Happy Thanksgiving!

How was yours? You could say that ours was pretty normal but that would be untruthful. Most of you already know this stuff but just to recap: On Wednesday we drove down to Phoenix. About two-thirds of the way down there we received a call that Granddad was in the hospital 'cause of his knee. This was not totally new news to us because we had visited with them a couple of days before. Still, it was kind of a bummer that he wouldn't be there when we got there. After Aunt Carey and Grandmom refused to let us in to the house, we went to see Granddad. He said that he was really hoping to get out the next day at nine in the morning. To make a long story short, he did not get out at nine on Thursday. Thankfully, he did get out at noonish on Friday. The big Thanksgiving shenanigans were post-poned to Friday and they were great! After all of the food and some good ole Bobby Badfingers, we played Karaoke Revolution. Amazingly enough, almost everyone played with the exception of Lyndsay. It was somewhat weird but it was fun. After that we went to Zoo Lights with Uncle Randy's family and had a fun time there. All in all it was a fun, albeit weird Thanksgiving. Any gaps in the story will have to be filled in by others in the family. For those of you who weren't there, you have to post about your experiences. One last thing, when, in y'alls opinion, is it acceptable to a) Put up Christmas decorations and b) Listen to Christmas music?

Zachary's been Gripin'

v. intr. to gripe. to complain loudly in an annoying and or persistent manner. Okay, so maybe Zachary hasn't been that bad about badgering me about updating, but I had to come up with a way to start my post. Anyway, nothing amazing is happening around here. All of my appendages feel fine and I'm not in between jorbs. I will update after Thanksgiving about Thanksgivingy things. School is ok these days. Speech isn't as bad but English is worse. Christmas is just around the corner. I notice that half the time, time seems to fly by as in days and such. Then the other forty percent it seems like whatever you're looking forward to will never get here. Seven percent is lost in the time-space continuum. And those three percent just stop time every afternoon around 1:30-2:00 when Speech rolls around. We painted our bathroom so that it's a Toasted Coconut/ White Oak blend. For those of you like me and won't have Lauri gripe at you if you get it wrong, that's tan and tannish white. Or something like that. Did you ever notice that we never sing "This is the Day" on Mondays or Tuesdays? I was thinking about that and that it's probably planned 'cause nobody really wants to admit that God knew what he was doing when he created Mondays. Nonetheless, I'm fairly positive that the Bible does indeed state that God knew and knows what he was doing and what he will do all of the time. All this to say, how was your Monday?

I notice that Stumpy only has two comments on his new post.

A Real Post

Finally. Well, as you know from three or four other sources, Zachary and Brenda came to visit and we had an awesome time. We did do all of the things that they said on their blog in case for some odd reason their validity was in question. Airsoft guns are really sweet and might be my favorite new sport if they can be classified as one. We got to go to the Mt. Charleston cabins and shoot with them,to Wheeler Pass and shoot them, to the Bellagio and shoot them, well, maybe not there but it would've been fun. Our family festival went well. It's the Halloween thing without saying Halloween or dressing up and we had games. Thankfully, we did get some Shockers gumballs this year and that was good. Then we all sang as you know. Since everyone left it seems that all I've been doing is Speech and English. That's not really the case but those two seem to be the most stress inducing subjects.
Zachary said that it's a possibility that people are not as likely to comment on mine 'cause it doesn't make sense and or they can't pinpoint a specific thing to comment on. I'll try to work on that at the end of this post.
Yesterday we went on our first High School AWANA outing of the year. It went pretty well, we hiked around on rocks and stuff. Then when we got back this one girl's family apparently forgot about her and went into Vegas even though we said that we'd be back at 3:30. Weird. So she went to Walskees with Mom and Lauri whilst Pop and I went to Hollywood. We rented Over the Hedge and got three used Dvd's (is there an apostrophe?) for fifteen bucks. We got Sahara, The Legend of Zorro (that one is the second one) and Stealth. We haven't seen Stealth yet, is it good? I think it looked a little weird (or wierd is Zachary or Brenda are reading this) but Dad wanted to see it so I'll watch it with him.
Just to recap, we had a great time with Zachary and Brenda and are all stoked about the kid. Singing was good and so was Bop-it. Movies.
Alright. Now for some questions to end my post with so that it will be easier to comment on:
1) Have you seen Over the Hedge and did you like it?
2) Have you seen Stealth and is it weird or good?
3) If they came out with a KOTOR 3, would you buy it?
4) How was church today?
Here's one more picture because I've also been told that pictures enhance my post.