Happy New Year! May all of your wildest dreams come true!

Simon is Six

It was such a busy day yesterday that I didn't get a chance to do a birthday post for Simon. That and the fact that it was strangly an emotional day for me. I actually don't like to remember the day of Simon's birth very much or for that matter I don't really like to remember the first several months of his little life. What I do like to think about is the sweet little boy Simon has become. He is such a happy go lucky kid, he is always making us laugh, always solving Olivia and Andrew's fights for them, always hugging and kissing, always bursting out in made-up songs, and goofy things are always coming out of his little mouth. I can't imagine life without Simon. I find myself wishing he would stay 6 for a very long time. He is wise beyond his years and has already endured more than most people have to endure their entire lives and I love him. Happy Birthday, Little Man!

Andrew

Happy Birthday, Andrew! I miss you.

Fear

"The tenth most common fear is Michael Jackson."

-Unsolicited wisdom from Andrew

Yoo Ee Ay Land

We had the great pleasure of accompaning our good friends to Disneyland over UEA. We are so happy that our kids love the Enger kids as much as we love the Engers! Melissa is my very oldest friend (we go way back to kindergaten) and I love every minute I get to see her! I'm just glad that Ryan and Robb get along so well. Melissa and I had a hard time pulling them away from each other every night. I guess that's better then them not liking each other. Anyway, here are the pictures I promised long ago...

Melissa and Robb

The kids in the Toon Town jail.

Waiting for Big Thunder Mountain.

Drew and Jake. These two are two peas in a pod.

"Star Wars" - an a capella tribute to John Williams

This is pure genius...

A New Day

I feel a sense of peace and hope for our country today, that I haven't felt in a long time. It feels really good.

Edit - That was Brook, but I feel pretty good, too.

Disneyland

Pictures soon to come, I promise, Engers...

This is for you, Mom...

Olivia went to a Fancy Nancy birthday party today and she had nothing in her closet to wear. I pulled this out of my hope chest thinking it would be way too big. Boy was I wrong! Mom, was this dress this short on me at age 8!?! For those of you who are not my mom, my mom made me this dress to wear on my baptism day. Pretty cute, huh?

Pumpkins

Which of these pumpkins do you think will get kicked in first?

Happy Birthday Drewbie

It is crazy that we have a son in the double digits now. We are way to young for that! :) Drew had a great day which started out with a surprise visit from Grandma and Papa. The only downer was that Drew had to go to church on his birthday (I tried to tell him that 3 hours of church was way better then 7 hours of school on your birthday). He didn't believe me. What a sweet face he has. We love you Drewbie!!!

This one's for you, Dave

Greatest Rod Decker moment ever.

Singing. An editing flub. The gag reenactment is worthy of an Emmy.

And Ed Smart raising the "liberal" bogeyman is just gravy.

Sad story

The national debt just became a 14-digit number.

If this keeps up, we might need to start writing checks that look like this:

Putin rears his head

"When you consider even national security issues with Russia, as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where — where do they go? It's Alaska."

For the record, I thought it was funny when Obama accidentally said there were fifty-eight states. (See how reasonable I am!)

Gotta love the Letterman