Our story

Marcia decided that we are going to start keeping a family journal.  I think this is a great idea, except she keeps insisting that we can’t actually start it until I write my version of how we met and fell in love and got married. Every time I sit down to start writing that story (and while she won’t believe me, I have started many times), I realize that there needs to be even more back story, and I give up and scrap what I’ve written.

So tonight, I decided to take a different approach and instead of writing a novel, I started writing it in the style of a children’s book. Marcia rejected it for inclusion in the family journal, so here it is:

How we Met

One day in church there was a pretty girl named Marcia.  We skipped a church dance together and walked around outside.  I liked her.  We went back to her apartment and…

…

played cards.

Then I went on a mission.

Then she went on a mission.

Then I got back.

Then she got back.

Then we dated for like 5 years.

Then she moved away.

And I missed her.

So I asked her to marry me.

She said yes.

And we got married.

And I liked it.

THE END

I wouldn’t look for it in the Scholastic book catalog any time soon.

We took a little trip

Our trip took us to Indianapolis.  We* went to the IMA~.  We went to the zoo%.  We went to Super China Buffet^.


*We = Adam, Emily, Erin, Jacob, and Marcia

~Free, and really cool!

%This is the coolest zoo I have been to this year! A dolphin dive from underneath We got to pet sharks, and some of them loved us, and some of us loved some of them. Petting sharks at the zoo There were even dancing sharks. Dancing Shark

^Here is the buffet video.


Quiz 72

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week, or so, I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

quiz-72

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana mas o menos regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!

Dear Insurance Companies

Dear Insurance Companies,

If I wanted to talk to your salesman on the phone, I would have called you. Instead, I went looking for information online, because I wanted to get the information, you know, ONLINE.

Oh, and since you have my address along with my phone number, I would expect that you would figure out that your particular insurance company doesn’t insure ANYTHING in my area before you call me and try to sell me insurance I can’t possibly use.

–Jacob

Quiz 71

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

quiz-71

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!

Preschool Talkers

We all enjoy what the preschoolers say, and I get lots of things to write down.  Now I have a place to keep all of them, and be able to enjoy them.  They are now being kept safely at http://heardatpreschool.com/ where each day I will add another to the list.  Check it out.

Also jsut as a randomness, our spam filter just passed 13,579 last night.  All odd numbers.

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Preschool Brings Out My Creative Side

So, we were cutting and gluing and coloring and I made a new book.  The process was somewhat fun.  The children helped me know what pictures to cut out of magazines.  I glued them on the pages.  Then the story-line came. . . . Enjoy!

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I felt the need to add the “THE END” on the last page right above where it is written because it is hard to see.