I’ve come to learn, and rather quickly too, that you can never win when you start a statement like… “When I was your age…”
Someone else will always “one-up” ya. But, despite my own warning…
How come Legos weren’t this cool when I was a kid?
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Don, someone had sent me an email teliing me about this site, of a church built with Lego..it’s pretty amazing.
http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church
That’s real dedication…
Talking of current “cool” games….anyone else got Rock Band on xbox 360?? I made the mistake of buying my 12 year old said game a week ago……. ( I have graduated thru two “proper” bands using our lounge/garage for rehearsal, courtesy of my eldest 2 sons)…so I thought this is gonna be a breeze….well how wrong can you be!!!! I am now fixed in the corner of the room cos I darent move anywhere in case I block the screen for a mirco-nano second and that causes them to miss a beat and the crowd boos them off…and I have to listen to the constant tap tap of the drumsticks…not to mention some songs that I have never ever heard of before and are well dodgy!!! And as for that bonus thingy at the end of the songs…well if I didn’t know any better I would have said they have developed terets…..strumming and drumming with a right frenzy!!! Oh ….give me lego any day ….please!!!!!
Hi Don you would remember my daughter she has long red hair.
Her and her boyfriend now who is her husband.They use to come and see your band play. You use to invite them :=)
And you all use to share a mutal friend by the name of Clark. My daughter really enjoyed her BYU days
Pamela in Ohio
ooohhhh… nice! The only problem with Star Wars toys is not enough Princess Leia!!
Mama C… if you let the playdough dry it comes up nice and easy.
Bubbles, yeah, what a mess. I bet you’d love my house after I bring out a rice box. (got the idea from nursery.)
ooohhhh… nice! The only problem with Star Wars toys is not enough Princess Leia!!
Mama C… if you let the playdough dry it comes up nice and easy.
Bubbles, yeah, what a mess. I bet you’d love my house after I bring out a rice box. (got the idea from nursery.)
Thanks for wanting to vote. I wish I could, but the html code only lets one vote per computer.
Wow! that’s a while ago. I wonder what it was in. I’ve been in and out of so many BYU ward, it’s ridiculous!
Don could you do the voting for me I tried again
would not let me vote. :=(
I am 55.
BTW my daughter is a BYU graduate. :=)
While there she went to YSA
ward with you. It was in the Harmon Buliding on the campus. This was 5 years ago.`
I dont read your blog every
day. But I do seeing the pictures you post of Utah.
Like the snow last year.
I grew up in a house full of girls. Not one of us had Legos! I am amazed to see this, I had no idea they were so fancy.
We were country kids. We were given wood, nails, shovels and hammers and told to go build something in the woods.
In the winter we built Captain Kirk’s bridge in the basement. And a 7 foot papier mache T-rex.
I’ve never quite understood the allure of Legos. Them things are for city kids!
I love Lego and all of my kids do too. My 20 yr old son went out and bought a huge one for himself. There is also a beauty called Cafe Corner, I think it has about 3000 bricks and it just goes to show that as you get older you still are a kid deep down.
Mama C, the mess just comes with the kids. I love the smell of Playdoh, never really had a problem becuase the kids used it only in the kitchen and then the dog ended up eating the crumbs! I’d like a dollar for everytime I found a piece of Lego in the vacuum cleaner.
I hate to sound like the mean ole’ Mom here, but there are three things that I will absolutely not allow in my house: Playdoh (ever try to get that crap out of a rug?? If you have, you’ll understand why it doesn’t cross my front doorstep!); bubbles (now THERE’S an accident waiting to happen! You might as well grease the floor up with Wesson oil!), or Legos (because undoubtedly, the one missing piece that we all give up hunting for when putting the kit away will invariably wind up on the receiving end of my FOOT when I get up to use the bathroom in the wee hours of the morning!).
I know… I’m a poop.
xox,
Mama C.
Don
here is there link I found under the one I have:
http://www.thelymanlink.blogspot.com
and my BF’s family’s link
http://www.theworldwidewebster.blogspot.com Hope you get this alright….
Susy
I don’t remember them being that cool or that expensive. $400?
Come to think if it, THAT isn’t cool at all.
susy, i couldn’t find the picture. (left the same comment on your blog)
can you place the link to the post in my comment box?
thanks,
Go to my blog site and go to Websters and it will show some pix of his family. It is the whole family blog but keep scrolling down, you will see him.
That’s what I want for Christmas. And you’re right. Lego’s weren’t that cool when we were kids.
Aaron Lyman… That name does sound familiar, but I would have to see a picture to jog the ol’ memory. I got home from my mission eight years ago! Yikes!
Because Don….It’s your age that are more then likely designing these Lego’s. They probably, as kids wanted Lego’s like these. Makes sense to me!
By the way my BF’s nephew served in your mission, even flew home on the same flight. Did you know Aaron Lyman? just wondering?
Don – it’s not that Lego wasn’t that cool, cos when you were young the current Lego was cool to you LOL! I guess looking back we could say that about a whole load of things – crikey I remember when computer games consisted of a console that you plugged into your tv, and all you could do with it was play table tennis in black and white with two white bars for bats and a brick that you hit from side to side! But we thought it was the bees knees……till Amstrad came out with their first PC…..I have lego that I used to play with when I was a nipper and have added to it over the past 26 years since my eldest son was born…so we have quite a collection! I think my Bro had some kind of battery operated Lego thingy but I wasn’t allowed to touch that! It is amazing what you can do with the stuff…and we still have evenings when I dig it all out and we have a blast seeing who can build the most creative thing! You are never too old to play with Lego I guess……..