Happy Birthday Kiri!

Happy Birthday Kiri! We made you a Birthday Video Adventure!, click on the picture to play it!  Have Fun

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For those of you who want to cheat, Here is the Story Map:

And here are the individual movies:

1	Beginning	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLxHtmZJRSA
2a	Talk to Shantell	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-4f7llglo
2a	Arriving at Eric and Shantell's Home	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1mhgIU71P0
2b	Run and Hide	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSHf3pX0z0
2b	Hiding behind the Bush	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HoTqDBz7E8
3a	Staying Put	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCI0zQ_yFA
3b	Exploring Eric and Shantell's House	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMKVR4htHS8
3c	Bite His Ankles!	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAkpakbE-FI
3d	Stay Hidden Behind the Bush	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTaBSfjEr2w
4a	Another Cake for Kiri!	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTfygdrdsU
4b	To the Hospital!	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRHUYWbopUo
4c	The "Machine"	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkvNXn-boZE
4d	The Potion	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgct1j0vJBU
4e	Kiri: The World's Nicest Giraffe	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5da2R2yHfqI
4f	Kiri: The World's Meanest Giraffe	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlStNsr6Bzg
5a	My new Medieval Family	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i9ZQS06Eg
5b	Another Try at the Time Machine	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REiN0MvfPgY

Eric’s Lucky Shirt

There is a shirt that has been with Eric through many of the most important events in his post-mission life.

The day he proposed to the love of his life who agreed to become his future wife,

The day his son Daniel was born,

and of course, the day he saved Daniel’s life from a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.

I think everyone would agree that this is a very special and very lucky shirt.  Last night Daniel secretly decided to test the limits of this shirt’s luck by sneaking a neon yellow crayon in the dryer.  This action triggered the Great Laundry Disaster of 2011.  Only one article of clothing managed to escape the terrible staining caused by the melted yellow wax.  Can you guess which one it was?  Of course, it was none other than Eric’s lucky shirt. Does this shirt posses magical properties?  Who can say?  I for one believe that this shirt is destined for great things.

Incidentally, does anyone know how to remove melted crayon stains from clothing?

Portal 2 Party

 

Shantell and I have been looking forward to playing Portal 2 for months now. It is a hilarious sci-fi puzzle/adventure game with amazing graphics and physics. We pre-ordered it on Amazon and got it Tuesday (the day it came out). We played it all night on Tuesday and then beat it on Wednesday. It’s a great game!

You should play it.

Shantell even came up with the great idea of making Portal Pancakes for dinner on Tuesday. MMMmmm.

You might notice that there are TWO kinds of syrup.  Cold Mrs. Butterworth’s for me and warm Log Cabin for her.  Pancakes just aren’t the same without the proper syrup and we each prefer the syrup we grew up with.

Here’s a preview of Portals 2 in case you haven’t heard of it.  We loved it!

Kitty Torture

Daniel Likes to play with Fiero. Fiero likes to play… but not with Daniel.

Fetch!

The actions of older siblings have a huge influence on their younger siblings.  If you’re like Daniel and your older brother is a cat, you’re bound to pick up some interesting tricks.  Daniel has been known to bite like the cat, growl like the cat and even chase laser pointers like the cat.  A couple of days ago he mastered the cat’s best trick yet, Daniel has officially learned how to play fetch Fiero style!  We even caught it on video!

Milling around…literally!

Last week after general conference I couldn’t sleep because I was thinking that Eric and I really needed to get some sort of food storage.  The next day my mom called me to tell me she dreamt about food storage.  Taking it as a sign we finally decided to follow the prophet and get started on our food storage!  Our first purchase was a hand wheat grinder that we’ll be able to grind stored wheat with even if the power goes out.  We were really excited abut it and have already made two batches of half wheat cinnamon rolls. 

This is our “Eric powered” wheat grinder.  It’s actually pretty fast when he’s working the crank!

Happy Birthday Makelle!!!