Malipayong adlaw nga natawhan (Cebuano for Happy Birfday!!!)

 Here is sweet Christian Bischen I think around 3ish

 Christian 4

 Christian in 1st grade

 Here is a sampling of his journals in high school...I'm not sure which grade...10-11?

Christian 9 months old

 

 Christian opening Jessica's first present a picture of them together at the dike.

Jessica gave Christian some nice scriptures in Cebuano, a consecrated oil vial, and a ring. 

 

 Christian opening up a camera, that hopefully will be useful on his mission.  For dinner we had his favorite (well one of them...) monte cristo sandwiches.  And we played ONE round ONLY of apples to apples.

Happy Birthday my sweet funny boy!! I sure love you!

Have you ever heard my war cry?

.....disclaimer...if you are from PETA or you're a bit squeemish...this post is not for you...Quit reading right now!!!....

from a website...The second suggestion would be to check your math. It is not uncommon for people to exaggerate the size of a spider on first sight. If the spider in the tub is really the size of a tennis ball, like the one pictured here, there is good news. Your spider is most likely not the more dangerous hobo or recluse spider. It is probably a giant house spider (egenaria duellica) that can measure up to three inches in diameter with its legs extended.
The third course of action is optional, depending on the number and squeamishness levels of the household members. You can either call on the least squeamish household member (in order or bravery JENSEN, CHRISTIAN, TYLER)to deal with the problem, or you may already be the least squeamish member of the household. In that case, you can trap the spider under a glass, slide a sturdy piece of cardboard beneath the opening, and carry and release the spider in the outdoors.
Please remember to release the spider some distance from your house, or chances are he will soon visit again. House spiders rank among the speediest spiders on earth and yours may very well race you back home.

or.......

JUST YELL LIKE SOMEONE IS KILLING YOUR CHILD AND STEP ON THE SPIDER AND KILL IT!!!

First off...earlier today...I came into contact with yet another moving object...a HUGE (there is nothing small in my house) black beetle...I took a moment to gather my wits about me and decided that it was not moving very fast and that I would try and gather is up in a bucket and take it outside ALIVE...I don't kill everything in my house except if you are a spider, mosquito, or fly.  Ok, back to the story....I am the only one home...I was folding clothes in MY house and I put a shirt on a pile of clothes ready to be donated and I see this huge spider right as I was about to lay the shirt down...I picked the shirt back up and the spider moved.  GREAT!...I want to go and find the fly swatter because if I stomp on it now it will be on uneven ground and I will probably loose and I CAN'T LOOSE IT!  (I'm sure this is the spider that bit me a couple days ago...no it's not a mosquito bite...so I must end it's life)  I run out to the living room and try to find the fly swatter and I can't find it.  I run right back in my room to make sure he is still there...and he is.  I try to get the biggest bowl I can find to try and gather it up humanely like I did the beetle but it moved too fast and I was afraid that he move too fast around the bowl, I wouldn't be able to watch him and walk fast at the same time and open the door and throw him outside.  Besides...he'd probably be back inside in no time.  So I do the only brave thing I can think of.  I'm the only one home I CAN AND MUST do this!!  I grab the shirt and carefully start moving off the pile of clothes and onto the more flat surface of the floor.  I drop the shirt and the spider quickly tried to escape into some socks that folded on the floor...(gosh all this would be so much simplier if I didn't have so many clothes on the floor) and YELL MY WAR CRY and STOMP on the sock where the spider had hid.   Now I'm worried that I must know if I killed him and I don't want to unfold the sock in case he still alive.  I slowly unfold the sock and find that indeed he is dead.  I was relieved and promptly took him outside to take a picture of him.

 this is what he looks like alive (above)

 this is his nasty bite..the picture doesn't show as good as in real life...

And of course this is him passed on.

Homecoming Night

Picking Sophie up to go to dinner at Brick Oven

Putting on wrist corsage

The ladies of the group...Sophie, Laura, and Emily

The gentlemen of the group...Stewart, Tyler, and Matt

 Whole group in front of Brick Oven...Stewart, Emily, Tyler, Sophie, Matt, Laura

Boys walking to the dance (at the high school) from Brick Oven...none of them are drivers yet (hehe)...it's just a couple blocks.  From the head attire on Tyler's head it looks like they had a balloonist (is that what they're called ?) at Brick Oven.  All the girls have one too.  They all shared a pizza.

Aren't they super cute!!  This picture belongs in the post below...(that's too hard)

Homecoming day date

Here in Utah before the actual dance you do a day date.  Ty took his date Sophie to rent some tandom bikes.  The tandom bike place is right near BYU campus.  I made up the scavenger hunt items to go around the campus.  There were 2 other couples.  The were other colors...team blue and team white.  First one to complete the most items wins.  Wouldn't you LOVE to do this too?  I want to do this.  So fun!!

 " G-day Mate. Could you tell me the time?"                             Napkin and Menu            

 

Newspaper and sign                                                                             Fork

 Get a drink of water/drinking fountain

 

Get autograph of someone you don't know.

Buy 2 suckers                                                                Find a for sale sign

Find a pebble in a stream

Find some construction dirt

Go to the bell tower and yell "GO COUGARS!!!"

Go to the creamery and ask for a sample of ice cream

Pick up some trash and throw it away.

Go to the botany pond that Ty's great grandfather designed and built and take a picture of the rock and some duckies.

Ty and Sophie said they had a good time and tried and tried to get a cop/security gaurd...They were focussed on that one.  They didn't have time to go pet the cougar and say "nice kitty".  Part of their scavenger hunt was to find some "special sauce" and eat.  Which means eat at Jdawgs for lunch.  I think Ty and Sophie said that they came in 2nd. 

On a side note...Tyler told Sophie that they would be riding a tandom bike on their date.  Sophie told him that that wouldn't be possible and that she felt uncomfortable riding a bike.  (She didn't tell him that she didn't know how to ride a bike)  Tyler reassured her that he would be steering and she didn't really need to worry that much...just try to keep her balance.  But during the days preceeding Homecoming she had her brother teach her how to ride a bike.  Very cool Sophie...very cool.

(got frustrated with blogger layout and made all the pictures half way through centered)

Ty asked Sophie to Homecoming

Get a big rock...HUGE rock and have your dad help you carry it to the van. 
Go get some candy rocks and put into a cute little bag and tie with a cute little ribbon.
Attach a little saying like this..."You would ROCK my world if you'd go to Homecoming with me!"
Drive to her house and deliver the rock right in front of her front door.
Ring the doorbell and run like heck to the van.
Turn off all lights in the van and watch from afar.


Here is how she answered him...placed this in his locker at school.

Let's play a game!!

It's called "Which One".

 Here is what a brand new butter looks like all wrapped up nice and snug.

 Here is where the butter is kept... on the top shelf in the fridge...about 3 feet high.

 Here are some very strange markings on the corner of a cold stick 'o butter.

Here's what I know so far...

They are both super cute...(well, the one of the left totally wins)...both have teeth...they both have brown hair...both could open the fridge...

I just can't figure it out?!...

Now here's your job...

 "which one"?