ONE WEEK OLD!!!!

Baby Lexi is one week old today!!!

Ain't she cute! She was actually smiling at me! Well, maybe not at ME, but I was the one holding her, so that's got to count for something. ;P

We got some snow last night! But it wasn't enough to sled in... I mean, I tried a few times, but it mostly didn't work...(I know, horrible grammar...)

Brandon is reading this over my shoulder as I'm typing, and he wants to say that he's sorry for ruining my concentration and bringing the quality of my post down.

Or at least, I think that's what he would want to say, if he really thought about it. ;P

'bout time...

Well, I haven't posted in a looooooooong time.
So, I'll see if I can remember any important stuff that's happened duiring said looooooooong time.
ummm, Thanksgiving, which Lana posted about.
Jeremiah's birthday, which was fun. We went to Chuck E. Cheese's, which, is the best place in the world to spend money and time on stupid little prizes. I didn't even bother trying to get lots of tickets, 'cause I never get enough...;P
What else...(actually, I've got something else, I'm just trying to think of something ELSE to write about before the thing that I've already thought about)
We had a special dinner thing at church to kick off our Season of Blessing thingy. It's pretty neat, everybody gets ten bucks and has to use it to bless somebody in whatever way you feel led to. I haven't used mine yet... I guess because I haven't felt like I was supposed to...
Oh yeah! I thought of something cool! About a year ago, I borrowed Relient K's cd "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right but Three do", and I kinda lost it... But I found it the other day! Talk about awesomeness, 'cause I was gonna buy a Relient K cd because I had a huge lack of Relient K cd-nes, if that makes any sense...
But, in order to listen to a Relient K cd without disturbing your mother who doesn't happen to have the same taste in music as you(actually, she has no taste in music whatsoever...), you kinda have to have an mp3 player. So I got one. Not just any old mp3 player. An iPod, 'cause they're the best, in my opinion. And not just any iPod. nope. The one and only iPod Touch!!! It's flippin' sweet!!!!!! It's kinda like walmart, 'cause I lived just fine without it, but it sure is nice to have;P

So, yep, that was what I wanted to write about...

What else.... It freezing rained yesterday/today. Or would you say it rained freeze? Or maybe it frained... Why does everything have to be so confusing?!

I just thought of a couple more things.
We had a party for the end of Spanish class. Caleb and Jared/Steve(could somebody explain that to me please?) M., and I wanted to do a song(I think it's turning into a tradition...). We were gonna do the dance of the cucumber, but that didn't work out, so we just did Feliz Navidad. It didn't turn out quite like we planned, big surprise, but it was pretty fun.
Then yesterday we had a Christmas party in science class, and a test after that(unpleasant story in there...). I think I did pretty good on the test. It won't surprise me if I got it perfect, but then again it won't surprise me if I didn't either;P

Okay, let me see if there's anything else worthy of posting about.....*scanning memory*.... Let's see.. We're going to Florida this summer! It's for a family reunion! I think we're staying for like, five days. Then there's around one-day driving each way, so about a week long deal. It'll be fun! I haven't been to the ocean in a couple of years...

Well, I think that's about it for now... maybe... yep, I think it is...



What?! You're still here? I said that's it! Bye-bye! so long! see ya later






Come on! Don't you understand English? yeah, me neither...;P

From Paper to Plastic !

So, I got my restricted license last week! Now, I have photo I.D.! The dumb thing is, to get said license, you have to have a birth-certificate and another form of "secondary identification". What I want to get is, how is a 15 year old supposed to have a plethora of I.D.? AND, the nasty people at the DMV wouldn't take a year-book as I.D., so they sent us to the bank to have some person sign a paper saying that I am, in fact who I am, and that dad is, in fact, my father. Dad and I kinda looked at each other, and were like, "duh, can't you tell? you need somebody from a bank to tell you that?". Man, some things are so dumb and time-consuming. AND, when I took the road test, the guy fussed at me for backing out of the parking space, even though I did it EXACTLY how the book tells you to! Then, he started this whole talk about how they should take that out of the book because "you can't fully control your vehicle if you don't have two hands on the steering-wheel at all times"... And then he got onto me about the way I stopped, and said I didn't come to a "complete" stop, because he didn't get slammed back in his seat. Sigh, if he thinks I did bad, he must not have been the one to give Lana her road test, because there would've been no way she could have passed it.;P

Something kinda cool is, when I was getting the license, I got to say I wanted to be an organ donor. Not that I want to have to donate any organs right now, but it's cool to know that if something were to happen to me, I could maybe give somebody a chance for a better life...

Anyways, mom and dad's anniversary was Friday, so they went up to Tulsa and Lana and Luke came to our house to help out(or was it, "make out"???;P).

On Sunday, Tim didn't end up showing the FtF video, but we still had like, 15 people sign-up to go, and several more were going to think about it. Not too bad, seeing as how they didn't know hardly anything about it...

What else? umm, Brandon and I each started an iPod Touch fund. We figure, by the time we get enough money for them, they'll be cheaper, at least, I hope so... I'm not gonna buy any extra little stuff, and I'll save my b-day and Christmas money, splitting it between savings and my fund, so it shouldn't take more than a 1/2 million years or so to get enough...;P



Now for an outlook on the not so distant future.

We're going to some friend's house on Friday(that's getting more and more rare as our family get bigger, I don't think we'd fit at a lot of tables ;P)! We start school next Monday, and spanish class starts the Tuesday, so that's cool. Microbiology starts the 25th, so that's pretty awesome too.

Oh, duh! FtF is less than two weeks away!! I almost forgot to mention that. I'm really excited that the CCC youth group is finally going!! I'm hoping more people will sign up to go next week.



I'm gettin' hungry, so, I'm gonna go now



-Tony, the most awesomest one by that name

I just killed a bug(almost)

EDIT: Right after I asked Lana to proofread this, she totally freaked out because she saw a bug, but it ran away before I got there.
Ummm, let's see. I haven't posted since last...Thursday.
I don't think much of anything happened Friday.
Saturday was dad's birthday. We spent most of the day working on leveling the ground for the pool(which is done now, btw).
Sunday, went to church... I'm not sure if we did anything extra. I can't remember.
OH!! I just remembered something exciting we did on Friday!! We went to the mall and went clothes-shopping, which usually isn't all that great, but this time was different!! I was in JCPenney's, looking for jeans, when I saw the coolest things in the world(well, maybe not the *coolest*, but it was pretty cool at the time). Slim-fit men's jeans(boot-cut, I think...). I didn't even know they made such a thing. I was like, "oh, wow. I need to try some of those!". They're pretty sweet!! It might not be a big deal to you guys, but it's pretty cool to find jeans that'll fit really well. It seems that everyone in my family has their own different troubles finding jeans...
Today, Monday, I had chem class in the morning. Our group finished our poster board, finally. It looks pretty awesome. Each group has to do some sort of presentation thing at our class presentation night in two weeks. I'm not sure what we're doing, but I think Me, Daniel, and Caleb(I know that's not the *proper* way to write that, but that's the way I say it...) are gonna all do something for it. We thought about doing a song, but we're not sure how that'd work. We also found out this morning that we were having a final test(oh boy!), or exam, whichever you prefer. I had a little bit of trouble with some of it, but at the end Mr. Herb said we had three minutes to help eachother with two problems. So, I ended up aceing it. I was pretty excited. I think I'm gonna try to clep out of college chem soon, while it's still fresh in my mind.
Mr. Herb is teaching physics and micro-biology next year. I'm taking micro for sure. I don't know about physics, mom doesn't think I could handle two science classes at once...
Tomorrow is Lana's b-day. I got her present tonight, finally.
I think that's all.

later alligator(after a while crocodile) ;P

The first in a long chain

HAPPY BIRTHDAY T.J.!!!!!!!

(or "Tyler Jr.", as he would prefer to be called)

He's getting to be one of those OLD people ;P

A whole 21 years old!!

He's coming over tomorrow

to have his special dinner, presents, and cake and all.

"Cheesecake" mind you.

A big one...

Happy Birthday T.,

Josiah wants me to say he "loves you"

Happy B-Day Lily!!!!

Today is Lily-Pie's first birthday!!!!!

She is getting so big!!!

She can already have a conversation with you (provided you have good linguistics skills)

She crawls around and pulls herself up on everything (which means that nothing is safe)

She absolutely *loves* music (especially the type that *I* like)

And finally, She has given our family an abundance of joy every day for the past year (even though she gets fussy sometimes).

Happy birthday Lily-Pie!!!

I love you

Birthdays, dancing, and food

Ahh, (sigh) life is good(for the most part).
Uncle Scott went skiing last Monday, so he and Uncle Charlie(who isn‘t even related to Uncle Scott, so it’s kind of funny that we call him “Uncle Charlie”) met at our house and he left his car here.
He came back today to pick it up. So I got to show him Felicity (who is getting big, btw).
I’ve been playing my guitar everyday for the past week or so(which doesn‘t have anything to do with anything). It would be a lot better if I knew more songs because everything that I play, I can play really well. Problem is, I don’t know just a ton of songs.
We had chicken noodle soup for lunch today. MAN it was goood!! Luke wrote a post on food once, I might have to do that sometime…
Lily-pie’s b-day is in a few weeks. I need to get a present for her, and then I need to get a present for T.J., and then one for dad, and another one for Lana, and one last one for Josiah. It great having five birthdays in in less than 1 ½ months time. ;P

I want to start working soon, but my future boss hasn’t said anything about when I’m going to start. *If* I do end up working for him, I think I’ll be a cross between a cowboy and a farmhand. I guess you could call it a farm boy, but I’m already one of those so it’s probably better to call it a cowhand, or maybe just not give me a title. If I *don‘t* work for him, I might work at Goodson’s or someplace like that.
What I really need to do is figure out what I want to do for a living after college so that I can figure out what I should major in. I just re-realized the other day that, I’m going to graduate in a few years and I’ll be an adult in 2 ½ years. Whoa, when did everybody get so old? (no offense mom and dad ;P)

I talked to Tim about Fan the Flame this morning. He asked me (again) what day it’s going to be. And then he said, “you know what? Maybe you should just e-mail me about it, them I can save it and look at it later”. So, I told him that I would send him a e-mail sometime this week. And then, he got the idea to just put *me* in charge of getting all of the information and telling everyone about it and all that stuff, then he wouldn’t be able to forget about it.
I probably need to talk to him some more and find out exactly what he wants me to do… I think that it will be good for the youth group if they go. I know it’s been good for me the last couple of years. ;P

Just 2 ½ months until the wedding. There’s still a TON of stuff to get done, most of it has to be done closer to the time of the wedding.

T.J. used to work at I.F.C auto shop, and he went bowling with Barry(his old boss) the other day. He said that when it wasn’t Barry’s turn, he was in the back dancing like I would do. And then T.J. started saying that he had some sweet moves, at which point I interrupted saying, “Hey! You said Barry dances like me and that he has sweet moves. Does that mean I have sweet moves too?” Apparently T.J. thinks that I do. ;P
After talking with T.J. for awhile, he said that Barry used to teach dance at some studio in town, and he would be willing to teach us some stuff for free.
I think that would be pretty sweet. To dance alongside a guy that dances like I do. That doesn’t happen everyday. ;P

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUKE!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY

BIRTHDAY

LUKE!

First he graduated, then he turned 18,

and now, he's 19

and getting married to my sister in a little over three months....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEREMIAH!!!

My little brother, Jeremiah, turned four today!!!!
He's been very excited for the past few days, he's been talking about what he thought he was gonna get for presents and that he was gonna have pie (every dessert is pie to jeremiah). Today in church when communion was passed out he thought that since he was four he should get some of "that special red juice".
After church we went to Chuck-E-Cheese's and then to Benson's grill for lunch. Jeremiah is having chicken salad for dinner and hot fudge cake (mmm, delicious) for dessert.
Brandon and I bought him a Black and Decker play tool set(shh, he hasn’t opened it yet) , Lana got him a nice shirt, T.J. got him a new trike and I’m not sure what mom and dad got him, he’s just opened the shirt so far.
He just woke up from his nap(yes B-day boys have to take naps) so I better go.