Sunday Afternoon w/No Kids Home

This is how we spend our leisure time...

AlbUquerque

Do you know how hard that is to spell? It took me a long time to catch on. So I just got back from Albuquerque watchin my basketball team at the T-Mobile Invitational. My friend Kandace and I are die hard fans, and basically the only ones, besides parents and family, who made the 10 hour journey to watch. Best trip ever...We took

second, and I was let down, until I realized that they put up a really good fight to the number one team in the nation losing only by 9. Kandace and I even made national tv for a few seconds at the end of the first game. It's so hard being famous...

What the heck.

So I wrote my very first comment and then it showed up as kendall and landon writing it! Did I mention I'm new to this? I am so confused. Hopefully this is me, berit green, writing this.

Aceman Video

This is Cort. Not Shalaine. I'm just too lazy to log out of her account and into mine. Anyway, I going to try and upload a video of Axel waking up. If it doesn't work, it's on You Tube. Search Axel, or Cort Green, and you should be able to find it. Also, check out the Hendrickson's blog for video of the comedian Shalaine and I saw our first night out away from Axel on Friday night. There are clips of the side of the Hendrickson blog. He's pretty funny.



Cort

"I Loves Harpo"

MY FIRST BLOG POST!!!! 

Today my friend Dane came to town. We went to FAO Shwarz and saw the big piano from the movie Big. These two toy store workers were putting on a show. Their only job is to perform songs on the piano for the tourists. My first thought was- How do I get that job. But then I realized how super cheesy they were when they started posing while they were dancing on the piano and telling everyone to take pictures of them. I could imagine them practicing their routine over and over all night. They were eating up the fame. I was mad because they were taking up the whole piano and I thought I could do much better then them. All they could play were Heart and Soul and Chopsticks. Watch me give Chopin a spin on that thing! Anyway, we didn't try it because the line was humongous by the time the demo was done, and I got really angry about the tourists (which happens quite often). So instead we went to the Harry Potter section and tried on hats. 

Tonight my friends and I went and saw The Color Purple on Broadway. You may have heard of it... it's an Oprah Winfrey production. This is Fantansia Barrino, our very own American Idol, singing her little heart out. I was skeptical of it at first, because I feel like Oprah often overreacts about things and then everyone freaks out about them too. But it actually was really good. There was a lot of soul in the house... I'm talking about "soul grunts" (as Rauna has tagged them) and amens from members of the audience during particularly moving songs. I would have to rate this play at least a PG-13 though, just so those of you with small children know. The best thing about it is it's full of black people, so we know the singing and dancing is good. 

In the green bean casserole!

where have all the green beans gone?

I feel the need to clear the air here and ease your minds that I am not currently stalking Berit. I do not know what she is wearing today, I have no idea what she ate for breakfast, and I was nowhere near her shower this morning. Just in case the reason no one has posted for a couple of days is because I scared them off with my creepy haiku. I love Berit in a just as a sister should love another sister totally plutonic sort of way. Besides, Jesus is more my speed.

when i grow up, i want to be Berit

A Haiku:

yellow skyscraper so sweet
little midget me
tall enough to kiss your feet

Berit Rules

Berit, that song sounded great....even on the little speakers coming from my monitor at work. The only thing more impressive than that performance, however, may be that dad figured out how to get it on the blog. Nice work dad.

I ended up singing 2 solos in church this last Sunday, and one of them was video taped, so maybe I'll eventually get a hold of the tape and post it. Good work B!

Christmas Solo

I've been doing the Christmas Sacrament meeting for 7 years in this ward. I'm not sure how many I've done before that....probably another 10. Berit has been in my ward choir for the past 7 years and I've been able to hear her voice develop and mature into this beautiful, clear, angelic voice. So this year, I got the idea to have her sing Panis Angelicus, Bread of Heaven, which I've always loved. Megan Hunsaker is a professional cellist who now lives in Colorado but was going to be here for Christmas, so she played. We snuck a video camera in and Kendall and Jordan recorded it. It was the highlight of the past 7 years for me. Only problem is that she's off to BYU next year and I won't have her in my choir...so I think I just peaked. 

Still learning how to post stuff...

another Laurel feast!

More Christmas in Alpine

Here's Elmer Fudd...

Christmas in Alpine

Welcome to the Family Blog

Welcome to the Nine Green Beans blog. The intention behind this blog is to allow each of us access to post messages, news, thoughts, announcements, love stories, pictures, funny stories, and anything else you want to post. You will each receive an email inviting you to be authors of this blog. This will simply require you to set up a google account, or blogger.com account. It is free. I think you're all savvy enough to set up an account and accept the invitation. Anyway, this will allow us to keep up on each other's lives as we're currently spread throughout the country from California, Phoenix, Utah to NYC.

Hopefully this blog isn't something that starts off strong and then fades away into an outdated oblivion because nobody uses it. Try to make a point to use it as often as you can or as much as you want. Also, if you have your own personal blog, you can post a link to that blog on this one and it'll accomplish the same thing. We wish we could be with all of you for Christmas, but since we can't, we'll make sure to post some pictures of Axel's first Christmas on the blog.

More info....
Another thing I forgot to mention. I also set up a family email address: 9greenbeans@gmail.com which I will give all of you the password to. I'm not sure what the point of this email is except that if anyone reads our blog and wants to respond to a posting, they may do it through email. It's basically just an email address to associate with the blog so I didn't have to put my work email in.

Shalaine asked what we will do once a 10th green bean enters the picture. That's a good question, but from what I can tell, there's only going to be 9 beans on this plate for awhile.

Cort

Since we couldn't be there with all of you this Christmas, here are some pictures from the last couple days. Also make sure to check out the blog http://neversaycant.blogspot.com for more pics of our Christmas eve, and for updates on Shalaine's mom. Shalaine was up till 2am setting up this blog last night and she did a great job. You will see pictures from an amazing Christmas Eve we had at the hospital with Shalaine's mom. We were all sitting around their house and decided to pack up the whole crew, with all the grandkids, and go suprise Sharon with some caroling at the hospital. It was also the first time she had seen Ricky since she's been sick. It was a special night and reminded me that our families are the most important thing we have, and I'm grateful you're all healthy and together for Christmas. In the next couple days I will post a video from that night on the blog.