Family Home Evening

Monday night is always our family home evening night dedicated to spending quality time together as a family. And I think these next two pictures are the epitome of some serious quality time that two sons have with their dad. As their dad says, nothing like a pillow to the side of the head. Plus, dad has a good arm, a very strong arm with rippling muscles. See how fast the pillow is going?

One cool thing about this picture is that Cannon was standing with Wynn and daring their dad to huck a "plasma grenade" at them. They claimed their Jedi powers would protect them. Dad used the age old trick of "hey, what's that?" and then just what they wanted, dad fired a plasma grenade at them. I guess Cannon's Jedi powers warned him to duck, but Wynn's Jedi powers were no match for dad's mind tricks and that plasma grenade took him out. Of course, the two Jedis recovered quickly enough.

deep thoughts

On Friday nights we trade baby-sitting with some really good friends. One Friday night the kids were with some friends that had a fish tank. One of the Fish was going to have babies. My friend said to Cannon, Look, this fish is going to have babies. She said that Cannon got very quiet and looked into the tank for a while and said, "Laurel, where is the hospital?"

Rook is one of our most picky eaters. He won't eat muffins, he won't eat nuts, he won't eat most things that we all like and he likes too. (once he has decided he doesn't want to eat it, he is dead set that he HATES it and it tastes like garbage.) Well the other day I went and got a rotisserie chicken, took the legs off, and gave one to Wynn and one to Cannon. Rook wanted one and I told him there were only two and he could have something else. I took a piece of breast meat and put it on his plate and he looked at it and said he hated it. I said he had to take a bite. He took a bite of it and spit it out and said, "MOM! I hate it!!! It is got poisen and I don't like to die!"

Halloween pictures

These are pictures from Halloween. Here is Rook, after Teri told him to "look evil."

Two Sith lords.

Ron Weasley

Boba Fett