We have a new design for the website courtesy of Josh Boyd. It’s still a little “under construction” though. The family crest isn’t completely finished yet, so for now it’s black with an orange horse. When it is finished we will get the new one up. Other than that there are minor changes we need to finish up. Other than that, let us know what you think about it!
I forgot I had these videos. Here are a couple videos from November 29th, 2008. We are all at the mall after we went to see the Trains at North Park. Grandpa was pushing Max in the stroller. Max thought it was funny when Grandpa crashes the stroller.
I just found this family picture from December 27, 2008 when I was in Texas for Christmas.
Max used the potty for the first time! And I’m proud to say I was on the phone with Jessica when he did it. Being in California I miss out on a lot of things that happen in Texas.
Jessica bought the potty for him and got home and took off his diaper. She could tell he really needed to go but he didn’t want to without his diaper on. He kept looking at Jessica with a look of despiration because he really needed to go. And he really needed that diaper in order go to. Eventually he did it.
This actually happened yesterday but I forgot to post it.Sorry!
Here is the picture:
As I said in the previous post, Josh has been working on the family crest. He has send me an “in progress” design of what he has right now. I have to say, it looks great so far. He’s not happy with the horse so he’s going to be doing so work on that.
I also made a little bit of an update to the code on the site. The site is using a Javascript library called Shadowbox for all of the popup windows that open all of the images and videos. Shadowbox has been updated from version 2 to version 3.
Van had another soccer game today. They won 6-0. Most in part by Van. He scored 5 goals! He scored 3 goals so they decided to put him in a sgoalie to let the other team have a chance. When he was playing goalie, he stopped everything they kicked toward him. After a while they took him out of goalie and he scored two more goals. So they took him off the field and told him it was his turn to sit out. Good job, Van!
Max had his first time out today. I’ll let Miguel or Jessica explain the reason why. Since it was his first time out, they wanted to take a picture. So now he is getting punished and everyone is taking pictures of him and all he can do is cry and say “No picture”
So here is the picture from his first timeout:
When Jessica, Atley, and I were younger, one of the things we always mention when we talk is playing with our fathers’ brace. It was just so much fun to play with and we don’t know why.
My parents took Van and Max while Miguel and Jessica celebrated their anniversary. While they were there, Max decided to try on Grandpa’s brace. Here is a picture of him with the brace on.
He was still playing with it hours later before he went to bed.
The website is back up. For more hard drive space, more bandwidth, faster servers, and the ability to have subdomains, all for a little less than half the price I was paying before, FreerksenFamily.com is now hosted at Hostek.
It took longer than expected to move from one host to another but it finally got finished. I have also added all of the previous posts to the site.
If you experience any problems with the site, please let me know and I will get it fixed ASAP.
Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in Texas.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a couple no one’s seen before.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
‘Twiced’ is a word.
People actually grow and eat okra.
‘Fixinto’ is one word.
There is no such thing as ‘lunch.’There is only dinner and then supper.
Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you’re two. We do like a little tea with our sugar
‘Backwards and forwards’ means I know everything about you!
Djeet is actually a phrase meaning ‘Did you eat?’
You don’t have to wear a watch because it doesn’t matter what time it is. You work until you’re done or it’s too dark to see.
You don’t PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
You measure distance in hours. Like its 6 hours from Houston to Dallas.
You’ll probably have to switch from ‘heat’ to A/C’ in the same day.
‘Fix’ is a verb. Example: ‘I’m fixing to go to the store.’
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
Yes, Friday night high school football games is serious football!
You carry jumper cables in your car… for your OWN car.
There are only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
100 degrees Fahrenheit is ‘a little warm.’
We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as ‘goin’ to Wally-World…’
A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.
A carbonated soft drink isn’t a soda, cola or pop… it’s a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: ‘What kind a coke you want?’
Fried catfish is the other white meat.
We don’t need no stinking driver’s ed… if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
