So we're making carmel corn for movie night with the kids. Usually we make microwave popcorn and add things to it. Well, tonight we didn't have any microwave popcorn, so we had to break out the popcorn popper. Apparently our kids have never seen our popcorn popper before. It's like they are waking up on Christmas morning for the first time. The fact that we have a machine that we pour kernels in and popcorn magically appears. It's really quite funny.
Also heard tonight at the dinner table, we're talking about Nacho Libre, which isn't uncommon here. Jack is singing the Incarnacion song, and he goes "incarnaci-ho-ho-ho-ho-hon. They are ready for you now."
If you don't know the line, I suggest you watch the movie 9 times tonight.
HISTORY
A Little History:
Our story begins in Pocatello, Idaho, circa 1972, when the lovely Debby Christensen agreed to a first, though fateful date with admirer, David Croshaw. Long story-short, he bade her follow him, and they went arm-in-arm to the Logan, Utah temple for establishment of an eternal family unit, Generation 1, on May 23 1973.
From their first blissful summer in Salt Lake City, educational pursuits took them to Provo/Orem, Utah, birthplace of Leslie and Rebecca, and to San Francisco/Oakland California, birthplace of Colin and Matt. Then, for establishment of livelihood, expansion of the tribe with Abby and Dana, and for raising/unifying of Generation 2, it was back to the roots in Pocatello for a rewarding sojourn.
In time, driven by a raging, but commonly shared sense of adventure and independence, one-by-one, Generation 2 escaped the homeland to distant regions of the country and the world, each ultimately developing their own tribal expansions by pairing with worthy mates and initiating Generation 3.
Now sensing fulfillment of their purpose in Pocatello, Generation 1 has also left those roots and transplanted to Cascade Idaho, from which base, they anticipate more abundant contact with The Posterity, Generations 2 and 3, in the future. That contact however, awaits fulfillment of a call to LDS missionary service in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, wherein they hope to help the state of the world by sharing the love of Jesus Christ.
So now, including Generation 0 (Grandma and Grandpa Christensen) home base includes Yuma, Arizona, Pocatello, Idaho, Cascade, Idaho, Vancouver, BC, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Spokane, Washington, Boise, Idaho, Los Angeles, California, back to Boise, Idaho, and on and on (Generation 3+) to infinity.
Our Mission Statement:
This is the blog of our eternal family unit. Initiated years ago, it served well as a journal, but even more so, as an archive of our personal interaction. It was a gathering place, a confabulation instrument, a unifying force for four generations of widely dispersed and progressively prolific posterity, and their valued associates. Though it served these purposes well for many years, it eventually took a back seat to new-kids-on-the-block, Facebook, and Instagram, and was sadly forgotten.
We now move to resurrect this blog with an added functional purpose of archiving the missionary experiences of Generation 1, of their movements and activities as they participate with The Gathering of Israel in the land northward. In so doing, we hope that via their own comments and posts, this blog will again serve to gather and unify the posterity and their friends.
As in the past, that the young and vibrant may know the old and tired, that enduring bonds may be fostered and maintained, that experience and encouragement may be openly shared, that posterity may embrace truth, and that hearts may be knit together, we must resist detachment despite our geographic divergence. We shall do so here.
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29 comments:
That is so awesome!! We have an old air popper that we got at DI for .50 about 8 years ago. Still works like a dream! It's been a while since I've seen Nacho, maybe we will watch it tonight. My kids love the bubblegum song, "bubblegum, bubblegum, bubblegum, bubblegum for me..."
Sometime try vegetable oil in a frying pan on the stove-top. That's the way we did it when I was a kid, and it actually makes pretty good popcorn -- for the simple at heart.
Dad
We've got Nacho quotes flying around our house every day. And Lilia asks if she can watch it every day too. And you know the way I'm saying "every day," right?
Jason once told me that he went to the basement to watch something on the TV at Mom and Dad's when we were all there and found Jackson watching Nacho. He asked if he could change it and Jackson told him, "NO". That was when we were watching it on a daily basis too. I think he was about Lilia's age then. It's such an awesome movie.
I still have never seen that movie and am hoping we will escape it! That being said, not wanting to see it was the first disagreement Matt and I ever had when we were first dating :-), so as for Asher not seeng it, I'm not sure how that will work out...
I make popcorn on the stove still, though it is interesting on a flat-top stove, it still feels like cheating. But yum!! I'd love your caramel corn recipe, Lori. Mine takes forever and involves 30 minutes of baking.
I will send it to you. It makes a TON of carmel corn so unless you are feeding or sharing with about 8people you may want to half it. It is so gooey and so yummy. I can't take credit for it. It belongs to the Payne Family in Pocatello.
The night David asked me out for our first date, he said he got the Institute refreshments (chips and salsa) by stealing them from a man on a motorized cart. That was when I knew we were meant to be.
Today I had toast. It was very good.
chancho, when you are a man sometime you put on stretchy pants in your room. it's for fun.
jason
Get that corn out of my face!
Did you tell them they were the Lord's chips?
i can't remember any of those quotes except the stretchy pants. i'll have to watch it. did i tell you guys i bought a nacho dvd at a flea market for $1. Deal of the century?
i bought it for my grandchildren:)
Call on your eagle powers!
What do you think I'm trying to do?!
What do you think I am doing?
can't we ever have just, like, a salad?
And that is a crasy lady.
I get to sleep in a bed all by myself for all of my life. It's the baest. I love it.
A nice pile drive to the face. Punch to the face. But it says in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor.
They think I do not know a buttload of crap about the Gospel, but I do!
Do you not realize I have had diarrhea since Easters?
Precious Father, why have you given me this desire to wrestle and then made me such a stinky warrior?
There is no place for me in this world. I don't belong out there, and I don't belong in here. So I'm going out into the Wilderness. Probably, to die.
I am the gate keeper of my own destiny, and I will have my glory day in the hot sun.
chancho, i need to borrow some sweats.
I hate all the orphans in the whole world!
P.S. Did you know that Marcia and I bought Nacho Libre for each other for Christmas because it came with a mask?
Esceleto: I don't know why you always have to be judging me because I only believe in science.
Nacho: I'm not listening to you, you only believe in science!
Don't you want a taste of teh glory? See what it taste like?!
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