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Remember that record from when we were all growing up where the “hit” song was, “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”? It was Mom’s or Dad’s. The cover of it was a good bokeh shot of a little blond kid with a bowl haircut smiling with no front teeth (and perhaps a red sweater?) standing in front of a Christmas tree. I always thought that was a silly song for whatever reason. I mean, who loses their two front teeth right around Christmas? And why would you want them for Christmas.?

Well I thought about the song the other day as Ashlee was trying to eat some pizza. Now Ashlee’s four food groups are pizza, apple juice, corn dogs, and frosted flakes, with some milk thrown in there every once in a while. She didn’t finish her pizza. /GASP /SHUDDER (Oh the horrer!) When I asked her why she said it was getting too hard to take a bite because she had to do it with the side of her mouth. Poor girl. Now I understand the song much better. And I feel for the poor kids who can’t finish their pizza because of this. I’d want my two front teeth for Christmas as well if they were hampering my pizza ingestion in any way!

The kids got Christmas break a day early as their last day 2008 was called off due to snow. As forecast, we got about 8-10 inches between about 3am to 3pm today. I still went to work, and Becky still had to go take her last final, but the kiddlywinks got to stay home and chill.

So, I’ve got the week off next week as well. I get to help Becky figure out how to keep the kids entertained for the week. Nick is pretty easy, Ashlee tends to walk around asking what we have planned for tomorrow and announcing that she’s bored. So I figure one day we’ll go catch a matinee of that Despereaux (?) movie. And another day we’re thinking about spending at an indoor water park that’s just 20 minutes down the road. They’ve got really good resident discounts at the water park. And we get 2 free buckets of popcorn at the theater. So those two activities are no brainers.

PS – Becky won’t like this, but to my siblings who may have to time off, this may be a good time to try out that 10-day free trial of World of Warcraft. Duskwood, Horde, that’s all you need to know! ;)

First up… a view of the sickly ones this past Sunday, complete with spewage catching apparatuses:

And then there’s the good news, I guess, sort of, perhaps it’s not that good, nope, it’s really bad, it’s actually horrible (thanks Stadler & Waldorf)… ANYWAY, so it turns out the kids really didn’t have the stomach flu. They were actually made sick by the utter putrescence that was BYU and University of Michigan football on Saturday (I’m really surprised I haven’t been hit with it… yet)! This was also confirmed by a coworker whose son actually was afflicted by the same illness from just the Michigan game alone.

Unfortunately, there’s no vaccine, you’ve just got to let it run its course. :(

Here’s some pics from Matt’s adventures in the MTC Enjoy!

As Thanksgiving gets closer and closer, I’ve been counting my blessings. All of you are at the top of the list! So I just wanted to say a quick hello to you all. Hope you are all doing well. Remember, I have new cell (and Josh has my old one), so if you don’t have the new number, just email me and I’ll get it to you.

The aforementioned Halloween pictures are here

I put up some more pictures of Elsie on my Picassa page.

Let me know if it doesn’t work; I can’t get it to come up on my computer, but Cass got it to work on hers.

Coming soon (as soon as I can get a new FireWire cable): Halloween pictures.

The contract has been signed, and I’m officially back in the saddle as an assistant coach with one of the local basketball teams.

OK, not that one. (That would be pretty sweet though, eh?)

In real life, I’m Varsity Assistant with CH High. Our mission is to “Renew the Tradition” as we aim to take a program that has won a total of 13 games over the last three seasons back to prominence (2 state championships in the 80’s). First day of practice is Monday. Go Tigers!

Here’s some current pictures. These pretty much sum up our whole Labor Day. It was the last day of vacation for the kids (and parents) so we wanted to fill it with stuff they like to do.

Last Day of Summer Vacation!

It’s hard to believe that summer is already over. The house is pretty vacant now, kind of like an empty nest. The kids are in school, when Becky isn’t in class she’s volunteering at the hospital, and Jere is either at work, at class, or at basketball (woohoo!). If you call and we don’t pick up… it’s because nobody is home! ;)

The first week back was long for everyone. Ashlee wanted to stay home from school on Friday because she was too tired. Speaking to other parents at school, this seemed to be a common Friday morning theme last week. Nick I think is enjoying the fact that all of his closest friends are in the same class this year (as opposed to only 1 last year). I thought this was a good thing at first when I left him the first day of school sitting at a table with all his buddies. Then I got to thinking the rest of the day and decided I’d be kind of scared to have to teach those 8 or so boys all at once! Becky is still trying desperately to get into a section of chemistry. And as for me… it seemed like there were 8 work days in this 4 day work week. When’s Thanksgiving break!

Hopefully most of you received an email recently about Ashlee’s submission in the Make My Beanie contest at ty.com. She drew up a beanie and submitted it. The top vote getters will have their beanie actually made for them. We’re trying to get her as much votes as possible. You can vote once per day. Please head on over to her submission page and cast your vote!

(And please remember to vote again tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that…)