Sunday, February 15, 2009
UM, I changed the background
Hope you don't mind if I added a background to the blog. I was kind of bored and I thought it would spice things up a little. Also, this background reminded me of mom for some reason. If you hate it, go to thecutestblogontheblock.com to change. Melissa
more pics
Sammy - it's just a picture!
The reigning King and Queen of the Kimballs????
Michelle - what is so funny?
Joe and his bff's
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHWWWWWWW! cute
There are no words...this picture speaks for itselfPictures of the fam
I just wanted to post a few pictures so that Mike will stop hassling me about posting pictures. As you can see, I am not the most artistic of photographers, however, I am learning and I am definitely taking a lot more pictures than I used to. I probably need to take a few classes or something, I don't know. Anyway, kind of boring...I can't always be entertaining, right? Hope you enjoy.
Mike and his girls hangin' on a Saturday night.
Our family my Grandfather Ralph Kimball at his 90th birthday party
the one and only Jefferson Steelflex!
Crazy Crazy Crazy Carley doin' the robot...
The only kind of dog/animal that Lizzy will even look at without tears.
My beautiful little chef!
Pippi Longstocking is alive and well in the Wood household!!
Mike and his girls hangin' on a Saturday night.
Our family my Grandfather Ralph Kimball at his 90th birthday party
the one and only Jefferson Steelflex!
Crazy Crazy Crazy Carley doin' the robot...
The only kind of dog/animal that Lizzy will even look at without tears.
My beautiful little chef!
Pippi Longstocking is alive and well in the Wood household!!Saturday, February 14, 2009
Monday, December 22, 2008
christmas or whatever
to my loving family,
i would like take a minute and share some holiday blah blah blah. first, i am sorry we won't be able to come up this year. we will be up jan 8th through jan 11th for grampa's party.
i have read my older sister's post (on her blog) about christmas news letters. i too hate these passionately, but, i couldn't agree less with the idea that we were nothing to brag about.
the following is a draft of what i think our parents news letter could have been every year:
to all of our friends and family,
we survived another year. we do not wish to waste your time promoting our kid's minor achievements and/or failures .their self esteem is sufficient that we find it unnecessary and stupid. if you care ,or if you forgot what they look like, here is a picture of our kids.
xoxo
the bradford's
now our beloved mother would never write something like that but, if she would i'd like to think it would look something like that.
now the fun stuff. as my wife has been stressing out trying to get a christmas together for our kids, i got to thinking about christmas and my memories of christmas, more specifically our family before we all grew up and became parents. i also thought about some of the fun we as siblings had (christmas or otherwise). i realized that i could barely remember any specific gift i was given by santa or mom and dad or really anybody else. what i could remember were the little things that no one would put in a christmas letter (except this one i guess). i couldn't tell you a thing i got for christmas when i was 5. i do remember that mom was working at montgomery ward at that time (presumably to get christmas money) and that if i went with dad to pick mom up, she would have some malted milk balls to share with me on the ride home. i looked forward to that. or we would go to the fox valley mall to see the over the top christmas decorations. i also remember we had a guy in our ward in chicago who put on a huge display at his home and we would go to see it each year ( i also think i remember that guy was a drummer, i don't remember his name though). i don't recall a single gift.
when we moved to utah, i remember that the first christmas we spent here, was the last time we had a real christmas tree (i think). i remember me, jenn and matt practicing our reactions for what we might find on christmas morning. i think that was also the year mark went to the mtc...... again, i don't remember a single thing i got that year. then we grew a little. jenn and i were pre-teens and melissa and matt were teenagers and i think mark was still living at home. mom sat all (or most) of us down and read a story called the best christmas pagent ever. well, the story is very funny and i've read it to my kids, but the story is incidental...... we had many candles burning and the christmas tree was lit and beautiful and my darling younger sister just went to go sit down and caught her hair in one of the candles setting it ablaze. i promptly smacked her up side the head to put the fire out, she thought i had just whacked her out of plain meaness. i don't remember a thing i got that year.
anyway, the point of all of this is, as we scramble to get whatever for whoever just remember, take that extra time, spend it with your kid, your mom, your friend, give memories not just stuff!
i don't mean to go all soft on everybody. i guess i just miss my family.
i love you all
joel
i would like take a minute and share some holiday blah blah blah. first, i am sorry we won't be able to come up this year. we will be up jan 8th through jan 11th for grampa's party.
i have read my older sister's post (on her blog) about christmas news letters. i too hate these passionately, but, i couldn't agree less with the idea that we were nothing to brag about.
the following is a draft of what i think our parents news letter could have been every year:
to all of our friends and family,
we survived another year. we do not wish to waste your time promoting our kid's minor achievements and/or failures .their self esteem is sufficient that we find it unnecessary and stupid. if you care ,or if you forgot what they look like, here is a picture of our kids.
xoxo
the bradford's
now our beloved mother would never write something like that but, if she would i'd like to think it would look something like that.
now the fun stuff. as my wife has been stressing out trying to get a christmas together for our kids, i got to thinking about christmas and my memories of christmas, more specifically our family before we all grew up and became parents. i also thought about some of the fun we as siblings had (christmas or otherwise). i realized that i could barely remember any specific gift i was given by santa or mom and dad or really anybody else. what i could remember were the little things that no one would put in a christmas letter (except this one i guess). i couldn't tell you a thing i got for christmas when i was 5. i do remember that mom was working at montgomery ward at that time (presumably to get christmas money) and that if i went with dad to pick mom up, she would have some malted milk balls to share with me on the ride home. i looked forward to that. or we would go to the fox valley mall to see the over the top christmas decorations. i also remember we had a guy in our ward in chicago who put on a huge display at his home and we would go to see it each year ( i also think i remember that guy was a drummer, i don't remember his name though). i don't recall a single gift.
when we moved to utah, i remember that the first christmas we spent here, was the last time we had a real christmas tree (i think). i remember me, jenn and matt practicing our reactions for what we might find on christmas morning. i think that was also the year mark went to the mtc...... again, i don't remember a single thing i got that year. then we grew a little. jenn and i were pre-teens and melissa and matt were teenagers and i think mark was still living at home. mom sat all (or most) of us down and read a story called the best christmas pagent ever. well, the story is very funny and i've read it to my kids, but the story is incidental...... we had many candles burning and the christmas tree was lit and beautiful and my darling younger sister just went to go sit down and caught her hair in one of the candles setting it ablaze. i promptly smacked her up side the head to put the fire out, she thought i had just whacked her out of plain meaness. i don't remember a thing i got that year.
anyway, the point of all of this is, as we scramble to get whatever for whoever just remember, take that extra time, spend it with your kid, your mom, your friend, give memories not just stuff!
i don't mean to go all soft on everybody. i guess i just miss my family.
i love you all
joel
Saturday, November 15, 2008
crucial, clutch, cargo, road gig
thats right folks. my band will begin our journey to total world domination on dec 13 in the year of our lord 2008! the gig will be at the prestigious washington county rec center. only the best of the best of the st george area get to play there. we will be playing a collection of tiny tim covers ( i rock the ukalaili) . no but really, we are playing songs from the 70's through our current decade. it has come togther quite well. i took about 3 years off from playing music. it's good to be back in the saddle. i will try to record our set and post it on you tube or something.
xoxo
j bizzle
xoxo
j bizzle
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