2012-12-2 Pluto

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