Mom's Letters: Doing what guys do in the Mancave

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Doing what guys do in the Mancave - I guess.

I came home from scouts last night and found the family having a great old time in the basement. Jake met me half way up the stairs and enthusiastically informed me that he had been boxing (the line he used was "breaking knuckles") on Wii. I gave Tyler the look he was expecting and he asked that I just go along with it and watch Jake do it once before we forever ban it from our house. I agreed. And this is what I witnessed.

Afterward the kids had another couple tricks they wanted to show me. Daddy created this game called "divers". It's a classic! :)
Ashley's

Luke's

Jake's (with special addition by Ash)

5 comments:

Mike said...: "I knock him down again!"
hilarious!; July 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Cheryl said...: love it! We have that game and if I had ever pulled out that video camera, would have some very similar videos. Way to go, jake!; July 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM
T and A said...: yeah my kids too love to punch it up with our Wii.. and of couse I have a "look" directed at my Tyler too !; July 24, 2009 at 9:53 AM
J & J said...: hahahahhahahahahah this seriously made me laugh out loud. i LOVE jake!; July 24, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Zach and Katie Hillstead said...: that is HILARIOUS. i love that kid.; July 24, 2009 at 8:35 PM

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I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Doing what guys do in the Mancave - I guess.

5 comments: