What do you do.

What do you do when you are bored. This is what my father and I did. I wish that we could say that we came up with this on our own but we just duplicated what someone else had done.

Vacation

So last week was the last week of summer school and I was excited for my two week break before fall semester starts. I made a list of all the things that I needed to get done and when I should do them and then Wed morning I wake up and I can not move. I was so sick I couldn't move, think, or sleep. Basically all I could do was lay there and be miserable. I was sure that I had the flu and a sinus infection and a small sore throat on top of it all. I called my brother David and he graciously came and picked up my kids and watched them for the day. By the end of the day I was not any better and was feeling a lot worse so I arranged for my Mother to come up and watch my kids for the next day. When she got here the next morning things had gotten worse. I still had all the other problems but now the sore throat was the worse sore throat I had ever had. My entire throat was on fire all the time. Well my Mom looked at my throat and made me call a doctor. To make my long story a little shorter. It turns out all I had was one thing and the was Strep Throat. Apparently it can make your body act like it has the flu and it can inflame your sinuses. It can do all of it. Who knew. I have had strep before and it has always been nice and stayed as a sore throat but not this time. It was a very bad case of Strep and after being on antibiotics for 3 days I am finally able to eat something. I can't eat much but I can eat something. On the plus side I have lost 8 lbs.

In the midst of all this I was able to get my grades and all of them were great.

Some photoshop

I my class I had to work with photoshop and so I thought I would share some of the pictures that I put together. These are my favorites.

Commercial for class

I had to make a commercial for class as part of a group. This is the commercial that we made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Fjy4F9rG0

Ethan's Pics

So the other day Ethan asked if he could take some pictures. I said yes and then started doing some homework. After about 10 min he asked to see them and so I took the camera and to my surprise he had taken well over 100 pictures in that 10 min. Lets just say i am glad it was not film. Anyway I have decided to post some of the pictures that he took. If you imagine about every angle taken of each of these subjects then you can picture all of the pictures he took.

So first lets just say I am really glad that my fly is not down.
Ethan almost documented the entire episode of sid the science kid. You could make a flip book out of the pictures and watch the whole thing.
Lots of pictures of Maggie and strangely enough a lot of close ups of the furniture.

Posting

So time flies when you are really busy. For those of you who don't know I am going back to school to get another bachelors degree. I am getting it in Business/Marketing Education. It will take me 2 years and then I will be lisenced to teach 6 different subjects. Well we have been able to get all of my classes on the same days so that we don't have to have our kids babysat very much. The kids have really noticed that I am not home and so the days that I am home this is a good representation of what it is like. They climb all over and won't leave me alone. Which makes it a little difficult to get things done but that is okay I would rather play with them anyway.
Here are two pictures of Ethan playing with his cousin Kambri. They are the same age and so they enjoy playing together, or fighting together, it is interesting how one will generally lead to the other.

For Ethan's birthday he got a big boy bed. He was so excited he got to watch me make it and assemble it. He talked about it straight for about a week. A little disclaimer is that Ethan got his bed a month before his birthday. It was done so we went ahead and gave it to him.

I like what Jen is doing and so I thought I might try it. It might help me realize how much time passes. I don't know how long I will be able to keep it up but I am going to try. (Jen is posting every sunday using the blog as a journal) I also hope this will make sure that I take more pictures of my kids.

Playing together

Isn't it nice when they play together.

Portfolio

Hey all it was recently made known to me that I should have an online portfolio for all of my work. So the easiest way that I new to do it was to make a blog and use that. So I did. Please feel free to check it out at http://christophersportfolio.blogspot.com/

General Conference

So ever since Rene' and I got married we have been making coffee cake for General Conference. For all these years we have never been able to get it right. The topping would always just stay on top and not sink in. Well I am happy to announce that on our 14th try we have been successful. THE TOPPING SUNK. It was delicious. Apparently you need to accidentally freeze your butter and not refrigerate it and you have to have your electric beater beaters in the dishwasher so you have to beat it by hand for FOREVER. So if you make coffee cake and can't get it to work try messing up and it might turn out.
Another tradition or really just something I liked to do and always ended up doing was playing with legos during Conference. Well I can also say that that is continuing. Rene' and Ethan built a castle to hold his tennis balls and his lego man.

Apparently the castle wasn't strong enough to hold up against the monster Maggie.

She cremated it while we all took a break to eat coffee cake. Lets just say that Ethan was not happy

But she was

"Pickles"

So kids really do say the darn-dest things. Tonight Ethan has wanted pickles. It started about 9:15 pm when we asked for a pickle. So I gave him one. Then he asked for another one. So I gave him another one. When he asked for his FIFTH pickle, Chris asked if he wanted something else to eat instead of just pickles. Ethan thought for a second, then said, "Two pickles!" ...You guested it, we gave him two pickles. Chris gave him the first pickle and Ethan said, "One pickle for me." After Chris gave him the second pickle, he said "Another pickle for me!" It was SO cute. I'm always surprised at how his mind works and what he can connect together. So if you're hungry tonight, grab a pickle. Ethan will be eating them, too.