Parade of Idiosyncrasies

Monday, June 29, 2009

Scout Camp

This last week, I went with my Branch to the Regional Aaronic Priesthood Encampment. Following are several pictures from the week. Most are from the beginning and closing ceremonies.

Josh Albers

Eric Norgrant

Nathan Neefe

Spencer Neefe

Ken Norgrant

and me

Saturday, June 13, 2009

The girls are growing, growing, growing. Some days they don't seem like toddlers but small adults - or teenagers depending on their attitudes.

Sleep has become an important topic at our house. The girls have graduated to twin sized beds. There has been only one falling out of bed (that we know of). We knew that the girls were ready to handle the height after we had found the girls a couple of times sleeping together on our couch without falling off.

After a while of letting the game sit, we got Guitar Hero back out. The girls have decided that they really like it. They have become little rockers. We are trying to get them to say "Rock On."Someday. In the meantime, they are getting into the rock and roll lifestyle.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

School and a Table

So Derik finished his second semester of Grad school and maintained his 4.0 GPA! Woo-hoo. To celebrate he made a goal to read one book a week during the summer. So far, he is keeping to that goal. We also decided to get a new kitchen table (sort of). We received Morgan's Parent's old table since they were going to throw it away. We stripped all of the old varnish and stain off of it and redid the table top. We were able to fix alot of the discoloration and water damage that was on the table. It is sitting in our basement right now curing. The table top at least looks really nice. Not bad for our first effort with furniture restoration. In a week or so, we will be able to get the table upstairs and ready for some light use. We are currently also looking to upgrade Kyla and Daria to twin (no pun intended) size beds. We have found a pretty good deal at the Salvation Army that we will probably take. Here's hoping that the girls show at least a little mercy towards their beds when they get them and don't try to jump them to death.

We are looking forward to catching up on everything that we have fallen behind in during the school year in the summer (including this blog) talk to everyone soon.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Books read during Spring semester

Kafka on the Shore, Invisible Man, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Good news, for a change, The Four Giants of Russian Literature, Dante's Divine comedy, No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life, Tripmaster Monkey, Lady Oracle, To the Lighthouse, Song of the Lark, An Artist of the Floating World, Fahrenheit 451, History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Oranges are not the only fruit, Maria W Stewart: America's First Black Female Political Writer and Speaker, The Conquest, Paradise, Little Black book of Stories, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Beloved, Einstein's Monsters, Kindred, Northanger Abby, Lydia's Story, First Love, Last Rites, The Light Fantastic, Religous Literacies, Sorrows of Young Werther, The Bondwoman's tale, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, The Stranger, The Blue Death, Epic of Gilgamesh, All I Did Was Ask, Asking the Right Questions, Equal Rites, The Plague, Elantris, Birthday Boys

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Birthdays and Valentines

Big News, Big News. We can start with the day that Kyla and Daria turned two years of age. They had a good birthday at their Grandma and Grandpa Firl's house. They were really spoiled with presents sent to them from all over.

Kyla and Daria enjoy the attention of everybody singing to them.

They did well in blowing out their candles.