BBQ

What: A vegetarian friendly Bar B Q Where: The Danelle, Olivia, April, & Brooke Residence When: 8:00pm Saturday, May 13, 2006 - already over...Why: To save Ryan and Brent's social lifeHow: Brought to us by Danelle Smith and Ryan Yeo (not pictured above)

Chill Time

Sabbath afternoon at the park.

Some of the kids racing here were tiny!

A couple more pictures from the balloon stampede...

Balloon Stampede

6:00am last Sunday morning

Greetings from your childish children

Mom you're great, mom you're fun,

You make food for everyone.

When we're sad you cheer us up.

You'd always fill our sippy cup.

You drove us to the hospital when we broke our bones.

Thanks for paying the bill for our much needed cell phones.

You are still a faithful fan of our games and plays.

Thanks for pulling us through our gawky phase.

We love you more than this blog can say,

And hope you're happy this Mother's Day!

Harvester

It's just not a trip to UCA with out a trip to the good ol' Harvester.
Hey look! It's Danny's Mivoden Mobile!

Alumni Softball

GO LIONS! ha

So, all of you people out there who aren't planning on going to your high school reunions, I strongly encourage otherwise. Even though it wasn't quite our reunion yet, we partied like it was 2004! Of couse we had to do it outside, with windy and rainy conditions, but it was fun nonetheless.

Billington Residence

The Southern crew is back! Wa Hooo! We had a little get together this past Saturday night at the Billingtons. The WWC reps were Trent, myself, Carl, Brooke, and Nicki. UCA brought us Trina and Ryan B. (Andrew V. chickened out for the evening. What a bum!). And of course our very own SAU road trip gang, Aaron, Ryan, Dustin, and Danny.

The Relates

A long weekend at home was just the jump start I needed to rev up my brain for school. After sleeping, eating lots, laughing til I cried, playing with my cousins, and sewing I was mentally well enough to go back and study.

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There's nothing quite like taking an odd t-shirt or pair of junky pants and with a little zip here and a little zippa-de-do-dah there you have a favorite item!

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The fam was fun too, I guess. :)This was the day before Jake's big 7.

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So we ask him, "Do you want to open your present early?"

"No, that's ok. I'll wait."

"Are you sure? Because you are gonna LOVE it so much you'll probably want to start playing with it right away!"

"No, that's ok. I'll wait until tomorrow on my birthday."

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Any other family would probably stop there, put the present aside, and respect the child's wishes. But not mine! I feel compelled to share some history.

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My family is the kind that opens our Christmas presents 3 or 4 days before Christmas Eve. If we do, by some miracle, make it to Christmas Eve, there's probably only one present left for everyone. It comes from being repressed as children in my grandparents home. Grandma always made us cousins wait til Christmas DAY to open anything! It was traumatizing really.

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It's kind of hard to talk about sometimes...

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So, back to Jake's birthday present. Basically we bribe, connive, and beg him to open it. He caves and has a blast with his camping set, complete with a water bottle, compass, and flashlight. The tent is tiny, but fits him and his new sleeping bag perfectly. It's pretty cute to see him camping in the back yard.

As you can see we are intents campers...hehe
Aaron and Jake having a man-to-man talk about deer hunting.
Babies are always the main event. And why shouldn't they be?I mean just look at this face!

The Human 5

We (all the individuals pictured below) just had the coolest communication around the world that made me want to share with a cartoon narrative. Emily uses Skype. I don't know if anyone else out there is familiar with this form of communication, but if you are, I'm sure you've felt frustration. Emily calls people and sometimes, correction, most of the time, you can't hear a darn word. To make up for it she pushes buttons and you can hear the tone on the other end. We used this method last year at Southern when her cell phone got smashed. I asked the 'yes' and 'no' questions, she used the touch tone. That being said you now understand what's going on here.

The interesting part about this little comic strip is that Aaron didn't know he was lost for a while (he had a suspicion). But he found out after Ryan & Dustin relayed to Emily, who typed to me, who told Aaron they were lost. For some reason I just thought it was a cool moment...

Here's the outlined summary (wow, that sounded a lot like my Microbiology teacher).

Another detail I left out, Ryan was towing a boat...

And look Emily! I changed the hair to orange just for you!

Opening Night

Drive In! Feature Presentation: Ice Age II (with Nissa in the way)

We were set with a bag of apples and some chips.

Ashley and Joel's nook Did I mention we had two pieces of a couch? That luxury was brought to us by James, the man, Pardee.

Except Steve and Shane hogged the whole thing...ok, so maybe Nissa did too. The point is I got demoted to the truck bed. It's not as comfy as it sounds.