Crazy Hair

It was "Crazy Hair" day at school last week. Here is how they went to school.

Meagan may have been a little tired, but she still wanted to participate with the others.

IKEA

Rebecca and Meagan outgrew the small dresser that they were sharing in their room. We stopped at IKEA in Tempe on the way home from the temple one Friday and got them a bookshelf and an 8-drawer dresser. It took me half of the next Saturday to put them all together, but Tyler was there with me the whole time. He is a great helper and wants to do everything that I do.

For the next few weeks Meagan kept referring to her "dresser from the temple".

Do you think they are mine?

Rebecca's Primary teacher asked me to bring a picture of me when I was about five to show in her class. I had my Dad scan my kindergarten picture and send it to me. The pictures of the kids are from the first day of school 2009. You be the judge if you think I passed on my genes or not.

Warts

I know, warts aren't something that people usually brag about. I am bragging that I now finally do not have any warts. After having a wart (that turned into multiple) longer than I have known Michelle, she finally got tired of me complaining about them. One day I came home from work and she told me I had an appointment with the dermatologist to get them frozen off. Well after seeing him every 3 or 4 weeks for 6 months they are finally gone. He would shoot them with liquid nitrogen at each visit (which meant that I would limp for about a week afterwards). Then every night I would soak my foot in warm water, pick off any layers that I could, sand them with an emory board, apply an acid with a Q-tip, put on an acid disk and then cover it with duct tape. I would leave that on overnight and then take it off in the morning. After doing that for far too long, the Dr. finally said that they were gone. Here are a few pictures of the process.



This is from April:

This is from May:

This is from June (the purple stuff is an acid that the doctor puts on):

And this is how they look tonight:

You can still kind of see where they were, but the Dr. says that they are gone. The skin just needs to continue healing.

Sewing

Rebecca took sewing lessons today from Mom. She fixed a pair of pajamas and a Barbie outfit. She also used thread and the colors were blue and purple. The first thing she had to learn is to make a knot at the end of the thread. Then she had to stich it. After that she learned to make another knot and she did it twice in each thing. She had fun doing it. They also went over a page of her "Faith in God" activity book. She is going to do the sewing every Sunday after lunch or a few things after lunch. It is going to be one of her new talents.

(Dictated by Rebecca, typed by Dad)

Ballistics Conference

Tyler and I attended a ballistics conference. My good friend and his son took us out to massacre bowling pins and golf balls. It was a lot of fun. Rik had a little .22 rifle that Tyler got to shoot. He was doing really well by the time the day was over.

Valentine's Day

Being that Michelle and I hate crowds, we have created a tradition of staying home on Valentine's Day and making dinner for ourselves. It started when we were dating. I made shrimp fettucine alfredo and the tradition has just kind of stuck. Every V-day that is what I make. Lots of garlic, lots of cream sauce, lots of shrimp... It is good. We often end with a slice of cheesecake, but not always. I know, think of the clogged arteries. This year, I had help with cleaning the shrimp. Tyler loves to cook and loves to be Dad's helper. So combine the two and here you have it. I can't guarantee that all the shrimp got deveined, and I did get a small bite of shell, but Tyler and I had a good time making dinner for Michelle together. (Although it doesn't look like it on my expression.)