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forever and ever

(and ever and ever and ever and ever)

quality family time

most families bond over conversation at family dinner. not my family. we bond over conversation kneeling in my parents' room before family prayer. for some reason, that's the only time we actually have to tell about our days and such. i'm gonna be a gem and let you in on what happened tonight... oh, but first. i need to give you a little background info. conner is my stepbrother and his mom lives about 30 minutes away. also, a few months ago conner got a speeding ticket and he has court on thursday

conner: i think i should probably go visit my mom sometime before i have court. who knows, i could be in jail next week.

my mom: i don't think you'll be in jail, but you might not be able to have your license until you're at least 21.

conner: i don't understand how that would benefit society.

my mom: that benefits society by not having you on the road.

conner: society also isn't going to be benefited from me being on welfare at 17 because i can't drive to work.

conner: are you gonna be pissed at me when they tell me what my consequences are?

my mom: i won't be upset, but i probably won't be too happy if you're wearing an orange jumpsuit with a 5 digit ID number on your back.

hadley: you'll be okay, just make sure you give your lunch to the biggest guys

(talking about what specific things we should pray for tonight)

my stepdad: you should probably pray for yourself this week that everything will go well in court

conner: i feel weird asking god to hook me up so the judge doesn't hate me after i broke a couple of pretty important laws

my mom: well you should definitely feel weird asking god to "hook you up" with anything

hadley and i didn't say a whole lot. we couldn't stop laughing...

walker texas ranger

meet walker

he isn't a texas ranger. although i think that'd be kind of neat. i believe i mentioned walker here. he's a funny little guy. he declared today a "jammies day" so he didn't put real clothes on. but that was fine. we sat in the basement for an hour during a tornado warning, we played ice age on nintendo move, we ate chicken nuggets for lunch, and then watched an episode each of batman and full house. it was a pretty productive day, i'd say. and while we were watching batman, and a glass of punch fell onto the floor (in the show), what did walker say? "they need to clean that up, somebody could slip" ...good lookin' out, walker john.

the art of sportsmanship

yesterday while sam and i were playing phase 10, i was ahead of him 2 phases. this made him a little upset and he threw his cards down in rage and said he wanted to quit. this is the conversation that followed:

me: sam, you can't quit just because you're not winning

sam: but i get so angry!

me: i know, but think about it this way... when you have a soccer game and the other team scores a point, does your coach tell you all to quit and just end the game?

sam: well, nooooo

me: see, it's just like this then. don't quit.

sam: uh, that's not why though... the other team never scores.

me: okay fine. basketball then.

sam: nope, we're undefeated there too.

i guess i'll teach him about being a good sport another day.

awkward moment of the day

soo today i had morning shift, so i went to afternoon church (which isn't our home ward, and about 30 minutes across town). my friend justin is serving in quito, so i wanted to linger after sacrament meeting to ask if the elders in the ward knew him. as we were standing at the back of the chapel, nice old ecuadorian people came up to us and kissed our cheeks and said "hola buenos tardes" ...well, while this was happening, an old man comes up to us, says "oh my gosh (but not gosh)," smiles, and walks away. he said that in church! in english! i hope he didn't know what he was saying. emily and i couldn't help but just look at eachother and laugh hysterically...