Scott the Great!

Scott Snape vs. Severus Snape

--scott definately wins!
Scott vs. The Cello

--the picture says it all

--if only we had a picture of the cello Scott did get the best of! :)

Scott vs. Mom vs. The Cowlick

--you decide

Scott & Dad vs. The Roof

--Whitaker men rule!

Scott vs. Dad's Snowblower

--traumatized forever!

Scott vs . The Naming of Pets

--Crea...come on what does that mean...One Something?

Scott's Sporting Event Volume Control vs. Dad's Sporting Event Volume Control

--Debatable

Scott vs. The Civic

--hands down...the civic

Scott vs. Scott - The Battle of the Name

Scotts Cake vs. Kurts Cake

--the flowersand smooth frosting definately tipped the balance

Scotts Eggs vs. Kurts eggs

--In the words of Kurts sister Ashley "did the kids get to decorate any?"

You'll have to ask Adi, Azie, Lucy, Owen and Van

Scotts 7 year bachelor degree vs. Kurts 6 year bachelor degree

--these two are so competative

Scott (airforce) vs. Michael Ogden (army)

Scott vs. Assigned exercise shorts

--the shorts ate him up alive

Scott vs getting adi to have the the oxygen close enough to keep her stats up

--Clearly Adi

Scott vs. First impressions: Sister Nelson: "Who does that Elder Whitaker think he is?"

--at least he won on the second round.

Scott vs. a snow packed mountain--particularly the run "inspiration"

--give him a break he was only 6 or so!

Scott vs. Parkway storage boxes

--you'll have to ask his boss

Scott vs. Adi's feeding tube

Scott vs. the rock salt

--Dad wins

Scott vs. riding Uncle Merlin's calf

--Again Dad wins

Scott vs. the Budget

--Scott: "hey Jen, do you want to go in on a rice cooker with me"

--Scott: "Hey Kent, how bout we buy transformers together."

--The airforce: "you need to move all the way across the country from you sister and shared items"

--hmmmmm looks like the budget takes it ;(

Scott vs. Grandma Beth--best backrubs award.

--you are good Scott, but who can compete with that?

Scott vs. the sand bar in Utah Lake

Scott vs. a receding hairline

--We'll find out in a few years

Scott vs. the putting green---depends on the day

Scott vs. Luke Haws

--double or nothing??

Scott vs. nervous twitching habits

--thanks to mom....Scott

won

Scott vs. water safety parachute.

--at least he made Air force history (first dislocated thumb we've ever seen during this process)

Scott vs. ANY cell phone, a paint can and a toilet

--we don't need a picture for this. The imagination can do wonders

Scott vs. the water diet

--water diet took it.

Scott vs. Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana dancing the Hoe Down Throw Down

--Scott rocked it!

Scott vs. the black box

--only the airforce knows who won and maybe Michael Ogden

Scott vs. anyone at the card game 'golf'

--if you do happen to win...better watch your back, or your knee

Scott vs. the Shooting range

--it's always a clean sweep for Luetinant captain general Whitaker.

"May the odds be ever in your favor" for the next 30 years of Competitions!! Especially now that you have finally come into your Prime.

Happy 30th Scott....you know you always were our favorite son/brother!!

--seriously though, could we ask for more?? You are the best and an inspiration to all of us!

happy birthday Mikelle

YEAR 1

Mikelle was very exited to meet Lucy for the first time! Wide eyed and speechless actually!

A friendly pat on the back!

Then the binky wars began....

Lucy: "hmmm a pink binky would be nice"

Mikelle: "I don't think so! and.....

take that."

And that was the beginning of a beautiful friendhip!!

YEAR 2

One of the first "memories" lucy has of Mikelle is inspired from these pictures in our photo album. Lucy and Mikelle are always creative in thinking of fun games to play. Like the leaf throwing game!

YEAR 3

The Cabin--deadman on the couch game.....Lucy and Mikelle took turns hoisting each others limp bodies up and over the arm of the couch

swim suits, lollipops, one beach chair and a friend to squeeze in it with! LOVELY!

YEAR 4

2 little stars

Suck in--don't breath

Year 5

must always be sitting together!

Hiking with grandpa's scout rules: the Buddie system--DONE!

Year 6 (at least Lucy was six by then...:))

school buddies!

twinners!

These are just a few of our favorite memories of a girl who really knows how to have some fun!! We love you Mikelle!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKELLE I HOPE YOU HAVE THE BEST BIRTHDAY TODAY. LOVE YOU. FROM LUCY TO MIKELLE

I HIT A CAR

So I actually hit a parked car today. That is NOT the funny part. It is one of these narrow NY streets with cars parked on all sides and I was backing out of my friends driveway and just didn't see the one. Anyways...not too bad.

The policeman that I called and came was NICE TO ME. That was nothing short of a miracle. When I called Kurt and attacked him with "I JUST HIT A CAR" before he could even say hello, he was NICE TO ME. Luckily that was to be expected.

While we were waiting for the policeman to come Owen was messing around in the glove box then paused and said "Mom, I really love you, but WHY didn't you see that CAR?"

It made me laugh anyway. Thanks Owen for throwing in that little cushion before slamming it too me!

winter beach party

I snagged this post from my cousins blog :)

By Marci

So my cousin Melanie lives 75 minutes south of us, and we're really far away from most family members, so we have to arrange to see each other at least once per month. My Soldier is off at training in Georgia for two weeks, and her daughter had a half day at school, so we just had get together to play for the day.

My oldest daughter has been concerned recently that she is missing out on all the fun at home while she's at school. So, Melanie planned a great surprise for when she got off the bus. Welcome to the [sun] + E Beach Party.

complete with Piña Colada's, the limbo, palms etc. etc.

This is for the Cornell Graduate

When it was all said and done: "That beach party...I just didn't even expect it. It was fantastic!"

A visit from Uncle Kent is bound to be exciting

I love my brother in law for many reasons. For one he makes my life more interesting. He does things like cut his blueberry muffin loaf with my cheese slicer...

He plays tricks on me, like letting the air out of our airmattress and making me think their was a hole in it and they were that uncomfortable all night...

He does things like order 6 different kinds of chocolate drinks at Max Brenners...............for himself. But he did share :)

And we tried to calm him down during the rest of the ordering process! I'm sure no one had as much fun at the resteraunt that night as we did (and our waiter)

When we went to 'The Met' together he stayed in the Frank Lloyd Wright house for 2 1/2 hours. And saw nothing else.

When out in public with my brother in law you have to get used to the fact that he will spend more time conversing with all the strangers around you, then you. So it was no surprise when he and Jen met Alec Baldwin in the streets of NYC that they had a nice full conversation with him. They also managed getting free tickets to a David Lettermen show (which I don't think they ended up enjoying all that much) and much more. I'm SO glad he and Jen came!