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Big Spider

2008-11-05T14:50:00.000-08:00

Found in our yard today. Correction!! Jaden, a junior arachnologist who is also a Feingold friend, said that he doesn't think it's a black widow. He called it a "yellow garden orb weaver". He assures me that you have no need to be afraid of it. They aren't poisonous and it won't bite you.
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This is from Mom--Thanks, Jaden, but I'm still scared to death over it! :)
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BLACK WIDOWS GENUS: Latrodectus Black Widows, with their shiny black bodies and bright red markings, are probably our most distinctive cobweb spiders. Below left is a female black widow. The male is below right. Males have a more vibrant pattern on their abdomen than females, with many red and white spots. Male black widow spiders are rarely encountered, and are not known to bite humans. There are two species of black widow found in Kentucky, the Northern and Southern Black Widow. Both species have shiny black bodies with red markings, and both are in the genus Latrodectus. Black widows are fairly large cobweb spiders, with body lengths up to about 1/2."

For Uncle Charlie

2008-06-17T06:49:00.000-07:00

What Kind of Punctuation Mark Are You?

2008-04-15T17:09:00.000-07:00

JT is an Exclamation Point!!!!!!!!!! This describes him pretty well.

You Are An Exclamation Point

You are a bundle of... well, something.

You're often a bundle of joy, passion, or drama.

You're loud, brash, and outgoing. If you think it, you say it.

Definitely not the quiet type, you really don't keep a lot to yourself.

You're lively and inspiring. People love to be around your energy.

(But they do secretly worry that you'll spill their secrets without even realizing it.)

You excel in: Public speaking

You get along best with: the Dash

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

Here is a how-to guide for photoshop elements 6.0

2008-04-04T09:10:00.000-07:00

Ok I guess you saw my mom's April fool's joke about us adopting again, some of you wanted to know how I did it so I'm posting a guide on how-to make funny faces in photoshop.

What you need:

Adobe photoshop elements 6.0 or higher. (about $75 at Wal-Mart.)

Two or more pictures of a family member with about the same lighting. (so parts of the face aren't brighter than the other.)

Here are the photos we used.

If you notice Luci's head is slightly turned, try to avoid that if possible.

These pictures all have about the same lighting.

My dads picture was taken in another room but the lighting is still almost the same as the pictures above.

How to do it:

1. When you bring up photoshop it will ask you what you want to do, click the "EDIT" option, it will also ask you if you want to register just choose the register later option. Upload your pictures into photoshop.

2. Choose the face you want to use as your main face. (In the April fool's joke we used Luci's face as the main background face.)

3. Ok lets do the eyes first, lets use my dads eyes. Choose his picture and then look at the tools on the upper left, there is a tool that looks like a rectangular dotted line, if you highlight it its called the Rectangular marquee tool. Highlight one of his eyes, (It doesn't matter if you highlight a big section I'll tell you how to fix that later.)

4. One of the eyes should have a moving dotted line going around it. Select the moving tool, it looks like a black or grey cursor at the top of the tools section. What you do now is drag and drop the eye onto the main picture. (In our case its Luci's picture.) You might be thinking, "This doesn't look like what I saw on Susan's blog, it just looks like I put part of a picture on top of another!", Well that's true all you did was put one picture on top of another. If you want me to tell you how to do the rest then call 900-555-4454 and you can order Bryan's awesome photoshop skillz for only 3 payments of $19.95!!! But order in the next 10 minutes and it only costs $65.95!!!!

5. Just kidding, what you do next is move the picture over Luci's actual eye and select the eraser tool, its near the bottom. No this won't erase Luci's picture but it will erase the extra part of the copied eye, so erase all the parts of the eye that you don't need. You can stretch and skew the eye so it fits correctly.

6. Well that's basically it, just follow the previous steps for the rest of the body parts! Our finished picture is at the top of this post.

Why do they call them "Archers?"

2008-02-16T17:11:00.000-08:00

My Theory is because the arrows make an arch in the air. The bow is shaped like an arch, too. We looked it up on dictionary.com and that's what they said, too. My friend Clay gave me a toy bow and arrow set and I've been driving my mom nuts with it. It's a lot of fun!

This image is from boldoutlaw.com. Mom says this is Errol Flynn.

Lunch at the Palace

2008-02-16T13:04:00.000-08:00

My mom took me to the PALACE, and I got gumbo. It makes my mom sick to see me eat the craw-dads in the gumbo.

My dad had to babysit Luci in his office.

2008-01-26T08:40:00.000-08:00

Luci decided that she wanted to write today so here she goes!

nynnmmmmmmrtnnn

This is Bryan and I'm Luci I'm going to ask you a few questions and I need you to answer them.

Q. What is your favorite soup?

A. Um that one.

Q. What is your favorite movie?

A. Um that one.

Q. What are yo doing right now?

A. Um daddy.

Q. What type of tricycle is that?

A. Um its pink!

Q. What is your favorite thing to do?

A. Mommy.

Q.What else do you like?

A. J.T.

Q. What about me, don't you like me too?

A. Yes.

Q. What is your favorite dress?

A. Yes, that one.

Q. What's your favorite TV show?

A. Luci.

Q. What's your favorite food?

A. Grape juice.

Q. What is your favorite drink?

A. Water.

Q. What is your favorite thing to do?

A. Church, church, church.

Q. Anything else you want to tell me?

A. Yes.

Q. Ok then what do you want to be when you grow up?

A. A princess. You, you, your the prince.

Ok thank you Luci, I think we all learned something about you today.

By the way, everything Luci said up there is exact, I didn't change any of it.

Look At My Muscles!

2008-01-24T14:08:00.000-08:00

I'm in a musical at church called Power. I play Erik von Strongman, a muscleman like Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is my costume.

Princess Time!

2008-01-15T11:42:00.000-08:00

Today Luci and I made a short film. The Battle of the Super Princess'.

Sadly in the movie, Luci lost, BUT! Luci has decided that she wants to be in a actual movie, you can read the script below.

Color Code:
Pink: Princess
Blue: Prince
Light Blue: Evil step sister
Green: Inatimate Objects
White: Camera and script support

[Scene 1]

Princess: I must go to the ball! But I don’t have a pretty dress!

[Change camera angle]
Magic wall, give me what I need!
[The Princess goes through the wall, and when she comes out the other side she will have a pretty dress.]
[End Scene]

[Scene 2]

Prince: Get ready the ball will start in 15 minutes!
[Camera pans around the Prince]

[Scene changes]
Princess: Get in the carriage quick!

[The Princess gets into the 2007 Honda Odyssey.]
[The carriage goes really fast]
[End Scene]

[Scene 3]

Prince: Ok here come the guests!

[Scene changes]
Princess: We’ve got to hurry! Run!

[Scene changes]

[The Prince welcomes the guests]
Prince: Welcome, welcome, welcome.

[Scene changes]
Princess: Hurry, their closing the doors!
[The Princess barely gets through the doors]
[End scene]

[Scene 4]

[The camera pans around the Prince showing the Princess running up the walkway]
Prince: Welcome.

Princess: I love you.

[The Prince and Princess are talking, then a there is a beeping noise]

Clock: BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP!
[The clock shows 12:00]

Princess: I’ve got to go!

[Scene changes]
Prince: What, where?

[Scene changes]
Princess: I’ve just got to go!
[The Princess runs off and the Prince follows but finds her slipper on the ground]
[End scene]

[Scene 5]

[The Princess is at home crying]
Princess: I will never see him again!

[There is a knock on the door]
Door: Knock, knock, knock!

Prince: Hello?

Princess: Who is it?

Prince: It is I, the Prince, I am looking all over the city to find my Princess!

Evil step sister: Humph, I bet he’s here for me!

[The step sister opens the door]
Hello, I think you have my slipper!?

Prince: You don’t look the same?

Evil step sister: Well I am the same! Humph!!

[The step sister sits in a chair and tries the slipper on]

Prince: I’m sorry but I don’t think it fits you.

Evil step sister: It does and it will! Why the nerve!! Ugh!

Prince: Does anyone else live here besides you?

Evil step sister: No! Ugh!

Princess: Um, I do.

[The Princess sits down and tries the slipper on]

Prince: It fits!

Princess: It fits!

Evil step sister: Ugh? It, it, fits!? Ugh?!
[End scene]

[Scene 6]

[The Prince and the Princess drive off and live happily ever after]
[Camera is in the car]
[Change camera angle]
[Camera watches the carriage go down the street]
[End scene]

Thats the script! I hope you like it. I put the colors on the actual script to so it would be easier to read.

Your favorite cheese

2008-01-14T12:14:00.000-08:00

If you selected 'Other' in the cheese poll put your answer here.

2008-01-14T07:10:00.000-08:00

My mom locked us out of the house last night.

Luckily Luci and I had enough whisky to hold us over until we got inside.

Ok heres how it happend.

We were getting ready for church and while my mom puts her shoes on she decides to leave her keys on the dryer. I go outside with Luci and buckle her into her seat, I get in the front seat and buckle up while my mom sets the alarm. Right when she closes the door she screamed "My KEYS!" (J.T. was at a friends house and my dad was already at church)

So were outside for about ten minutes trying to get a hold of my dad on the phone, guess what, he doesn't pick up. So I'm looking for a way in and I found an unlocked window, so I take of my shoes so I can get inside faster, right as I open the window the alarm goes off. I rush to turn it off, and my mom comes inside to get the phone because the alarm company is supposed to call to make sure were ok. (this whole time Luci was in here seat and unable to get out, and she didn't see us for about five minutes.)

In the end we made it to church only about ten minutes late.

THE END!!!!!!!

!Gaming Update!

2008-01-13T19:23:00.000-08:00

Today the gaming update is for:

Call of Duty 4

Modern Warfare

This game is a fictional story where you have to stop Al Asad the Russian leader, he is willing to fire eight nukclear warheads at the United States. In the game you have to stop him before it gets to that point.

In the game you have access to most of the modern day weapons, such as the MP5, as seen in the picture below.

British SAS: Speed, Aggresion, Surprise.

In the game you play as two diffrent charactors, when your the SAS your name is 'Soap' and when your on the Marines your name is Jackson. Theres a picture of the Marines below.

If you look closly at the Marine's machine gun you can see a round coming out of the chamber, thats how good the graphix are in this game.

Well thats just about it for the gaming update.

You've waited, you've watched, but now its finally here! The eXtreme Post Blow-out!!

2007-10-31T07:19:00.000-07:00

I was supposed to post this yesterday but I never had enough time to. But since I'm posting it today I have even more to tell you about.

The eXtreme Post Blow-out!! Will consist of four parts, I will also post something a little extra at the end. If you read below you'll see all four parts.

1. Halloween

2. The Zoo

3. Disney's: Meet The Robinsons (Review)

4. Halo 3 (Review)

Remember to read the special thing at the end.

First up:

Halloween

Part One Section One "The Pumpkin Patch"

We had alot of fun at the pumkin patch the other day. We got to pick our own pumpkins, milk wooden cows, jump off of hay bales, go through a corn maze and paint pumpkins.

Here are Luci and Kalyn, they are both in their spooky halloween clothes. They are standing next to a fence and I have no idea how dangerous the animals are inside of it.

Luci got a little tired holding that big pumpkin.

I'm milking a wooden cow, but for some reason water comes out instead of milk.

Luci is making some odd creation, that will probably someday win her $2,000,000,000,000.

Halloween

Part one Section Two "The Harvest Festival"

This year at our church's Harvest Festival we had tons of kids and adults in line for our "Trunk or Treat." Everyone wanted some candy.

I was John Wayne for the first half of the festival and for the last half I was a fat farmer (I don't have I picture of me in that one sorry). J.T. was the Karate Kid (sadly we don't have a picture of that ether). Luci was a tiger because Kalyn was an elephant, my mom was Souper Women (she wore soup labels and a red cape). And last but not least my dad was a Smarty Pants (We duct taped smartie candy's to his pants).

Here are some pictures.

There I am posing in my John Wayne costume.

Luci had to take a picture with Kalyn.

But Luci didn't want to take a picture so she left.

But then Kalyn gave Luci her stare of persuasion.

It made Luci so sad to see Kalyn that way, so she decided to take a picture with her.
They are good friends.

The Zoo

We went to the Birmingham zoo yesterday and saw tons of animals. When we got home it was really late, thats why I didn't post yesterday like I said I would.

I'm tired of writing just read my mom's blog when she updates it to see what happened.

Disney's: Meet the Robinsons

This is a brand new movie, it came out last week. Its about an orphan who wants to find his mom but he goes to the future and meets the Robinsons, I don't want to spoil the movie for you so I'm going to stop here.

Halo 3

Halo 3 is a great FPS (First Person Shooter) It has an amazing back story, a great plot and never gets boreing. And who doesn't like saving the world from a massive army of aliens that just wont quit and are threatning to wipe out the entire human race?

Did you know Halo 3 is the best selling media release of all time? It sold more copies in one day than any other music or movie release. But don't take my word for it, read this review.

By Dan Hsu 09/21/2007 > Reviewer's Blog > Review Crew Profile

Master Chief just wouldn't be quiet. For a few years now, the sci-fi action hero has been going on and on about "finishing the fight" whenever video trailers and Microsoft marketing materials would allow him. But now the time's come -- Halo 3, the finale to the epic first-person-shooter trilogy, is here, and we finally get to see whether Mr. Green (and his somewhat confusing story from Halo 2) gets to finish the fight that a few evil alien races started. (Don't worry, spoiler-free review ahead....)
Campaign promises Bungie Studios heard the collective "huh?" from the Halo Nation when a giant talking plant creature and a twisty storyline threatened to derail an otherwise fine piece of fiction in the second installment. The studio promised a more straightforward narrative in Halo 3, which we get for the most part, but it certainly won't be drawing in any new fans to the series; there's hardly any setup, recapping, or reminders of who the cast is (and if you don't remember the events of Halo 2, you better read here for a refresher, because you won't find much help in chapter three). The tale -- one of life-destroying weapon-worlds, a fanatic Covenant alien race out to trigger them, the parasitic Flood who wants to gobble everything up, and the desperate humans (with our armored hero leading the charge) who want to stop all of the above -- does wrap up nicely...but not necessarily in the feel-good fashion that most people would expect. So while Halo 2 left you with an Empire Strikes Back cliffhanger ending (OK, it wasn't that monumental), Halo 3 finishes without the fairy-tale finale of Return of the Jedi, keeping the storyline sophisticated and respectable by video game standards (just make sure to stay tuned after the credits are done rolling).

This is not the full review if you want to read more go here: http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3163125&sec=REVIEWS

Bonus section

Don't read this unless you've read the rest of the post

After watching Meet the Robinsons and how they use time travel, I told my mom how I had made some theories about time travel a while ago. She told me to write them down because she said when I get older I'll forget them, so earlier today I wrote them down. Here it is:

Time travel theory:

It is impossible to interact with people from the past, because the future for those people hasn't happened yet. Therefore if you did interact with them and took them to the future (your present) they would disappear and go back to their normal lives. If they didn’t go back to their normal lives they would remember what had happened and their lives would be changed forever. For better or for worse.

I have a second theory, if you travel back in time and are able to interact with anyone that also means your whole life is happening at the same time. i.e., if you talk to yourself in the past it would be impossible unless your future self already exists. If you can interact with the past (which is theoretically impossible) and touch, move or if someone sees you it could change their life forever. You could inspire the most amazing thing to ever happen in human history or you could send a country into a great depression.

So, if time travel does exist it would be more like a memory than the actual thing. (You can only see but not touch or interact with in any way).

Written by:
Bryan Willingham ©Copyrighted 10/31/2007

Harvest Festival.

2007-10-27T07:26:00.000-07:00

Here I am! I'm finally going to post again, I'm going to post what happend at the Harvest Festival. But I'm going to post my own story, So my blog will be diffrent than my moms.

My review should be here tomorrow.

Luci in the Garden

2007-10-13T08:05:00.000-07:00

My mom was working out in the garden and Luci wanted to look at the tomato plants. Then I got a really cute picture out of her.

Meet the Brady Bunch

2007-10-09T12:50:00.000-07:00

Do I look board in the picture? Well I'm not, I'm just tired. Playing with Luci is fun (for five minutes) and then she gets a little bossy, I wonder where she gets it from, I'll ask my mom. But J.T. is a handful. (I won't go into details.)
But without them there would be nothing to do all day. No games to play, none of Luci's random moments and no fighting over who gets the last Popsicle. (Even Luci knows what to say to make us want to give it to her.)

Its just weird here.

Grand Master and Me

2007-10-02T09:06:00.001-07:00

I got to meet the Grand Master of Tang Soo Do, Grand Master Shin. He is from South Korea. Homeschool is cool! Can you believe this is math class?!

Kalyn's Birthday Party

2007-09-24T07:14:00.000-07:00

Luci's Post:

Kalyn is my first real friend. She is from China, too. Saturday Kalyn had her first birthday at home. It was a big deal! She had aunts and uncles and cousins from all over the place--Chicago, Tennessee, and Texas! And we got to come, too. Here we are eating birthday cake. I had to show Kalyn how to blow out the candles. I did a good job, and then I sneezed on the cake. We ate lots of food, mostly hot dogs. Here we are making sure JT is behaving.
I had to show Kalyn how to open her presents. She was rather shy about it. I dug right in!
Here's how to do it, Kalyn!!
Here are Kalyn and me sitting with Aunt Teri and JT.
Mom was really embarrassed by my behavior. Just trying to keep you on your toes, Mommy!

Museum Field Trip

2007-09-20T11:52:00.000-07:00

This is by JT:
We went to the Cook's Natural Science Museum. This is me with the smelly skunks of North America. (The picture above--I'm joking, it's really the picture below.)

When Luci saw this bear, she said, "This is so cute!" My mom and Luci met these two Chinese ladies.
In this picture, you are probably wondering which one is me (I am in the back--the statue is really the one with the orange hair!).
After our day at the Cook's Natural Science Museum, we went to McDonald's that had a bunch of 50's stuff in it and 60's and 70's and 80's. I said they should have this stuff in our JAM 56 room at our church.

The First Post!

2007-09-18T08:33:00.000-07:00

JT: this is our new and improved better more awsome blog.

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Bryan: We shall... Have the best blog, ever to be created..........EVER!

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Luci: I like chocolate, Daddy, chocolate, Bryan, chocolate, J.T., chocolate, Mommy chocolate Jesus name amen. (Luci really said this so we typed it down.)