July 4th, 2012

One of our traditions for Independence Day is attending the Kaysville 4th of July parade. Mostly because the fire department is in the parade and I work for the fire department. We gather at the Kaysville fire station with other families of the fire fighters to watch the parade. Ariane got the kids Independence Day t-shirts, this was Jacks first 4th of July, he was having a great time until the parade started.

Television With Lucy

Television with Lucy The day was bound to come when Lucy discovered that there were TV shows just for little girls. Well that day has come. “My Little Pony” has taken over our house, yes the show and toys from the 1980’s have resurfaced again 20 years later in my house. We now have toys, story books, coloring books and the TV show.
It centers around six ponies who have various adventures and there is always some kind of moral lesson they learn at the end. I now know more about these ponies then I ever thought I would, sad to say I can name all the main characters.


The show originally ran in the 1980’s, I don’t know much about it back then , but it looks to be much hipper now than it did 20 years ago.

Man that sure was lame.

Lucy’s favorite is Rainbow Dash.

Arianes Favorite is Pinky Pie

My Favorite is when the show is over. The days of Lucy loving Star Wars and other boy shows appear to be dwindling, but it was a good run while it lasted.

Pranks

Some of you may recall this awesome picture of my sister in law that I put on my blog just after Easter.

Apparently Rachel did not think it was as funny as I did, though she didn’t notice till three weeks after I had put the picture up. I got a text from her after she saw it, she said, “You are dead!!!!! Once again you have proven that I should have left you in the desert. There may be spiders in places you least expect them. Yes I finally read your Easter post.”

“Strong words”, I thought. Well then the other day Rachel sent this picture to my phone.

She had taken all my St. Louis Cardinals stuff, while I was asleep. Actually it looks kind of awesome in this picture, I have some cool stuff and I think it’s a good look for her. Ariane had let her in to gather everything and even pulled stuff out of my room before I went to sleep. I think Araine felt bad about her roll in this robbery, so she went and picked the stuff up from Rachel’s the next day.

Now the question is, do I get back at her or do I call it even and we both walk away. To answer that I’d like you to meet one of my favorite couple Nikki and John, they are an engaged couple who play wild pranks on each other. They were also the most repeated pranksters on MTV's "Pranked." It starts out harmless at first Then it gets messy Then it gets annoying Then it gets scary Then it gets painfull Then it gets brutal Is this really the road that Rachel and I want to go down? I suppose only time will tell, but most likely yes. For awesome Nikki and John pranks, check out their web site http://nikkiandjohn.com/ I should warn you though, the language gets a little rough.

Play Ball

Last week for family home evening we taught Lucy how to play baseball, sort of. Lucy went and got her a small bat, a glove and a soft ball. My parents came over to help us out. We played a little catch with grandpa.

Then grandpa and I took turns helping her try to hit.

Jack and Grandma sat in the stands and cheered us on as well as seeing how well a baseball glove tastes.

After it was over we all went out for ice cream, Lucy even shared some with her little brother, he liked it more then the baseball glove.

Deak's Run For Hope

Yesterday Ariane ran a 5K race out in west Kaysville. It was the 2012 Deak’s run for Hope and it benefited the grandson of Arianes visiting teaching companion. Deakon was born with an extremely rare chromosomal abnormality, Ring 18. Essentially the second strand of DNA on his 18th pair is missing some pieces and has formed the shape of a ring, it can cause severe mental retardation and many who have the abnormality do not live very long. This is our neighbor, Jenny and her grand daughter who both also ran the race.

Ariane was not alone in her race though. She had Lucy and Jack with her, not really cheering her on but slowing her down a little.

Here they are before the race. Ariane did the whole race while pushing these two in the stroller. She was quite prepared, there were snacks, toys and our little DVD player in the stroller with the kids, to try to help fend of boredom. Keeping the kids happy was probably harder than the race itself. Ariane did pretty good though, she finished with a time of 47:33.8, which give her a 15:18 Min/Mi, and it was good enough for 55th place overall (unknown how many were in the race). Not too bad for someone pushing a stroller with two kids. After the race they handed out popsicles, which Ariane gave to Lucy, since ridding in the stroller can be very hot work.

Ariane received a t-shirt for her efforts and they raised a lot of money for the research of the Ring 18 abnormality.

Star Wars Day

I don’t know how many of you knew that last Friday was an international holiday but it was Star Wars Day. According to the people at starwars.com, the official website of the Star Wars movies, May 4th has been designated as Star Wars Day. You may wonder why that it is, well its May the fourth, as in May the fourth be with you. It’s a play on words, if you don’t get it then think about it for a while. We celebrated the holiday by having my brother in law John and his wife Liz come over for a Star Wars Day party. We all put on our Star Wars shirts.

We had a light saber battle in the back yard, Lucy wore her Jedi Padawan costume and Liz wore her Jedi master robe.

After our battle we went inside and played with some Star Wars toys.

We didn’t watch any of the movies, since there are six I worried that picking just one to watch on Star Wars Day would make the other feel bad, so in the interest of fairness we did not watch any of the movies. We did play a very competitive game of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit, which I won. I can’t wait till next Star Wars Day.

Easter 2012

It was a fun Easter this year for us at our house, with three families to try and visit it gets a little crazy but it sure is fun.

Lucy went and colored Easter Eggs with the Evans family. Here she is with her cousin Kira.

And here is Aunt Rachel with an awesome hairdo and radiant smile.

I sure am glad this picture can be put on the internet.

There was also an Easter egg hunt with the Stevens family. Uncle Jeff was in town for Easter and Aunt Chelsea brought her kids down for the event.

Arianes mom bought all the kid’s yellow “Despicable Me” minion’s shirts, even the babies.

When Lucy finds an egg she likes to make a show of it by holding it over her head and singing a high pitched “AHHHHH”

Sunday morning Lucy found her Easter basket and all kinds of goodies inside.

Jack also had an Easter basket that was full of baby food and some new outfits, as well as the ABCs of “Star Wars” book.

Lucy needed to check out the book first though before it was good enough for Jack.

Everybody got some new shirts for Easter as well.

We sure are a good looking bunch.

The Easter Bunny hid the eggs Lucy colored at my parent’s house for her to go find.

Her favorite egg is the Perry the Platypus egg.

Since it is the celebration of Jesus Christ’s triumph over death, it seemed appropriate to take some flowers to Larianns grave.

Lucy complains from time to time that resurrection sure is taking along time. We all have faith though that it will happen some day and we all be together again as a family, just maybe not as soon as some of us would like.

The 200th Post

My blog has now reached a new milestone. This is the 200th post, yes the bicentennial of posts. It’s been a long fun journey here on the internet, I took the time go and review some of the stats of my blog over the last 200 posts.

It all began on November 3, 2007 with my inaugural post “Welcome to Totally Scott”, a humble beginning for such a great work.

At that time I was working for Southwest Ambulance in Salt Lake City, Lucy was six months old and I was married to Lariann.

After a few posts my blog got a much needed makeover from my friend Dave, who is a graphic artist.

Dave gave it the title “Great Scott” and made the logo, it was inspired by the “Back to the Future” movies where Doc Brown often utters the phrase, “Great Scott”.

My 100th post, which passed unceremoniously, was “Turning 30”, which chronicled my 30th birthday.

At that time I was working for the Church Security Department, Lucy was 2 and a half and Lariann had passed away just a few months prior.

Now here at the 200th post I am still working for the Church Security Department, I am married to Ariane, Lucy is five and Jack is seven months old.

At lot has changed for me in the last 200 posts.

The number one foreign country viewing my blog is the United Kingdom with 686 hits.

Followed by Canada and Germany

The search keywords that bring up the most hits for my blog are Manute Bol.

I did post on him after his untimely death in June of 2010, "Manute Bol".

The most visited post of mine was my "NCAA Mascots" post back in 2009. Apparently when people did a search for mascots such as the Wake Forest or Syracuse mascots my blog was brought up.

I had 2,585 page views of that post.

The person who has posted the most comments is my good friend and creative consultant for my blog Dave Barton.

The most popular topic is Lucy.

The most commented on post was “Here’s Jack”, about Jacks birth.

My blog had its most page views in June of 2011, which was when we were running the polls to try and decide on a "Manly Name" for our upcoming baby. There were 1,970 views that month.

I can’t wait to see where life has taking me when I reach the 300th post on this blog.