30 Dec 2010 Six Flags Amilia, Gideon, and their friend, Alyx, enjoyed the day at Six Flags.

30 Dec 2010 Crime Fighting Trio Gideon shows Green Lantern and Robin how to take out the bad guys.

29 December 2010 Happy Birthday Ezri! Happy birthday our Sweet Angel!

25 Dec 2010 Amilia's Playhouse Amilia wanted this giant cardboard playhouse for Christmas.

25 Dec 2010 Iron Gideon Gideon, er...., Ironman, is on patrol protecting the Christmas toys !

24 Dec 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Daddy, I love you even if you are on Santa's Naughty List !

20 Dec 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Daddy, why do some people get nipples when they smile? DADDY: Huh? AMILIA: Why do some people get nipples when they smile? DADDY: Sorry, Honey, I have no idea what you mean. AMILIA: You know, nipples, the holes in your face. DADDY: Oh, DIMPLES! AMILIA: Yea, why do some people have dimples when they smile?

14 Dec 2010 GIDEON-ISMS AMILIA: Daddy, I was thinking of being a comedian for our talent show, but no one ever laughs at my jokes. GIDEON: Making people laugh is easy. All you have to do is say something funny. AMILIA: Like what? GIDEON: Like this..... BANANA PANTS!!! (HYSTERICAL LAUGHING FROM EVERYONE IN THE CAR) GIDEON: See?!

13 Dec 2010 AMILIA-ISMS (AMILIA IS READING A BOOK) AMILIA: Daddy, this book says snorkeling is when you put your head underwater and breath through a horse. DADDY: Huh? I don't think there is a R in that last word. AMILIA: Snorkeling is when you put your head underwater and breath through a house. DADDY: Try again. I think you put a U in it this time. AMILIA: snorkeling is when you put your head underwater and breath through a Jose?

12 Dec 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Daddy, the sun is bothering me. Can you turn it off, please?

December 2010 Happy Birthday Gideon Happy birthday to our youngest Little Aggie!

08 Dec 2010 GIDEON-ISMS Pat, pat, pat your boat Gently down the steam Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary Hunt behind the stream --Gideon, Age 3

07 Dec 2010 GIDEON-ISMS (At the grocery store) GIDEON: Let's buy flowers. ME: Why do we need flowers? GIDEON: We need to be ready in case someone gets married. ME: We don't know anyone getting married. GIDEON: Well, isn't it about time you married Mommy?

07 Dec 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Knock, Knock. ME: Who's there? GIDEON: Daddy. ME: Daddy, who? GIDEON: What? You don't know who you are?

04 Dec 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Daddy, if Santa could bring you anything you want for Christmas, what would it be? ME: For you and Gideon to be a big boy and girl for the rest of year. AMILIA: I Meant something that costs money. What would you want Santa to bring you?

05 Dec 2010 Christmas Parade Amilia's girl scout troop was in the Christmas parade.

29 Nov 2010 Chick-Fil-A Day Amilia, Gideon, and their friend Allison visited the Chick-Fil-A cow. Looks like Gideon overcame his cowphobia. Did he overcome his coulrophobia also?

26 November 2010 Merry Christmas We were at a mall after thanksgiving and couldn't resist having the kids photographed with Santa. Notice the extra special "Twinkling Ornament" in the upper left?

24 Nov 2010 GIDEON-ISMS It's called Fall so the leaves will know it's time to fall off the trees. --Gideon, Age 3.5

22 Nov 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Daddy, how do you spell pawm? DADDY: Do you mean palm, like the palm of your hand? AMILIA: No. Pawm. DADDY: Pawn? Like when you sell something? AMILIA? No, Pawm. Like when you write words that rhyme. DADDY: Oh, poem! P-O-E-M. AMILIA: Thank you. Her Texas accent is coming along nicely.

19 Nov 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Daddy, can I have some paper and a pen? DADDY: OK. Here you go. GIDEON: Thank you. (Starts scribbling) MOMMY: Gideon, come here, please. GIDEON: Just a second! MOMMY: I need you to come here now. GIDEON: Just a second! I'm busy! MOMMY: What are you doing? GIDEON: I'm putting Daddy on the Naughty List!

18 Nov 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Daddy, you will NEVER guess the secret code to my piggy bank. Go ahead, try to guess it. You'll NEVER, EVER, EVER in a MILLION YEARS guess it. DADDY: OK. uhmmmm.... 1, 2, 3, 4...? AMILIA: (Burst into tears and talks between sobs.) How... did.......you....guess...it?

16 November 2010 Angelversary Twinkles, we will always and forever love and remember you. You are always in thoughts and hearts. You are with us always.

12 Nov 2010 Art by Amilia Pencil drawing of Daddy by Amilia. Is she another Amanda Dunbar?

12 Nov 2010 Art by Gideon Art by Gideon: The Silver Surfer, who is purple, surfs near an island where an airplane is trying to run over the chicken. But the silver surfer saves the chicken and puts her in Daddy's ear.

13 Nov 2010 Gideon pretends to shoot down a Zero at Fairview's Veterans' Park.

13 Nov 2010 Amilia pretends to take aim at the enemy.

13 Nov 2010 Amilia and Gideon pose on a Jeep.

13 Nov 2010 Amilia and Gideon had fun climbing a Tank.

12 Nov 2010 GIDEON-ISMS (Gideon has been watching Alvin and the Chipmunks videos) GIDEON: Do you know who my favorite Chipmunk is? DADDY: Alvin? GIDEON: Nope. Michael Jackson.

10 Nov 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Lollipops make me think better.

09 Nov 2010 GIDEON-ISMS (Gideon is explaining why he got in trouble at pre-school.) GIDEON: I wasn't bad; I was misunderstood.

27 Oct 2010 KLTY Interview with Larry Barber about Surviving the Holidays 2010 Click the MP3 link above to hear Starlene Stringer of KLTY interview Larry Barber of GriefWorks about the upcoming Surviving the Holidays Seminar that will be held at Prestoncrest church of Christ on Saturday, 6 Nov 2010 from 4:30pm-7:00pm. We are honored that our angel daughter, Ezri, was mentioned. The interview will be played on KLTY 1 Nov 2010 at 1:30 am. Here is a PDF file with more details about Surviving the Holidays.

23 Oct 2010 Our sweet little sci-fi geeks dressed up as a Storm Trooper and Princess Leia for the sci-fi convention at the Plano Centre.

23 Oct 2010 Our little geeks meet even bigger geeks at the sci-fi convention. I even saw William Shatner, but they did not allow anyone to take a free photo and I wasn't willing to pay $75 for the privilege. Michael Dorn, Brent Spinner, Christopher Lloyd, and Tia Carrera were also there. That's about the he closest I'll ever get to fame.

21 Oct 2010 Amilia and her friend, Mary, ham it up at their school's Red Ribbon picnic.

21 Oct 2010 Gideon did some push-ups at the picnic.

20 Oct 2010 AMILIA-ISMS Amilia and her friend Rachel asked me to play this game today: Daddy, pretend you are dying of a heart attack, on a ship, that's sinking, during a hurricane and tornado, and a shark eats you, then a whale eats the shark, the tornado drops a train on the whale, and then piranhas eat the whale.

19 Oct 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: (Holds up baby wipes) Daddy, why do you have these in your car? DADDY: What if I spill something, need to wipe my nose, or go to the bathroom somewhere and there is no bathroom tissue? GIDEON: Just wipe with you hand! EWWWWWWWW! I sincerely hope he meant just the spill or my nose.

18 Oct 2010 Shipmate Award! For the 3rd year in a row, Amilia has been awarded the title Shipmate for good citizenship.

17 Oct 2010 Miss Nelson Is Missing Amilia and Gideon enjoyed the Dallas Children's Theater presentation of Miss Nelson is Missing. Amilia's favorite character was Kimberly, the "Super Model."

15 Oct 2010 GIDEON-ISMS We were sitting on the couch watching TV when Gideon suddenly stood up and wrapped his arms firmly around my head. As I was enjoying his sweet, but unusual, head hug, I noticed he kept moving his shoulder. DADDY: Gideon, why do you keep moving your arm? GIDEON: Because my arm pit itches. My son wasn't giving me a sweet hug; He was using my head as a scratching post for his arm pit!

11 Oct 2010 Gideon tests drives a new car at the State Fair.

11 Oct 2010 A giant octopus attacks Amilia at the new Aquarium at the State Fair in Fair Park.

10 Oct 2010 GIDEON-ISMS DADDY: (Singing) ...He knows when you are sleeping, He knows when you're awake, He knows when you been bad or good because he has been spying on you against the constitution of the United States... GIDEON: That Santa Clause is a jerk! AMILIA: I'm calling my attorney!

10 Oct 2010 Gideon cheers on the Rangers playing New York at the Ballpark in Arlington.

10 Oct 2010 Amilia likes the Rangers, but she didn't like the crowd noise. And Daddy is playing with Photoshop again.

06 Oct 2010 AMILIA-ISMS Facts Amilia Learned in School Today: 1). The earth's crust is 4-feet thick and if you dig a hole deeper than that, you will be burned by lava 2). Scientists have discovered a new galaxy and it took 1,000 years for the galaxy to form. I would opt for home schooling, but I don't think the public education systems is at fault here.

05 Oct 2010 GIDEON-ISMS DADDY: Gideon, what do you think we should get Mommy for her birthday? GIDEON: ME !!!! DADDY: Uh, OK....What kind of cake should we get mommy for her birthday? GIDEON: A ME cake !!! Well, Gideon was the best present we ever received and he is the sweetest boy we know.

04 Oct 2010 GIDEON-ISMS DADDY: Gideon, what do you think we should buy mommy for her birthday? GIDEON: I know! A horsie! DADDY: Where would we keep him? GIDEON: I know! We could keep him upstairs in my room! DADDY: Well, a horse is pretty big. Do you think your room is big enough? GIDEON: No....We better keep him downstairs. DADDY: How much do you think a horse costs? GIDEON: About 4 or 5 dollars.

03 Oct 2010 GIDEON-ISMS DADDY: Gideon, why do you have your pants pulled down around your ankles? GIDEON: Because I want more string cheese!!! If he takes all his clothes off, does that mean he wants ice cream?

2 Oct 2010 Ezri's Grave Decorated for Halloween I decorated Ezri's grave for Halloween today. If you get to take all your little pumpkins Trick-Or-Treating, say an extra prayer of thanks for you are truly blessed.

29 Sept 2010 Amilia's Drawing Amilia was feeling sad tonight and drew this photo.

27 Sept 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIEDON: BLECH !!!!!!!!!! Gideon's commentary on Romeo and Juliet after I summarized the plot to Amilia.

26 Sept 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: (Mad at her brother) Gideon! I'm Juliet and you're CRUMMY-O !!!! An 8-year-old doing that sophisticated a word play? Not only is my daughter a genius, but Crummy-o is bound to become mainstream as women adopt it to describe their undesirable dates.

24 Sept 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: (Singing) I've got love like a fountain, I've got love like a fountain, I've got love like a fountain in my soul, not in my shoe! I've never head that version before. When did the "not in my shoe" part get added?

22 Sept 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Daddy, Let's play restaurant. I'll be the waitress and you be the customer. DADDY: OK. AMILIA: Hello, Sir. What can I get for you today? DADDY: I'd like a cheeseburger, shake, and onion rings. AMILIA: I'm sorry, Sir. We're out of that. DADDY: OK, I'll have a steak, salad, and baked potato. AMILIA: Sorry, we're out of that. DADDY: OK, I'll have a large pepperoni pizza and a Coke. AMILIA: Sorry, we're out of that too. DADDY: OK, what do you have? AMILIA: Water. DADDY: OK, I'll have ice water. AMILIA: We don't actually have ice. Just water. DADDY: OK, I'll have a glass of tap water. AMILIA: Here you go, sir. That will be $100.00 DADDY: $100? For a glass of water? AMILIA: We have to make a profit, Sir, or we won't be able to stay in business.

20 Sept 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Daddy, pretend you're a boy that likes me and ask me out on a date. DADDY: OK. Hello, would you like to go out on a date with me on Saturday? AMILIA: Sorry, I have a conference all day Saturday and can't go out with you.

19 Sept 2010 AMILIA-ISMS GIDEON: Stay away from me, Sissy! You have cooties! AMILIA: No, I don't. GIDEON: Uh huh! Girls have cooties! AMILIA: You don't know anything yet, Gideon. I don't have cooties. GIDEON: You don't? AMILIA: No, I don't. I'm only 8-years-old. Boy and girls don't get cooties until they're 10. That's right, Honeybee, and they don't go away until you're 25.

18 Sept 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIEDON: Daddy! Sissy cut me in half!

13 Sept 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Why can't you be normal parents and bring my back pack to me at school when I forget it???? Because we're Parenting with Love and Logic Parents! To make it even better, Amilia had to walk 5 minutes at recess for forgetting her backpack. If she forgets again, she will get a conduct point knocked off and have to walk 5 minutes again. I'll suggest the school add 5 minutes for me too. hee-hee....

02 Sept 2010 GIDEON-ISMS (Ben 10 is one of my kids' favorite cartoon) GIDEON: Daddy, I want Ben 10 pants. DADDY: You want me to buy you pants with Ben 10 on them? GIDEON: No, I want you to Ben 10 my pants! DADDY: You want me to paint Ben 10 on your pants? GIDEON: No! I want BEN 10 PANTS! DADDY: I'm sorry, Gideon, but I don't know what you mean. GIDEON: (Looks dejected and point to pants) All I want is Ben 10 pants. I look down and his pants are unbuttoned.

01 Sept 2010 GIDEON-ISMS (I was doting over one of Gideon's coloring and he became very proud of his work) GIDEON: I'm going to color a picture for EVERYONE in the WORLD !!! AMILIA: (Smart Alecky) What about burglars and bad people? You're not going to color a picture for them are you? GIDEON: Well, I'll only color pictures for the burglars and bad people who are GOOD!!!

26 Aug 2010 AMILIA-ISMS Amilia takes off her sock, smells, it wrinkles her nose in disgust, then looks at me with a mischievous grin on her face AMILIA: Daddy, open your mouth, close your eyes, and I'll give you a BIG SURPRISE!!! Evidently, I need to practice looking more intelligent in front of my kids.

25 Aug 2010 AMILIA-ISMS Kim is looking over Amilia's homework to list some of her favorite things MOMMY: Amilia, why did you say your favorite subject is PE and your favorite food is ice? AMILIA: Because I forgot how to spell music and ice cream.

25 Aug 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Before I was born, I was invisible and lived in heaven with God, Jesus, and Ezri. Ezri is Gideon's big sister who passed away before he was born.

24 Aug 2010 GIDEON-ISMS 3-year-old Gideon is looking at his Marvel comics coloring book. GIDEON: Daddy, I know all these super heroes. DADDY: You do? GIDEON: Yes. This is Spider Man, this is Iron Man, this is The Hulk, this is Silver Surfer, and this one is my favorite, OVALTINE !!! Now why didn't Professor Xavier think of giving Logan the code name Ovaltine instead of Wolverine? Some genius he is!

23 Aug 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Daddy, I need a hooker. DADDY: Pardon? GIDEON: I need a hooker. DADDY: You need a hooker? GIDEON: Yea, you know, what you hang things on. DADDY: You mean you need a HOOK? GIDEON: Yea, that's what I said. I need a hooker.

22 Aug 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Daddy, when will you marry mommy? DADDY: What do you mean? We are married. GIDEON: (SHOCKED) WHAT? How come no one told me????

09 Aug 2010 GIDEON-ISMS Amilia choose to have us dress up and eat at a nice restaurant for her birthday. The girls were in elegant, beautiful dresses and us boys were in suits and ties. As we were leaving the restaurant, Gideon wheeled around, raised his hands in the air, and said, "Goodnight, everyone!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

08 Aug 2010 GIDEON-ISMS We went camping this weekend and Gideon got too close to the fire for my comfort, held his arms out, and started slowly turning. DADDY: Gideon, please don't get so close to the fire, you might get hurt. GIDEON: But Daddy, I'm trying to roast myself.

07 Aug 2010 Our little princess celebrated her birthday with a cookie cake and camping with friends. May all your fondest wishes come true, Honeybee.

07 Aug 2010 Kim and Gideon enjoyed a little hike.

05 Aug 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Look! I found a quarter! GIDEON: (Dancing around) We're rich! We're rich! AMILIA: That's so silly, Gideon. We're not rich. GIDEON: We're not? AMILIA: Of course not. I found a quarter. I'M RICH! I'm still laughing over that one!

03 Aug 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: It's like riding a skateboard with handle bars! 8-year-old Amilia commenting on her birthday scooter.

30 July 2010 AMILIA-ISMS AMILIA: Daddy, who gets all your stuff when you die? DADDY: Mommy. AMILIA: I mean, who gets all your stuff when you BOTH die? DADDY: You and Gideon. AMILIA: We're going to be rich! (Starts dancing around) GIDEON: Cool! We're going to be rich!!! (Starts dancing around) AMILIA: I get the house! GIDEON: No, Me!!! (Squabbling then continues for awhile) Note to Self: Change will and leave everything to charity.

29 July 2010 GIDEON-ISMS DADDY: Gideon, you have your shoes on the wrong feet. GIDEON: (Looks at his feet very concerned and confused) But these are my only feet!

28 July 2010 GIDEON-ISMS I'm a little concerned about a cleaner that Gideon picks up off the counter because it looks like a sports drink DADDY: Gideon, be sure not to drink that cleaner. It could hurt you. GIDEON: (3-years-old): But what if someone DARES me? The sound you hear is me slapping my forehead. How did a species where half the population has XY chromosomes survive 200,000 years?

27 July 2010 AMILIA-ISMS Amilia has asked three big questions recently: 1). Where do carrot seeds come from? 2). Why is it cold on the mountains if they're closer to the sun? 3). Why doesn't the Bible mention dinosaurs? She's much smarter than her daddy.

15 July 2010 GIDEON-ISMS About 1:30 this morning, a warm sensation started creeping over my body. As I wondered if I was having a religious experience, I discovered Gideon lying next to me with an overflowing diaper.

14 July 2010 GIDEON-ISMS Treat people the way you want to treat them. --Gideon, age 3, re-writing the Bible to his liking. My son is quite the philosopher!

08 July 2010 GIDEON-ISMS Sometimes, I know better. Sometimes, I don't. --Gideon, age 3

02 July 2010 GIDEON-ISMS GIDEON: Daddy, can't the white man come fix it? Gideon said this after the electricity in our house went out. Either he meant light man or my wife is having an affair. If she is having an affair, I wish the white guy would do a little more repair work around the house.

25 June 2010 Amilia had a blast at the family reunion, and she loved jumping rope in the dress Maw-Maw Condron made for her.

25 June 2010 Gideon had a blast swimming at the family reunion. In one weekend, he went from being scared of jumping in the water to doing trick dives!

11 June 2010 Amilia is a natural at ice skating. It was her first time on the ice and she didn't fall one. After a few hours, she was doing twirls!

11 June 2010 While Gideon fell a few times, he still did great ice skating for a 3-year-old.

08 June 2010 GIDEON-ISMS DADDY: Gideon, would you like to wear your shoes while you're outside or take a chance on stepping on a something, hurting your foot really bad, going to the doctor, getting a big painful shot, and maybe needing stitches? GIDEON: Take my chances. I really blew trying to use Love and Logic in this instance!

06 June 2010 AMILIA-ISMS Amilia is arguing her case that she wants to whiz in the backyard like we have, on rare occasion, let her little brother AMILIA: What? I can't go in the backyard just because I'm a girl? That's like telling blacks they can't vote just because their skin is a different color!" Yes, my daughter just compared her right to whiz in the backyard to the civil rights movement.

May 2010 Amilia is getting smarter and more beautiful everyday. It's hard to believe she will be in 3rd grade soon.

May 2010 Gideon is getting bigger, stronger, and more handsome everyday. He loves monster trucks and super heroes.

01 May 2010 Amilia and Gideon went to the fire dept. open house and posed in fire trucks.

01 May 2010 I wonder if anyone will notice if I drive off with this fire truck?

04 April 2010 Gideon is making an Easter wish. He didn't tell us what it was, but I bet it involved candy.

04 April 2010 The Easter bunny left Amilia a Precious Moments Bible! Isn't the blending of pagan and Christian traditions great?

20 March 2010 Gideon loves singing and we predict he will either be famous or the scourge of karaoke bars everywhere!

20 March 2010 Gideon enjoyed yet another snowfall in Dallas!

29 April 2009 Daddy entered this video into Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Believe" video contest in honor of all baby angels, families, and volunteers of Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.

19 March 2010 Amilia and Rachel had fun at Six Flags

19 March 2010 Gideon loved flying the Spirit of St. Looie.

18 March 2010 Amilia visited the zoo.

18 March 2010 Little GG Cool G visited the zoo too.

12 Feb 2010 Our little town had a record snowfall, record for Texas anyway.

12 Feb 2010 Amilia practicing for her big modeling career.

12 Feb 2010 Amilia show us her missing front teeth.

12 Feb 2010 Gideon couldn't help throwing snowballs. What else is a 3-year-old boy surround by snow suppose to do?

21Jan 2010 Our little cookie monster had a blast at Amilia school's Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader game show. George was even selected as a contestant and won the top prize! But it was only a box of dominoes instead of $1,000,000.00 dollars. Sorry, kids. You still need to earn those college scholarships.

19 Jan 2010 Amilia was so happy that she FINALLY lost her 3rd tooth. It had been hanging on for months. For such a small tooth, it sure left a HUGE gap.

16 Jan 2010 George was originally apathetic about cheer leading, but his interest level increased dramatically when Amilia decided she want to be a cheerleader. Funny how that works.

16Jan 2010 After a $40 registration fee and an all day cheer leading clinic, Amilia is a certified Cheer Chick, and can now officially cheer for the Eagles! Stay tuned for her first cheer leading gig!