Ben - Friday's Post

Yesterday I wished I was able to do something fun. Go with Dad to work, watch a movie, help Dad work on the electric car, etc. I wished I could play Wii, anything other than what I did.

Instead of fixing batteries, helping Dad or playing games, I did the teenage boy's worst nightmare. Okay, second worst. Yesterday, I woke up and actually did most of my morning list. The exceptions were making my bed, writing my blog and the worst of all...I had to clean my room. I was avoiding it mostly.

In the end I had no choice but to do it. I got everything done except writing a blog. I was tired so I convinced Jennifer to let me do it today instead.

The End

Matt - Getting my Jobs Done Early

Yesterday I woke up, got dressed, ate lunch, cleaned my room, cleaned the bathroom and wrote my blog post.

45 min. later, I had FINALLY finished doing the last things. Next, I helped Dad put together a computer. After that, I ate lunch, watched Jennifer play on Marry Poppins and then ate dinner. Finally, I showered, played Rumikub with Jennifer and Kirsten and went to bed.

Kirsten Blog - Friday

Yesterday I really didn't do too much. I cleaned the kitchen and finished my normal list. That also includes taking care of the dogs.

Speaking of the dogs, Donald decided to chew up a pink pen and it turned some of his fur pink. It was pretty funny looking but not an enjoyable mess to clean-up form the carpet. The pink seemed to keep coming back.

Finally, that night we had egg-burritos for dinner and afterwards I played Rubikub with Matt and Jennifer. Then I stayed up to finish the kitchen and practice the piano. Instead I spent a majority of the time I was going to invest in those other tasks watching Jennifer play World of Warcrat with Team-Speak2 on.

Ben - Blog Post (Thursday)

Yesterday I woke up and tried my new list. I was about to eat breakfast when Kirsten told me to do my laundry first. I threw a fit. Eventually I gave up.

The rest of the story gets much more interesting if you imagine with me that after breakfast a man sat in my window saying if I didn't clean my room I would get $1,000,000.00. Stay with me now because that would be a great justification for what happened next. I spent the rest of the day messing around with Matt, because I couldn't very well mess up my chances of getting a million dollars now could I?

Eventually I went to bed. The next morning I woke up to discover that reality was reality and that I had messed around and wasted an entire day. Oh well, the man probably would have taken off for Texas or something anyway before paying up.

Kirsten's Post - Thursday

Yesterday I did even more laundry. There were mountains of it! But now it is done and we can begin our laundry schedule smoothly.

I aslo went to the mall with two of my friends yesterday. We practiced cheer-leading moves around the fountain and tried on some lotions. I had a pretty good time.

Jennifer and Jacob picked me up and we went and got dinner. I had a crispy steak sandwich from Griff's. It was tasty.

That about sums up my day. Oh! I almost forgot. I also gave the dogs baths. Now THAT sums up my day.

Matt - A goofing off day (Thursday's post)

Yesterday I woke up, got dressed and then I goofed around with Ben. At 10:00 I finally ate breakfast.

After breakfast i goofed around with Ben untill 2:00. Then I ate lunch. Next, I goofed around with Ben until 5:00. Finally, I ate dinner, got in P.J's and went to bed.

Jacob's Post for Thursday 6/12/08

I woke up and I ate my breakfast. I had Cheerios for breakfast.

I waited for the bus.

Soon, I went to school. I did gym, reading and math, making pancakes (I ate pancakes) reading, and working.

I did my blog and then I got dinner. I ate dinner.

It is time for bed. I got into my bed.

The End

Matt - Ball Point Pen Day 6/10/08

Yesterday I woke up, got dressed, made my bed, showered and ate breakfast. Then I did my jobs.

After thirty minuts of playing with Ben, I ate lunch. Next I played chess with Dad. After that I had pizza for dinner and went to scouts. Finally, I came home and went to bed.

Jacob - Wednesday's post

It was a boring day in the day.

I woke up and I ate breakfast, so I had Cheerios and then I waited for the bus. So I went into the bus. I went to school. (I learn in gym, math and reading, and I forgot to learn that.)

I went to big lots to get some recipies.

I went to boring house. I did my job. I ate dinner.

So it is time for bed. I went to bed.

That's it.

P.S. I played Jennifer a game and I won, maybe it is not boring.

The End

Kirsten - Blog - June 11, 2008

Yesterday was ballpoint pen day. Of course we all wrote our blogs in ball point pen (except me, I had already written mine in crayon before the announcement was made). Instead I am writing my blog in ball-point pen today. Hooray!!

Yesterday I spent time (again) doing laundry. The closets were also cleaned out. In short, I did a lot yesterday. I was planning on starting my extended essay and my other homework (I actually kind of have a lot). I'll have to start my homework later this week...I just really don't want to put it off. I have started my Theory of Knowledge homework so at least I'm somewhere.

I also talked with two of my friends on the phone yesterday. It was good to hear from them. Well, I'm done with THIS blog. Over and Out!

XOXO,
Kirsten

Ben - Ballpoint Pen Day (Wednesday's post)

Yesterday I was woken up. Today was our second day John was gone. I played around with Matt. Kirsten asked me to help her sort the whites. We spent part of the day doing that. We had a pizza party before we went to Boy Scouts. Afterwards, I went to bed.

The End

Ben - The Day Before Ballpoint Pen Day

I woke up because of Matt. He wanted to play with the Battlestorm legos. He and I played our own game. John and Jennifer left to take John to San Diego. Dad left to clean the fountain. So it was just me, Matt and Kirsten.

Afterwards, we were asked to clean the house. Later Dad, Jennifer and Kirsten left to get dinner. They came back, we ate and then went to bed.

The End

Jacob - Summer School

I woke up and I got dressed and then I ate breakfast. I had cheerios for breakfast. I was waiting for the bus in a while. I went to school.

I went to the circle. I went to the gym. I went to swimming. I share with Codey and I went back home. And then I ate lunch. After my job is done: (boy's bathroom). I did my job.

That's all

Matt - Helping Kirsten Fix the Boy's Clothes

Yesterday I woke up, got dressed, ate breakfast and played with the legos until noon. Then, I ate lunch. Next, I helped Kirsten fix Ben, Jacob, John-Michael and my clothes for the rest of the day. Finally, I ate dinner and went to bed.

Kirsten - Laundry

Yesterday was Monday. We made a schedule for laundry and washed everything we could (of course, we're still washing). I also spend a great deal of time yesterday sewing clothes so they would still work. It took me a very long time.

Our laundry schedule looks like this: (everyone has their own laundry day)
Monday - John
Tuesday - Jacob
Wednesday - Ben
Thursday - Chris/Dad
Fruday - Jennifer/Mom
Saturday - Matt
Sunday - Kirsten

We'll see how this new schedule goes. Now everyone hets to do their OWN laundry.

Yesterday I also talked to my mom. But really laundry was the main focus.

John-Michael - A happy day

I'm travelling to my dad's house today. First I had to pack the night before. Then in the morning I got in my clothes and went off to the airport with my Mom. Oh, and did I mention that I got a phone to talk to my Mom with? It was fun!!

While I was flying on the plane I mostly watched TV. Then I got to my dad's house early in the morning. Then I sortof unpacked. After that I went to Target and bought some new clothes and two leggo sets. One of Indiana Jones and one Mars Mission.

Then I came back home and I built my Indiana Jones and Mars Mission sets. Then I decided to combine them into one LONG set.

Now I am going to dinner. I am going to have maccaroni and cheese with a side of fries. When I get home I am going to play with my big set and then I am going to take it apart, put it into two separate sets and go to bed.

The End

Incredible - Jennifer/Mom

At the last second the entire weekend was cancelled!

Although Chris and I are shocked, we are not surprised. The kids on the other hand...The kids are devastated.

The kids may or may not post today. We are doing our best to make the best of it. There is nothing else to say at this point.

Jennifer/Mom - Change in Plans

I don't know if we will get posts up from the kids today. We are a little bit excited here because Andrew is coming to stay tonight and tomorrow night! The kids are sooooooooooo (there just aren't enough "o's" to communicate the intensity) excited for him to be here. It is better than Christmas!

In case no one posts today besides me, I'll give a recap of yesterday. The kids got up and going then in the afternoon it was rest time for some and garage sale prep for others.

Kirsten made Hawaiian Chicken for dinner with help from 3/4 of the boys. She didn't use a traditional recipe and I thought it was tasty and so did most everyone else.

I guess we didn't really specify what holiday was yesterday and we didn't have a specific theme. We did watch a bunch more "Roadents" after dinner. The kids liked that.

Just life lifing along and we are doing our best to keep up. Life is really good when we can stay just a little bit ahead. Hmmmmm....not looking likely for the next little bit.

Jennifer/Mom - Muffin Day!!

That was fun! We didn't like any of the holidays for yesterday so Chris and I invented one! Kirsten was making muffins so we decided to have Runyan Muffin Day!

I went to the store and picked up some more muffins. It was Chris' idea to include English muffins. Once Chris got back we decided to use the English muffins for Egg McMuffins. I also got cinnamon, raisin English muffins so we toasted those. Everyone had a job getting the McMuffins prepared and we ended up with a pretty cool assembly process. A few glitches happened but overall it worked well.

We had an afternoon of reading which was nice and relaxing for the boys. I started reading "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and then Kirsten read Pinocchio (the "real" story).

After dinner we decided to play a game. Apples to Apples was chosen but we re-named it for the occasion...Muffins to Muffins!

Jacob - Making the Muffins

I woke up and I did my list and I ate breakfast. I had cereal with bananas for breakfast. Last year Jennifer made cereal with bananas. I liked it, so now I make it that way when we have bananas.

Then Kirsten, John-Michael and I made muffins. Then we ate the muffins. We read stories. We read Jennifer's story and Kirsten's stories. Then Dad was back.

We celebarated Muffin Day. We had a party and then we played Muffins to Muffins while I was waiting for bed time. And then I went to bed when it was bedtime.

The End

Kirsten - A visit from the Muffin Man

Yesterday was Runyan Muffin Day. Jennifer says I inspired the holiday when I made citrus muffins with Jacob and John. Although that event was the inspiration, the "Roadents" video was what the holiday was based on.

In celebration of Muffin Day, Jennifer bought muffins...many muffins! She bought English muffins, pumpkin muffins, apple muffins, poppy-seed muffins, blueberry muffins, and many other types of muffins.

With the English muffins we decided to make "Egg McMuffins". In order to do so, we made an "assembly line" (so everyone helped) to make the McMuffins. Once finished we had a feast of muffins and watched "Roadents". It was a blast.

Ben - Muffin Day

Yesteday I ate breakfast. Then I played a while until Jennifer called us all into her room. We read two books and had Orang-flavored Muffins. Then Dad came home and we made egg-mcmuffins and a variety of muffins.

Dad and Jennifer also showed us a silly muffin thing on Dad's laptop. We played Apples to Apples.

The End

Matt - My Blog

Yesterday I woke up, got dressed, made my bed, showered and ate breakfast. Then I cleaned the bathroom. Next, I ate lunch and listened to Jennifer, Ben and Kirsten read aloud some books. After that, we had a muffin party! We ate muffins and played Apples to Apples (we called it Muffins to Muffins). Finally, I went to bed.

Jacob - Fairy Tale Theatre

I woke up and I did my list. I ate breakfast. I had cereal, honey nut scooters. I did my jobs. I ate lunch. I listened to Pinocchio. I watched the fairy tale theatre. I watched Cinderella, the Princess Who Never Laughed, Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp and Puss in Boots.

I made dinner. It was Kirsten's secret recipe. Kirsten won't tell. I went to Scouts and I saw a dog door. I had never seen a dog door before. And then I had ice cream at Dairy Queen. Jennifer took us.

And it was time for bedtime and I was going to sleep to get ready for tomorrow.

Kirsten - Blogging

Yesterday we watched fairy tale theatre after jobs were semi-done and also read Pinocchio during "nap-time" (they were as bouncy as bouncy-balls)

Then I made dinner and Jennifer took Jacob, Ben and Matt to Boy Scouts.

John-Michael - Working and Movies

I woke up and did laundry. Then Kirsten, Jacob, Matt, Ben and I read Pinocchio and ate Apples with peanut-butter. After that we watched fairy tale theatre. Then we ate dinner, the boys went to scouts and I went to bed.

Ben - Title?

Yesterday I cleaned the kitchen and watched a movie. We also read a version of Pinnochio. Then we went to Boy Scouts.

Then End

Matt - A Small Blanket

Yesterday I woke up, made my bed, got dressed, showered and ate breakfast. Then I wrote my blog and cleaned the bathroom. Next I ate lunch and watched some movies. I was not happy that I got a small blanket and everyone else got a big blanket.

In addition I ate dinner and went to Boy Scouts. finally, I came home and went to bed.

Jacob - Blog

I woke up and I did my list. I had cereal for breakfast. I ate breakfast. I did my jobs. I did my blog. I ate lunch. I ate cake and icecream. I play the game. It was call apple to apple. so we play apple to apple and I went to bed.

That's all.

Matt - Cake and Ice Cream

Yesterday I woke up, got dressed and ate breakfast. Then I cleaned the boy's bathroom. Because everyone else was still doing jobs I waited on my bed. I was there for sort of a while because I kept getting off and distracted people from their jobs. While on my bed I wrote my blog.

Then we had cake and ice cream and then everyone played Apples to Apples. Finally, I had dinner, got in pj's and went to bed.

Kirsten -

Yesterday we had cake and ice cream. We also tried to play Apples to Apples but everyone was too loud so the game ended early.

At the end of the day, I gave Donald and Daisy their monthly medicine. We also realized that Donald is sick as a dog, ha ha!

Finally, Jennifer gave me a piano lesson.

John - Just John

Yesterday I woke up. I did jobs, then we ate cake and ice cream and played Apples to Apples. I went to sleep.

The End

Ben - Yesterday

Yesterday I got up and cleaned my room. then I had breakfast. I played around until lunch. We ate some cake. Then we played Apples to Appples. then I played until dinner. Then I went to bed.

The End

Kirsten Blog

Yesterday I watched my brothers and Joh for a while. We watched "Monsters Inc." and after I watched them Jennifer played Pit and Set with us. Then we watched "Fairy-Tale Theatre: The Little Mermaid." During the movie my mom called.

Yesterday I also talked to J. on the phone to check in, since he's graduated. I just wanted to know how his life was after graduation. It sounds like it was the same.

I also practiced the piano yesterday. Jennifer is still helping me out with it.

John-Michael - The first blog of Summer Break

I woke up and I did some jobs. Then I played pit and set. I think that is pretty much all that happened in my day. Oh, we watched some movies too.

Jacob's Blog: Jacob Runyan's Dad

Dear Dad,

I know I played the video game, so I will tell you I played the video game in Saturday. I play Nintendo Wii.

Jacob

Ben - Ben

Yesterday I got up and showered, dressed and ate breakfast. Afterwards I cleaned my room and ate lunch. Then I watched a movie until I went to bed.

Matt - Pit and Other Games

Yesterday I woke up, made my bed, got dressed and ate breakfast. Then I cleaned the bathroom. Next, I ate lunch. I played Pit and other games with Jennifer, Kirsten, Jacob, and John-Michael. After that I watched Monsters Inc. Finally, I ate dinner, got in pj's and went to bed.

Summer Vacation - Jennifer/Mom

Summer vacation is here and we are re-instituting our Celebration-a-day! There are plenty of weird holidays out there to celebrate! For instance today is Leave the Office Early Day, National Bubba Day and Yell “Fudge” at the Cobras in North America Day. These are either too weird (National Bubba Day? – I even looked it up) or impossible for/inapplicable to us (the kids don’t work in an office and I don’t plan on either seeking out Cobras or encouraging the kids to stand outside yelling at them generally).

Fortunately, the idea of celebrating bizarre holidays means we can move them around a bit if we want. So, today we are going to choose one of yesterday’s holidays and celebrate it.

Yesterday was Pen Pal Day. Ooops, we don’t have pen pals. Oh, wait we do!! Here on the blog we can be “pen pals” with the world! We are celebrating by reinstituting the “blog-a-day” with the kids and ice cream and cake of course!

Jacob - Special Olympics

Dear Everyone,

I won two times. See I was good! It was track and field, it was longjump, softball throw and running.


I won longjump and softball throw!

Letters

Kirsten and Jacob lettered this year.

We are going to try and make “Party Friday” work tonight! - Jennifer/Mom

Even though we are tired we are going to try and make “Party Friday” work tonight. Could be tricky getting everything pulled together, but I think we can do it and not have to postpone to become “Party Saturday”!

We’ll keep you posted! LOL

Homework - Dad/Chris

Homework…

On top of everything else that is going on I have to get my homework done tonight. Each week I plan to get ahead. Jenn is really good about reminding me early, but something always seems to come up and I put it off a little longer. Most of the time I get it done earlier than I would have in the past.

What a difference having support.

Math

You never know when some obscure thing you learned in math class will come in handy. I took Linear Algebra in college 15 years ago, and now I'm actually using some of what I learned to solve some of our problems at work.

Who would have guessed that all the larning would be useful.

The hole in the wall

Our kitchen has had a huge hole above the oven where a microwave should go.

Not just any microwave you see. A couple of years ago our oven died, I replaced the old oven with a GE Trivection oven. It is REALLY cool, or should I say hot? Anyway it can cook a full sized turkey in 45 minutes. (actually tried it) Oh, that brings of memories of failed thanksgiving meals in the deep and dark past, shiver....

So the oven had a microwave above it. The microwave was crap so it went with the oven. I have been looking for an Advantium microwave to put in its place. Together the trivection and advantium make a perfect pair.

Well a few weeks ago I found one listed on craigslist, we rushed over and got it right away. Now we have a matching pair, they both work great.

Bus money

It’s 5 something in the morning and Kirsten needs bus money. Good thing I’m awake. I just happen to have a whole bunch of ones in my wallet. I wonder where they came from.

More blog-a-thon

Jenn forgot to say that we are posting one blog post an hour each. I don’t know if I can keep this up. I just don’t have that much to say at 4am in the morning. Time to put in another Monty Python flick and fill up on some more caffeine. Ahhhh, diet Dr. Pepper, nectar of the Gods.

Boy Scout camp

Ben and Matt had to choose their classes for summer camp.

Matt is going to take Eagle bound classes and the Environmental Science and First Aid.

Ben is taking Emergency Preparedness, Small Boat Sailing, Communication, and First Aid too.

I bet they will have fun.

Party Friday - Jennifer/Mom

I don't exactly know how it started, but it has sort of become a "tradition" to have a party every Friday. Sometimes it gets moved to Saturday if the circumstances dictate but overall we have been pretty consistent.

So, today is PARTY FRIDAY if all goes as planned!

:D

Birthday’s

A few years ago, the boys and I went to Kmart for presents for Kirsten. We ended up getting five flashlights for her birthay. (ok, we all thought it was funny) But ever since then we decided that the best way for the birthday person to get things they want and need is for them to help pick them out.

So instead of the usual routine of buying gifts and wrapping them up. We all go together to the store and each person gets to, in turn, search the store with the birthday person and together they chose a present.

So far it has worked out really well, and this time Kirsten chose clothes, and more clothes.

This year I want a Corvette.

Chilli's

We all went to Chilli’s for Kirsten’s birthday. You can see the picture in an earlier post (by Jennifer).

It took a while for the waitress to take our order. And then it took even longer for the food to come. Now if it was just me and Jenn it wouldn’t be a big deal. But keeping 4 bouncy hungry boys occupied at small booth for an hour is a chore.

When the food finally arrived, everyone’s was great except mine. Mine was cold, I mean it might as well have been left overs straight from the fridge. Anyway, Jenn went and spoke with the manager and the meal was free. Hurray for Chilli’s!

Chris and Jennifer's Blog-a-thon

Ok, so Chris and I have decided to have a "Blog-a-thon". Both of us are always saying..."We should blog about that!" So, we are going to just do it. The idea is to have a post every hour for 48 hours.

Maybe we are being a bit ambitious but we are going to give it a go!!

Kirsten's Birthday - Jennifer/Mom

Well, Kirsten's Birthday was quite the adventure and took many days to celebrate!

On her actual birthday we went to Chili's. As I said in a previous post it was an interesting experience. (Still waiting for the post telling that story Chris!)

Here is the photo of that dinner
















Then we went to dinner at Golden Corral on Saturday, went shopping for Birthday presents (we'll explain the Runyan family birthday traditions later too!)...





And finally home for the party!!!



Kisten blows out the candles while wearing her new clothes and the giant "cookie cake" (Dad's idea) is ready to cut! Say "Cheese!"























It was a fun birthday!

Jennifer/Mom - The Birthday Dinner

We just got back from Kirsten's birthday dinner. It was quite the experience! (Chris will get to post about those details.) The official birthday party will happen later but we wated to do something to celebrate today.

Bedtime for everyone!

Jennifer/Mom - Fixing the window!

We had our Sunday relaxing plans scrapped by the need to fix a window. UGH!!

It was so cool to work with Chris and get it all fixed though. I have learned how to do a TON of things from him! It is great!

Here are a few pics of Chris finishing up the job.

How NOT to land a plane...

I was doing some "spring cleaning" on my computer and found this classic:

Working together - Chris and Jennifer

Today we all drove down to the fountain and removed the deck that covers the fountain during winter.

We were really glad we had such good helpers. The deck came off slick as a whistle!! It didn't even take us as long as we thought it might.

Here are some pics of the event!

Photo Album

I put a whole bunch of pictures up.

They are at Chris' pictures

Ben - Yesterday's Blog

Yesterday I got up and did my list. I walked to school and went to math. After school, I had an after school snack and finished my homework. After I finished, I cleaned up the kitchen and played on Super Mario Galaxy.

Jacob's Monday Blog - (Typist has been sick)

I woke up and I ate brekfast. I went to walk with Kirsten. I got groceries. I made dinner. I ate dinner. I almost had my list done. I cleaned my room.

Oh well.

Kirsten - Yesterday

Yesterday, we cleaned up the house a whole bunch. I was able to use the new vacuum to vacuum the whole house. It was great. We also watched Rumpelstiltskin. But not too much happened.

Jacob's Blog for Friday

I woke up and I ate breakfast. I wait for the bus. I went to the school. I went to music. I went to bowling. I went to lunch. I got home. I went into the car. I pick up John and Matt. I was talking in the car. I got the party stuff. I went back home.

and that's it.

Jacob's Blog

I woke up and I had my usual breakfast of cereal. I had lots of cereal. Lots of lots of cereal. I went to school. I went to team sp. I went to lunch. I went to math, so I got puzzled when I got confused. I went to the park when I'm going into the video game business. I went to taco bell. Soon I went to boy scouts. Went back home.

That's it.

Dad - Ouch

I just learned that the scout five mile hike was actually 7.5 miles and 1000ft change in the vertical.

My foot told me that days ago....Used a cane today.

Canes are cool, good for catching kids.

John-Michael - I have a stomach ache

Yesterday I woke up. I went to school then I had breakfast. I basically had a normal day up until lunch. I was feeling a little sick to my stomach ever since the morning. But then at lunchtime just as we were about to line up to go back to our classroom, I felt like I was about to throw up and so I DASHED out of the lunchroom without even asking for a pass.

Then I threw up in the toilet and someone came and said that when I was done I should go and go to the clinic. So they told me to lie down for a little while and then my teacher came into the clinic came into the clinic and told them that I had already thrown up and so they told me to go get my stuff and get ready to leave. And then my mom came to get me and I lay down in my bed for most of the rest of the day.

Later I came down to watch a chess game. I ate two fries and then I went to my room and I read for a while. Then I went to bed.

Jacob's post he wrote yesterday!

I woke up and I had breakfast. I had cereal for breakfast. I did my jobs. I had lunch. I had pizza for lunch. I went back to sleep. Soon I woke up. I got ready to go to Ci Ci's pizza.

That's all?

Missed Kirsten's Sunday post

Here it is!!

Yesterday, I went to the movies with two of my friends. We went and saw a movie called, "La Misma Luna" for extra credit in spanish class. It was so cute! But my favorite character was arrested and sent back to Mexico (he was an illegal immigrant) which was a shame.

When I got home, Dad and my brothers were back from their scout hike. Dad was really tired so he took a nap.

Jacob - Hiking

I woke up and I ate breakfast. I had cereal for breakfast. I got my backpack ready to go. I went hiking and I got sunburned because I wouldn't let dad put on the sunscreen. I had lunch. I had peanutbutter and jelly burrito. I had a good time at hiking.

I went home. I went shopping with Jennifer. While we were out we got dinner for everyone. I had burrito for dinner. Those burritos had beans in them not peanutbutter and jelly.

I wrote my blog and then I had dessert. Jennifer made strawberry shakes. It tasted good!

At the bedtime I went to the bed.

That's it!

Jacob's Blog

I woke up. I had breakfast. I had cereal for breakfast. i went to school. i went to gym. I make a snack. I went to team sp. I ant to have lunch. I went to math. I went to home. I got the party food. I went back home. At the home, I had party food for dinner, and I went to bed.

That's all.

Ben's Blog

Yesterday (Friday) I got up and hurried off to school. I had my ususal classes and then school ended. Chess Club was that day so I called Jennifer to ask if I could go. She said, "Yes," so I stayed. i beat some kids and went home. Jennifer and Jacob already had gone shopping for "Party Friday". We ate donuts, pringles, cotton candy, popcorn, and we each got a cheeseburger (Jennifer made them from scratch!). We watched "Mr. McGorium's Wonder Emporium" and "Stuart Little". After that, we went to bed.

The End

Kirsten - Thursday's post

Yesterday, I went to school. Not too much happened yesterday. We started/finished the unit on ecology yesterday. Ecology is such a broad subject though, I think we should've worked more on it. We didn't even get through that much. We're also reading Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka in English. Finally, we also watched the 3 episode of La Catrina; El Ultimo Secreto in Spanish. I also helped a friend of mine pass out coupons so he can get a free tuxedo rental for prom. That's really it though.

Jacob - I'm not very good at volleyball

I woke up. I ate breakfast. I had cereal for breakfast. I went to school. At Team SP I'm not very good at volleyball.

-soccer
-golf
-dodgeball
-baseball
-soccerball
-boxing
-tennisball
-tennis

I had lunch. I had a peanutbutter and jelley sandwich for lunch. I went to math. Soon I went to home. I did my homework. I had dinner. Soon I went to bed.

That's all.

Jacob - Good News!

Yesterday I woke up. I ate breakfast. I had cereal. I waited for the bus and when the bus came I went to school. Then I went to Luthren after choir and I worked with the papers. Then I had snack but not snack and I had lunch. I had a peanutbutter and jelley sandwich for lunch. And then I went to math but not math because it was a blue day.

I went home. I did my homework, my blog, cleaned the boy's bathroom, and made my lunch. Also, I laid out my clothes for today. I went to boy scouts. I played kickball, I learned how to tie the camping knot and the shoe and the camping for the square knot.

On the way home dad bought us ice cream cones. Then I went home to bed. I had a good day!

Kirsten - Spanish

Yesterday I went to school. In Spanish Class we watched La Catrina; El Último Secreto (episodio dos). It was very dramatic. It's the second episode of the second season of La Catrina. It's about Don Silvestre's attempt to get his revenge on Jamie and Carlos.

That's really all I did. It was not an exciting day.

Jacob - Good Day

I woke up. I ate breakfast. I had cereal. I went to school. I went to swimming. I went back to school. I ate lunch. I had peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I went to math. I went back home. I did my homework. I ate dinner. I had scrambled eggs and green beans. I went to bed.

That's all.

Jennifer/Mom - Snow!!

This morning it snowed some more! We couldn't resist taking some pictures!

...ok, uploading pictures isn't working right now...I'll try again later.





It finally worked!

Jacob - Poop?

I woke up. I almost did my list? I had dinner. I ate and ate? I tryed to take the poop. Oh, no, here we go. And then, I did my laundry.

Oh, well.

Kirsten - Blog

Yesterday I spent the whole day doing homework. I worked all day on my extended essay. I eventually decided my topic is, "How is the French Revolution and Napoléon's reign the turning point in French Warfare?" It's a good thing this isn't due until fall.

John-Michael also came back from CA. But other than that, nothing really exciting happened.

Matt - Cleaning Up the House

Yesterday I helped clean up the house. First I had to do my list. It took about one hour to do my list (I goofed off a little) and it took four hours to do the other jobs (there was more goofing around). Finally, after that I went to bed.

Jacob - Play Time

I woke up. I almost did my list. I did my reading. I had lunch. I had corn dogs for lunch. I had breakfast. I had cereal for breakfast. I had play time. I picked the toy. I had dinner. I had grilled cheese sandwich for dinner. I did my job.

That's all

Kirsten - Pep Assembly

Yesterday I went to school. We had a pep assembly that was two hours long instead of one. One of my friends also decided she was going to try out for cheer leading next year (she used to be cheerleader). I also did well on my last math quiz. The only problem I missed was the one I needed another 30 secs to complete. But that's okay, I got everything else right and I'll still get point for showing my work on the one I didn't finish. I just get around to actually writing the answer. Oh well. I didn't really do much yesterday, I was simply exhausted.

Jacob - Dinner

I woke up. I ate breakfast. I had cereal for breakfast. I went to school. I went to music. I went to bowling. I went to lunch. I had peanut butter and jam sandwich for lunch. I went to home. I did my homework. I played with Ben Runyan. I had Chinese food for dinner. I went to bed.

That's all.

Ben - John leaves while we play

Yesterday I got up and did my list. I had to move quickly, since I was a little late. After I ran to school, I did my math test, did some work in science, played in P.E., I had advisement. Then I worked on my persuasive letter that is tue on Wednesday or Thursday. Then I had to read in S.S. since I finished my work. Then I played Candy Land in Spanish class. Then I went home and worked on my homework. John left for California. So then I played World of Warcraft, Chess, had Chinese food and watched a movie. Then I went to bed.

The End.

Matt - The Interesting Yesterday!

Yesterday I woke-up, got ready and went to school. After the boring long day of school I went home. Next, I finished my homework and played on World of Warcraft. Then, I played Alice. After that I got in PJ's and went back on Alice. Last, I played some more World of Warcraft and went to bed.

John-Michael - A very normal day

It was normal, very normal. I had raman for dinner. We ate raman while my mom read Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. Then I packed and then I went to bed.

Jennifer/Mom - Coordinating

It was fun last night changing the website. Choosing what we wanted to put up and sending tweets. It gave us something to do while we took care of the kids that kept waking up.

Coordinating this many peoples lives with all the details that go with it isn't easy. Chris and I really work hard to keep on top of everything but it is one tough deal. Fortunately we have been keeping this blog and that helps us remember the fun and goofy things we have done. It helps us keep our perspective. The videos we chose for the front page also help us with that.

We love YouTube. It has been a real stress reliever. Last night we laughed and laughed as we went through all the possible choices to post. It helps us remember that since this is the only life we KNOW we have we should enjoy it along the way and not take ourselves too seriously!

John-Michael - A normal day

I woke up, did my list as usual and got ready to go to school. I went to school. Then I ate breakfast. I had a normal school day.

Then I came back I did my homework and sort of messed around. Then I had dinner and then I went to bed.

Ben - My Movie Day

Yesterday I got up and did my list. I ate my breakfast and ran out the door and then had to go back because I forgot my planner. Then I went to school.

After school I came back and worked on my homework. I finished a lot of my homework. After that I watched "The Incredibles" in Spanish as part of my Spanish project. I had to write down friendly words and cognitives. Then I went to bed.

The End

Jacob - Blue Day

Yesterday I went to school. I went to men's choir. And then I ate lunch. I did freetime. I did activity with one of my teachers.

And then I went to home. I did my homework. Later I ate too much. Way too much. And then I went to bed.

That's all!

Matt - A game of "Go Fish"

Yesterday I woke up and got dressed. Then I packed my stuff and went to school and ate breakfast. Once I got home from school, I sort of started my homework.

Then once I got nearer to finishing my homework and I had dinner. Finally, I finished my homework and I played a fun game of "Go Fish" with Jennifer. Finally, I went to bed.

Jennifer/Mom - Our Re-Designed Home Page!!

We just redesigned our home page... Welcome to the Runyan's website

It has a few YouTube things we really enjoy and we also put up our other tweets! The Runyan Family Tweets can still be found on the family blog page.

Check it out!!

Ben - No scouts

Yesterday I got up and got ready for school. I ate breakfast and made my lunch. I got to school and went to my normal classes. After school I went home and worked on my homework. I ate dinner which was like hamburger helper only Jennifer made it from scratch.

After dinner I finished most of my Spanish project, which was no easy task. After that I went to bed.

The End.

Matt - A school day...

Yesterday I woke up, got dressed, then messed around a little. Then I started to make sure everything was ready for school. I packed my lunch, talked to Jennifer a little, then I got my ride.

After that I ate breakfast and went to class. Finally, once I got home the dogs were out. I petted them a little and then I went up to dad and Jennifer and told them that I was home. Then I sort of started on my homework and mostly messed around. Finally, I got my homework done and then I went to bed.

John-Michael - April Fools Day

Yesterday, I woke up, I got ready for school, I went to school and a couple of people tried to trick me. At lunch people were trying to trick me again and I was trying to trick them.

It was pretty much a normal day and...when I got back I had a small after school snack. I did my homework and went to bed.

Jacob - Funny and Ben is in doghouse too.

I woke up. I ate breakfast. I had cereal. I went to school: team sp., math, math and reading, and lunch. I did my homework. I past my homework. Ben and I are fooling around with dumb thing. I had dinner. I went to bed.

That's all.

John-Michael - The first day of school

Yesterday I went to school. I had a normal schedule and did my blog when I got home and for my after school snack I ate ice cream! April Fools!

I did have an after school snack but it wasn't ice cream. Jacob made us egg salad sandwiches with the leftovers from the night before and that's it!

John-Michael - Movies and Games

Yesterday, I woke up and went downstairs to eat breakfast. Then I played Monopoly. After that me, Matt, Ben and Jacob watched "Flushed away." Next I wrote my blog, ate lunch and played more Monopoly.

Finally, I went to bed.

Jacob - The Egg Sandwich

I woke up. I ate breakfast. I had cereal for breakfast. I did my homework. I wrote my blog. I did my list. I made dinner: egg sandwich. I got the prize. I went to bed.

That's all.

Matt - The last day of Spring Break

Yesterday I was sad because it was the last day of spring break. I woke up, got dressed and played Monopoly. then Dad took a test and we went downstairs to watch a movie while he did it.

Next we came upstairs and finished the game of Monopoly. After that we did homework. Finally, we had dinner and went to bed.

Jennifer/Mom - Haircuts

Today everyone got haircuts! Well, all the boys got them...Kirsten and I decided to keep our hair long.