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The End of an Era

  • May. 24th, 2007 at 3:02 PM

I am sad to announce that I will be moving my blog from LJ to blogger. LJ has been great, but what I want to do with this blog is easier to do on blogger and free. I will keep my account here, but my Entries will be continued here:

diarydad.bennionz.com

Thanks for reading my LJ and I hope to see you on blogger.

Grown Up

  • Mar. 6th, 2007 at 1:16 AM

When did we grow up?

I remember when I was young that I thought about growing up and what that would be like. I'm now working on 32 and I am wondering when the grown up switch was flipped. I didn't flip it. I was sitting at dinner today and I was correcting the behavior of my oldest son and it popped into my head that he would see me as I saw my father. so tonight as I have gone about the various activities I have been involved in I have been a little preoccupied by that.

I don't feel like my father. My father is in his mid fifties. Even if I think back to my earliest memories of my father, he is still someone that is twenty-five years older than I am. So then I take a close look at myself and realize that I am the man my father was 25 years ago (almost at least I am not gay and/or questioning my sexuality), I am making big decisions that affect the lives of at least three other people. I have a wife who I dearly love and want to help her be happy, and as crazy as it may sound I want to wake up next to her fifty years from now. I have two little boys that I can't wait to see when I get home and it makes my day when i hear them call me Daddy.

I don't know who flipped it, or when the grown up switch was flipped, but it has; and though it will be hard at times for me to deal with I am glad it has because I like being a Dad/Husband/Man.

It feels me so...

  • Feb. 25th, 2007 at 12:19 AM

The boys and I spent the whole day together today. Shell was off participating in the culmination of her work on the board of the Successful Mothering Convention.

As the boys and I were getting together our things so we could get outside for a bit, Will said something to me that has become something of a catchphrase for him. He told me, as I was putting on his gloves, that his gloves are so nice because they "feel me so warm". obviously that means that they keep him warm. Warm enough in fact that we go out and throw snow about.

... and you know what our little adventure "feeled me so warm" too (on the inside that is).

Sick Kids

  • Jan. 15th, 2007 at 4:41 PM

Nothing is more frustrating then watching your kids suffer through a cold. They can't sleep, but they are dog tired. They are hungry but their throats are sore. They want to stop coughing but can't. They have a steady flow of snot and chapped noses so they don't want to wipe it away.

Add to it the lack of sleep the parents are getting.

I love my wife and she is going the extra mile taking care of these boys... despite the fact that it looks like she might be catching their cold. I am lucky to have married a woman who is such a wonderful mother. I hope my kids will always know how wonderful their mother is.

My kids are troopers too. Will has tried so hard not to let the cold get him down. Thank goodness for the Hap Palmer movies we got from the library to distract him. Walker is a funny cat. He is just trying so hard to pretend that he isn't sick....

Here's to that apple a day.....

More Firsts

  • Jan. 1st, 2007 at 10:30 PM

It is the first of the year, time for resolutions making, possibly resolution breaking. Maybe you are sitting down to re-evaluate where you are in your life and where you want to be heading. I think we all do that to some extant this time of year. For those of us lucky to be parents our kids often interrupt these heavy thoughts of ours with some of the cutest and most special moments ever. It reminds me that sometimes it is OK to live in the now.

Today my youngest son started calling me Dada. He has been babbling for sometime now and has had some nonsense words that carry meaning like Ba which means Light or Madada means music. But right now if you point to me and ask him who I am he will say Da Da.

So resolutions be damned for right now I am Da Da.

Potty Time

  • Dec. 28th, 2006 at 9:30 PM

It appears we have begun to turn the corner on the quest for potty training. William asked Shell if he could sit on the potty. So she took him in there let him sit down and sure enough he went pee pee.

It is funny I have seen many milestones for people in my life and it is funny how proud it makes me to see my son do something as simple as ask to go pee pee. I guess that is what being a parent is all about.

Ten years from now I will most likely look back and have many of these proud moments to look back on. I can't imagine I will recreate this feeling, but I am excited for the memories. It must be the Historian in me.

Meiers Briggs

  • Dec. 8th, 2006 at 4:38 PM
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I just took a modified Meiers Briggs test... It's not very kind in it's results... but as usual my results were:




Scumbag- ENFP

73% Extraversion, 86% Intuition, 33% Thinking, 33% Judging

I have a feeling you're not going to like this much. Do I care? No.
How do I know? It's because you hate criticism. You love to be loved and you'll do anything to be accepted.



Unfortunately for you, I can see right through your insincere compliments and over-the-top greetings. No matter what you do, I'll always hate you for what you are. An arrogant, unstable, overly enthusiastic scumbag.



I bet you're pretty proud of your accomplishments, huh? You seem to achieve at whatever you put your little mind too. Trust me. Nobody likes the person who is good at everything. NOBODY LIKES YOU.



This might also have something to do with the fact that you're a cheating machine. You're just not the type of person to make long-term commitments. You enjoy seeing "what could be", rather than being satisfied with "what is." This, of course, means you often leave others in the dust while you seek out another lover.



Well, at least you're not the one left in the dust.



Unfortunately, when you're the one lying in the gutter with a bloody knife in your back, you might think differently.

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If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.

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The other personality types are as follows...


Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging

Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

Freak - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

Crackpot - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging


Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging

Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging


Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

Dictator - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging













My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 91% on Extraversion
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You scored higher than 89% on Intuition
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You scored higher than 4% on Thinking
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You scored higher than 16% on Judging




Link: The Brutally Honest Personality Test written by UltimateMaster on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Halloween 2006

  • Nov. 1st, 2006 at 5:28 PM

Happy Halloween everyone! The Bennions have had a ball this year. We got Will and Walker Winnie the Pooh and Tigger costumes for the annual Candy collection. Like the dutiful parents we are we videotaped the whole thing here is this years Halloween video:

Halloween 2006 Video


Awww how cute!

Once Around the Sun

  • Sep. 3rd, 2006 at 11:59 PM

Congratulations Walker on your first trip around the Sun. As a 30 year veteran of the Voyage I want to congratulate you an urge you to continue with the Gusto you show for your life in general. Next year at this time you will be walking and talking and increasing the grey hairs of your parents with your daring hijinks.


We are proud of you and want to wish you a very very

Happy Birthday!

A New Job

  • Aug. 27th, 2006 at 12:00 PM

It has finally happened after almost 10 years of working at the University of Utah, I am moving on to a 9 to 5 job.

I have accepted a job at a local Radio Station as their Operations Manager. I will actually be running the Operations at 2 stations. KCPW in Salt Lake City and KPCW Park City. Confusing isn't it.


Today is my last day here at ACS and I am filled with a flood of different emotions I am nervous about the road ahead. it means I will be leaving the safe environment that I have become used to here at the U. Hopefully I am pursuing new an more rewarding opportunities for me and my family.


Wish me luck

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