And one more thing... I am DIGGING THE BLOG!
Brian

It appears as though the Cool Californians aren't as cool as we thought. Only one of them has posted on the blog. Perhaps the other one thinks she is TOO cool. I know that you talk to your daughters almost everyday, but what about your sweet son-in-laws? We want the skinny too. We anxiously await Lee's first blog. I just finished typing this and realized something...My own wife, who I live with, has yet to post. Just so everyone knows, if she does not become involved, there will be severe consequences for her!
Brian

Kristina,

No intiendo nada de que estas hablando con Brian. Pero te amo de todos modos.
By the way it is a good thing that you all came last week. It is raining hard and has been all day. Sure made for a fun day on the freeway. We took Lucy for a walk and it began to rain harder. We were soaked by the time we got back home. Sorry I don't have any good fat man stories. I am still trying to figure this thing out. I tried to comment to Kristina's latest blog but could figure out how to post it, so her goes with my own blog. Devin I will be thinking about you at the BYU game tomorrow while we are tailgating. Well I guess I better go and wait for the next literary experience to be posted

Dad

Lo Siento Mi Hermano :(

Brian,

I wish I could express the unbearable amount of grief my poor heart is harboring at this moment in time. I wish I could build a time machine and remove the harsh words I spoke, but alas, the world does not take back her time. If I could but rewind....siiiiiigh. I am truly sorry for not recognizing your creative and unique writing style. I knew it was you or my sister, but it is true, it took the hand comment to set my knowledge in stone. I hope that our bonding moments were deep enough to keep the glue of our relationship strong. But, alas, I sit here and await your eternal judgement.
KRISTINA

Um...by the way everyone, I got a 91% on my Literacy final!!! YAY! This means it might be possible for me to pass the state exam, but I refuse to think about that tonight. Tonight is being saved for that huge pan of brownies I made and watching a movie. By the way, if you haven't seen Mixed Nuts, its HILARIOUS! I bought it on a whim cuz it was like three bucks at walmart and I liked the cast and director and the back made it seem hilarious. I have seen it before though...a long time ago, but I know I've seen it before. Anyway, its hilarious! Well...thats pretty much everything for me today. I miss you all and hope you're all having a great day! Hey Kim are you still alive? I Haven't heard from you lately. and Mom and Dad, you are on my SHUUUUUUNN SHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNA list until you blog. Whats the point of this if you wont participate in a family uniting activity??? ARG!

miss you all

Hey guys! This whole blog site is awesome. Devin gave excellent instructions. Lets see, not much going on here in Cali. It's kind of cold and gray, and I miss you all already. Full houses are a lot more fun than empty ones, even if we all have to share bathrooms. I am glad to hear you kept down an entire meal Kim. Mom said you wanted chocolate doughnuts. Why does that not surprise me? Hey Kris, don't feel too embarrassed about bowling over some stranger, just blame it all on the ice. I remember talking to one of my friends while we were walking down a hall and I ran straight into one of my professor's stomach. It was large enough that I just bounced off it about 5 feet. Luckily, I never even got close to hitting his head with my own. (Good thing he was portly.) To this day, I have no idea why he wouldn't just move out of my way when he saw that I wasn't looking and was going to run straight into him. Well, I am at work and I just wanted to check this out. It's so cool. I am glad to have another way to keep in touch with you all. Yea!!!

Marissa

Well, Kristina, while I do appreciate your advice, I am deeply troubled by how minimally you truly know me. How could you not have recognized it was I? When have you ever heard Candice say What up? Hmmm...Having difficulty thinking of a time...Perhaps it's because she never does. I thought me and you was tight. Apparently I was gravely mistaken. I mean, I've had the scar for a reeeeal long time. Plus, Candice and I have much different writing styles. Clearly the story was written by me. Or maybe you recognized the wittiness and creativity of the story and thought it must have been Candice. Well, I too have some wittiness and creativity inside me. I guess now you have a couple of things you know about me upon which you can build, since you don't know me all that well. I think I will get over this eventually, but the pain runs deep. It's just that I thought we bonded at Walmart with the dog lady. Then this...it will be tough to overcome.
BRIAN

EMBARASSING!

Hey everyone!
So I have little embarassing story for you that happened earlier this afternoon. I was walking through the bitter wind and up the ridiculous hill to my study group when I noticed my roommate Meredith (who I absolutely love to death, you all would if you met her!). Anyway, naturally I ran up to walk with her because I hadn't gotten a chance to see her yet today. So I run up and yell "HELLO LOVE!" and of course, only because its me, I totally caught a patch of ice and slid right into her, knocking her completely to the ground into the snow! Thats not even the best part-yep, you guessed it. IT WASN'T EVEN MEREDITH! It was some random girl I have never seen before in my entire life!!! I felt SO bad, you have no idea! Other than the fact that it was absolutely freezing outside, I wanted to crawl into a hole and hide. Luckily she didn't say anything rude or anything. She just gave me a really weird look. But, if I were knocked into the ice and snow by some random freak who is accident prone...I'd probably give her a weird look too...I guess I couldn't expect her to reach out and thank me for it. Anyway, that was my story. That and I was eating some cold pasta and Meredith knocked my arm and it fell on the ground...yep..still ate it. Shoot, that box was like $1.20, there was no way I was going to let a little carpet and couch fuzz ruin some perfectly good shell pasta. (dont worry, there actually wasnt any carpet or couch fuzz!)
Well, those are my stories for the day! Oh and by the way, you should sign your name or something after you write so we know who's talking. It took me a minute to determine it was Brian :)
Love you all!
~Kristina~
ps* Here is a video I know you will all enjoy :) Its from this summer when we went to a Storm game as a family and mom oh so kindly volunteered me, her, and Rudy to do a little race dressed in funny costumes. I was the telephone, mom was the tv, and Rudy was the computer mouse...trust me, your in for a treat!

The IV

Hey Fam!!

I thought I would blog about my day since I am actually feeling a little bit better. Yesterday I took off work and went and got a prescription to help me keep food down. The presciption worked to an extent but I still was really sick. Today I went in to the doctor's office and had an IV put in. I was a little scared since I had needles. To be 100% honest, it did hurt some because the nurse pricked me three times total and the needle was kinda long. The medicine made me sleepy and I was there for like 5 hours but I do feel better. I came home and slept but then ate and drank real food! I think I kept an entire meal down today!!! Hopefully I will continue to feel better. Anyway, sorry this post is boring...I just thought I would fill you all in. Love you! Thanksgiving was fun!! I have missed everyone and just seeing you did make me feel better.

What up everybody? I thought I'd see how good Devin is at giving instructions. So, if you are reading this, he is good. If you are not, then I'm typing this to myself. Anyways, we had a blast in Cali (I've noticed that the cool thing to do in California is to shorten words). We watched part of Joseph on the ride home - pretty good thus far. I'm looking forward to Heroes tonight.

Kristina - I had a crazy experience with a larger than life man myself. I'm sorry to admit this to everyone, but the scar on my right arm did not happen in a work accident as I've stated before. No, this pants sagging, belly drooping, scraggly behemoth was seated at a restaurant waiting for his appetizer to come. Well, the waitress made a mistake and so there was a bit of a delay. I was in the booth next to him, and he starts staring at me with a deranged look like something from the Shining. He began to rant and rave, drool spewing from his mouth. He meandered over to my booth, grabbed my arm and took a huge chunk of my flesh. This lunatic started chomping as though he were a grizzly bear who just snared a salmon. I froze up. I didn't know what was going on. All I could see was a giant blob going in for seconds. Luckily, the waitress arrived just then with his ooey, gooey, cheesy chili fries. It was nuts.

Well everybody, until next time. Late!

ho-la

HOLA!

Ok Kim, I will not fail you this time. I am here, staking my claim on this little family blog thingy. SO, hm...whats new with me you may ask? Well, here is the exciting adventure of what happened to me on my epic journey home:

I arrived at the airport, normal and safe, said my goodbyes with no tears-a triumph in my eyes. However, once I got on the plane, I sensed something...wrong. Some sort of...odd tension. I decided to sleep it off, figuring it was just my tiredness. However, that was when I heard the most blood-curtiling scream! I turned around to see the man who occupied the row behind me, the man who weighed not a pound less than 786.242424 pounds screaming bloody murder at the flight attendant for more peanuts!! He said he was starving because he hadnt had lunch yet and all he had for breakfast was a baby elephant!!! Well, the plane was obviously not built for people as large as rhinos, so during his marching and stomping through anger, he made the airplane sway! I swear, I saw my short life before my eyes and knew that would be the end of me. I would never see Tina Jr. :( but then, luckily, the flight attendant (bless her heart!) relinquished the peanuts. The fat man DEVOURED them as if the world would explode if he didnt! But then, to my astonishment, he began to SWELL!!! I thought he would take up the entire plane at the rate he was bloating! Then, just as I was squished against the window, touching the grotesque fat of the nasty hair fat man, I screamed for help and then.....POP! The rhino exploded into a million peanuts! And, yes, I ate a few. I mean, why waste perfectly good food?
hahaha, so, after that I got an early shuttle and made it safely to rexburg where my awesome roomies picked me up. I then unpacked and read all of New Moon :) VERY GOOD! aaaand, now I think Im going to hit the sack. LOVE Y'ALL! hope you all made it home safe! hope you're feeling better kimbo!

Another Attempt

Here is another attempt to start the family blog. Post away!