Ok, good morning world wide web. Amazingly this little blog does attract readers from all over the globe… According to Google and its amazing analytics software, we have yes that’s right spanned the globe, that’s kind of exciting. This week I am taking a step down off the soap box and just giving an update and maybe a few favorites from the past month.
So to start check out this little image of our little Lou-Hoo. Sad story, we were visiting Grandma Marti in Springdale and we were playing at the elementary school on the playground. Bagiera was running around taking pictures of the kids and it came to little Lou-hoo’s turn, she was climbing up the monkey bars and right before Bagiera took the shot she wanted to pose and slipped off the bar and fell down quickly placing her bottom lip onto the bar followed by her front teeth right thru her bottom lip.
We have had a few birthdays this last week as well. Little Stinker-hoo turned 3, and my Dad turned 50. Stinker-hoo is in love with Monsters and Super Heroes. My Mom threw a surprise party for my Dad in the form of a wake at Spilsbury Mortuary with a mock funeral service and all, sounds twisted I know but, It was actually a lot of fun and everyone had a great time.
To wrap up for this week, we had a Sunday School lesson that talked about how the right path and the wrong path are getting so far apart that you can no longer walk one foot in each path (trying to avoid confrontation.) You know which path you choose and it is time to show others what path you are on even if it requires you to rock the boat a bit. I received an email that I really liked that was along these lines. Here is a summary:
At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country’s prior actions, here’s a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country.
A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included
Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French
Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large
group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries.
Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a
French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many
languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, “Why is it that
we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than
speaking French?”
Without hesitating,
the American Admiral replied, “Maybe it’s because the
Brit’s, Canadians, Aussie’s and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t
have to speak German.”
P.S. If you haven’t checked this out yet you need to. It’s hilarious! Mike and Wes good move we love it!
Here I find myself a few days into the new year and just getting around to where the holidays are winding down. First I have to say I am very excited for the new year and the fresh start I see to a better (a heck of a lot better) future. I have learned a lot about myself and about success here in the last few months, and have concluded that I am going to step away from the troubled economy and rise above it. There are many who have not been affected by the economy and I am choosing to be one of them. I have found that I have held the economy to blame for most everything that I don’t like about my current situation and in some ways, some aspects been waiting on the economy to change so my current situation can change back to normal. I am not sure that normal is anything we will see ever again. I know that I am 100% responsible for my life and have let the economy overshadow that fact. So in lieu of the new year and a fresh start we have set some new goals, some pretty high goals that some may say you have to be joking, however this is what I know.
1) It does not take any more effort to dream bigger dreams than smaller ones.
2) The main difference between those who I see to be successful or who have accomplished much or who have attained their ultimate dreams and those who have not, comes down to one thing: The high achievers have had bigger dreams and set higher goals.
3) Any goal is possible when accompanied with that goal is a clear path with steps, milestones, and directions on how to achieve it.
4) Your goal becomes a journey and not just a wishlist.
So, of our many goals we have set this new year, here is one that you may be interested in. We are going to change direction with our flog (family blog.) Most all well balanced successful people keep journals, and we have also been counseled by church leaders to keep journals, I am horrible at keeping a journal but find it easier to blog than to sit and write. And surprisingly this little blog has been in circulation for four years. This is the best and longest journal I have ever kept. So here is our new resolve, we will post weekly with fresh new updates which may or may not be more detailed and personal. Santa also brought Bagiera a little point and shoot camera for Christmas, that she will carry at all times. So you will definitely see new pictures and videos accompanied with our posts. So if you haven’t yet subscribed to our rss feed now may be a good time to do so. If you have no idea what an rss feed is keeping reading our blog I will later someday explain how to use them and what benefits they can provide.
Quick update: Our holiday was terrific- here is a little recap. Yah-hoo went snow boarding for the first time and loved it minus that fact that he can’t yet turn to his right. He also learned how to play canasta and hasn’t stopped asking to play. Lou-hoo has been non-stop playing with her babies. Stinker-hoo and Shnooky-hoo have been chasing balls around the house, and Bagiera and I have been addicted to the new Mario Bros. Wii game.
Lou-Hoo loves hauling her little Shnooky-Hoo around and making up stories and names about how he is her baby and his name is Devan or something (it always changes.) Fortunately he enjoys it- most of the time :)
Lou-hoo has a fascination with our phones, I don’t know what it is. Anytime one of our phones ends up missing she is always the first we turn to. For instance I couldn’t find my phone the other day and thought for sure I remembered where I last left it, so after turning the house upside down I went to Lou-hoo. With no hesitation she said that it was in her dirty clothes hamper. To my surprise there it was. We will catch her with them at least twice a day and she is sneaky about it too because we tell her all the time that they are not toys. While in her possession she is intrigued with the pictures and the camera. New pictures are always showing up. Here are a few:
