Groneman Family

This is one of the best books I've read in a long time.  John Grisham's The Testiment .  An excentric multi-billionare businessman fools his spoiled rotton kids and just before he commits suicide, leaves his entire estate to an illigitemate  child nobody knows about.  She's a missionary living with primative Indians and doesn't want anything to do with the money.  A drunkard lawyer sent to find her, is converted to Christ and has a situation on his hands he doesn't know how to deal with since his rotton kids are getting together and contesting the will.    It's well written and from page one it's hard to put down.   The ending is not what I expected.   It's also currently sitting with my other books in the basement playroom ready to borrow.  I'll read it again someday.

I miss my parents. I am glad that they are coming back soon. I hope that they never go to Hawaii again. I am glad that they don't go to Hawaii every day...I am ok with it like once a year but not every week. I am excited that school will be getting out soon. Here is what I plan to do: Go swimming, go to lots of BYU games, and camp with Gramps. That is all. Benjamin ( This is actually one that Marilyn meant to post but hit the save as draft button intead...but it deserves posting)

At the park with a friend from her music class... At her music class... She decided to go and get big on us... &nbsp &nbsp Painting (yesterday)...

I got a bottle of water at a meeting at work. I was looking at the lable. It is Nestle brand ["Pure Life" Purified Water (enhanced with minerals for taste)]. No, it's not chocolate water. It says it comes from a "Deep protected well, Ontario, CA". http://www.ci.ontario.ca.us/flippingbook/2009WQR/index.html says the city of  Ontario's drinking water mostly comes from wells. In other words, they are taking tap water there where Cambrie lives, running it through a filter, adding "Sodium Bicarbonate" (baking soda), bottling it and hoping people will buy it. Seems to have worked.

Today Chad and I took a ride up to the Mountain to see what damage there was and to do what we could.  Of course, the road is washed out but man, you can't visualize the damage from a picture or video.  Here's when we arrived:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujqs_cr-X44  ( When you watch these videos, in the lower right corner change to full screen mode and its MUCH more realistic ) We walked over down to the trailers and found a lot of water running under them like Ryan said...it's because the little stream that acted like a refridgerator was damed up so it couldn't run through the pipe.  Chad cleard that out and got the water running where it was supposed to, and he dug a ditch around the front of our trailer, and that's no longer a problem.   We next walked over to the deck to find....a totally smashed deck.  A part of a tree had fallen right on it and smashed it down.  Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfJNElmNkw0 We nex...

Erica and I just finished watching Stone of Destiny . Both of us liked it more than normal, so I thought we'd give it a spot here on the blog. The movie is based on a true story, and it's a good story. It revolves around a stone. The stone was taken from the Scotts in the 12 or 1300's or something like that, and it has special meaning to the Scottish people. It was eventually placed in Westminster Abbey. In the 50's, a small group of college-aged kids in Scotland decide to try to steal it back. The movie is somewhat reminiscent of The Italian Job, or Ocean's 11. It's pretty clean, too -- Not perfect, but much better than what you'd see by just turning on the TV to a random station. Erica and I both had a bit of trouble getting into it at first, because we were having a hard time understanding the Scottish accent, and in a couple of places the background music overpowered what the actors were saying. We never were frustrated with it, but it did make ...

Does THIS mean the party's off for Christa's birthday next year?