Old pictures

I'm back after a long blogging drought! We'll start with the oldest pictures, which I forgot were on my camera. Here are a select few of the 200+ Logan took of Kaci and me making chicken pot pie last summer (2005).

Chicken Pot Pie



Obey your thirst.


Isn't that the scariest thing you've ever seen?





Kaci was upset about something...

The Professor was our assistant, but he mostly just winkled around and took pictures, as you can see.



I was ticking Logan to get a genuine smile.





















As you can see by the next two, Logan was really bored.







A nice air shot of our almost-finished product.

We tried to do a Texas cutout on the top crust, but it didn't work that well.















Boston

In the Public Garden. There's George Washington!



Near Copley Square (as in John Singleton Copley the painter, Dad) where the next pictures are. That's a goofy face, I know.

In front of the library.

Looking the other way toward the middle of Copley Square and that cool red-roofed church, one of my favorite buildings in Boston. The shiny triangular-shaped building is the Prudential Tower, aka The Pru. (Kaci and Tom, correct me if I'm wrong.)

The library again.





Another cool church near there.

This is the North End, an Italian neighborhood where I adventured by myself. I couldn't resist taking a picture of this "connah store."



The next morning on our whale watch. Kaci and I were both biffed, but this is the first picture I took (right after I got better). I ran outside and got to see a mother and baby whale pretty close to the boat for about two minutes before we headed back to shore, but I didn't get any good pictures of them. They were camera shy, I think.

Land ho!






You can see the New England Aquarium next to the wharf where we got on our boat.



On Kaci's roof! It was a sweet view.


You can see the Citgo sign!















Waterfight
In June before I left, the Professor and I "duke"d it out with his like 15 waterguns. Afterward we were feeling goofy so we took some goofy pictures.



























Long Hair
I took these in mid-August right before I got my hair cut. This is my record for hair length. Okay, I know the first one's goofy because I'm not smiling, but you can see a little more length. It's hard to take pictures of yourself.

Proud to be a Primate in Provo

Sorry about the lack of posts recently--I just got so caught up in my exciting new life! I can't believe I've been here 4 weeks tomorrow. Summer term is half over! Here's a news brief: I'm taking American Heritage and Book of Mormon, my teachers are coo, like my ward (although almost everyone's older), on the Friendship & Service Council, done my first visiting teaching (my companion is Doris), gave blood for the first time, met Eli and he's super cool, played some coo games and watched the Thin Man movies with Tommy and Doris, and I'll be alone in my apartment this weekend. Mom said Tommy and I should have an apricot party. :) Since this post isn't much (I haven't taken any pictures here yet), I'll tack on some more Logan quotes.

In this mini-episode: a sample of Loopy Logan's June 2006 banter.

1. (To me) Ice cream is the very core of your comfort zone.
2. I just need a hug at this time of denial in my life. I'm in a midlife crisis.
3. (This one's not an exact quote) Rico will only like you because you're the first one to see him.
4. (In the Matthew voice he likes to use) I don't control when I say funny stuff--when it pops into my head I have to say it then, 'cause if I don't it will be lost in the deps of my mind fo-ev-oh.

Funny/Weird Professor Quotes

Pour cette issue de "Rigolant avec Logan," j'ai collecté les citations amusants ou bizarroïds de la bouche fou de notre champion "Le Prof". Pendant les deux ou trois semaines derrieres, j'ai aimé beacoup écrire cettes choses parce que quelquefois Logan a répété eux lentement pour moi (je pense qu'il beaucoup aime être sur mon blog).

1. While I was stretching all crazy with accompanying sound effects: "Summer, you should get a patent on your stretch."

2. After Logan was trying to operate or do something weird on my neck and I accused him of being a vampire: "In case you haven't noticed, I don't suck blood."

3. While eating bacon: "How do pigs make themselves taste so good? Do they use a special formula?" (Don't tell Babe about that one...)

4. Logan said he wanted to us to go on a long-distance bike race, and I asked where he proposed to do that, we don't have any room, and he said, "What do you mean, we don't have any room? We have the whole state of Texas, and the whole United States, and the whole world!"

5. When I randomly started laughing, Logan assumed I was laughing at him. I do laugh at him a lot, it's true.

My personal favorite... 6. After I talked to Forrey on Sunday, Logan wanted to know what he said so I told him, among other things, that Abbie's excited to watch Pride & Prejudice with me.
Logan: Abbie gets excited about everything.
S: I bet she doesn't get excited about...taking out the trash.
L: I don't know--if she was taking out the trash with Kaci...

7. While taking apart his tenor sax: "Will you help me pull my neck off?"

8. The Professor changed a newspaper headline from "Three detainees commit suicide" to "Three detainees admit to suicide" and then showed it to me.

9. S: You have to say a lot of funny stuff in the next couple of days so I can put it on the blog.
L: I'm a coffee cup of emotion.
S: [Laughs] What's that supposed to mean?
L: I don't know--you said to say something funny.

10. L: I have a feeling that your mind is like the Grand Canyon.
S: Why do you say that?
L: Because at first sight it seems beautiful, but if you venture too far in you could be killed.
S: Is that for reals or are you just trying to get me to write it down?
L: A little of both. I say things when I'm inspired, because usually things like that I let go, but tonight if something pops up in my head, I just say it.

11. This one goes along with le thème français...kind of. For the past three weeks, Logan's new favorite phrase is "moo frère." He calls me that all the time and he says he doesn't know where he got it from.

12. Le Prof has recently brought back something from 4th grade. When his class couldn't go outside for recess, they watched an exercise video. The kids on the tape did some crazy moves, including "half-jacks" and one possibly titled "Hips--I don't know!" (because that's what they say when they do it). Logan has added "invigorated" to the half-jacks and does them craaazily. It's half of a jumping jack, so he sticks out one arm and leg really fast over and over. For the other one he put his hands on his hips and says "hips" and then jumps forward, puts his hands in the air like he's shrugging (hence the "I don't know" part I guess) and says "I don't know!"

I can vote!

Guess who's a registered voter as of yesterday? That's right. Me. Now if I could just get a permit...

Superiority Complex

Top 10 reasons Dallas deserves the NBA trophy:
10. The Bible Belt vs. the Bikini Belt: WWJP (What would Jesus pick?)
9. Our most colorful billionaire, Ross Perot, ran for president; Miami's most colorful billionaire, Wayne Huizenga, ran a garbage truck.
8. They have American Airlines Arena. We have American Airlines Center and American Airlines.
7. No one ever asked, "Who shot Crockett and Tubbs?"
6. Our Gov. Bush is a higher achiever then their Gov. Bush.
5. Our owner blogs better then their owner.
4. Our native footwear--cowboy boots--are better for butt-kickin' than theirs--flip-flops.
3. They have South Beach, we have the Trinity River...OK, they got us there, but don't look for Calatrava bridges over Biscayne Bay anytime soon.
2. We don't call the arena district "Victory" for nothing.
1. If David Hasselhoff is for us, who can be against us?
--Dallas Morning News
GO MAVS!!!