Luke’s favorite things – age 7

1. What is your favorite color?  Silver

2. What is your favorite toy?  iPod Touch

3. What is your favorite fruit?  Blueberries

4. What is your favorite tv show?  Friends

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Bagels

6. What is your favorite outfit?  Chiefs’ shirt

7. What is your favorite game?  Golden Eye 007

8. What is your favorite snack?  Cheez-Its

9. What is your favorite animal?  Hermit Crabs

10. What is your favorite song?  Love Runs Out (One Republic)

11. What is your favorite book?  Far Out and Unusual Hermit Crabs:  Cool Pets

12. Who is your best friend?  Will, Will and Asher

13. What is your favorite cereal?  Froot Loops

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Basketball

15. What is your favorite drink?  Dr. Pepper

16. What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas

17. What do you like to take to bed with you?  Stuffed animals

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  Bagels

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Donuts

20. What do you want to be when you grow up?  Zookeeper

Previous years: Luke’s favorite things – age 6 and age 4.

Kenny’s favorite things – age 10

1. What is your favorite color?  Blue

2. What is your favorite toy?  iPhone

3. What is your favorite fruit?  Pineapple

4. What is your favorite tv show?  Friends

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Hot dog

6. What is your favorite outfit?  Sporting KC Ivy Funds jersey

7. What is your favorite game?  Clash of Clans

8. What is your favorite snack?  Cheetos

9. What is your favorite animal?  Dog

10. What is your favorite song?  Animals (Maroon 5)

11. What is your favorite book?  Percy Jackson series

12. Who is your best friend?  Arden, Harrison, JT, among others

13. What is your favorite cereal?  Cinnamon Toast Crunch

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Play soccer

15. What is your favorite drink?  Root beer

16. What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas

17. What do you like to take to bed with you?  Blanket

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  Cinnamon Toast Crunch

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Brownies, pizza, wings, Hen House cake, rice crispy treats, Hershey bars, Skittles, Subway, more pizza and ice cream

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Soccer player (Sporting KC in US and then Barcelona in Europe)

Previous years: Kenny’s favorite things – age 9 and age 7.

Kenny’s favorite things – age 9

1. What is your favorite color? Scarlet.

2. What is your favorite toy?  Legos.

3. What is your favorite fruit?  Kiwi.

4. What is your favorite tv show?  Kick Buttowski.

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Chicken pot pie.

6. What is your favorite outfit?  Sporting KC jersey and comfortable blue shorts.

7. What is your favorite game?  Mario Kart DS.

8. What is your favorite snack?  Cinnamon almonds.

9. What is your favorite animal?  Monkey.

10. What is your favorite song?  My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Fall Out Boys).

11. What is your favorite book?  Big Nate.

12. Who is your best friend?  Arden, Harrison and J.T.

13. What is your favorite cereal? Honey Bunches of Oats.

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play soccer.

15. What is your favorite drink?  Milk.

16. What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas.

17. What do you like to take to bed with you?  Blanket.

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  Oatmeal. 

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Pizza.

20. What do you want to be when you grow up?  Sporting KC player.

Previous years:  Kenny’s favorite things – age 7.

Luke’s favorite things – age 6

1.  What is your favorite color?  Silver.

2.  What is your favorite toy?  Video games.

3.  What is your favorite fruit?  Grapes.

4.  What is your favorite tv show?  Phineas and Ferb.

5.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Macaroni and cheese.

6.  What is your favorite outfit?  Alex Gordon Royals’ shirt.

7.  What is your favorite game?  Baseball.

8.  What is your favorite snack?  Cheez-Its.

9.  What is your favorite animal?  Kangaroo.

10.  What is your favorite song?  This Love (Maroon 5).

11.  What is your favorite book?  Magic Tree House.

12.  Who is your best friend?  A.J., Asher, Justin, Curtis, Kenny, Daddy, Mac, Camille, Mom and penguin stuffed animal.

13.  What is your favorite cereal?  Life.

14.  What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Play Mario Kart.

15.  What is your favorite drink?  Hi-C.

16.  What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas

17.  What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  Breakfast bar.

18.  What do you like to take to bed with you?  Stuffed animals.

19.  What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Corn dogs.

20.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  Baseball player (Royals).

Previous years:  Luke’s favorite things – age 4.

Hallelujah

Have you heard this rendition of Hallelujah yet?  Beautiful, just beautiful.

I just love this song.

Last second grader

I swear that Kenny was one of the last second graders to ride a bike.  I tried to teach him a year ago but he had absolutely no interest in it.  I told him a few days ago that he was going to learn to do it whether he wanted to or not over Spring Break.  And he did.  He’s still working on his breaking (as opposed to jumping off his bike) but he’s genuinely enjoying it now.

Luke is riding his bike (with training wheels) now too.

And finally, a video of Luke riding his bike:

 

 

Kony 2012

Have you watched the Kony 2012 film yet? 

It’s a wonderful 30 minute film that is trying to raise awareness for what is going on in Africa with the LRA.  The LRA, run by Joseph Kony, has abducted over 30,000 children to use as soldiers or wives.  Kony is one of the world’s worst war criminals and their goal is for him to be captured and the LRA disbanded. 

How can you help?

1.  Go to their website and read all the information.

2.  Watch and share the video.

3.  Purchase merchandise or donate money.

4.  Find ways to post Kony information around your town/city or simply get the word out about Kony.  The goal is to make him famous, and not in a good way.

Moves Like Jagger

Kenny’s favorite things – age 7

Now it’s Kenny’s turn:

1. What is your favorite color? Scarlet.

2. What is your favorite toy? Legos.

3. What is your favorite fruit? Strawberries.

4. What is your favorite tv show? American Pickers.

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? PB and J.

6. What is your favorite outfit? Royal’s jersey.

7. What is your favorite game? Wii Lego Star Wars:  The Complete Saga.

8. What is your favorite snack? Apples.

9. What is your favorite animal? Giraffe.

10. What is your favorite song? Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.

11. What is your favorite book? A 1,000,000 Things Space.

12. Who is your best friend? Harrison and Arden.

13. What is your favorite cereal? Honey Nut Cheerios.

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play soccer.

15. What is your favorite drink? Hot chocolate with marshmallows.

16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas.

17. What do you like to take to bed with you?  Blanket.

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Waffles. 

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Brinner – waffles.

20. What do you want to be when you grow up?  Astronomer.

Go HERE to see what Luke’s favorites were.

Luke’s favorite things – age 4

Some of my friends pinned this on Pinterest.  Basically, you ask your children the same 20 questions every year and see how their responses change.  Instead of just writing down their answers, I recorded it too so I would have their voices on tape. 

I started with Luke yesterday:

1.  What is your favorite color?  Blue.  And all the colors except purple. 

2.  What is your favorite toy?  Lego Star Wars.

3.  What is your favorite fruit?  Blueberries (he’s my blueberry boy).

4.  What is your favorite tv show?  Wipeout and Tom and Jerry.

5.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Turkey dog.

6.  What is your favorite outfit?  Royal’s jersey and Batman shirt.

7.  What is your favorite game?  Wii Zelda Twilight Princess and Lego Star Wars.

8.  What is your favorite snack?  Fruit snacks.

9.  What is your favorite animal?  Crocodile.

10.  What is your favorite song?  Scooby-Doo.

11.  What is your favorite book?  Lego books from the library.

12.  Who is your best friend?  Asher, Charlie, Liam, Ted and Kenny.

13.  What is your favorite cereal?  Fruity Bunnies.

14.  What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Play baseball.

15.  What is your favorite drink?  Hot chocolate and lemonade.

16.  What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas, Easter and Halloween.

17.  What do you like to take to bed with you?  Stuffed animals.

18.  What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  Fruity Bunnies.

19.  What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Pizza.

20.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  Baseball player.

Next up:  Kenny’s favorite things – age 7.

The boy has no fear of water

Future ball players

I hope the Royals are better by the time Kenny and Luke are old enough to play for them.  If not, the Cardinals or the Red Soxs will be getting them.

 

Pay Heed, All Who Enter: Beware of the Phog

I love Selection Sunday.  

KU is the #1 team in the Southwest bracket.  And because of my Illini friends, I’m REALLY hoping that KU and Illinois get to play each other.  That would be a fun game to watch. 

The full bracket can be found here.

Cha Cha

This video off of my phone makes me smile.

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On a completely different note…

Since today (Ash Wednesday) is the beginning of Lent, I’ve decided to give up desserts and to go to church one extra morning a week until Easter.  At church this morning, the priest pointed out that anyone of any denomination and any age could receive the ashes.  I knew that age didn’t matter but I didn’t realize that non-Catholics could get them.  You learn new things every day.

Rock Chalk Flash Mob

Kansas owns you

Also titled:  Muck Fizzou

Also titled:  Ouch!

One of my friends had this on FB and it made me laugh.

FYI:  It is DEFINITELY not child appropriate (just in case you have a little one around).

Thanksgiving 2010 in numbers

0:  Number of runs we participated in.  This is the first year in a long time that we haven’t done the Sprint 5K.  Eric worked until 6:30 that morning so we decided to pass on it this year.  He slept while the boys and I took it easy and watched the Macy’s parade.

2:  Number of Thanksgiving meals we ate.  One with Eric’s family and one with mine. 

10:  Number of people who went down to the Plaza lighting ceremony.  This was the boys’ first time to see it live.  We met my brothers and the Martins down there around 5:30, went and got hot chocolate at Scooter’s and then headed to where the stage was set up in time for the countdown, lights and fireworks.  Getting out of there afterwards was a pain in the butt but totally worth it. 

Me and my brothers (Mike and Billy)

The fam

Eric and Luke

Kenny

Here’s a video that I found on You Tube of the actual lighting.  It’s a big thing here in KC.

The high dive

Happy St. Patty’s Day!

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/jJ0p0ZiwFUg1cHPA

And to be fair, here’s the exact same one featuring Luke.  I love JibJab.

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/CH8NKBridpbKI55L

SM West Vikings

SMW alums – did you guys see the SNL LeBron James/Jason Sudeikis skit where he talks about playing basketball at West?  We were laughing so hard.  This Peyton Manning one was hilarious too.

Sudeikis, Paul Rudd and Jason Wiles were all West grads – and no, I didn’t know any of them (they were all older).