well, at least he's being affectionate...

Simon [to Everett]: because your graphics aren't fancy, lover boy.

I love you so much it hurts

Everett:  Well, there's more than one kind of love.
...like there's the brotherly kind of love where I punch you.  

Simon on Cirque de la Symphonie

Minus the music, it was awesome!

sorting through stuff

I used to write down the funny things Everett and Simon would say.  In the midst of digging through old possessions, I found a stack of paper scraps with amusing kid quotes on them.  They'll show up here soon, but I'm going to back date the posts.  So what I'm telling y'all is look at the old stuff later today.  You'll laugh.  At least once.  

just a little afternoon nerd humor

In between punching each other, poking each other, and denying verifiable facts, Everett and Simon have some really entertaining things to say.  Like, "In a fight between infinity and zero, zero wins."  At least when that fight is in the form of multiplication.  And outrageous laughter follows.

It's nearly as good as the time they couldn't stop laughing about both of Everett's bishops being on black when they were playing chess.  "Ahahahahaha!  HOW did that happen?!"  

this'll keep cps away

me: Now I just have to feed my children and put them to sleep.

all growed up

Simon:  My keychain does have some adulty things: I have a thumb drive, a key I don't know what it goes to, a library card...

that hot stuff... it's not so hot.

Everett:  I have another project for school.  We're making posters for an anti-tabasco campaign.

reading, sleeping... it's practically the same.

Everett:  Why am I not in bed?

me:  I don't know.  Why are you not in bed?

Everett: Because no one woke me up from my reading.

of course they did

me:  Hey, no parkour in the house!

me (as they run outside):  Or jumping off the deck.

Everett: oh, we already did that.

I don't even know how to argue with this.

me: Lets go to the sand dunes tomorrow.
Simon: Yes!
Everett: I'd rather stay home and learn calculus.

how many words would wordle wordle if a wordle could wordle words?

Wordle is fun.

And YES, I know.  I haven’t blogged in months and now my first post (in months) just says that Wordle is fun.  But it IS.  And maybe someday I’ll be motivated to blog again, but I’m having too much fun right now to spend any of my valuable time on it!

because we have RULES at our house

Simon (complaining to friends): My mom won't let us be vegans.

hiking again

Because frolicking around on red rocks is what we do in St. George.

And part of that includes squeezing ourselves through ridiculously narrow slot canyons.

And then the camera battery died.  So I have no pictures of the rest of our hiking antics... for that day anyway.

I went home for Christmas!

It was pretty amazing to experience the wonders of the mainland.  Like friends and family. And hiking and rock climbing and snowboarding and Disneylanding.  Of course, being me, I forgot to take pictures of half of what I did, but here are a few of the first couple days. 

I had a great time catching up with Amy and Amy and Amberly.

And hiking with the family.

Everett and Simon had a blast playing with Josh.

 

And Ruth and I found a rock teeter totter!

dudes, Jesus is the answer

To the age-old question of "what should we put on a billboard to make Vegas seem less like Sin City?"

It's totally working too.

simon's spider

sunrise

Aunu'u is awesome

Aunu'u is a tiny island off the tip of our tiny island.  A group of us headed over because sometimes you just need to get off your usual tiny island and visit another (even smaller) one.  Aunu'u is about 1/2 of a square mile and pretty easy to hike around in a day.  It's also ridiculously beautiful.

Although I think the most important thing to remember about Aunu'u is that when you come to the quicksand lake, you need to step in it.  You should remember to have your children step in it too.  It's the responsible adult thing to do.

Everett cut his foot gallivanting around in the quicksand lake so Keala carried him for a bit.  Simon realized that being carried was a legitimate option so he got in on that too.  Poor Keala had a kid on his shoulders for most of the day.

Again, ridiculously beautiful:

perhaps I need to get out more

Because, yes, I'm blogging about the arrival of an airplane.  I know it's absurd.  But I remembered to take pictures!  And I don't know what to do with them.  A blog post seems like the best answer.

So the biggest airplane in the world came to American Samoa to deliver generators.  There was a lot of airplane talk around ASPA just before its arrival.  Everywhere I went I seemed to hear "I heard it was built to carry a space shuttle!" or "Did you know that it burns X lbs of rubber every time it lands?!"

Naturally, I was curious to see something so big land on our tiny runway.  So I hung out at the end of the runway in order to be directly underneath the beast when it landed.  It was pretty incredible.