Trunk-or-Treat Practice

Rook has decided who he will be for Halloween. Darth Maul. He has been practicing "the look" minus the Sith tattoos that cover Darth Maul's body. He even tried it out at the ward trunk-or-treat and was very convincing. Do you see any similarities?





Oh, and Wynn in the background was thinking this: "Holy crap, I think I just saw Darth Maul! Rook, did you see him? You know, the same Maul that was kidnapped from his Jedi training by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious at an early age. I hope he doesn't get loose in our house! Nothing worse than a loose Sith lord in the house eating all the Halloween candy and hogging the xBox."

The Gospel according to a jedi

Rook and Cannon are REALLY into star wars, for those who havn't been around them much, most all their conversations are about who is good, who is bad and who should be dead. They are constantly talking about it and lately I have been talking a lot about Heavenly Father and Jesus and trying to teach them the book of Mormon stories. We were talking about Abinidi and Rook said, does Heavenly Father kill him? And I said no, King Noah did. Rook Said, did Jesus make him dead? And I said, no when bad people do bad things to good people sometimes the good people die and go and live with Jesus. Cannon thought he could explain it better and said. Rookie, Jesus had Abinidi's light saber so the king burned him up so he could go and get it and Kill the king. And Heavenly Father is Abinidi's father so he won't kill him.
All in all I was very proud that he got that Heavenly Father is our Father....or maybe that is a stretch and I should just burn the star wars movies.
-Teri

Crew

Star Wars Contemplation

The way I picture the conversation in the picture above, it went something like this:

Rook: "Cannon, when we have our own sons, we should definitely show them the Star Wars movies in chronological order."

Cannon: "Rook, I disagree. We should show them the Star Wars movies in the order they were released. They will then get them in the same order the rest of the world saw them."

Rook: "No, no, no. Most would agree that episodes 4-6 are better than episodes 1-3, and viewing them in chronological order would allow the viewer to enjoy the superior movies at the end. Of course, to make it to the final episodes, one would have to endure a lot of frontloaded scenes of Jar Jar Binks. As a responsible parent, I would prefer to seek to shelter and protect my sons from extreme amounts of Jar Jar, not subject them to it. I worry that starting my son on this path may sour him on Star Wars altogether. Or worse yet, we’ve all read that it is traumatic childhood events like this that spawn future serial killers and telemarketers."

Cannon: "But, think about this. Some might argue they are meant to be seen in the order released, as this is how George Lucas chose to release the movies. And not to be discounted, this is the order in which I saw the movies, and obviously, things worked out ok for me…"

Wynn the artist

Wynn composed at school a masterpiece of his two Grandpas. For those of you that know the Grandpas, can you guess which one is Grandpa Miskin and which one is Grandpa Keller?

Priesthood blessings

In the Keller family, we learn about our priesthood duties from an early age. Lately, it seems as if Dad has been giving quite a few blessings and Mom and Dad have both been set apart in their new callings. Rook is a very observant kid when it comes to these blessings. He is so observant that Teri and I have seen him several times putting his hands on Crew's head and giving Crew his own "blessing." Rook usually puts his hands on Crew's head, closes his eyes, and moves his lips like he is saying something, even though no words are being said.

Here, during the picture session, Rook convinced all the kids that Crew needed a blessing because Crew was crying too much (see photo in the previous post). Crew isn't crying in this picture, so I guess it worked.

The Keller basketball team

Teri's latest saying is: "I'm a beautician, not a magician!" So, Teri traded her beautician (and magician) skills for photography services (of course from somebody who needed a beautician, not a magician).

This is one of the pictures of all the kids. When taking pictures of the kids, it seems as if there is never a perfect picture with everybody smiling. This one was pretty close, except for Crew. But what do you expect. He can act like a baby if he wants to. If anybody wants a copy, I have a high quality version. Just let me know.