Laugh

This made me laugh really hard. Almost as hard as William.

Don, Amy and Will

In Case You Missed It

Anna, Amy and I were sitting about 3 feet from the TV due to some furniture rearranging from the painting project. Will almost started crying because we were screaming so loud. In case you haven't watched it yet check it out.

Great Flick!

Don, Amy, Joe and I watched the new 8 hour adaptation of Dickens' "Bleak House" starring Gillian Anderson. Two thumbs way way up. I was reading the book for a class last year when the miniseries came out on tv. I loved reading it and I've been wanting to watch it ever since, so when I found it at Barnes and Noble I picked it up. It was great (I love Gillian Anderson), and I highly recommend it! I've also heard that Peter and Nicole saw it and loved it. And speaking of Peter and Nicole, what's up with dropping of the face of blogging earth? Is there no internet connection in Georgia, or what?? :)

JBB and the Baby

I realize this sounds a bit narcissistic, but I like this picture of the baby and me.

Greg and Grandma

Wendy took this picture this afternoon. I love the lighting.

All Baby All The Time

Home Remodel Revisited

Here are some shots of the new 1212 Summer Hill Place.
Below right is the front door. The color around the door is called "Roast". The color to the right is called "Filbert" It is sort of a dark cream and is the color of the hallway and the stairwell and the upstairs hall. On the left is the living room. The color on the right is Roast. On the left is Filbert. You can get a fairly good idea of the colors by comparing with the white ceiling. Roast is on the opposite wall in the living room as is Filbert. That is, two colors on opposite walls.



Left is the living room. Roast on the left, Filbert on the right.










Above is the dining room. Roast is on the left, "Oat" is the color on the right. Again opposite walls have the same colors. The picture is really stunning against the colored wall. On the opposite wall we have a heavy mirror.


To the left is our bedroom. Oat is the basic color. Kind of a light cream. On the wall behind the bed is the color "Cafe". It is also in both of the alcove areas (one of which is on the right). Below is the yoke hung over the fireplace. The Cafe colored alcove is on the left.






The laundry room is painted "Teak". I had no idea there were so many shades of brown with interesting names. Again, the color is best seen contrasted with the white ceiling.







This is a picture of the dining room with the small mirror on a Roast colored wall. Mom likes the large platter mounted on the wall. It looks even better in person.

Below is the family room. Oat is the color of the walls.










To the left is the breakfast area. The color of the wall is "Spice" and is a redish brick-brown. It continues into the kitchen. It really compliments the cabinetry.

Baby Pt. 2

Here is a better picture of the baby. We can't decide who he looks like. Any ideas?


This is from our visit this evening.

Beaverton Bennion Baby

This is about 90 min after delivery. You can see his right eye is a bit bruised. He just had his bath when this was taken.



This one is about 5 min after delivery. I didn't realize how pale he looks here. He weighs in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. He is 21 1/2 inches long.

I will post some more pictures tomorrow night after the kids visit the baby. Wendy and the baby are great.

Spiderman 3

Watch This! I am sure you will like it.

Happy Belated Halloween!

Here is the Donald Bennion family Halloween picture. Will's costume was adorable, and he liked wearing it...except the hood, which of course makes the costume. We could get him to wear it for pictures, at least, although not with much of a smile. Maybe we could think of it more as a growl from the lion. Don looked great--thanks to John for the idea. I didn't dress up, really, although what you can't see in the picture is an orange jack-o-lantern face on my pregnant stomach--thanks to Sarah Rowberry for the idea. The Omniture party was a blast as usual. William would say "treat" to get candy, and had no qualms about going two or three times to the same person to ask for candy. Once he put it in his pumpkin bag, and his hands were free again, he figured he needed to get more for his hands to hold, so he'd ask again. It was cute. Hope you all had a great Halloween too! 

Election Thoughts

So, I thought the Republicans brought all this on themselves (scandal, pork). I wish they hadn't done it. I am sad to see Donald Rumsfeld go, but I am not sure whether to think there will be an improvement with Gates.

Painful day.

Kids Christmas Letters from Oldest to Youngest

Dear Santa Claus,

Here’s some ideas for me for Christmas. So… I want a Lego Jabba Sail Barge, I would like a Lego Special Edition X-Wing Fighter. And I want a Lego A-Wing Fighter, and I would like a Lego Slave-1. King Jayko. And the Lord Vladek that is in the lego magazine just like the one that’s fighting King Jayko. A pirate set of Playmobile. A new marble run set. Any Hot-Wheels stuff or any Darda Stuff too.

From Nathan

PS – Say hello to Mrs. Claus for me.



Dear Santa Claus,

Makeup, Dog, Stuffed Animal, Stuffed Animal Cat, Bike, Girl Playmobile, and Girl Legos. Say hi to Mrs. Claus for me. Love you!



Dear Santa Claus,

Give me my presents!

From,
Gregory

Nate's response

Nathan wrote a pretty cute response to the Rob as Elvis picture. It's worth a quick read. We love you all!

Wendy

Staples Executives are Crazy

Each week in staples we sell approximately 14 Shredders. Right now our executives want us to sell 14 of these a week. It isn't a bad Shredder, it's just not good enough to justify paying that price. If any of you want to see it in person go to your nearest Staples and remark on how tiny it is. Don't get me wrong it is a nice machine, but how am I to sell it to a local business. It seems that someone decided that they had to advertise it... a lot... more than any other product that we have had in staples... ever! Oh well, maybe they will learn from this since we have only sold 6 since we got it 3 weeks ago.

Christmas Lists

With Christmas coming soon (don't tell the Nephews or the Niece) I was wondering if people would like to send any christmas wish list they might have. I find it is very helpful to at least give ideas and even specifics. So I hope that we all have a least an idea of what we would like for christmas, so SPILL IT!
Love, Joe

This is so very techy and very long

Before I start I would like to say that I am a fan of Athlon (also known as AMD), and I have an AMD 64 3400+ processor in my computer (Note: Processors are the driving force of a computer. They are what determines the speed and they Process information in your computer routing it to where it needs to go). The reason for this has been that Athlon has designed some of the smartest chips in the market and they were the only ones who have released a 64bit Processor for mass use while Intel only had a 64bit system for servers only. Now while there aren’t any mainstream programs that need 64bits to run, a lot of Companies have supported the 64bit move with 64bit motherboards (mine is a hybrid 64-32) and has really performed as top of the line until recently (Still good, just not top of the line). Now Intel is known as a very popular brand processor, and AMD was virtually unknown, but it must have been tough to see AMD go from obscure to mainstream in many stores and many companies (HP, Staples, Best Buy, and even some Dell machines are now known to carry many AMD products, where three years ago they were exclusively Intel Pentiums (All information taken from CPU Magazine, and Computer Magazine) (CPU Magazine means Computer Power User Magazine). When the AMD 64 (AMD 64 FX-51) came out in 2003, it was faster, cooler running, and cheaper than any Intel product of the time (September 2003). For these reasons (and a few others even more technical and confusing than what I have already typed) I liked and recommended AMD processors to everyone I knew.
Now my mind has changed. This last year Intel and AMD have released their next generation of Processors, the Dual Core (Intel has two names for theirs, The “VIIV” for desktop computers and the “Core 2 Dual” for Notebooks/Laptops, AMD puts X2 for notebooks/laptops and desktops or Live! for desktops only). Two cores means that the processor can have up to double the power to give your computer while running processes. This means you can have one core running a virus scan, while you watch Spiderman using the other. There will be no slowdown in your processes and you can do more at once. (My personal feeling is that many people will be using two monitors for one computer very soon). Intel’s line outperforms AMD’s in almost everyway. Intel Dual core processors are 40% faster and 40% more power efficient than their previous processors (Intel’s own numbers form their retail Edge website) and approximately 10% faster and 15% more efficient than AMD X2 processors (CPU Magazine, September 2006). Their price is also a little better than AMD’s, and finally as CPU magazine, and Computer magazine agree, Intel has done it right. The way that Intel does this is through the Processor Cache (Cache is the memory in a processor that determines how much information each processor can process each cycle). AMD has separate Caches that aren’t shared by the two cores in the processor so that if you don’t have enough cache on one core to run your antivirus, it can’t borrow from your other core’s processor. Intel has a Shared Cache that both cores can use, and this makes it so that it can effectively control how much Cache each core needs (Spiderman core needs less cache than the Antivirus Core). Doing this means that Intel doesn’t have to spend more on separate caches (Cache is the most expensive type of memory) and also the Shared Cache can use less power.
The performance of Intel’s processors is the fastest, most efficient, and most cost effective processor on the market, and all that I have to say, welcome back to the top of performance.

Now I would like to point out that Intel made this change only after John became employed there so I think that the two are interrelated don’t you?

Once again, I have been reading up on this, first in two different Computer Magazines (and I might add CPU Magazine is very AMD biased), and secondly on Intel’s retail edge website. So if my information is wrong it was a misread by me or misprinted by one of these magazines because they are right in front of me!

Nate's Battle Scars

This is Nate's first big connection to the road. He was very brave. We got to go to Urgent Care and see Dr. Smith. Nate says, "He was very nice."

These are forehead, lower eye, nose and chin wounds.