The Mirthful Morgans: How come being in your 30's used to sound so much older?

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

How come being in your 30's used to sound so much older?

AND the winner is...JOHN, a.k.a. the Birthday Boy!

Behold the GLORY! One of the greatest board games EVER!

Jack giving Daddy the gift he got for him...Twizzlers!

Er, yeh, there was LOTS of candy from the kiddies!

Christmas wrapping paper a classic! There has to be at least ONE gift wrapped in it!

Sarah's interpretation of what Immanuel did for daddy (it's Strong Bad)...

Gimme the rock sista!

Immanuel showing Daddy his hard work at making almost life size construction paper characters from www.homestarrunner.com...

L to R: Strong Mad, The Cheat, Strong Bad, and Homestar
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SO creative and such a hard worker! He did this all in one day!

Happy Birthday to you!

Jack helps...

Er...yeh...it was the best i could get, no really! LOL!
It's like a cake FORT! Who can climb those walls?!
Well at least the backside of it anyway...the front is more of an invitation...oh never mind! ;-)

Number 34! That's really close to 35 ya know? 35 sounds pretty old, BUT not as old as it used to. Now 40 sounds old...but i wonder if it still will when we're 39?

Life is busy and plans got changed and we ended up going with our traditional ( in the last 2 years anyhow) Schutz/Clayton/Morgan Birthday get-together. The only difference this time is that we were in our own home! Still it felt just the same and i was again reminded of how much i truly love these friends of ours.

We celebrated with Steak, roasted-red-garlic potatoes, steak fries (for John), broccoli, rice, and ICE CREAM CAKE!!! The ice cream cake as you will notice had a rough life and by "Happy Birthday to you" time, it was...well it still tasted as it should have, let's just put it that way! It was almost 50% off at the store because of whatever they did to it and then when i got it home i realized it didn't quite fit so well into our "you're-living-in-a-double-wide-so-you-must-not-need-a-real-size-fridge/freezer" freezer! It ended up on it's long side and well, like i said you can see the rest from the pictures!

Jack managed to restrain himself the whole birthday song through, which i could tell took an immense amount of effort, and after singing helped John blow out his candles. John then opened presents...lots of candy and other goodies from our friends, and then we had great discussions about the gospel, family, and life in general (our three favorite things to talk about, especially with the farm folk!) while the children played.

That evening the Claytons stayed and we played Sea Faring Settlers of Catan till midnight, which seemed early compared to our past games and the birthday boy won! We convinced the Claytons to sleepover and had waffles for breakfast the next morning!

The birthday was great, at least i hope it was for John anyhow, but it made me realize all the more how much i miss the association of our farm folk AND how difficult it will be when the Claytons leave us to go to Nevada at the end of this month. It makes me cry to think about, and sometimes the only hope i think i have of seeing them again in this crazy world is the fact that Amanda and I would like to arrange the marriage of Jack and Evelyn, BUT that is for another blog!

3 comments:

JR Morgan said...: It was just about a perfect BIRTHDAY. But not for any other reason that a PERFECT birthday would have had a few more choice and select friends and family. BUT winning Catan about got it there. :0)

Yes 34 does seem old, but I just assume I must not really be 34..... LOL.; June 8, 2010 at 10:51 PM
JR Morgan said...: Oh and Immanuel's Homestarrunner creations were SICK! The kids has mad creative skills. I was blown away. I just wish Nick would have let me put it up on my walls. :0( Well, I guess I go into Iman and Jack's room to enjoy them enough!; June 8, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Schutzenegger said...: Epic Homestarrunner! I'm pretty jealous; June 8, 2010 at 11:12 PM

All about John & Nicola

Well, John is the extremely handsome red-head, of course, and I'm the little one in front of him! John is a marriage and family therapist and I am a domestic engineer as well as a dental hygienist. We met in June of 2000, were engaged by the very end of September 2000, and were married December 16th 2000. We have four lovely children as you can see below and love life and all that it has brought and taught us! We love to talk, have friends over, cook and eat food, camp, and pretty much do anything as a family.

All About Edy

She is fun-loving and pretty much always wants her way (who doesn't) and 90% of the time it works out well as she's a good girl with righteous desires and is extremely responsible and mature for her age. However that 10% of the time where we actually don't agree on something, she can be a little devil! She is a huge help with Jack as these two are best buds! Jack likewise adores her and she is the only one out of his other siblings that he'll let parent him. Eden is also in the fifth grade and loves to read. She has a passion for horses and all animals really and also loves to cook and bake.

Top 7 Favorite of "The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book"

{Why 7 and not 10...because I haven't found three more I really like the best yet. AND these are in no particular order either.}

1. Remember that life's most treasured moments often come unannounced.
2. Hold puppies, kittens, and babies any time you get the chance.
3. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
4. Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
5. Watch for the big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
6. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
7. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.

The Duty of Mothers...

The duty of the mother is to watch over her children, and give them their early education, for impressions received in infancy are lasting. You know, yourselves, by experience, that the impressions you have received in the dawn of your mortal existence, bear, to this day, with the greatest weight upon your mind. It is the experience of people generally, that what they imbibe from their mothers in infancy, is the most lasting upon the mind through life... Children have all confidence in their mothers; and if mothers would take proper pains, they can instill into the hearts of their children what they please. You will, no doubt, recollect reading, in the Book of Mormon, of two thousand young men, who were brought up to believe that, if they put their whole trust in God, and served Him, no power would overcome them. You also recollect reading of them going out to fight, and so bold were they, and so mighty their faith, that it was impossible for their enemies to slay them. This power and faith they obtained through the teachings of their mothers.

-Brigham Young