One heck of a husband

What is his name? Gary Keller...aka stud
How long have you been together? 11 years and going strong
How long did you date? We never really dated....we just chilled!
How old is he? He is 34 butt sexy as you know what!
Who eats more? Hate to admit it butt I do, hands down.
Who said I love you first? I did, butt I am just more the talker, I am sure he was thinking it.
Who is taller? Gary is, butt then I just pull out my hooker hills and then there aren't many men I am not taller than.
Who is smarter?If you have to ask then you don't know Gary very well. (although I would definatly be street smarterer)
Who does the laundry? Me, Me, Me, Me, Me...do I do anything else?
Who sleeps on the right side?Gary sleeps stage right.
Who mows the lawn?Bruce
Who makes dinner? I do, with the help of Chef boy ardee'
Who drives? Gary, for good reason.
Who is more stubborn?I think people would say I am, butt that is just because they havn't seen Gar really dig in his heels.
Who kissed who first? Gary did ALL the kissin! He has got some sweet moves if anyone needs some tips!
Who asked who out first? Gary, asked me out to a ward dance...it was fun. That is all I remember..that and I got all dressed up and didn't get any action.
Who proposed? Gary
Who has more friends? If you are my friend, you are Gary's friend...even if you don't know it.
Who is more sensitive? Gary, He cries looking at the sunset.....NOT!
Who has more siblings? I do.
Who wears the pants? Gary does...I just tell him what pants to wear!

I love ya Gar, Happy ValentinesDay!! You Rock...

I don't know why Gar lets me put posts up they are never as good as his!

Here wynn is showing what he looks like going in for a kiss...watch out girls!










Crew loves Oreos!

Here he is with his cousin avery

the twilight series-thumbs down!

Okay so I have just read the twilight books that everyone is talking about. It wasn't all that great. I was really disappointed with the very typical female character. 100 pound damsel in distress, who couldn't seem to do much on her own more times than not, yet could take on a vicious vampire??? I hated that pretty much Edward was nothing more but a pretty face, I kept waiting for something of his character to jump out at me, it never did. I just felt it was missing a lot of depth. Don't worry about reading it, just watch the movie when it comes out, unlike most other books, you won't miss a thing.

major surgery needed

I recently twisted my knee and have been trying to stay off it, as much as I can, butt still daily chores call soI have been down in the basement folding laundry all day and Rook and Cannon have been my errand boys. They have been getting their own treats and drinks and doing it all on their own. Rook was at the top of the stairs and said, "Mom, I have a bumb sore."
"What is the matter with your bumb?" I asked. He looked around at his butt the best he could and started to whine. "It hurts mom, I think I cracked it."
So I looked at it and said "You are right it is split right in half, butt I don't think that is what hurts...I think we just need to wipe your bootie.." Much to his reliefe he laughed and then said, "Yea, I didn't find any wipes," then he got really quiet. Then Cannon who I wasn't sure was listening because he was playing his gameboy said.."Rook I will get the glue to fix your bootie."

the canterings of a wild man

I have been busy doing hair all day long. Rook and Cannon stay in the basement in the room next to me the entire time. I was listening to their conversation and it went something like this:
Rook: Hi son I am back from work.
Cannon: Hi Dad, guess what, my brother has been very bad.
Rook: Okay tell mom to spank him.
Cannon: She did.
Rook: No I said tell MOM to spank him so he cries.
Cannon: She did and she did it with a lite saber so his legs got all cut off.
Rook: Dang it! Mom don't chop off his legs or you will get me so mad.
Cannon: Dad, are you Darth Vader?
Rook: Yes and I am your father.

It makes me laugh how fast they transition from reality to make believe.

Then other day we were picking up the kids from School and we were waiting in the van. Rook told me that he needed to go potty. I told him that he would have to hold it for a few minutes and he wanted to just pee outside. I told him that he couldn't because there were too many people around. He started to growl and said "Dang it all you people make me so mad I am going to pee in my pants!" So we peed in a can...thank goodness for diet Pepsi.

Our Holidays

After a verbal tongue lashing and reprimand from you know who, I have been committed to update the blog. I guess I better update things chronologically.

Before we visited Idaho and Utah for Christmas and New Years, our ward had a Christmas dinner and Nativity reenactment by our primary. And Teri, the primary president, directed the program. It went well and the primary kids did a wonderful job of putting on a touching program. Jett was able to be Joseph. Of course he was Joseph 007. Even though Joseph 007 and Mary were technically married at that point in time, Joseph 007 still felt he had to prove himself to Mary in his protecting, hunting, and gathering skills. So he pulled out his semi-automatic finger pistol - he just saw a sheep. This picture is just the moment Joseph 007 saw that pesky BFG (Bethlehem Fish & Game) agent, and he realized he didn't have a nonresident hunting license. He was from Nazareth and not Bethlehem. Sorry Mary. Maybe next time.

Wynn was the "wise man with sweet mountain boots," which made it easier to cross the Himilayas on his trek. His other friends, the wise man named "Run Rhymez" (also a west coast rapper) and Horace de Vil (husband of Cruella de Vil, who always gave her husband clothing and hats accentuated with Dalmation fur), also showed up to give presents.

This was the grand finale. Everybody complimented Teri on the great job she did.

We took our biennial trip to Idaho for Christmas. The roads were terrible. We were stranded in Rawlins, Wyoming for a few hours because of roads like this. I mostly followed the car in front of me and hoped the driver knew where the road was. The wind was really bad and we fought gusts greater than 60 mph. Wyoming in the winter is a great place to be from. Far from.

I included this picture because of the look on Chris' face. I'm sure Chris is thinking, "Dave, did you just do a bare finger nose wipe on Quinn? Could you be sure to sanitize your hands before doing anything else?" Not that Chris is a clean-freak, but it seems that multiple people were sick at any one time during that week.

My Grandpa Pidcock keeping a safe distance from boys engaged in horseplay.

A picture of all the Keller cousins except Crew, who was down for a nap. Notice my Grandma telling Grandpa, who pretends to be grumpy, to get in the picture. The next picture shows who won.


A picture with Grandma and Grandpa Keller and grandkids.

We visited the Stapletons in Utah. They have twins about the age of Crew. We decided to save water and put them in the bathtub at the same time.

Christmas songs

We go to the church gym most mornings to work out. One morning Rook and Cannon were singing up a storm. They sang the abc song, Jingle bells, I am a child of God and others. Finally we pulled up to the church and Cannon said, "Mom, I know what a kind and dear has," (he had just finished singing I am a child of God). I said, "really? What?" and Cannon said, "a shiny red nose."
Rook sings in the bathroom, in the car, in the shower...the kid just sings everywhere he goes. He was singing all the Christmas songs that he knew, When I said, won't you be so sad when Christmas is over? He asked why does Christmas get over and I said, Christmas is only celebrated in December and it will be January soon. Rook's face was very solemn and he said with tears in his eyes..Did Janwerary kill Jesus?

Ice Storm

One week ago we had a nice ice storm hit Omaha and the plains. The first picture is part of the aftermath. The picture doesn't do justice, but we had about one third inch of ice over everything. We couldn't hardly take the garbage out without slipping everywhere.

As we were coming in, Rook saw his bike and said, "Ohhhh! My buddy is sooooo chilly!"

Family Home Evening

Monday night is always our family home evening night dedicated to spending quality time together as a family. And I think these next two pictures are the epitome of some serious quality time that two sons have with their dad. As their dad says, nothing like a pillow to the side of the head. Plus, dad has a good arm, a very strong arm with rippling muscles. See how fast the pillow is going?

One cool thing about this picture is that Cannon was standing with Wynn and daring their dad to huck a "plasma grenade" at them. They claimed their Jedi powers would protect them. Dad used the age old trick of "hey, what's that?" and then just what they wanted, dad fired a plasma grenade at them. I guess Cannon's Jedi powers warned him to duck, but Wynn's Jedi powers were no match for dad's mind tricks and that plasma grenade took him out. Of course, the two Jedis recovered quickly enough.

deep thoughts

On Friday nights we trade baby-sitting with some really good friends. One Friday night the kids were with some friends that had a fish tank. One of the Fish was going to have babies. My friend said to Cannon, Look, this fish is going to have babies. She said that Cannon got very quiet and looked into the tank for a while and said, "Laurel, where is the hospital?"

Rook is one of our most picky eaters. He won't eat muffins, he won't eat nuts, he won't eat most things that we all like and he likes too. (once he has decided he doesn't want to eat it, he is dead set that he HATES it and it tastes like garbage.) Well the other day I went and got a rotisserie chicken, took the legs off, and gave one to Wynn and one to Cannon. Rook wanted one and I told him there were only two and he could have something else. I took a piece of breast meat and put it on his plate and he looked at it and said he hated it. I said he had to take a bite. He took a bite of it and spit it out and said, "MOM! I hate it!!! It is got poisen and I don't like to die!"

Halloween pictures

These are pictures from Halloween. Here is Rook, after Teri told him to "look evil."

Two Sith lords.

Ron Weasley

Boba Fett

Trunk-or-Treat Practice

Rook has decided who he will be for Halloween. Darth Maul. He has been practicing "the look" minus the Sith tattoos that cover Darth Maul's body. He even tried it out at the ward trunk-or-treat and was very convincing. Do you see any similarities?





Oh, and Wynn in the background was thinking this: "Holy crap, I think I just saw Darth Maul! Rook, did you see him? You know, the same Maul that was kidnapped from his Jedi training by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious at an early age. I hope he doesn't get loose in our house! Nothing worse than a loose Sith lord in the house eating all the Halloween candy and hogging the xBox."

The Gospel according to a jedi

Rook and Cannon are REALLY into star wars, for those who havn't been around them much, most all their conversations are about who is good, who is bad and who should be dead. They are constantly talking about it and lately I have been talking a lot about Heavenly Father and Jesus and trying to teach them the book of Mormon stories. We were talking about Abinidi and Rook said, does Heavenly Father kill him? And I said no, King Noah did. Rook Said, did Jesus make him dead? And I said, no when bad people do bad things to good people sometimes the good people die and go and live with Jesus. Cannon thought he could explain it better and said. Rookie, Jesus had Abinidi's light saber so the king burned him up so he could go and get it and Kill the king. And Heavenly Father is Abinidi's father so he won't kill him.
All in all I was very proud that he got that Heavenly Father is our Father....or maybe that is a stretch and I should just burn the star wars movies.
-Teri

Crew

Star Wars Contemplation

The way I picture the conversation in the picture above, it went something like this:

Rook: "Cannon, when we have our own sons, we should definitely show them the Star Wars movies in chronological order."

Cannon: "Rook, I disagree. We should show them the Star Wars movies in the order they were released. They will then get them in the same order the rest of the world saw them."

Rook: "No, no, no. Most would agree that episodes 4-6 are better than episodes 1-3, and viewing them in chronological order would allow the viewer to enjoy the superior movies at the end. Of course, to make it to the final episodes, one would have to endure a lot of frontloaded scenes of Jar Jar Binks. As a responsible parent, I would prefer to seek to shelter and protect my sons from extreme amounts of Jar Jar, not subject them to it. I worry that starting my son on this path may sour him on Star Wars altogether. Or worse yet, we’ve all read that it is traumatic childhood events like this that spawn future serial killers and telemarketers."

Cannon: "But, think about this. Some might argue they are meant to be seen in the order released, as this is how George Lucas chose to release the movies. And not to be discounted, this is the order in which I saw the movies, and obviously, things worked out ok for me…"

Wynn the artist

Wynn composed at school a masterpiece of his two Grandpas. For those of you that know the Grandpas, can you guess which one is Grandpa Miskin and which one is Grandpa Keller?

Priesthood blessings

In the Keller family, we learn about our priesthood duties from an early age. Lately, it seems as if Dad has been giving quite a few blessings and Mom and Dad have both been set apart in their new callings. Rook is a very observant kid when it comes to these blessings. He is so observant that Teri and I have seen him several times putting his hands on Crew's head and giving Crew his own "blessing." Rook usually puts his hands on Crew's head, closes his eyes, and moves his lips like he is saying something, even though no words are being said.

Here, during the picture session, Rook convinced all the kids that Crew needed a blessing because Crew was crying too much (see photo in the previous post). Crew isn't crying in this picture, so I guess it worked.

The Keller basketball team

Teri's latest saying is: "I'm a beautician, not a magician!" So, Teri traded her beautician (and magician) skills for photography services (of course from somebody who needed a beautician, not a magician).

This is one of the pictures of all the kids. When taking pictures of the kids, it seems as if there is never a perfect picture with everybody smiling. This one was pretty close, except for Crew. But what do you expect. He can act like a baby if he wants to. If anybody wants a copy, I have a high quality version. Just let me know.

Pre-Halloween dilemma

Halloween season is hard around our house. (I didn't know it was already Halloween season, but Teri informed me that it was.) One of the main dilemmas in the Keller household is what we should be for "All-hallow-even." Nothing like celebrating the sixth most profitable holiday (or one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world, and when magic is most potent). Anyways, Teri is gung-ho about Halloween this year and especially what the options are for Crew. So far we have two pretty good options. The first is a cross between Grandpa Keller and Arnold Schwarzenegger back in his Mister Universe days.

"Howdy, ma'am, dawgone it. C'd yo' show me th' way t'th' bunkhouse? ah need t'git me mah spurs an' lasso fo' th' roun'up. Do yo' happen t'knows when they will be servin' th' grub? By th' way ma'am, hyar's a li'l piece of advice: Nevr approach a bull fum th' front, a horse fum th' rear, o' a fool fum enny direckshun."

This next series of pictures is the second costume option. At first I thought that a bee costume was only for sissies. But then I started thinking, bees are pretty tough. You pretty much don't want to mess around with a bee. I guess a bee costume would be okay for Crew to wear (this once).

This is a picture of Crew's face, just after he learned that somebody was "messin' with his hive." You never mess with another man's hive, I guess. His mom even had to hold him back.

And this is when we told Crew that he was exempt from cleaning the toilets, and that it was Jett and Wynn that had toilet duty.

Crew just learned that he can't have honey until he is older than 1 year.

Wynn's "At-Home-Losing-A-Tooth-Surgery"

Wynn has had a tooth that he has been passionately wiggling the past few days in hopes he would have a tooth to present to the tooth fairy this weekend. You remember being a kid, having a tooth seem loose, and wiggling it until it actually was loose. Well, that was Wynn this weekend. He wanted to get that three dollar bill from the tooth fairy. We told him a two dollar bill was the closest he would get, although he might even get a nickel. He was even more excited about the nickel. Finally, today after church, he had wiggled it the the point that it probably was actually loose.

When the loose tooth was confirmed loose by our family dentist, (We'll give her a fictitous name-Teri), Wynn decided he wanted to try the "plier method." It is a method often used by parents to tease their children (and by dentists using methods originating in the Revolutionary War). So we located an old pair of pliers for the occasion. We made sure they were plenty rusty or it wouldn't work just right. (See enlarged picture).

As with most surgeries, large amounts of gauze and blood-soaking material were needed. However, no anesthesia was needed, the tooth came out, and Wynn was as excited as could be.

Now all that was left to do was prepare the tooth for showing to friends by soaking it in a glass of dihydrogen oxide. And smiling for the camera. Thanks for doubling as a dentist, Mom!