Boogity Boogity Boogity, Let's go bowling!

Booger decided that for his 13th birthday party, he wanted to have another bowling party. If I recall correctly, this is the 4th bowling party in the last 5 years. He has fun, and the guests do too.

Happy Birthday Bucko!











Don't forget to your leave your birthday comments for the Rhino!

- Ben

The Rhino collection

I put together a short video of a photo collection I recently had scanned in. Most of the pictures are from before we had a digital camera, and they encompass basically the entire span of his 12 years.

Click for the video:


- Ben

The Creative Side of Rhino

Well in this past quarter in school, Christian has had a couple interesting projects to complete. First was in Geography when he was studying Egyptian history, he had to design 2 different types of Egyptian relics. Well he used his brain and Papa Dan's wood carving talents and went to town. Needless to say his Geography teach was impressed (and even showed the wood shop teacher, which Christian has this quarter!). Yes, he scored and A+ on that!

Next was for his Algebra II class. He had to scale a room to size. He came home, went to town on a sports room. Needless to say, with Ben's talents in design and architecture and Christian also being so interested in the same field, I couldn't get a word in edge wise. Being "the woman" of the house, I got to help hang the wall paper.....typical! Again, his teacher loved it and another A+ for the books!

Let's just hope he keeps down this same path in the next 5 years and maybe someday he'll be designing multi-million dollar buildings/houses and sending mom and dad around the world for vacation!

~Danine

Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours, Happy Holidays!

As per usual, Booger made out like a bandit. Though this year was much different from previous years. He didn't request, nor receive any "toys" in the traditional sense. All the gifts this year were either clothes, or media related. (Music, movies or games). No plastic Tonka toys, no model cars, no Rescue Heroes.





Not that I mind, because I get to play with these gifts versus the plastic toys. Yes, I played with the toys too before, but they just weren't as enjoyable as music or movies. Danine on the other hand doesn't like that he didn't get any "toys" this year. It's the slow realization that he's growing up and out of the kids stuff. It's another one of the milestones you don't realize you have passed until after it smacks you in the face.

This afternoon we'll make the family runs, and of course, he'll probably score another load or two. At least the gifts are smaller and we won't need to bring a dump truck to bring the gifts back home.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

- Ben

Priceless Comments

Well last night we had some friends over for dinner and to just hang out afterwards. We were all sitting around watching some television and Ben starts flipping through the channels. He stops on a channel that is playing an "old school" Growing Pains re-runs. As Ben, Jay, Alissa and myself are into it and making comments, since we all grew up watching the Seavers, Christian looks over at Ben and states "who are those people Daddy?". Needless to say, I thought Jay was going to fall of the coach laughing and Ben just couldn't come up with a reply. Definitely priceless!



Here's a picture of Rhino rockin' the Christmas look!
~Danine