Monday, April 7, 2008

Some Random Facts About Rylan

Alright Grandpa. Here are some facts about Me. Mommy says you get what you get because I am barely 100 days old, not enough for 100 facts. But I am more than 100 days old but she says you get my drift. And she says TOUGH BEANS!

1. When mommy and daddy tell people my name they never understand...people always think my name is Ryland. What weirdos.
2. My middle name is Michael, named after my two grandpas, my uncle Seth’s and my dad’s middle name. (sorry grandpa claybrook and uncle Seth, we had to spell it a little different. The “a” won out by my daddy.)
3. My parents were going to name me Dagon Carter, and mommy even called me Dagon for a couple weeks after I was born. But I guess that’s gonna be a little brothers name someday. Lucky duck.
4. I was the fattest baby EVER! Even though I was less than 8 lbs when I was born. I quickly tipped the scales.
5. People say I look like my daddy, but mommy says it’s just because I look bald like he is.
6. I do a tremor shake like Aunt Shyanne used to do when she was little and it’s so funny! I even make myself laugh when I do it!
7. I like to push toy cars up my arms and over my head. My parents do it, and I just copy them. They are weird.
8. I love to blow raspberries, but I end up getting slobber and snot all over my nose because it tickles too much.
9. I fart A LOT! I guess I’m a boy through and through.
10. My sister calls me Rylo Beano and I love it.
11. I have the same birthday as my Aunt Sally. What a lucky girl!
12. I love to suck my thumb. And I love to hold blankets when I do. Just call my Linus. But for me, any blanket will do. If my blankets aren’t around, sometimes I’ll crawl to the dirty clothes pile and find a sock or a washcloth. Mommy doesn’t like when I do that though, I don’t know why. I think they smell fine!
13. Mommy seems to have lost my birth certificate, so I have no idea what time I was born or exactly how much I weighed. But she does know my birthday thank goodness!
14. I weigh only 5 lbs less than my older sister and she is 3 years older! Way to go Me! Football linebacker in progress.
15. I sleep on my tummy with my bum in the air. But what little kid doesn’t, right?
16. I sleep FOREVER! I am just like my mommy. Sometimes I sleep for 15 hours in a row at night. Though mommy told me to make sure you know that she doesn’t sleep that long though she sometimes wishes she could. (she says she promises she doesn’t….)
17. I have high pitched screaming contests with my older sister and I always win! (is that something I should be bragging about?)
18. I used to have 5 fat rolls around my knees. I got pinched a lot too…but I have slimmed down, I promise!
19. I am 423 days old
20. Or you could say I am 1 yr. 1 mo. And 29 days old.
21. OR you could say I am roughly 60 weeks old.
22. OR you could say I am roughly 10,152 hours old.
23. OR you could say I am roughly 609,120 minutes old.
24. OR you could also say I am roughly 36,547,200 seconds old. I say roughly b/c again, mom lost my birth certificate.
25. I love to eat shoes. I have a shoe fetish. Anyone that knows me well knows this. Mommy says please put your shoes away when I am around.
26. I scream bloody murder when mommy lays me down in the bathtub. A cup of water poured on my head please.
27. I LOVE to throw things away! Just ask my Aunt Sally and Uncle Jake! I threw away a measuring cup and one of their pens and several other undisclosed items that will forever remain unknown. I love to throw away my shoes too and any other toy I carry near the garbage. If I am around, be prepared to go dumpster diving!
28. I love pasta! Pasta and cheese. No wonder I’m fat. Ooh, and peanut butter too. I’m definitely a Claybrook.
29. I still have only 4 teeth. This fact aggravates mommy sometimes. She thinks it takes too much time to cut my food up really small.
30. I love playing with my sisters kitchen set and food. It really does taste good! Maybe I will be like my daddy and love to cook someday.
31. I will not willingly leave our back patio and venture into the grass/weeds/dirt. Though I will play with all of the above when Kadence brings me some. Daddy says “attaboy” when I eat it though. Mommy just rolls her eyes.
32. I love to bounce and bob my head when music is on. Sometimes just bob my head. I am cool like that.
33. I have blue eyes.
34. I have ten fingers.
35. I have ten toes.
36. I have blonde hair.
37. I wear size 18 month clothes and going on size 2T.
38. I wear size 6 shoe. Kadence wears size 8. I’m catching up!
39. I love to share. Then take things back.
40. I have learned that if you pull your sisters hair and scream, then you usually get what you want! But she’s such a baby and has to tell on me all the time…wimp.
41. I love medicine.
42. I have Obsessive compulsive disorder when it comes to dishcloths. If they are hanging up on the fridge, stove or anywhere else in the kitchen they MUST COME DOWN!
43. I have yet to say a word other than “cheese”.
44. I know when someone says “say cheese” I am supposed to smile. I do love cheese.
45. I have 2 pairs of shoes.
46. I have too many blankets, but I use every one of them.
47. I am currently sick and keeping Kleenex in business.
48. I love books. I love to rip them too. It’s much more fun than reading. But I do look at them a lot too.
49. I love watching Daddy play Battlefield 1942 on the computer. It calms me down.
50. Mommy says I’ve said enough about me to satisfy anyone’s curiosity. Whatever that means. I think it means I have to stop before her head explodes.

I tag Uncle Seth. Oh, and mommy says you’re not allowed to tag Kadence because she’s had enough of making a lot out of nothing. I’m not sure what that means either, but you can’t tag Kady.

Exna on the Ogbla

Okay. First of all. DAD! SOO not funny. This was never meant for the GRANDKIDS! Especially ones that can't talk. Sheesh. And second of all, do you realize that IIIIIII have to write Adam's as well? I think both you and Melinda need to re-tag someone else! Seth still needs to do his, and Shyanne. And Jake. And Stephen. And MOM. And ADAM is late on his...and SCOTT. COME ON! I get Adam and Rylan!?!? Tripple duty for me is not fair. I'm gonna have to write up Adam's and let him approve of it b/c there is no way he will come up with any. Whoever thought of this idea was NOT THINKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am bushed just thinking about it. I call no fair.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Well Shelly, it looks like you have your work cut out for you. It will be interesting to see what you come up with for Rylan. Sorry you have double duty on this one....but Dad did that on his own, I had nothing to do with his tag choice!! Adam, if Dad can take time to do 100 things about himself, then you can too!! Let's not get this thing locked into a stalemate!! It's all up to the Schloegels at this point!! Fun, Fun!!

Finally!!!

100 things about Dad

1. Dad is spelled the same front or back. (daD)

2 Shell is 77345 upside down and backwards with the right font of course

3 I spell terribly

4 I go for sugar highs when I’m out working

5 I work outside doing what I want to till I am totally out of energy

6 I have a calcium deficiency as is evident by all the ridges in all my fingernails

7 I love watching chick-flicks

8 Arthritis is kinking some of my fingers, making typing interesting

9 I love running if it didn’t hurt so much

10 Camping is my thing

11 A dream come true would be to hike the Pacific Crest trail from Mexico to Alaska

12 Then the Appalachian Trail from Florida to Main

13 I love Dry Steam Saunas or wet ones

14 I could stay in a hot tub for hours

15 I love any sandy beach, even some beaches without sand

16 I totally love back rubs and massages

17 Building things with my hands is relaxing, but I don’t enjoy the detail work

18 Would love a mini-cooper

19 Exercising is fun if there is someone else to do it with

20 I love computers when they do what they are suppose to and when I want it to do what it should

21 I could watch movies until I get totally bored, which would be a long time.

22 I like suspense, adventure, fast paced, movies

23 Got hooked on Get Smart, Wild Wild West, Avengers, James Bond (until they got too risk-kay)

24 I have always loved and looked forward to getting the Church News, It seemed to keep me going from week to week, favorite sections were (this dates me)- Backgrounds on all the new Bishops, then pictures and background on all new Stake Presidents, then all the new Mission Presidents.

25 I love hot baths after a long hard day

26 I get my hair cut like nobody else does?????

27 Got my Duty to God (old program) when 16

28 Got my Eagle Award presented when 18 ½ (paperwork in when 18)

29 I love gardening but in Missouri the weeds are a problem that I don’t like

30 I HATE CHIGGARS

31 I have always liked starting fires and will burn when most will not

32 I love reading so much that in a good year I will read 3-4 small books

33 If a book is over one and a half inches---forget it.

34 I love to improvise

35 I want more working knowledge of herbs and health foods

36 I want to know more of alternative medicines

37 I love secretary and clerk work, I pay attention to detail in that regard

38 Spreadsheets are my thing

39 I hate lawsuits

40 I am getting involved with pre-paid Legal, Inc. as an independent rep. selling pre-paid legal plans and identity theft protection

41 I do not like motorcycles and don’t desire to ride them

42 I detest avocados, mushrooms, brussel Sprouts, Egg plant, sour cream, buttermilk and I’m sure many more

43 I love potatoes (in any form), steak, most cuts of Beef except ribs, corn (frozen best, the on the cob, then canned) Toast

44 On occasion, a glass of milk and a package of graham crackers

45 I’m embarrassed about the messy library, in my younger days it would have been spotless

46 I love deep, deep discussions on the mysteries of the Kingdom

47 I have a couple of hundred deep, deep thought provoking questions that the High Priest Quorums haven’t even thought of asking yet.

48 Writing in my journal is a problem, very few entries each year, unless I’m on a roll

49 I would love to be back in college, but not for the same reasons as I did when 18-25

50 50 is enough for now—my fingers and wrist hurt!!

51 Back again!! I love making bridges.

52 I do not like tuck-seedos.

53 I love general conference, love it even more when I am there in person.

54 I miss being with all my kids, especially when everyone was younger.

55 I regret not spending more one on one time with all of you when you were younger and as you grew up. I wasn’t there for each of you like I should have been.

56 I would like to make my faith dormant in all areas, replacing it of course with perfect knowledge.

57 I love to this day looking at house plans.

58 I have always wanted a mountain cabin.

59 I love the water, in any form, ocean, lakes, and streams.

60 The water isn’t much fun without the sun and of course a sunburn once in a while.

61 Am looking forward to serving a mission again.

62 Am excited for major events of the last days to begin, yet I am not ready in so many ways.

63 I like to rig things.

64 I want to live independent of everything except the gospel of course.

65 I don’t want to depend on the government, or any company for water, electricity, gas.

66 I hate bugs! Maybe they won’t bug me in the millennium.

67 I am generally a loner, but like company and companionship in so many situations.

68 I deplore politics

69 Am generally a republican, but there are times when there are no clear cut conservative who thinks anything like I do.

70 I like blue

71 I’ve always wanted a small orchard of dwarf trees that actually bear fruit every year, guess I’ll have to put a bubble over it too.

72 Red licorice is Good, Black I don’t like

73 I grew up on poor mans casserole, still like it.

74 Will always like aviator glasses.

75 Will always like tinted glasses, even though they sometime send the wrong signal.

76 Would like to some day learn how to butcher my own meat, cows, deer, rabbit, yes even raccoon.

77 Love canoeing, swimming, hiking,

78 Don’t care for row boats, too much trouble.

79 I hate ticks and chiggers.

80 Love to just take walks by myself back into to woods and just escape I guess.

81 I have always loved to speculate.

82 Strawberry or Cherry ice cream were my favorites growing up, but I never had the luxury of trying all the different flavors out there, Rocky road is good, so is tin roof Sunday. You must remember that in my early childhood, there were only vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and Neapolitan.

83 I don’t really care for grey hair, but it’s better then none.

84 Would love to have someone to work out with me on a consistent basis.

85 I still love hot hot baths

86 I don’t really like brushing my teeth, but I’m stuck with it until they come up with something better.

87 I deplore what different leaders are doing to the country all because of higher gas prices.

88 Love a good static electrical storm

89 Always loved the novel things in life like the Swiss family Robinson tree house.

90 Would love to peek into the future and read the commentary of Isaiah with a description of who, what, where, and when, each of the prophecies.

91 I love the quote, make it do, fix it up, wear it out, or do without.

92 I like saving money and or getting GOOD deals, not just good deals.

93 I love kids.

94 I miss kids

95 I want more kids

96 Life goes by too quickly

97 I would like to freeze time so I can get many of my projects done that some of you think are just old man dreams.

98 I love the Lord

99 I love my wife

100 I love all of you.

101 I love the end of a lot of things. Thank you!!

Shelly, since you started all this, I tag Rylan……………..got-cha!!!!!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Happenings near KC

Okay....so....I thought I would post what all of our new updates are up here....sounds like fun huh?

So, happenings here....well...we just got our car out of the shop. That was fun. But, at least, we have fully working cars again. Julia's car also went into the shop....how fun! (Roll of the eyes, and mixed with me being sarcastic!) What else.....let me think.....nothing. We just all work a lot. Do stuff in the ward. Nothing fun.

This summer we are headed to Utah for a week, and then Idaho for a week. That will be fun, and a long two weeks. We are going to stop in Arches National Park, and try out some hiking....hopefully that won't be too hard on Seth. Other than that...nothing. Sorry. There really isn't anything to share.

What's up with everyone else?