Mr. Boo discovers the Snow

I didn't know about it until it was all over so no pictures until after the fact. But Da and Mr Boo ran to the library to drop off some books, and when they got back Mr. Boo wanted to check out the white stuff.

So now there are small footprints going up and down our driveway. He was having a blast. So he decided to drop to his knees to futher explore. Again he was having fun.


Mommy and Boo's Footprints

Then he decided to drop to all four and crawl through the stuff. We only have a couple inches on the Driveway, but that's all it took. Once his hands hit the stuff the fun was OVER!


The Only Two Handprints

Mommy brings in the now crying Mr. Boo, we pull off his snow coated shoes and pants and daddy took him upstairs and warmed his frozen finners in a stream of slightly warm water.

Thus is it official that Mr. Boo is NOT his cousins from South Weber, at least not the one(s) that would toddle out into the foot deep snow on his parents bedroom deck in just a diaper.

Let the Bidding Begin

And what am I offered to remove this excellent performance from the Web?



It was good, but I'm sure at least one of the two sis-in laws who were singing will want it permanently banished from the Interweb.

Emma Can Keep her title for Now

She will remain, for the time being, the cutest Grandaughter of the Century.

This is because Boo is getting a little brother. Here are some pictures



Profile of Boofer Two



Another profile showing his arm.


And . . .



The Igendification of Boofer Two
aka the "snail shot"

I got tagged but can't tag anyone else

Jamie Tagged me but the only bloggers I know were also tagged by her, so I'll skip step C
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then go to their blogs and leave them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1.I'm Married
2.I have a house
3.I have two vehicles I brought to the marriage
4.I bite my nails.
5.I have feet
6.I've enjoyed teasing Jamie since before she started dating Kelly.

p.s.
;oP to Jamie, you never said how much detail you had to list.

Edited to add Mom's #7

As his mom I will add another - #7 - for Christmas of 2004 I gave my mother a Christmas to remember!! I spent the night at home instead of my apartment and at 2 am (after Santa was thru putting out his stuff and SOUND asleep) I sneaked back upstairs and set the kitchen table with replacements for my mom's china that she had watched break all over the kitchen floor a few years before when the hutch fell off the base of her china cabinet. I had found a place online to order replacement pieces of older china designs that were no longer available.

Before I let her into the kitchen Christmas morning to see my surprise I gave her a beautifully wrapped box of Kleenex...she laughed and said ...like I am really gonna need this on Christmas day...and Kecia said "Oh, you will!" I then led her into the kitchen to see the whole table set with dinner plates, salad plates, dessert and soup bowls, tea cups and saucers, serving platters and serving dishes...even a gravy bowl.

She needed the tissues!

Two Years and counting

So here we sit at home on our two year anniversary. How boring we are. Oh well, between my having to work a little late tonight (though a coworker stepped in and let me escape at five instead of six or later, thanks Keith.) And having a sick 14 month old, nothing significant was really available.

I also need to add this picture of Boo, yesterday after work, when his mommy ran to the store. He'd play with me for a couple minutes then he'd crawl up stairs and next thing I'd hear would be him crying. I'd go up and this is what I would see.



Somebody wuvs his mommy.

A belated Halloween post

Here we see our little boo checking out the two pumpkins daddy grew this summer.



Time to carve a pumpkin for Halloween. I chose the larger of the two to actually carve.


I started with a knife but quickly decided that would take way to long.

What to do????

Power Tools! Calling one trusty reciprocating saw.



Okay so Da only took one picture of me at work and didn't think to take video like Kecia and Glen did.

Next I used a knife to do the finer details like eyes, nose and mouth.



Then it was back to the Saw to cut the opening in the back for the blacklight. I managed to cut the opening just right so that it was big enough for the light, yet tight enough to keep the light in place.



And then I set it up, plugged it in, put some tissue across the inside of the face to make him glow better. Here he is all finished.



And behold and be frightened of the final project.



Some facts about this pumpkin. I planted one seed from a package of "Jumbo Sized Pumpkin" seeds from walmart. Like the rest of our small garden it was located in our front flower garden (someday we'll just plan flowers there). It took over the entire patch all to produce two pumpkins. Due to that one plant, we only got a few crookneck from the three hills I planted. If our Tomatoes hadn't grown up higher they probably would have been overwhelmed as well.

This Pumpkin weighed about 75 lbs, the smaller one weighed in at about 55 lbs. According to our bathroom scale that is, so I'm not so sure how accurate it is.

When cut open the rind was almost three inches thick, yet compared to smaller pumpkins it was much easier and less messy to clean. Tommorrow the remains of this Jack-O-Lantern will go in the trash, but what am I to do with the other pumpkin? Anyone want to make many, many, many pies?

And since Kecia asked. Here is Boo in his costume. He did better than last year by lasting for about 15 minutes in it (last year he cried the entire five minutes we had him costumed for pictures.) So only the one picture. This and some similar costumes will be seen over the next few years, as Da is somewhat lazy when it comes to choosing costumes, and thus we rely on the stock pile of M&M costumes her sister has for her kids. They have at least one for each year/age group at least through age five or six. (okay maybe not that many but they have several of these costumes).

I too am normal.

Since Jamie asked/challenged I too am not a dork.

Though I did lie on one question. I do actually have a calculator with me pretty much 24/7 but that's since it's a feature/fucntion of my cell phone. But I don't carry it, and i did not purchase that model, because it has a calculator.

How Nerdy are you?

Okay Sister, Sister-in-law, mom and anyone else who reads this, I dare you, take this test and see how nerdy you are. After you finish gazing in awe at my Nerdiness. Click my results and take the test yourself.

P.s. my goofy picture is above in the Banner.





Fixed, mostly. the Dork score is still a couple points higher than the first time I ran it, so I must have answered one question differently but I don't know what one.

Clip Clip

So mommy was getting a little annoyed at a couple stray locks of hair. She tried to trim them with some scissors, but try cutting a moving target.






So Daddy got out his electric clippers decided to try a No 4 length adapter and went to work on a rather unhappy boy(sorry no pics of the operation).



That resulted in this haircut, but there were a couple areas I didn't get to before he'd had enough and wouldn't let me do any more.





So today Mommy took him in to a professional and $13 (ouch I pay half that for my haircuts on post) later he is almost bald.





Such a Cute Kid!

Your Worst Nightmares Come to Life

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!AHHHHHHH!!!!

4 Things

Well since Jamie tagged me,
4 things

4 things
4 jobs that i have had
1. Extreme Fun engineer - two years running rides at Lagoon
2. Telephone based computer guru - Tech support at AOL
3. Food flinger - worked the sandwich prep area of Arby's
4. Soldier - nuff said

4 places that i have lived
1. Presidio of Monterey, Monterey, CA
2. Wheeling Island, WV
3. Camp Able Sentry, Petrovec, Macedonia
4. Lehi, UT

4 favorite foods
1. Pumpkin Pie
2. Pepperoni Pizza
3. Chocolate Chip cookie soppy
4. Cherry Coke

4 favorite albums/songs
1. Rascall Flats - Feels Like Today, has our song on it (Bless the Broken Road).
2. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet, one of the greatest albums ever released.
3. U2 - Joshua Tree, another one of the all time greats
4. Atomic Kitten (UK pop group), Whole Again.

4 places I'd rather be
1. At home tickling Boo
2. On a Disney Cruise
3. Anywhere but work
4. Hanging out with my wife

4 favorite movies
1. Red Dawn
2. Star Wars Episodes I through VI
3. LoTR Trilogy
4. Napoleon Dynamite

4 favorite books
1. Elf Stones of Shannara by Terry Brooks as well as everything else he has written
2. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein as well as the rest of his books.
3. Most of what Anne McCaffrey has written.
4. Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy I've worn out two paperback copies of it.

I tag, oh wait nobody else who reads this has a blog.

Jib Jab

Okay so Melinda has decided to sign us up for dance lessons. We've wanted to do this for some times and the lessons were my birthday present. So this is my prediction of us after the lessons are complete.

Since Kecia and Jamie are doing these