Saturday, November 12, 2011

New Blog!

We have a new blog:

blakeheidihoover.blogspot.com

Saturday, April 2, 2011

I love my papa!



my dad is an "awesome dude" (as he would put it)

-i love it when he would sing to me to wake me up
-He instantly become friends with everyone he meets
-He is learn able - for example if he wants to learn a new foreign language he'll do it.
-"old and grey and whithered away" is everythings he's not - he is just as involved with what his kids are doing. and isn't gonna let us pass him up. dads thought..." I think im going to run a marathon today." "well done that how about a iron man next summer."
- sometimes he sneaks dryed milk in our macaroni and cheese...gross
- He makes his kids all feel speacil. with me he has given me a nick name - hey there hi there ho there as happy as can be there. he also takes pride in "looking like me"....he thinks if he had long hair like me we'd be twins. haha
-he doesn't hesitate to bear his testimony in from of his family
-I have no doubt he loves my mom. I can see it in the way he acts around her. he is always on her side.
- my dad has deticate his life for his family...and he loves it!
-he loves babies
-he has strong hands
-he makes it obvious he loves me
-sometimes he doesnt really put that much care in things and lets mom do the decision making but when he really cares about something he cares and lets us know.
-he often is helping out with house work
-he is really smart and knows alot of information.
-he often says funny quotes, some his, some grandpa or grandma..carrying their sayings too
-he always makes me laugh
-he is so humble...i dont think he realizes how awesome he really is
-he loves to teach
-he doesn't judge, but just loves unconditionally.
-He'll take the time to talk
-he is always coming up with new ideas and projects...lets do a ironman, scouts trips, movie project
-he always willing and able to give me a blessing, and gave me a fathers blessing before school
-he has been veyr patient with me as i used to take forever to be ready for school
-he loves his and my moms parents
- I love it when we roller skate dance
-he loves musicals and westerns and the history channel
-he has the talent of talking
-he care for others outside of the family alot too. and they see him as a fatherly figure. -he told my friend not to get married before 21 or else she wouldnt go rafting...she waited until 22.
-he is goofy and entertaining
-he sometimes does his "mom" voice/ high pitch....its funny
- Ilove when he leaves messages on my answer machines
- when someone may of said a rude comment he sees it as an opurtunity to learn and improve on what they said.
-he thinks people dont want to listen to him sometimes - but we really do
-he is brave
-he dances!
-he is a hard worker
-he is adventurous
-he gives me advice
-he sees the good in people and is quick to compliment.
-he is a fish outta watter and in
-he's one of my best friends


I love my dad...this list could go on and on and on

Thursday, March 3, 2011

christmas break partying!!!!

thursday- fly in with blake and 2 friends, take out lucy from school to eat at mexican resturant down the street (never ate at before.) run home, see dad, do back flips on trampoline, stop by lds for a minute, go see jimmys house for the first time, dr mario, played pool. at night boys wents to jimmys for lan party and girls stayed home for mexican train.








friday - buy talent (hula hoops), stay around home working on dads, and moms things, get rental car, grocery shop, cart almosts hits other car, make cookies!





saturday temple/ shop,ultimate frisbee, grandpa dickinson, dinner with everyone , talent show -hula hoop. relatives come over- pool, roller skating..aka hockey






sunday mark wedding - decorate in morning, church, wedding- sang at it, deco car, mini christmas, presents, family circle, family games, home videos






monday - christmas shopping, blazer game- won free chalumpas, hike at tryon creek in lake oswego, learn to drive a stick shift.




tuesday- drove off to wachington - sang in car, saw the settle needle thing, made it to the sound, looked at boats and crabs, and rope making machines, blake wrestled with his nephews, went on date to crepes, stroll around town, view point, and narnia movie. read scriptures together, meet sister...sleep






wednesday- visit their horse, go the sound water/ beach, do mini hikes, look over a bridge, learn to skip rocks, make a teeter tater out of a tree. drove home...sang, go to larry ds - watch muppets christmas, make a ginger bread house aka a school bus, read stories to kids, play bored games.








thursday- drop off blake early morning to airport- almost miss flight,christmas shopping with lucy and miranda, swimming with the gang in hilsboro, out to eat at izzys with dad, andy and lucy. face masks/ feet soak/ paint nails with lucy.




friday - wrap christmas presents, family christmas eve dinner, do a dog puzzle, paul came in town late at night, watched the nativity video

saturday- christmas...wake up wake up wake up...i think i was in 3 different rooms from hideing from lucy before i finally woke up. yummy german pancakes for breakfast, christmas stair pic, christmas presents....i got clothes, a serger!, iron and ironing boared for my sewing, bored games, lucy game me "Blake" on the box it said jacob black..with jacob crossed off and an "E" added to the end of black(e). they look similar with their dark complextions. we then had christmas dinner and played with our christmas toys and games. we played boulder das and the answers we're really funny. we also got a new system for the xbox where u dont need a controller but it is sensored so u just move ur hands and body to play. pretty fun. we played banana grams too.



sunday- church, annul hedman christmas party, johns friends come over and play banana grams, boulder dash, etc.

monday- dentist, hair dyed by tina, me and lucy got our nails done...i have cute toes now.

tuesday- today was sewing day!!! me and lucy worked on making a purse with her new sewing machine she got for chirstmas. we got almost all it finished except for the holes that we will add later. then we shopped at nordstrum to exchange some christmas clothes. after wards to target to exchange the kinnect cd that was broken.




wednesday- drive to fort stevens at the beach. we stayed at a huge 4 story house. pretty cool place. there we played lots of games...things, boulderdash, bannana grams, chess, guitar hero, tetrus, dance dance revolution, dr mario, etc. we ate yummy meals. wewent to the military forts. and played in them they were very fun as we ran around and made noises. then we went to a ship wreck on the beach...it was super windy..i could lean back and it carried me. i ran and made all the seagulls fly away. and we found a dad whale on the beach! it was sick.. we could see its back bone sticking out. we would kick it and it would jiggle...dont want to know what would happen if it poped..or how it would smell. it was pretty funny there are two sets of stairs each on different sides of the house and mom didnt realize that you can use one all the way down to the whole time she had been going down half walking clear across the hallway and down the other stairs and back across the other hallway to get down hahha.lucy also wanted water during the night and it was funny because mom brought her some in her cupped hands...that didnt go over so well so mom not wanting to walk down 3 floors soaked a rag and had lucy drink froma wet rag.

thursday- was the place haunted?! creepy crawlers and scream in the ngiht? in the morning we played sardines which was awesome in this huge house as there are soooo many places to hide. then we went to a sopt to see the big waves in the beach crashing. after that we went to seaside and saw the seals and feed them. carter was drench in water the seals splashed. then we played on the beach and went and rode the carosel- merry go round. then we had elephant ears...yum. afterwards we went to the taffy shop and spun the wheel for a free taffy. eden won a bag of popcorn too. then we were on the way home. in the car for christmas we got movie things so we watched nanny mcphee. the ride home was crazy as we went through the mountains and it was covered with snow. we got home! later we shopped at thift store with mom, lucy, and sarah.

friday- new years eve! run with dad, lucy, larry, paul, and peter in below freezing weather to the temple and back... that is 8 miles! then go play water polo, john leaves town, grocery shop with cilla, party at home with family and friends - play games, sudoku, rockband, dr mario. they sing happy birthday to me and miranda thought that i would feel more important with extra candles so i blew out 32 candles in stead of 22...that mean im older?! then i went to my tualatin friends new years party - visiting hilary, cameron harper, his siter katie, michael n. and gregson. some of them i have not seen since two years. we played mario cart and cards. on the way home i was able to talk to blake on the phone and he was in 2011 and i was in 2010 so i was talking to the future! then i came home for the count down and we yelled!!! them we went roller skating!where we skated and played hockeya dn karaoke and pizza. and home to bed at 4.










saturday- new years day! wake up at 11am on 2011. derek gets baptised, frostys!

sunday- church, break the fast. see Lynn Kinsley.

monday - Lunch with lucy, fly out