My Brother-in-Law Chris

Okay, so i briefly spoke about my mother-in-law Pat, i indicated that i would probably spend more time on the subject later. i started having second thoughts about this until Melissa received a text from Chris. The text read

"Tell Tim next time he knocks on my mother he better be using those weights. Because me and a ball bat will be knocking on him."

Don't you just like it when someone thinks that they have a right to threaten bodily violence in this day and age, where the cops are just minutes away.

Melissa responded "Tim has the freedom of speech! also as for his knock on mom she was not invited to the baptism and yet she showed up and did scowl the whole time. I will not stand for threats against my husband. if all you can do is threaten then i would appreciate you not to text me anymore."

Reasonable request i would think.

But Chris who still doesn't get it, responded

"That wasn't a threat but it was a promise. if he can't find another person to slander besides mom then he has a real problem. As far as the baptism goes. A sign on the door of the church says all welcome, and your bishop invited them.

Well let me remind Chris what the definition of slander is-words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another, or a abusive attack on someones "Good" Character. i emphasized falsely and good for a reason, you decide why. So let's only talk about things that we know are not false, therefore not slander, it can be proved on paper, on computer, on text and mouth of multiple witnesses"

1. Chris threatened then promised bodily violence. If you and your mothers good character and reputation is so important then why would you do this?

2. i have hard copies and emails both at home and at work, where Pat actually slandered my name by accusing me falsely and without any supporting evidence that i beat my wife. If she has proof of it i would like to see it. if not then she should apologize and recognize her error. either way it is still slander. i have never, i repeat, never have beat my wife"

3. And where was Pat's good character and name when she throughout Melissa's entire life threatened to kill herself and told Melissa that it would be her fault. i was there while she said this in front of Timothy and John, (Melissa's father) Would John lie about this to protect his wife's so called good name and character, i don't believe he would, i have always known him to be a good and honest man, even if i don't agree some of his decisions, which included not wanting to see his grandchildren because he didn't want to fight with Pat.

4. Was it a false statement to state what i did about the way she looked at the baptism? No. there where many witnesses to the fact of the way she looked.

I will leave it at #4, trust me i could go on.

Melissa has since responded to Chris

"As far as welcome in church, yes. As far as welcome to a private family function, not welcome. And if we want to talk about slander, talk to mom and how she rudely she talked to me at the baptism and how she tried to slander my husband's parents. Also the bishop informed me that my parents had contacted him about the baptism, i told him that we had not invited them and he told me that they wanted to know when it was. i told the bishop that he could tell them when it was but he never did invite them, they showed up on there own. again i will not stand for your threats or promises against my husband and if you can't abide by this then again i would ask that you stop texting me."

Chris then responded,

"Stop testing (Chris's spelling of texting not mine) me back! i wasn't asking for a response. i was just telling you what's going to happen to your husband if he talks bad about my mother again.

What i have listed above does not fall under the defintion of slander, as it can all be proved. So there is no need for Chris to show up with his baseball bat or any other weapon. I would hope that Chris would leave it at this. i don't want to see Chris end up in jail for assault, and believe it or not i do mean that. but the choice is up to him.

No further texts will be sent to Chris. All of these these texts will be saved.

Now What?

Okay so now what? hmmmmm that's a good question. now what what? (did that make since?)

Well there could be several things, how am I going to update my blog today, okay so everything revolves around that for this brief moment in time (several hours of time if I put pictures on thanks to my dinosaur internet)

I thought about blasting my mother in law,

i really could, you should have seen her at "T's" baptism, she had the same scowl on her face when we where done, as she did when she first walked in the room. it was like she had turned to stone. i could go on, however i think i will save that for another time. and i fully intend on doing that, despite the once it's on the internet it stays on the internet rule.)

But I think i will just talk about weight loss

This is a older picture of Melissa, but she is more and more starting to look like this again! She's lost half of the weight she is trying to lose.

Okay so what are my options, i could really go he-man and look like i'm on steroids or something, but no that doesn't really interest me.

I think at this point I would much rather drop another 5 pounds so that way when i do flucate it should be fluctuation below my original goal of 185. I guess i could also shave every last hais below my neck, that could get a little uncomfortable. But why would guys want to do that anyways. I guess some do. although i can thanks of several places on the human body that should never be touched by a raiser. i guess at this point it's going to be about maintaining the weight and building some streignth, which i think i have been doing, I got 10 pound weights for my birthday and i really like using them. we will have to see.

Camping over the July 24th weekend!

J.D.'s 5th B-day, and bragging about weightloss!

I made it!!! my goal was 185 by my birthday 07-08 and I hit it this morning!! Now I just have to figure out how to maintain it!!

Evie's Report

A couple of weeks ago
Timothy and Evie decided to get
into a biting fight.

In my opinion Timothy won,
you should have seen the bruise on Evie's back.

When we found out was happening,
we had them both come sit on the couch

and explain what happened.
Timothy started crying which is normal, but he

proceeded to tell the truth to us.

When we asked Evie to explain what happened,
she started to freak out,
you would have thought that she was possessed,
it was that bad.
So being the loving parents that we are
we decided to take some pictures!

Due to this poor behavior we decided, since nothing else seemed to work, to have Evie write a report on being obedient and showing her love to others. and that she would remain grounded to it was completed. Her requirements where to do a rough draft first, then do a final draft, then type it up, then she had to read it in front of the entire family. When she completed this task, she read it at Uncle Neil's birthday party. She did a good job. I told her after it was done I would place it on the blog to see what everyone else thinks. She didn't object to this so here it is.

Showing Obedience and Love

By: Evie Wyatt

On Memorial Day I was disobedient. I should be kind to my Family.

Here is a scripture about children, Geneses 30:1 "And when Rachel saw that she could bear no children, she envied her sister, And said unto Jacob, give me a child or else i will die" this tells you that Rachel had no children so we children must be greatful and kind.

I was also having biting problems earlier in the month. I am going to use self-control to calm myself. If someone makes me mad I will take a deep breath and have a talk about it.

At Brittney's (or babysitter) house I was disobedient. I need to control my violence better. I should love Britteny and her house better.

I also had a screem fit. I need self-control to deal with that.

I need to be obedient more often. It will change my life. The self-control will help me alot. I don't want to be punished like this ever again.

Here are a few scriptures about obedience:

Exodus 20:12

"Honor thy Father and thy Mother! That thy days will be long upon the land which the Lord they God giveth thee."

Ephesians 6:1

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: which is the first commandment with promise. That it maybe well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And fatheres provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nuture and admonition of the Lord."

John 13:34-35

"A new commandment I give unto you that ye love one another as I have loved you, love on another. By this all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another."

I promise to be obedient and loving. I am not going to steal or lie, or be mean. I will show my love by giving hugs and smiling, and smiling when Grandma winks, and saying I love you, and doing a Christmas Jig whenever Dad asks.

Good job Evie, we love you!!!

And in the immortal words of Michael McLean:

"All my life I have dreamed of the day when the children would see and would feel something honest and real, in a place, in one precious place we all call home. This is a place we need to honor, this is the place that we should save, this is a place we should not alter, this is a place we must not trade. The greatest gifts we give our children are not the things our money makes. Give them the world, give them a treasure so they can have memories of this place."

Our Little Erv!

old pictures, i guess if they are old, it makes me old!

Me

Robert and me

Mom & Me