Nicknames

This was a piece of the conversation in the bathroom today.

Casey: Hi Curves!

Katie Belle: NO! I'm Katie Belle!

Casey: Hi Maia!

Maia: NO! I'm Pants on Fiya (fire)!

Just for those who don't know, Katie Belle's nickname is Curvy since she always wanted to be Kirby (the pink pacman looking cartoon character) but she pronounced it "curvy". She happens to be the least curvy of the girls so Casey thought it suited her. It has since evolved into Curves. And Maia has always heard "Maia, Maia pants on fiya" from her dad. I guess she likes it!

Let it be made clear...

Let it be made clear that the following blogs are scewed facts of reality. To the torture question I would rebuttle with why must I be tortured with such long stretches? I become a widower for a month every two years. (Hey! It's only 16 days, not a month.-Coralie) (Women! They don't give up, EVER!-Loser)

Also for the "Shoshone" blog, FYI I have been places. Or can you tell me that Blackfoot doesn't count? That's right, if you have been to one place in Idaho, you've been to 'em all. Also, I was the one who wanted to go to Shoshone falls so as to avoid any negative advertising for the best husband spot on the ballot. It was my dad who was told that there was no water. I actually was for it. My opponent mixes her facts every now and then. But hey, she feeds me (except during the olympics) so I can't complain too much.

A Moment of Silence

Yes...the Olympics are over. Gosh I like the Olympics. Why must I be tortured with such long stretches without them? I'm sure Casey would gladly answer: so I can actually get things done and go to bed at a decent hour, so I can let the kids get to the TV occasionally, so I can update my blog somewhat regularly, so I can remember what it's like to go outside, so I can do something besides live and breathe to watch the Olympics. I personally blame my mother. =) And it won't be long before my kids are trained to do the same! Luke was my faithful Olympics watching companion. He loved learning about the different sports and cheering on OUR team and I love it too! A moment of silence for the end of the Olympics.

Okay, back to life as usual!!! And, as usual, the kids have been up to no good. We cleaned up the back porch and now the kids go outside all the time to ride their bikes and destroy my garden. Ok, that's mostly just Maia in my garden. We also had cousins come over and join us in the fun.

And, yes, that's Maia with all those muscles! Maia found Luke's Wolverine costume and thought she looked pretty good with that physique! That gave me a good laugh!

The First Day of School...The Sadie Saga

By now many of you have heard how Sadie had a hard time with the fact that she had to go to school. Now, she won't admit it but she cried when I left her. Here I present the facts. That morning I woke everyone up to get ready. I've been taking them to school so we all had to be ready. Sadie was excited to put on her new school clothes, put all her supplies in her backpack and get her hair done. Here they all are, as you can see, all is well.

Then we went to school and Sadie realized I wasn't going to stay with her.

I should have taken a picture of Katie Belle screaming too. She DID want to stay and was mad she couldn't! I hope that lasts until next year!

But when Sadie finally came home, she had loved her teacher, made a new friend and told me that she hadn't even cried once! Yeah, AFTER I left maybe! =)

But either way, she likes school now. We have the occasional relapse (like when I told her today she is going to start riding the bus to school...more tears) but mostly she likes it. Luke, on the other hand, almost didn't even say goodbye to me as he ran off to play with his friends! I'm thinking he's good.

Katie Belle's #4!

It was Katie Belle's birthday last week. She has an uncle that calls her number 3 and she's taken that name to heart, so when we told her she would be 4 she got upset. It wasn't until I told her that she was #3 that was 4 years old that she calmed down. Thanks uncle Ryan!!!! Anyway, she had a fun birthday. Grandma and Grandpa Mattox were here but both my cameras were dead and they forgot theirs so there aren't any pictures. An unpardonable sin, I know. I did, however, take a picture of the Dora blanket I made for her for her birthday. It came out really cute and she loves it! This is proof that I got something done during the Olympics. Of course I probably wouldn't have if April hadn't helped me get started but...c'mon! It's the Olympics! It'll be a whole two years before I'm a good for nothing couch potato again!! :)

Shoshone Falls

Casey did fail to mention that when we went to the temple open house, we also stopped by to see Shoshone Falls. Casey had never been there before. (That's not really saying much, Casey hasn't been anywhere, I swear! We'll get him to Yellowstone Park one of these years too!) The locals he talked to acted like there wasn't any water at all going over the falls and it almost convinced him not to go. But I was determined to drag him there if necessary and, as you can barely see, there was a good sized waterfall. It must be huge when there's water!

Reason #796 why Sadie doesn't want to go to School

"But the teacher won't let me talk!"

Coralie is not Dead, just possessed.

Hello Everyone! Yes it is rediculous that I have to keep the blog going. But due to forseen circumstances that should have warned me about the violation of my family rights and the flight of my wife, me and the kids are motherless and wifeless for the next couple of weeks due to these:

Yep. They are the Beijing Mascots for the Olympics. their names (from right to left) are Bei Bei (Treasure), Jing Jing (Shiney), Huan Huan (Happy), Ying Ying (apparently you can be happy in more than one way), and Ni Ni (aka Slim). Just Kidding about Slim. Ni Ni is just a plain name and doesn't have a real meaning I think!? Maybe he was adopted and needs to forget a gloomy past. At least that is what I get from his face.

But yes, cute little fuzzy things like these and Michael Phelps have stolen my wife for the next short while. Talk about throwing of the Yin Yang in my life. I.e. @#&*%$!!!!

But on a more spiritual note, (yes I have a spirit), we forded three opportunities to go to the Twin Falls temple open house. Enter exibit A:

I was rather impressed that the actual rooms for the endowment were set up in a very close manner to that of the Jerusalem temple. So if you haven't been in the Twin Falls Temple you can just google Jeursalem temple layout and probably find a similar format. It was kind of cool.

On a last note, (the temporal note that most of you know me by) we are going camping this week. It will be fun. It is a time when I can research me caveman ways and have my wife make fun of me for it. For all you knuckle draggers out there, I will take a picture of my knuckles before and after to see if I enter into manhood on that day. Maybe we should hold a pow wow and scratch our heads. Let me know. This is Lonestar signing out.