Richard & Misti's Blog

This past month has sure been a difficult one for our family.  My father was diagnosed with a brain tumor of the 4th of July weekend and although part of it was operable, part of it wasn’t.  And it’s cancerous to boot.  Dad has chosen not to have chemo and radiation.  His remaining time with [...]

Becky’s fish, Mystery, died this morning.  Becky was very sad!  =(  We had it for 3 years.  Richard brought it home from work one day (and I don’t know how long it had been there) and I figured it would die within a few days – a few weeks at most.  But three years later…
So [...]

Summer has started – hooray!! 
It has been a busy school year!  I am looking forward to summer vacation with my kiddos at home!!
Becky won a free bike for perfect attendance this year in school.  She didn’t miss a day!!  Go Becky!!
Jared finally got team pictures with his little league team – and for the sake of [...]

Becky has been working on a project lately that has been a lot of fun.  She is learning about story telling in school and chose to find out about 4 members of the family and learn some of their stories.  She was sent so much information that she will not be able to present it [...]

Yesterday was Mother’s Day.  Such a lovely day!  I spoke in church and then taught a lesson later so I was very nervous most of the day.  But it all turned out well.  All the ladies at church were given little potted flowers that I am excited to add to my yard to add more [...]

I have decided I need to blog more often so I can remember what we do on a weekly basis.
We signed Jared up for Little League this past month (April) with a team of children like him.  Everyone on the team has special needs – be they physical or mental.  And they are all close [...]

The kids were given free tickets to the Idaho Junior Steelheads hockey game last week so Richard took the day off yesterday and we made a day of it. Hockey is the best sport for our family to go see. Jared can be as loud as he wants and no one cares; Becky thinks it’s [...]

I went to a long meeting this afternoon for Jared so that we could go over goals and things for the upcoming year for him. This is the second or third time I’ve been told I am a ’supermom’ because of what I do for Jared. I think I’m sadly lacking and I [...]

Halloween this year was fun! We enjoyed the company of family and celebrated Jared’s birthday along with Halloween. The kids dressed up as: Becky – a cheetah, Jared – Lightning McQueen, and Emma – a bumblebee..We had fun decorating the front of our house with spiderwebs and Jack-o-Lanterns. We even [...]

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2008 Olympia Weekend in Las Vegashttp://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/2008_olympia_main.htm
Stephen King, The Green Mile (Part 1) – “The Two Dead Girls”http://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/green_mile:_the_two_dead_girls_the.html
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Rocky Balboa
Dragon Tears
Book reviews – work ones

A while back we were given the game, Super Monkey Ball II, which we have all enjoyed playing at some point. However, Jared is just learning and mastering the techniques of playing. Now that he has learned to navigate the little monkey around the screen, he has mastered many levels and tried many [...]

Emma has found her tongue!! Either that or she likes making faces at the camera.

Jared started school last week, by himself, for the first time. He cried so hard the first day because he didn’t understand why his mommy had left him. He didn’t understand the concept of “Mommy comes back”. When his first day of school was over and he saw me in the hall, he cried and [...]

On Saturday night, we went to the Boise Hawks vs. Spokane Indians baseball game in Garden City. Boise won, of course (1-0), and the kids got free baseball caps and Misti even scored a free moose in the parking lot, LOL.
We also recently attended the Twin Falls Temple open house and visited Shoshone Falls [...]

Just testing out a new video search widget that someone created for us:

I feel it’s still got a ways to go until it’s ready for widespread usage, but it’s still pretty cool.   :)

Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged here on our personal site, and I’ve hopelessly fallen behind, since so much as happened since May (our previous post).
It’s now mid-August, and the past 3 months have been fun. Baby Emma is now quite chubby and a ton of fun. She’s learned to [...]

Jared has been enjoying things on the computer more and more these days, and is mesmerized by some of the looping Flash animations such as BadgerBadgerBadger and Brazil.
Incidentally, the original BadgerBadgerBadger has been redone with 3-D images and a real snake video in the new version. Compare the two, here:
BBB1 (original version)                   BBB2 (new version)    Whilst [...]

Due to popular demand, here are some more updated photos of Baby Emma. Enjoy! As always, find these photos and more in my MySpace family album.

In other random stuff, we’ve recently seen a couple more films:

National Security (2003; Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Bill Duke, Colm Feore)
Sense & Sensibility (2008, Hattie Morahan, David Morrissey, [...]

“And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.” – Luke 2:6
Becky and Jared’s new baby sister is finally here! Emma Marie Barnet was born on Thursday, April 9, 2008 at 2:27 a.m. She was 8 pounds, 0 ounces, and was 21½ inches long. [...]

I was going through my Blogger drafts (blog posts that never got published for various reasons), and stumbled across this one from January 23, 2005 that deserves to be published, even though I never did finish researching the topic:
“Windows Autocomplete is interesting. It pulls the information from various locations. In MS Outlook (2000, [...]