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So, this weekend I called Nicholas a ‘Northman’. Told him I was kind of proud of it as in this regard he is somewhat taking after me. And what does he do to earn this title? He likes to go around in the Michigan winter claiming he doesn’t need his coat. Often, we’ll make him take it with him, but then he never really puts it on, he just drapes the hood over the top of his head and lets the coat hang down his back. Even yesterday, when going to church, it was below 5º, wind chill around -20º, I’m sure sure he would have preferred to leave his coat in the car.

When I picked him up from karate this evening, it was a balmy 8º. I asked him half jokingly where his coat was, and I was surprised when he actually said he left it inside and we had to go back and get it. I said, “I’m surprised you even have it.”

To which he responded that he had meant to leave it in the car but he just forgot. And did he put it on as we walked back out? Nope. Said he didn’t need it. I said, “Dude, it’s like 8º.”

He replied, “Feels more like 30º to me.” As if 30º is some heat wave or something.

In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new link under the Blogroll section on the right. It’s actually the very first one under that section.

This is hopefully the first small step in getting some of Ashlee’s creations actually produced and stuff. She’s done some really cool things. Some of you may or may not know that she’s authored and illustrated several of her own books too.

So check out her blog and enjoy!

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family!!!

And FYI, we are now 2 for 2 on the winter snow storm/white Christmas thingy. Yeah, thought be could escape it by coming out West but nope. Were present for the afternoon smashing of snow up here in the Wasatch. Pretty cool for the kiddos actually!

Anyway, have a wonderful Christmas Day. We look forward to speaking to some of you later today!

OK, so for those of you reading the ‘Winter Blast Pummels the Northeast’, yeah, we’re sort of part of that. Started yesterday evening, not supposed to stop until 7 tonight. And I just looked out the window… yep, still snowing. I’m trying to decide if I should go out right now and take care of what’s on the ground now, or if I should just leave it for tonight after it’s all done. Now having said that, we’ve had worse storms before. There’s only about 4 or 5 inches right now, with that same amount expected by this evening, all told 8-12 total when it’s over. We are getting pummeled with calls that church is cancelled for today, and we’re the 1-4 group.

It is nice for the kiddlings though, they woke up to a lot of snow. On top of that, they’re leaving for Utah on Wednesday, so Santa came last night so they could have some Christmas at home. We spent the morning opening presents, of course Nick and Ashlee were both lucky to get the main thing they’ve been asking for since we even started thinking about Christmas gifts. So they’re busy playing right now. Becky’s busy making breakfast, and I’m ‘busy’ fiddling around on the computer.

Merry Christmas everyone! We look forward to seeing most of you in a few days. :)

Well, I guess that it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I was going through a boat load of old pictures of all the things we’ve done over the last year or so. As I was filing these away, I started playing with iPhoto and put this little diddie (is that a word?) together. Sorry about the size (about 7 MB).

Fresno Freemans

Hey everyone.

For my Media History class, I had to do an interview with someone about how they used media and stuff throughout their life, then post it on blog. So I interviewed Aunt Betty, and here’s part of the interview:

Aunt Betty’s Oral History

On an unrelated note, she also gave me a copy of something Grandma Freeman wrote about their life during the Great Depression so that I could type it up. So here’s that:

Life During the Great Depression

WOOOHOOO!!!

17-10! BYU Wins! BYU Wins! Undefeated in Mountain West play two years straight! Josh, please tell me you were at this game. There’s nothing like winning with under a minute two years in a row (except for winning like fifty something to hardly anything and you only threw like 10 passes and racked up like 7,000 yards of rushing, that was a good game too). I so wished I lived in SLC right now (I may regret saying that later), just to rub it in. Good thing we’re in PA, and Nat has Dish, I was flipping through channels and was glad the game was on one of them.

Wait, I think I just heard the announcer at the stadium say something about revoking recommends for anyone who ran onto the field. Wait, there’s Josh… get out of there Josh, or at least cover your face so they can’t record you!!!