Monday post

Well, we are pretty excited this morning after the big win last night. For those of you who couldn't watch, the final score was: Chicago Bears 37, Seattle Seahawks 6. Some people might call it a boring blowout, but to us it was perfect!
Thanks for cheering!

Bears Game

The Chicago Bears need your help!! They will be on national TV Sunday night (NBC), and we need everyone to be cheering! It's a big game and you can be sure we'll be watching.

GO BEARS!!!

Wednesday post

I'm (Jesse) trying to be more frequent in updating. Here's a quick post. We've had a quite week since Sam's Birthday. It's pretty hard to believe that he's 13! Saturday we went to a football game at Samford. Samford lost but we had a good time anyway. It's pretty easy to tell fall is here. The temps are in the low 50s every morning now. It feels good!

Sunday we all went to see the movie Cars. It was made Disney-Pixar, and we have always loved their movies (Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, etc...). We loved this one too, and we can't wait for it to come out on DVD in November!

In an earlier post I promised pictures on robots on building.

This is a very simple robot built mostly to test new features on the robot kit. It is currently programmed to drive around and avoid walls. It can do this with the ultrasonic sensor (the one that looks like the eyes in the front), which sends out sound waves and measures the echo to see how far the closest object is. It's like radar. Actually, it's more like sonar.

That's it for now. I'll post again soon.

Sam's Birthday

The pictures of Sam's Birthday have arrived!!! (applause)

(moment of silent anticipation)

(drumroll starts)

"TA-DA!!!!!!"

(fireworks and more applause, louder than before)

Sam's had a football cake to celebrate the Chicago Bears new season.
(BTW: Da Bears are 3-0 and beat Green Bay 26-0. Yeah!!)

What's with the sly grin?

Sam got a new Bible for his birthday.

I don't have enough room to post all the gifts be cause he got a lot, including this R/C truck.

Late, late, late!

We are terrible at updating this thing!! The "soon as possible" in the last post has come and gone and still no pictures. Well, I will try to get them up tomorrow. Now that I've set a date, I just might do it. Oh well...


P.S.: This is the 50th post on our blog.

Happy Birthday Samuel!

Samuel is thirteen years old today! Now that we have two young men in the house we will have a lot more cooking to do!!! We will have party pictures up as soon as possible!

911

THE BALLAD OF SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH

September eleventh two thousand and one,

A date to remember for centuries to come;

The famed ‘War on Terror’ was started that day,

The war that took thousands of loved ones away.

But the day that it happened began like the others,

Kids started to school after kissing their mothers,

Crowds pushing and shoving they hurried to work

Not knowing that terror in New York would lurk.

For two mighty airplanes by terrorists flown

Headed straight for two towers standing tall and alone,

A target, these towers of fame and renown.

For men knew to strike at America’s heart

They should strike at those towers and tear them apart

And strike at the towers those hijackers did

While those in the towers cowered and hid.

Wicked flames roared up as one plane hit the wall

And America gasped, “Those towers can’t fall.”

Then the second plane hit the first tower’s brother,

And the shock of the impact toppled the other.

The towers sank down crumbled and shamed

Our country’s largest city lay injured and maimed

The terrorists laughed as they saw our dismay

For they knew they had finally gotten their way.

Then America’s president rose up and said

“In the name of the families of all who lie dead

For the sake of the country half a year I have led

For the safety of children fast asleep in their beds

I declare that this thing has come to a head.”

And that very day he declared us at war

Though no one could know what would soon be in store

Much life would be lost in horrible ways,

And the days of the war would be terrible days.

But also would come days of victories won,

And days we’d recoil from the sound of a gun,

But what of New York, what of those still alive?

Buried in rubble they fought to survive.

Brave firefighters strove all day and all night

To bring those in darkness the gift of sunlight;

Thousands of people from states far away

Sent millions of dollars they hoped might help pay.

Finally the rubble was all cleared and gone;

The dead were all buried; the work was all done,

The injured were healed, the captives set free

Those in darkness for hours could finally see.

It seemed like those dark days of horror were finished

In hearts that were paralyzed, fear had diminished,

But after such terror as this country knew

On a day in September so cloudless and blue,

We’ll never, never, never forget

That horrible day when the twin airplanes hit,

September eleventh two thousand and one

A date to remember for centuries to come!

Abigail Kawell 2004