The Super Fast Benji Blog
This is my first blog.
This is a movie of my car racing.
It’s a remote control car.
I was hoping for a remote control helicopter for Christmas.
We have an elf that comes to our house at Christmas time
called Pluto. Pluto moves all over
the house each day in December. He
was in my room today on the curtain.
I am excited to see where he will be tomorrow.
Love, Benji
Captain Moroni Sammy
My Christmas concert is coming this week, but my school is
small. So we will be singing at the
nearby church. Pluto was on the
curtain in my room this morning and he is a scout elf. My favorite song is Away in a Manger
because I know all the sign language for it. Mom and Dad have started putting presents under the tree and
Benji and I thought that the presents were from Santa!
Love, Sammy
Tid bits from Timmy
I cry a lot. I
am growing new teeth. I don’t cry
when I am sleeping.
Love, Timmy
(written by Sammy)
A second with Cynthia
Can you believe its Christmas time? Everyone here is very excited. It’s only the second of December and the
whole house is covered in Christmas lights. This is our first year with a real Christmas tree, and we
love it. The whole house smells of
pine needles.
Alaska is an interesting place in December. It is so cold and so dark. The sun comes up around 10 AM and goes
down around 4 PM, so the people here do one of two things. They keep really busy with holiday
things and school, or sleep. James
calls it Hibernating.
I find that I have been doing a little bit of both.
This week Benji had an assignment at school to find out
where his ancestors came from. It
was nice to pull out the paper I wrote on Elizabeth Uren, and tell Benji a few
key points about where he came from.
He was really upset that I only went back to the birth of Elizabeth,
because he wanted me to go all the way back to Adam and Eve. I explained that was little to much to
tell the whole class. But when he
got up to explain were his ancestors came from, he tried to tell them that we
are all related because we all came from Adam and Eve. He came home a little upset because his
teacher said that he wasn’t allow to say that in class. He is so sweet, later he told me that
he asked him teacher what church she belongs to, and what she believes, only to
then explain what he believes.
Good thing the first presidency lowered the age that young men can go on
missions. I think Benji is ready
to go now.
This week during family scripture study, James read a
section starting with “according to the flesh”. Sammy burst out with laughter. When we calmed him down we asked him what was so funny. He said, “Why would you record the
flush?” he thought James said
“Recording of the flush” referring to the flushing sound the toilet makes. There is never a dull moment with Sammy
right now.
Sammy came to me yesterday crying and very upset. When I asked him what was wrong he
told me that he had lost his super
power. I had to think of a new one
to give him. Now he has tornado
power, which spins around while he cleans up his toys. Lets hope that super power will stick
around for a while.
Timmy is finally sleeping through the night. Its feels a little bit funny because he
is only 6 month old. But he is
such a doll. I can’t believe how
big he is getting. Some days I
wish I could freeze time and rock him to sleep forever.
Well that all for now!
Lots of Love, Cynthia
Joking James’ Jabberings
This week I found myself. I found myself going crazy with Christmas lights and decorations. There is a string of lights from the boys’
room all the way thru the hall, down the stairs to the Christmas tree. We even have lights in the dinning room
adding a cantina feel ambiance to our dinning experience. Started “Walk the Pipeline” at work
where we use a pedometer to count how many steps we take. We are walking the equivalent of the
Alaska pipeline down to Valdez and back up to Barrow. It looks like I did about 90,000 steps this week. Next week, I am shooting for six
figures.
I am excited about Pluto the Elf as well, as he comes around
like Halley’s comet annually to orbit our house. This has an interesting effect on our children, as they
strive to please this stuff creature.
Cynthia is cute.
I would like to thank her for using her fingers to type this for my blog
spot. Please do not think that she
is vain for writing that she is cute.
Peace Out, Cub Scout.
James
