Just got this picture of me teaching at merit badge college. I think this was supposed to be my Personal Fitness class, but I believe we were working on how to appropriately bet the over/under on college bowl games.

Find Your Happy Where You Can

I know that I'm way overdue to post about moving in, and college in general, and everything else. But for now, I'll just leave you with this...

Black Eye

Luci is sporting a black eye right now. She got in an argument with a chair and lost. But what the kids were saying when they saw her was, "man, what does the other kid at the gym daycare look like?"

Now that's Valome

Dad had said no more braids, pony tails, pig tails or any combnation of the tree. So I decided to straghten my hair to day. half way through my poor sraghatner said caphrope and died. *sad face*
It wouldn't work any where I pluged it in, upstairs down stairs, in the kition. It has died.

beware the routinees

curse you routinees!!!!

It is HOT!

I think Asa says this for all of us. MAN I AM HOT!!

School supplies

Here is your gambling game for the day. Gather the adult members of your house together around the computer and play over/under with what I spent today to outfit the kids (4 of them) for school this year. Grades were 8th, 6th, 4th, and 1st.


No Peaking.


Are you sure



$294

Mr. Fantastic

Katie tells me that my gray hair makes me look stylish (nice try by the oldest daughter) like Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic 4 and that when I come back from scout camp unshaven that I have the "aragon look". Well this week Katie was being kind of a smart aleck and said;

"see you later Mr. Fantastic."

And I told her, "that's what your mom calls me."

She ran screaming from the living room.

Gotcha

Please refer to Katie as Yao Running Deer Jemima Fuentes

Trust me, no matter what the spin is on quotas, they are alive and well in the scholarship world. Katie and one of her friends were doing online searches for scholarships this evening and one of the tools used is your name. Katharina Johnson did not bring up near the money that Yao Running Deer Jemima Fuentes cha ching'd up.

Now if we can just find the picture of a grandparent couple that shows a Cherokee/Asian woman and a Mexican/Black man we will be golden

Literally.

Christmas this year

Just wanted to give the extended family and friends a heads up. The tribe will NOT be traveling for the holidays this year. No magic van rides north with 10 kids, one of them being only about 6 weeks old. So, you are duly notified. No whining. We love you, love seeing you, but we are hunkering down in our casa this year.

more from summer camp

Here are a couple of the pictures from Summer Camp. Asa is working on his Leatherworking Merit badge by making a staff handle. The gator is what swam in the lake next to our tents. Notice the focus that Asa is showing, focus or he is thinking MAN I AM HOT!!!

On the floor in Amarillo

the meds failed me this morning and I locked up and was stuck on the floor in the Amarillo Courtyard. Could not put on my shoes or socks, couldn't bend that far. Finally got rolled over and in a chair.

I'm making noises when I move like an 80 year old man.

Oy my back!

Down in the back

Still popping pain meds and muscle relaxants like M&Ms. I look like Gollum from Lord of the Rings when I get up in the morning and hobble into the bathroom toward the meds.

"Ah, my precious, me needs my precious."

Yeah, I am pretty entertaining for the family at this point.

As for what all has been going on in the house:
1) I dorve over 60 mph and didn't even come close to crashing! (Yes I was in the speed limit)
2) I now have a debit/cheaking acount!
3) Band boot camp has begon
4) UNCLE RAFE AND AMILIA ARE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on three and four

I was siting with uncle Rafe watching Wale Wars chearring for the Walers, that lasted a bit past 10 but Uncle Rafe was still up soooo.... so was I! ^-^
Well I sunggle into bed and I hear "Let me out I'm stuck in your Pockit" (It's my ring for texts) at 10:20!!!!!!!
I snaped up with a "Who in the heak is texing me THIS LATE AT NIGHT!!"
it was one of my color gaurd captins, so I calm down abit figuring it's something really important that I would need to know and would better my life.
no
it's "Meet in the band hall tomarow morning"

..........-_-...........

I was quite put out.

New Look for the family blog

Got tired of the old look and figured that Lisa needed a little better billing so up goes her picture. I don't know who the homely guy is sitting in front of her.

My Birthday!!! (I love you Mom and Dad)

Sorry it took so long to post this but it was something that needed visual aid.

Okay, My Birthday was on the 18th and so was my party! It was bigger because I didn't get one last year. Well, first, we had to invite some people, but I didn't really get that my Birthday was coming up. So it turned out to be me deciding what I wanted to do the day before, and inviting people on the day of. Olivia, Britney, Bri, Miranda, Justen ("Just-EEN").

Now where did I go to spend my 17th (and really delayed 16th)?

Where else, but Medieval Times!

How cool was that?

well just to start the sign outside the castle said 'We've got HOT knights'

Oh yes they did!

And the food's not bad either, served to your bench by your very own Wench!

Now when you go in there's a story plot to this dinner show. At the beginning it's all dark and

showed the Prince (who didn't look half bad) being captured by a traitor when he'd gone to sign the treaty of peace and being dragged away followed by an executioner with a big ax and

a bull whip. When properly cracked, bull whips break the sound barrier. He properly cracked it.

Well next part, out comes the Princess, in her little medieval press box. She overacted, but she had the voice for it. The kind that is on audio fairy tales and tells you when to turn the page. She was whiny! "Oh where is my love, the prince? He said he'd be back! Oh I fear!"

Now out comes King. "My Dear, he'll be back, he just went to sign the peace treaty."

And she goes, "There will be no peace in my heart until he is back with me!"

She really got old. But she did start the tournament.

There was a Falconer!

That was cool! What he's swinging is the meat that birdie dives at. The bird got so close too! We felt its wings beat as it flew literally right over our heads!

And then there was trained horses!

Now I don't have a photo of it but the horse back-kicked from this position without putting it's front hooves on the ground!! They would march and bow and walk and everything!!

Now here come the Hot Knights! First out, march their squire buddies!

And then the tournament!!! Jousting!!!!! To celebrate the 'Treaty'!

Now you sit in sections that are marked by colors. Green. Red and Yellow. Blue. Yellow. Black and White. And ours is the RED Knight, the youngest and best looking there!!!! Olivia said it was the Black and White knight...But we were okay with that because he was on our side of the arena and so supposedly is good buddies with our knight. (People on the other side of the arena you are to give your 'loudest and cruelest boo')

Here's the knights!!

Red knight!

And then there's the Black and White knight he's the guy on the other side. (far side is red and yellow)

and some other guys.

The jousting was so awsome!!! Green knight got kicked out for fowl mouthing the King. Well It went:

Green v Yellow. (green kicked out, Yellow Carried out)

Red v Red and Yellow (Red win)

Red v Blue (Blue win)

Blue v Black and White (Black win)

Now With Our knight we were excitedly cheering and had a chant of "Go Red! Go Red!" and such. Well, as you can expect, blue knocking out Red did not go well with us. Well up next was Black and White. and we greeted him with loving "Kick his blue butt!!" "Black and White! Black and White!" "Kill him!!!"

Dear old black and white came through and out charges Green and lances him in the back!!! Rest assured that we did give this our 'loudest and crulest boo'. And suprise, suprise Green drags out Prince. (Well I really was suprised because I thought Princy was pushing daisies). Prince was leverage to make the old king make Green champion of both kingdoms. I personally would have set my goals higher than 'Champion'.

Black picks himself up and epically duels with Green, during which Prince breaks free and helps. They get Green on his back

"Peace or Death!"

"Never!!"

Well it all went black and there was no more green when the lights were back on.

Another thing, we brought a cake that they were going to serve us later, but, well, our poor Wench slipped and spilled it in the kitchen. We really were glad she did! It got us these free smoothie slushie things and a new cake!

And after the show you can meet the knights and take picturs with them.

And this was all done after the Cha-Cha slide

Anyway I walk over to dad and see Grandpa talking to guess who? Red! Well this is the guy that had thrown me a rose (he kisses it first)

And such, well they all told me to go up and get a single photo with him....guess what he did....

Best Birthday Ever!!!!!!

Katie's 17!

Well, my little girl turned 17 so for her birthday we took her, five of her friends and Grandpa Thomas to Medival Times. She had a great time, we have pictures of her and the "Red Knight" who was all to attentive for her father (imagine me giving the stink eye to a guy in armor with a sword and him backing up). Our "serving wench" accidentally dropped our cake, so they brought us one of thiers and gave us all a round of strawberry smoothies. Then we came home and I sat thier in the dark of the van and listened to a group of teenage girls talk about boys. A Dad should never ever have to hear that. EVER.

After a couple of movies the girls turned in at about 4 and I was finally able to go to bed.

So far my job

has inclued braking up fights, trips to the park, skreach feats, makeing healthy...somethimes not...meals, cakes cookies and puddings, fighting of ghosts, head trama, abandoment issues, movie feats, sunscrean, stomping, ice cream, dirty dishes, haunted key bords, pipes, and bathrooms, and a new hippo.

So far last night was the worst.

I put Lucy down for bed and the others down after we finished Tarzan. well all alost went well

but vivi came down with head trama in need of a band-aid. Put her in mom and dads room with Greta.

Bella came down sobbing about someone knoking on the bathroom door and wouldn't lay down becuse she was scared to go to sleep, so stayed up to watch x-men and iorn man with me (the cartoons).

vivi chouses now to pop her head out and sobb about how she want's mom and dad becuse they're never here any more. (This is at 10:35) and Greta says she dosn't want vivi in bed with her becuse she dosn't like her any more.

to wich I lovingly say "Well look the other way and pretend she's not there! Now be quite and go to Sleep"

Dad and boys come home from Boy scouting around 11 after Iorn man and bella ends up in my bed.

I get to do this every day this week.

Katie trying to get a post from Bella

hi peeps

No Bella that is not a complet post! put in a story! Tell them about watering plats or the ghost you heard! Something!

hi peeps

Bella that's not a story! Now try again or NO Cookie for YOU!

nnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Katie's eating a cookie infront of me! Curse you Katie!

last night there was a sound coming from the bathroom-dondondon-and no one was inside so i said sushup - it didn't like that-dondondonnnn-so i ran down stairs and stayed there with katie and wached x-men - wolviren has anger- ishu's cookie! katie said that she posened are drinds it works it 90 years

from Bella

-with bandit and when they got home -bandit didn't get up for pizzas crust katie's baking cooooooookkkkkkiiiiiiiieeeeeesssss

Mistary meal

I'm making Lunch for Izzy, Princess, Diva, and Valocarapter but I had to share this.

I pulled out some Tilapia Fish Sticks and Greta runs up "Wow I love dos!!"

Izzy and I look at each other. "What are they, Greta?"

"I don't know."

At lest I know she'll eat it.

There's a noise in the tolet.

for the past two mornings Lucy has somehow put herself into my room and woken me up. This morning She didn't! I made sure my door was still closed because it's child locked. It was so I went to take a shower. Part way through I hear this noise. A clunk, and I'm thinking That's probably what that lady in the shower heard first on Phyco too! So i peak out and there's Lulu! She'd gotten my door open! How I don't know!

Well then she starts handing me all these things. A cup, empty shampoo bottle, another cup, my glasses, and a shaving razor.

Well I'm thinking that I'd better do something before she starts handing me really breakable items from my room so I reach out pull the oneze of her head take the diper of and stick her in the shower with me where I can watch her!

Lucy liked it, she turned the shower of once and put the stopper in the bottom of the tub but other than that she behaved herself.

I just had to dry my glasses off before I used them.

Smack Dab in The Acafala Swamp

On our way back home from Aunt Lauries we made a stop at a rest area in Louisianna. You couldn't see this rest stop from the elevated highway, elevated to keep it out of the swamp. As we cloverleaf around to this rest stop we are notified that we are "Smack Dab in the middle of the largest freshwater swamp in North America." Well isn't that just dandy, we've stopped for a potty break in the largest swamp in North America, maybe we can get one of the bigger kids to thrash around in the swamp and lure a gator in for the little kids to pet! We sat in the wooden rocking chairs on the big covered porch and made the young'ens sandwhichs while Maw scooted them through the outhouse.

Local flavor is nice and all, but jimminy Christmas.

Are you smarter than a Dog?

Yesterday there was a little gray schnauzer running around out front and I, like Zeke and well everyone else, could have sworn we've seen him before. He had no tags but a collar and came scampering over when I whistled. Well I picked him up to keep him from scampering away before we could find whose he was and Bandit, watching from the back yard, did not like this. She opened the gate and ran out to me and the stranger doggie.

Yes, she opened the gate.

Four times.

She figured out that the rusty lach will open if she paws at the botom of the gate and pushes against the gate, it will open just enouf to squeze through. On the same gate that took the little girls forvever to learn how to open.

We didn't find the owner and Dad had me put him down and he scampered away....

Bandit i think felt better becuse, I think, she thought that I was finding a new puppy or something.

Vacation!

Aw, dad you left out Asa's blood donation! He lost a tooth and had an hour long at least nose bleed, he left a trail of blood spalters that we cuaght the little kids from a bible school daycare pointing at. And Vivi finaly petted a shark, but she wouldn't join us for the sting-a-ray, even when we told her that she wouldn't end up like Steve Irwin.

Lucy handled the trip pritty well as long as Katie gave her yummy snaks! A twizler for each hand, oatmeal cakes, cheasey crakers!

Braden gave me a bike tour of the base pointing out every thing the morning we got there, including the Girl Marines. "I was watching them once but I saw them punce the head off a dummy that was scrwed on!" So he says, but I think he still slowed down when we pased. Then there was a tour on a carige of Bufort, and then on a boat where we saw lots of DOLFINS!!!!! and then icecream! I got a dirt sunday! It came in a bukit!

4th of July was cool, we went to the beach that morning and after boggie bording with Braden and wave hopping with Bella a lady taught us how to find Sand Dollers under the water! It was so much fun! We found seven tottle with the system of me finding them and Braden diving for them, two of them were the size of dad's hand! but we had to put them all back becuse they were alive still. Then we built a Sand castle city! My castle and the little girls castle and braden's castle with shell paved streats, moats, and briges! then I bured Bella!

And No one Celabrates the 4th of July like Mariens! there were bounce houses, hot dogs hamburgers icecream, and a band made of Marines

It was unforgitabul to watch the men in their unaforms rock out, voices and all exept they still had perfict posture!

Next day well we chilled with Aunt Wally! cleaned up her house a bit and went out to eat. and then hit the road ending our all to short visit!

We stoped at Pensacola and went for a middle of the night walk on the beach. At 12:45!!!! Full moon and all! So cool! kinda wish Eathan was there but there was dad and I knda don't want my boy frined to die.

The next morning Lucy found out that Florida has a bit harsher waters, after a wave picked her up and started to pull her out to sea if she didn't run into my legs. the next day we found sheals and Braden and Asa got covered in jelly fish stings boggie bording! they wrent bad stings but they got up their pants!

Verry Invasive!

And then the trip home! Asa was a bad snak passer outer becuse he ate them constently!

Asa continues to fish - at the aquarium

There will be more on our trip to the aquarium in New Orleans. But I wanted to drop this little tidbit out for you folks. As we are working our way down the floors of the aquarium we went through the Mississippi River section, and my bride makes a "your Dad's side would go noodling for those" as she pointed at the catfish. When we made our way down to the Amazon section there was a tank that was four feet high, so you could look down into the water as well as through the glass. Guess what Asa was caught by his Mom trying to do.

That's right, noodling, in the Audobon Aquarium of the Americas, in the Amazon section. Where things may just take the arm right off.

It's official, we are on vacation!

Residence Inn - Lafayette, LA

Well we made it this far. Lisa worked last night so she is actually not to the hotel yet. Oh, and I found out we are breaking some fire codes having this many people in a two bedroom suite at the Residence Inn.

I may have to start smuggling small children in to the rooms in suitcases to prevent mayhem.

We hit New Orleans tomorrow, then push on to Braden the next day.

From Braden - 1

so here's Braden and i haven't posted in awhile and so some stuff has happened here.
1) grampa and i have made a sunflower seed bed with some amazing sun flowers
2) the lawn care guys moed over and destroyed all of my hard work (+ grampas)
3) i got a new 1 time job with baby sitting and got $20 for it
4) mom and dad are coming over tomarow

Asa's Call home

Asa is on a fishing trip to Colorado with a friend and called the other day while on his little mini-vacation.

Asa: Hey Dad, its' Asa and I am alive, don't sell my stuff.
Dad: I've already sold the DS games I found.
Asa: That's o.k., they were Bella's anyway.

Talking to Asa is very one dimensional, very guy. Just the facts, I am alive, don't sell my stuff, I am fishing in Colorado, I peed on a tree.

Very very guy.

jab jab jab cross step step Round House!...I feal like Chuk Noris!

It's Kick box Jams! self defence and cardeo all in one! I had never been to a class and neather had Maranda who we snuk past the cheak in ladys becuse she didn't have a memburship to LiftTime Fitness!

Well warming up with some new gaurd steaches/torcher Tj had showed us we descovered that maranda had no abs in her body. at all. you know how some people have a rock covered in moss for abs? She just had the moss.

Well we get in and the instruter looked at us and said "Alright now this is a lot of abs all standing up! Let's go!"

oh boy....I did not know that the inside of your ears could seawt! half way through this Maranda looks at me and says, "What hell have you goten me into?"

Me, "I don't know but it's sweaty."

The instutor was dripping with it. I don't even swaet that much for band and that's out side! By the end our feet were sore and our water bottles empty. and we had big bottles. needless to say we're going back every Sunday at 2pm and tomarow we're off to Hip-Hop. No idea what it is we're just going to do it! The one in the title was my favorit drill. that or the one with the front strike back block front kick back kick!

Woo-Hoo!

Now it gets harder - name this kid

Face shots were too easy for Aunt Mandy - now try and name which kids this is. Score is currently Aunt Mandy 2 everyone else 0.

Eli's at Philmont in the New Mexico Mountains

Eli is currently on a 100 mile hike in the Mountains in New Mexico. We can't talk to him until the 5th of July and he will not be back until the 6th. Here is a link to a google map that shows you where our hiker is headed each day. No showers, no running water, no bathrooms until they come off the trail.

http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106052927351458541054.00046caad7859acde59ad&t=h&z=11

Which kid am I - Round 2

The last time we played this game Aunt Mandy was the winner. Which one of the kids is this? Who do you love enough to remember them when they were this little?

Lucy Now Knows All The Important Things In Life

1) The doggie bed is the most comfy thing in the Kitchien.

2) You can't always go to the pool, so spash in the doggie's water bowl, do it fast befor you get caught.

3) Learn the names of evry thing so you can figure out what evry one is saying. hint: if you want to play with it it's called an 'Ah-O' or a 'no-no'

4) When Daddy comes to nibble on you you can bite back, but he's not that tasty

5) Growling at stragers is a fun past time in the store, espeshaly if there old ladies!

6) Climb up the stairs really fast, that way no one knows wear you are! They should have had the baby-gate up any way! hint: learn where the really cool rooms are up there!

7) Katie is usawaly in her room, go knock on the door so she thinks it's Daddy or Zeke and opens the door so you can run in! Even better is if the door isn't closed all the way and you can just skip the nocking completly and run in with triumphent harty laughter and try and find where the music is comeing from! hint: she's showed you twice, just need to remeber where it is!

8) Katie has this really cool rocking chair in her room, have her pick you up when she's trying to read in it! Your cuter than any old book any way!

9) Katie is not alowed to stand and not hold you go grab her leg or fallow her demanding to be heald. She'll pick you up! if not get some one else to pick you up and then twist around and hold your arms out to Katie!

10) Zeke sleeps in to much, throw a bilards ball at his head to wake him up!

11) It's morning and your hungry...Katie's plate sure looks yummy, and you know she'll share...espeshaly if you grab her waffles, don't worry she dosn't mind it's what big sissy are for!

12) Brothers watch to much TV go turn it off for them!

13) Mommy loves the sound of you screaming at the top of your lungs, do it often. hint: she dosen't really mean it when she says 'No-no Lucy', it really means 'Crank it up I want to see some glass shatering here!'

14) always hold in the big sceam till some one is holding you right next to their ear, they love that!

15) Katie, Daddy, and Mommy want a chalange when they change your dipper, Squerm like no tomarow!

16) Swinging must be some kind of high nervana that's why Katie dose it so much *cough* all day *cough*, demand to go out side for the poch swing or up stairs for her cool rocking chair!

17) Evry one enjoys a good puzzle, make sure your fed, clean diper, the works then sream and cry, watch evry one try and figuer out whats worng! remebur after a full 3 hrs or so run around giggaling! It'll have them wondaring for days.

18) there's this really cool big kid toy called a Computer, crawl in to Katie's lap and bang away at the key bord or play with the mouse, she wont mind, it's not like she's writing books or any thing! ^-^

19) The doggie loves it when you give her pretzals! and a good firm twak on the head!

20) when the Big siblings brake out the can of Cool Whip open your mouth really big, they'll squrit some in side!

Freind who just so happens....

It has ocured to me that i do not post much *cough* at all about my-wait dad's waching-Friend who just so happens to be a boy.

Well that might be the fact that we haven't done much recently but we're trying to work around each other's scegulas. We're bouth really active busy people.

Bella quit reading over my shoulder

Over your shoulder is a figuer of speach smarty pants go away I'm blogging! (Izzy says DUDE to you all) Now GO AWAY

Okay, bake on track. Here's my Friend who just so Happens to be a boy. (Put in some kind of format that tose of you who want to set up those wier satalite spy things like dad has can use)

Name: Eathen

Grade: Mine

Activaties: Ac-Dec, Gaurd(he joind for me!) Stratigy club

hight: 6 something probly, he's taller than me even when i'm whaering my wgde lifts wich shoot me up to taller than our frige.

Any who He's super sweet, and a lot of my friends told me ther're jelous becuse he uses old fashon maners and respect. That's right I got the Gentalman in high school! (they're an endagered speches you know!)

Oh and first time he met Daddy:

Dad walks me into the bowling ally, "son I just want you to know they'll never find the body...Have fun Sweetheart!"

his respoce -"Yes sir."

mine-"Bye Daddy!"

Sweat, I mean Scout camp

Just back from our annual trip to Scout Camp. This summer we went to Camp Cherokee in Athens, TX. Nothing more refreshing than summer camp in Texas. NOT. The parents are already encouraging the boys that next years summer camp needs to be in Colorado. But it was a successful camp, Asa earned three merit badges and a rank advancement and Eli, as the troops Senior Patrol Leader, learned the joys of leadership. We also had a visit from one of the camp alligators. Yeah, heat, humidity and animals that can eat you, what's not to love.

Eli also has his Eagle Project approved and looks like we are working at the Tiger rescue place in a month.

Now please excuse me while I start the mound of sweat soaked laundry.

Greta speaks

We went to Target today and after Greta got done with picking out a toy for her buddy Kate's Party wich i quote "She'll Loove it"-greta. and we got my new bathroom set. Pingeins. She paraded around proclaming. "I'm the Queen! I'm the Queen!" and what's more she'd been decent, vivi wasn't there, so no one to fight with, so we said she could have a cookie. (they give out some free cookies) By the time we caught up with her at the bakary counter she was ordaring cupcakes. "Wif prinseses on them for my birf-day. They need alls the pricesses, Arile, Cndrella, Jasmen, Bell, snow white, Tinker bell, alls of themb. for my birf-day..." She told them the day and evrything.

At home I froget what we were talking about but she gose. "Oh I know the Treorists. We're frindes!"

Me-"What? How'd you meet the Terorists?"

G- "Picutrs. They're really big! Bigger than me! We took picturs wif themb"

Me-"Where?"

G-"In a Hall it had really big steps. In the Tower!"

Me-"You took picturs with the Treorists in a tower?"

G-"Yeah and were frinds!"

Me to Z-"Well no wonder we had such trubble finding them they wern't in caves they're in towers!"

Z-"Takeing Picturs with little children!"

Me-"Man, do you think Uncle Rafe knows?"

Z-"We should tell him"

G-"Yeah, so he can take picturs too!!"

At least she's honest

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that was from Lucy, she says......well she said grew.....but other than that i don't know. It was kinda like Zeke i was just letting her bang and she opened up these files i didn't know exested and new windows and hiding things....and she can spell....it makes me feel kinda....8C (extreme sad face)

On with the story.

On the way home from the troop 51 meat and greet at Spring Creek–where i found that they've asked Eli to ask me about Adventure Crew which I want to do for some acwal camping, but he said I wasn't interested, and I've never been asked.–When I asked Mom if I should go for Church Choir.

"I think you'd could sound pretty good in a group with a bunch of other people."

"Mom that sounds like a nice way of saying, gee you stink but if your with a bunch of really good people they can drown you out"

Zeke looked back and said "I was just thinking that too."

That's mom for you no shuger coating, just the cold thorn of truth. really pointy thorn, stabs right in the hart. *Sniff*

Oh and thorny says she'll ground me for posting this so if she's for real I might not see you for a while.

How fast are you?

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Electric_Field_Hockey

click the run now button if you get a gole it'll tell you. In this house I'm the only one to have done it on leval three! which is what I'm challenging you on....

Hints (Because hay I'm just that nice!)

1) opposites attract, like forces repeal. It's a lot essayer if you know that.

2) start small and work your way up to three.

3) a positive charge feald goes out like those kindergarten sun beams on the smiling sun. negative goes in to the center like a black hole.

4) Gravity, it's real. The blue lines will pull the 'puck' to them.

5) there's a little "do-do" trumpet and big green letters saying Goal if you get it if not it says Collision. If it doesn't go "do-do" you didn't win. don't cheat.

There you should be faster then me, I had to do this by my self for Physics extra-credit.

Zeke fixed My screen!!!!! I can post from my home port now!!!!! happy face!!!!!

Vivi and Greata like each other for two seconds the other day after a caraclle (mary-go-round) ride.

What are little girls made of? To Much Tude! New Recipe Please!!!!

The Big Sister Tax is amazing! If i see something yummy, it must be taxed! The really cool thing about it...only the oldest sister has the right to tax!

Any way with bella my main tax-y gone I've be forced to watch the most squabaly pair of children on the face of the Johnson house, and that's not counting the boys.

Cell mate 1- Vivi

Solitary confinement- Greta

If one so looks at the other wrong they scream! Greta picked up a book one day for me to read to her OFF THE FLOOR WHERE IT HAD BEEN LAYING ALL OF THREE DAYS Vivi saw it and just about popped a vain because this was her book! (don't get me started on what happen when Greta put on a never used princess dress) Greta wasn't tarring it, chewing on it, nothing. But the way Vivi made it seem with all her screaming, Greta had stolen the Crown Jewels of England, Started a Gang, Caused Cancer, and stole candy from a blind armless baby.

not stretching it here folks.

don't really have to.

Now Greta-oh my imaginary kittens!! She got upset with Vivi and it turned in to an 'I HATE YOU!!! I HATE THIS FAMILY!!!!!!' i think Vivi took her kitchen job of getting out the milk. and it lasted for two days!!!! And no more tv for her! Becuse when ever she get's confronted she gets this diva tude and gos 'ah' as if there's some grate offense, and acts like a spoiled teenager. And it's never her fault, EVER, Vivi did it, Lucy did it, some thing made her, the aliens came down and tap danced. AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Oh and today I don't even remember what she got in trouble for but it whent on and on and on and on (repet for three pages), and then at lunch she dosnt want to sit down.

"Greta" Says mom who's now awake "You have till we say grace to be sitting down ore you don't eat." tater tot's, Lemon fish, and banna-strawberry-Vilna ice cream-chocolate smoothie.

"I DON"T WANT TO SIT BY LUCY!!! I HATE SITING BY LUCY!!!!" geuss who.

we say grace and she off pouting and mom goes okay time for nap

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

and when mom goes to get Zeke, I have to chase her back up the stairs over five times. Well more like sling her over my shoulder and storm up the stairs as the voices decide not to like her.

And at dinner she got upset becuse she WASN't siting BY LUCY!!!

At Dicks a day or two ago, after she aperently tried to throw things over the edge of the top floor rail (I don't know I was off looking at how much a good Archery set and target would be with the help of the nice Dicks boy, asking if I was going to go hunting or just needed to shoot something. and a good set of sun glasses for marching band boot camp. If your wondaring Diks sporting goods gift card is cool.) while dad tried to get scout things, and just plain was a pain dad told me to take her out side.

she didn't want to come

I had to chase her down

I ended up to the amusement of every one else slinging her over my shoulder like a screaming kicking sack of whiny-tatos saping at Vivi that if she didn't get her little sorce of a migrane rear in gear and start marching to the car I was going to jump kick her in the right direction. She tryed to put her self over the edge along with the other items.

Lucy also has caused migraines. she screams for no resion. She'll be clean, fed, uninjured and she'll just scream and scream and scream. I think I lost hearing in my left ear from holding her.

And those single child people who only watch their baby cousen for two hours and think parenting is just as eseay always wonder why I laugh at their faces (a little crazaly) when they say raising kids will be fun and simple and they want a huge family. one girl said 12.

And some one asked me why i didn't think it was cute to have a baby in high school.....well let's see I already have around 6 who arnt really mine even though evry one who see's me with out mom and all them thinks their mine. Especially I if it's just Lucy and me. or some of the small girls

Central markit lady- You have such a butiful daughter

Me- Thanks,

Lady- How old is she?

me- one (I had greta)

Greta seeing mom- MOMMY

Lady- .....

Me- Bye

Church lady (thins is with evry one up to Eli, I'm holding Lucy)- Are these all yours? how old's this one? points at Lucy

Me- Few Months, got my figur back real fast hua?

Lady not ceaching a clue- Oh yeah you look grate!

Dad- Come on sis

Lady- Your husbend calls you sis?

Me- Coming dad

See I already have kids and I don't want more.

on a brighter note we celebrated early Father's day. Mom gave me the presents and said wrap them and then left me alone.

Asa helping I wrapped a ginomus scout cot. Too big to prank wrap. The other two. heheheheh.

One shirt was put in sie a small box and then that box was put in another box that was filled with packing peanuts and taped shut on all edges and a wrap long and short ways. One layer of paper and some ribbon.

Box two. shirt confetti and lots and lots of paper. layers apon layers. but we were carful to never reuse a design of paper and not tape a layer to another. and we left mesages on the paper.

santa paper- Have you been good steve? Cuz it would stink to go through all this fro just some cole (picture of cole)

green papper- Open the box charlie! yeah open the box! It's a majical box of hope and wonder! Wonder and hope! (Picture of smiling Unicorn)

It's just a stupid box! (angry face)

(pic. of horse rear view) Shun the non believer ssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnn

red stripy paper- at lest you know we put some effort in to this any normal person would have put one layer of paper but we love you enouf for 65!

these are not the gifts you are looking for (pic. of Jedi hand waving)

Second paper from top- 95 layers of paper on the box! 95 layers of paper!

As you can see, don't let us wrap your presents if you want to remain in a serous mode. But it made him feel really loved! When it was all over It looked as if he'd gotten 25 or so presents. ^-^

AMELIA

-Braden:) yup yup

...... PLAY WITH ME ELI
B:No it's Braden
A: nope eli
B;BRADEN
A;ELI
B;BRADEN
A:ELI
B:BRADEN
A:ELI
B:ELI
A:ELI
B:AAAHHAHHAHAGGGGUUGUGUGUU
A:ELI
B:NO ITTTTTTTTTT'TTTTTTSSSSSSSS
A:eli
AL;(LAUGH)
A:BY ELI
B:NO ITS BRADEN
A:okay eli
B:no it is braden
A: ELI AND BRADEM

ya know she thinks i'm eli because she has a picture of him and i didn't have my glasses on so she thought i waz him

My D.I. Running Buddies

okay so this is Breden again and today + yesterday i ran with 2 D.I.s (Drill Instructors) and in traning they seem like pains in the :)
but their really nice guys that can runn really fast, like 15 mph . and so what aunt lorie left out waz that i ran with them twice and bike with them 4 times on of those times i had amelia with me in the child carreg that hooks up with aunt lories bike so i couldn't go veary fast.
so i'm gonna go on a low down thing
RUNNING=
BRADEN 0
D.I.s 2

BIKING=
BRADEN 0
D.I.s 4

1st run they beat me by half the base
2nd run thay still beat me by not as much as last time

1st bike i still lost by 2.34 mi (yup i counted)
2nd bike i got lost at the female traning grounds :) (wink wink)
3rd bike i had amelia with me so i couldn't go veary fast
4th bike i still go beat really bad

( no i did 1 more runn at 5 in the morning because it was cool and i was biking and guess what i kept up with them muhahahahahahahahahahaha. :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):(

OUR ADVENTURES IN THE CAVES OF aunt lorie

okay so today is the 13th of june and we (me and zeke) had a interesting game to day theat consisted of throuing the theripy ball for amelia around betwwen aunt lorie amelia and zeke and me in the living room and then we just added ball after ball after ball...... etc untill the lining room was full of them most of them bouncing off of amelias head and aunl wallys hands
oksy and it justendded a second ago

Boy, i can't fell my legs after that.
p.s. i actually kept up with the D.I.'s today ON FOOT! Muhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha............ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...(2hrs later)AHAHAHAHAHA



Okay so this is braden agian and the other message waz from me tooo so yesterday on the 12th it waz around 5:30 and i sterted sord fighting with amilea (with no parental suppervision and this waz after we tickeld grampa with noodles) with pool noodles that were cut inhalf and bought at the CORE EXGANGE(ya know a marine supermarket) for about $1. and zeke joins inso we really start sword fighting with 2 noodles each (i got amelia on my side) and literally beat Zeke back and on to the couch. then Grampa got in with 1 noodle and beat me back (amelia left my side when grampa came into the fight)
Ya know we didn't beat up the house but aunt lorie waz beweldered that we were fighting and got pictures for grampa and mom. so tommarow were palnning our next random thing to do after we get bored from talking in the living room










pss THIS HADDD NOOOOOOOOOPERENTAL SUPPER VISION FOR A LONG TIMMME
PLUS GRAMPA AND AUNT LORIE FOUGHT WITH NOODLES TO


WHO SAYS ADULTS DON'T HAVE KID MOMENTS ANY MORE.
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TO BE CONTUNUED

Running with the DI's

There are two drill instructors that Braden eyeballed running yesterday. Today he tried keeping up with them on a bike...

And they still smoked him. :)

Grandpa figures if he tries to catch them every day, by the end of the month he should have some pretty good muscles and be able to keep up!

Personally, I think Braden would have smoked them if he hadn't been doing the good "big brother/cousin" thing and pulling Amelia in the bike carrier at the same time. She loved it!

Crazy Road Trip (with amazing beaches)

Okay so heres whathappened on our 2 day road trip with multuple stops and go's. (ANy way im braden using zekkes acount in here.(and yup i spell purrdy) )
so we start off on our perolus journy from sunny texas to even hotter south carolina with tons of healthy food and drinks.
and nothing really happens for thefrist 5hrs just talking fighting and gramps coulerful languge to other drivers, ya know roadtrip stuff. and every thing is fine and danddy until we hit lousiana and then thats when the trouble starts. Grampa volo-told me the NavaGESSUER. yup i get to find our way around the 5 states that were going through and ster our way to destiny or just to the military base(prison) that aunt wally is staying at (kept).
now one of our conversations later we figure out why all those drivers were giving us nice looks and gestures. it was because our brake light was on the whole time. all because of a small blue disc the size of a rollo',which are pretty tasty.
and it fell out and most yahoos thought we were ridding on our brakes that entire time. SOOOOOO later....
we get a suite at the lovly, senic, fair feild inn thtanks to dad.
and out side the suite.
Zeke:plezz leave the gass outside braden.
Grampa:that was you , i tought some thing crawled up and died in the back seat
Braden:(giggl-fart-e)
zeke :he's sleeping with you
gramp: no hes your brother
zeke: hes your grand son
g:you
Z:you
G:you
Z:you
B:ME!.


the next day we fix the brake light light with SUPER GLUE and gramps coulerful languge
then 2 hrs in to the road trip we stop ad the pensucola beach and MAN THEIR WERE SOME FINE GIRLS AND IF zeke hadn't complained about the time i would still be on that beach.
plus the rest of the way i waz asleep. until we got tothe cheack points infront of the military base where crazy aunt wally is staying (being keept).
the last conversation of the night:
Zeke: be quiet because amelia is gonna' be asleep.
ME: kay
(knock knock)
Amelia:THERRRRRE HEEEEEEEERRREEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ME: well shes happy
note- this was all the wat at that bottom of the steps and through two doors that we heard this.
and then we just knocked out in blow up beds after a fun fulled hr of trying to get A' to calm down enough to go to bed so she can go to this kid gym thing on the base

ps-don't take a drill instructors invitation to drill with the marines.

The ultimate Trick or Treat

And then there were 10 . . .

Lucianna

Doesn't she look like a little china doll? Alright, a little china doll that screams like a raptor hunting its' prey, but what can you say.

The full Bluebonnet Shoot

I seem to have somewhat neglected my duties as Guru in Residence, so I apologize. But you may now peruse the full 2009 Johnson Bluebonnet shoot here:

http://gallery.me.com/zekielj/100198

The dark side in my kids comes out in a movie

Tonight we were all watching Prince Caspian. If you have seen this flick there is a point in the movie where Peter, the oldest of the four kids, has a duel with the evil king who has usurped Prince Caspian's throne. It ends, as all Disney fights do, with the the good guy, Peter, winning the duel. It was supposed to be to the death, but he leaves the bad guy alive. When he turns his back on the bad guy my children have this to say;

Bella - "You should never leave the bad guy alive."
Vivi - "Yeah, he really should have finished him off."
Greta - "Why didn't he finish it!"

I'm not sure which of the older kids said this one;

"Keep your friends close and your enemies headless."

Now I don't know if I should feel bad that the kids are this fatalistic, or proud that they wouldn't leave a "chore" undone. Of course these are the same kids that will leave a toilet clogged for days on end unless you banish them from your bathroom.

But, to be safe, I am making sure that I don't play the roll of evil king while playing with the girls.

It could be fatal.

sometimes a bumper sticker says more than you think

Thunderstruck

The thunderstruck that I'm listening to is not AC/DC even though it says it is. It does not sound like them al all.

agents 00K of 2121 and 00B of 991 reporting

Okay I was looking through Izzy's 'Daring book for Girls' because it was a longish trip to the Norwood's birthday dinosaur/swim thing, and I found a page on spys.

But Katie how dose this relate at all to you and Izzy?

Well it was talking about women spys in WWII, and then it said that the girl scouts had wistle signals that they used even before the war and since then. and they weren't "Try the Thin Mints there yummy!"

They were, "Silence", "Fan out", "Scatter", "Halt", "Froward", "Fall Back"

And hand signals for: "Advance" "Retreat" "Circle around" and something else I don't have the book next to me, but it was war like!

AND IT WAS UNDER HOW TO BE A SPY!!!!!!!!!

Sooooo the girl scouts were a spy organization.

In other news the largest marijuana garden was found on a boy scout camp.

Sooooooo the girl scouts are spys but all the boy scouts can do is deal drugs. how nice. I knew there was something in that popcorn!!!!

And this got me thinking again! NEW BOOK!!!!! I blame ADOP (attention deficit...oooo pretty), and Wally for having my other main novel.

I'm going to call it 'Scout'. The ultimate boy- girl show down! I can't have the boys be druggies so they're spys too! The OTHER SPYS!!!!! MUhahahahahahahahaha.....ha.

What we told the girls U-10 Firenat Soccer team when they found out they were playing for the Championship

The Three Amigos

Sure sign of recession

Southwest Airlines is no longer serving complimentary donuts and coffee at Love Field! And I was early enough at the airport on Wednesday to see the Donut Troll.

One of these things is a little bit different one of these things is kind of the same

Fireants really do stink!