Thinking on a wide range of topics!

Mom, would you be really upset if my sisters were scientific geniuses and did genetic testing on me ....maybe they'd get rid of my B.O. and my armpits would smell like cherries.

I can't imagine living forever. I guess our minds are like peas and God's mind is like a really big watermelon.

I just don't get cars. They'll need boosters if they're ever going to fly. And if they hover, don't you think they'd use magnetic fields to do that?

Bryce: "Man, I love this Chinese food!!"
Miranda: "...This is popcorn chicken and macaroni and cheese"
Bryce: "Sometimes I get them mixed up!"

Christmas at Aunt Bev's

Bryce helped cook Christmas dinner ("Is this meat supposed to be white?" ...I guess he hadn't ever seen ground turkey before.) At the kitchen store I turned around and saw Alan giving Bryce a quick, spontaneous hug. And he also he got to go to Best Buy and use his money that he saved all summer and fall to buy an XBOX 360, 250 GB. That was one HAPPY boy!

He was one happy camper.

Bryce off to school

It's a safety thing that doesn't hold for all parents...we see lots of kids standing alone by the road waiting for the bus. But, Alan is adamant that Bryce have someone there...to the point that he stays home from work if I can't be there. Pretty cool, Dad!

Bryce's Awards from Spooktacular Swim Meet

Just need to point out that he is holding blue (1st place) and red (2nd place) ribbons ONLY.

Conversations with Bryce

Bryce showed me a Monty Python video on the killer joke...how it won the war for us because everyone who heard it died laughing. The announcer ends by telling about the Geneva Convention...how the joke was banned in modern warfare and laid to rest....never to be told again. Bryce looks at me seriously and says, "Mom, it's ok. This isn't real, you know!"


Bryce (5th grader): Mom, can I go to the Harvest dance?
Mom (slyly): So, Bryce do you have a date?
Bryce: Yup. October 15th!


Bryce: (Looking at real estate ad for his grandma's house) Well, if I bought it I'd flip the house around, throw a second story on, and make the house wider." Hum...future contractor?


Bryce: Mom, are you married when the guy kneels down with the ring or when you kiss in the church?

Bryce at Lincoln City

Celebrating the birthdays for 3 warm, sunny days at the beach!das