The Fintons

Stolen from Kat

This is absolutely hysterical. So true, oh so true.

Tags: Fun

Chocolate

I am totally and utterly in need of a lot of chocolate.  Don’t ask me why.

We had a great Thanksgiving (s).  When we don’t blog for a few days that generally means we are enjoying ourselves and keeping busy.  Or we are arguing non stop and hate the world and don’t want to talk to anyone.  Okay, well that has never happened, but I imagine if that does happen, that will be the case.

Erik decided he doesn’t like turkey dinner.  Not the first time, or the second time, and not even the third.  What a butt.  All three were amazingly good, he missed out on a lot.  He ate some fruit.  And some bread.  And, that’s it.  What a loser kid.  Heh.  He got to go watch Aunt Ashley and Matt play soccer tonight, which I heard though the grape vine he liked a lot.  I hear it was a good arena to show off his new shoes, which if I were him, I would do the exact same thing.

So I impressively…get this…didn’t take pictures this year.  I purposely left my camera at home.  I think I’m driving everyone nuts with the 900 pictures I have of them and their kids (or just Suzie’s kids…since they’re the only “kids”).  Or I am driving me nuts.  I have over 7000 pictures in iPhoto.  A bit much, we say?  Yes, we definitely say.  Alas, Christmas is coming soon.  I’m sure I’ll make up for it.

Off to do so much more homework.  I didn’t have a lot, and now I have WAYTOOMUCH.  Hate it.

Tags: Family, Fun, Holidays, School, Stress

And the verdict is…

Well, I really liked the movie, a lot. Critics hate it, but it seems the fans really like it. I am one of those fans. I think New Moon was a lot better than Twilight. Personally I think the acting was a lot better, and the atmosphere of the movie overall was better. Maybe if I had never read the books it would be an okay movie, but since I have, I really liked it.

I play Monopoly City Streets everyday. I think everyone else should too. It’s a lot of fun. I own Song Lake Rd. (the rd. we live off of) and some roads down on campus. You can destroy other people’s streets and you compete against other people to be the one with the most money. I like regular monopoly though, and if you do, you should play, too.

Tags: Fun, Movies, Twilight

Halloween

We hope everyone had an awesome Halloween.  We had a great one.  We spent much of the morning moving Brandon’s dad with Ashley.  Erik and I came home and took naps when we were done.

In the evening we had some more pulled pork and had Brandon’s mom, Ashley and Matt over.  I tried to paint Erik’s nose black with the paint brush but he wasn’t so interested.  So I ended up using my thumb, so it turned out pretty horrible.  Oh well.

Then we went down to Homer to meet Brandon’s dad and Valerie.  Erik wasn’t so interested in keeping his costume on or putting his Pooh hat on.  Brandon’s mom finally talked him into it and we started trick or treating.  He of course would only whisper trick or treat sometimes and every now and then say thank you.

After awhile he kept saying “next house,” and “next street.”  He actually loved it and said he had fun.  He was really sweet and still excited when we got home.  He didn’t bug for too much candy.  Well, not too much.

Tags: Family, Fun, Holidays, Love

Carving Pumpkins

A couple of weeks ago we trekked out on the coldest day of the season to pick out pumpkins at Anderson’s.  Erik, of course, wanted the pumpkins at the absolute back of the pumpkin patch, on top of a hill forcing Patti and I to drag the pumpkins back down to the car.  Tonight we finally carved the pumpkins into masterpieces (well, Patti did 95% of the carving, Erik and I were responsible for the mess making)

As you can see, Erik got quite involved this year and made a nice mess with the guts from the pumpkins.  At first, he said it was gross and only wanted to scoop the guts out with “the shovel” until I shoved his hand deep into the pile of muck.  After that, we made a “pumpkin pie” as Erik called it by squishing the goo between our fingers and patting it down flat.

These three photos are taken a year apart from the last.  Erik on the right was less than one year old, the one in the middle one year and 8 months, and the picture to the left was taken tonight.  Each of Erik’s three Halloween’s Patti has carved an Erik pumpkin and two of the three years we have pictures of Erik holding his pumpkin. (Unfortunately we don’t have one from last year for some reason-just of him when he was carving the pumpkin).

Tags: Family, Fun, Holidays, Love

Nostalgic

Videos

Patti and I were going through the “digital clutter” that accumulates over time (especially when you keep changing computers/hard drives). While doing that, we found some forgotten videos taken from the camcorder or our cell phones that we want to share.

Most of the videos (actually, I think all) are of Erik and they’re all pretty cute!

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Tags: Erik Dr., Erik Vocab, Family, Fun, Videos