Joel's Latest Commercial

As you know Joel writes, produces, and sometimes acts in commercials. He normally has a whole crew help him with this but when a chocolate fondue fountain company called him and asked him to do a commercial for cheap he said he could but couldn't afford to pay the crew so he had to do it all himself. So he's been working on this commercial pretty hard for a week or so. Let me know what you think.

Joel's 25 year old interview

What is your favorite color? Green
Favorite cereal? Cracklin’ Oat Bran
Favorite vegetable? Potatoes or sweet corn
Favorite food? Juice
Favorite drink? Also Juice
Favorite tv show? Seinfeld
Favorite restaurant? Any American food restaurant owned by Greeks
Favorite holiday? Christmas
Favorite animal? Rabbit
Favorite toy? Baseball
What is your favorite thing to do? Write
Who is your best friend? Jamie Brinkerhoff
Where would you like to go on vacation this year? Illinois
What do you want to be when you grow up? Movie maker
What would you do with $100? Put it towards gifts for people
How much does a car cost? 5 grand…it depends
What do you like to do in the summer? Write
If you could have only one present this year, what would it be? A car
What is your Mom's favorite food? Reese’s
What does your Mom do after you go to bed? Sleep…I think
What's Dad's favorite food? Oreo’s
What is Dad's favorite thing to do? Play baseball
Where does your Dad work? In his house
What is your favorite thing to do with Dad? Talk Baseball
What do you dislike eating? Anything gooey
What's your favorite thing to wear? Overalls
What would be the best thing someone could give you? A successful career
How does the grass grow? Photosynthesis
Where does electricity come from? Science
Where do babies come from? Two people having sex.
How do we get to Grandma's house? My Grandma’s are dead and I never go to my step-grandma’s house.
Where does the sun go at night time? On the other side of the world
How do fish breathe under water? Photosynthesis
How do you make cookies? Have Jamie make them
What is Mom's favorite thing to do? Read and be with family
What do you love about each person in our family? Zoram: funny, Keri: talks a lot, Naya: makes jokes with Little Joel and Mari: is a monkey

Because Joel and I aren't a family and Keri posted the interview asking about "our family" I had him answer about Keri's family.

It's lame you can only upload four pictures at a time. So here are a couple more from the wedding and then some random hanging out pictures.

 

 

 

 

Jason's Wedding

These are the pictures from my friend Jason's wedding. The wedding was earlier this year but I just now got the pictures.

 

 

 

 

The Joy of Statistics

This just happened in Joel's statistics class. The teacher was talking about dotplots. Joel spoke up in front of the entire class and said, "Were you just talking about dots?" The teacher replied, "Yes." Then Joel proceeded to tell the class, "When Carson was born I hit him and he turned into a dot." Which caused me to immediately burst into laughter that I tried to quiet down but probably didn't do a very good job...and tears. And turned BRIGHT pink.

Flux Capacitors Strike AGAIN!

 

The Flux Capacitors, my volleyball team, were reunited again last week for an outdoor grass volleyball tournament. We had not played together since the epic win of 2008 where we won the championship in the Provo City League but came together and played like champs once again. One of our members, the capatain, now attends Weber State in Ogden and he signed us up for this tournament. We drove up there and made it worth our time by kicking everyone's trash along with getting t-shirts and $20 Wal-Mart gift cards. Here is the picture after we won, I think it's going to go up in the hallway of Weber State. Since we were outside all morning playing, even though I put on sublock, I think I still might have gotten more freckles...sorry Mom. We'll be defending our Provo City title this fall as we enter league play yet again.

Big Sickie

 

I don't know where we could have picked up this nasty virus from, but Joel has had it bad for the last 3 days! The first and second day he was throwing up all day and today he had diarrhea. But it's a weird sickness where he throws up out of his ears and has diarrhea secrete from his armpits. Since his insurance doesn't cover anything but acts of God and none of his symptoms are mentioned in any of the major religious texts, I haven't taken him to the doctor, so I'm a little on edge about him. The biggest worry at this point is dehydration, and he seems to have some of the warning signs but not others. I asked him when he last had a drink of water and he said, "In the MTC before I went on my mission." I really thought today he would be much better, but he just slept on the couch most of the day except for when he had to go out to compete in a triathlon to raise money for special needs children. That picture was from yesterday when he was feverish and puky all day. I had to take a picture because it reminded me so much of when Little Joel was sick.

 

Hopefully tomorrow will be much better - he didn't eat anything the last two days and had just a little bit to eat today (he actually didn't eat it but he chewed for several hours on a literal drill bit), so he's really been weak and listless. (He has no lists of anything, not even to-do lists or groceries to buy. Normally he has lists of everything including a list of times in the day.)

I know it's probably too much to hope that I won't get the same sickness, but I sure hope Joel is the only one! He has been so pathetic and sad the last few days, I can't wait for him to get back to his normal busy and spirited self, always active either trading stocks or breaking horses.