How to help your immune system

• Getting a good night’s sleep
• Minimizing stress in your life
• Exercising regularly and effectively
• Getting enough sun exposure or, alternatively, enough of the right vitamin D (if you live in a cold environment where you can"t stay out in the sun)
• Avoiding sugar and grains, and instead eating plenty of raw foods
• Taking a high-quality probiotic (good bacteria)

Cooper Memorial Chapel

We are planning to go to ThornCrown Chapel in Eureka Springs this week. We are going in proxy for my good friend Ernest Aragon. He is E. Fay Jones' #1 fan.

I was looking up some information about it on wikipedia, and I came across this about E. Fay Jones. It mentioned that one of his most famous buildings is a chapel in Bella Vista. The link to the site is here.

I was like "WHAT?!?!?". We only live 10 miles from there.

So here are our pictures. I hope that we aren't overloading everyone with blogs.

Arkansas Call's

Carmela's Javelina

Carmela Parson called Yadira this morning to tell her that there was a javelina in her back yard. We went over and took some pictures.


The slide show is here in small

Von Call Family Singers

The kids participated in a voice recital this week. This is the video of them.

Rock Climbing Scouts

Bowen and the scouts from church went up by Globe Arizona for some camping and rock climbing.

In Douglas, Bowen and his dad got to ride up with Randy Robinson and Jesse Jones. Jesse spent most of the time bragging about how wonderful his cell phone is. It was cold and windy when we got there and Bowen's dad needed to call home, but Jesse wouldn't share his phone.
If you want to see the slideshow click here
http://picasaweb.google.com/jamescall/RockClimbingScouts/photo#s5053794390908855202

Click below to see the album

Rock Climbing Scouts

When I was un-nervous

Here is another addition to Alex's "Learning" book.

Family Reactions to April's Fools Day

This is how Eric and Alex reacted to me and Janette switching places. It's pretty funny.

Janette trying to be me

This is Janette trying to be me on April Fool's Day.

April Fool's Day

On April Fool's Day, me and Janette (our neighbor) switched places. Much to the surprise of our parents. It was fun, Eric made a big deal out of it, by saying that we had different smiles, and how we were trying to trick each other.... it was fun. The good thing was that it was General Conference so we didn't have to worry about pretending to be the other person too much. We had TONS of fun, I don't think this is something we are going to forget for a long time. And we were very grateful that our parents didn't completely freak out and call the police on us or something for invading their houses. But it was the best April Fool's Prank.

Learning "Too Many Apples" Video

Here is the first chapter to Alex's video compilation of "Learning".
You can go to http://picasaweb.google.com/jamescall/TooManyApplesLearning
to follow along.

Alex Video Learning Introduction

Alex wants to do some videos of his "Learning" book. He asked me today we could make some videos. I was busy doing something else, so I told him that when he is 12 years old we could make the videos. He walked out of the room then back in and said "that is going to be THREE years!!!".

The next thing I knew, he had whipped out a couple of videos. I am going to upload them for him. You can look at these with young children who need explanations.

Julia plays basketball

Victoria Goes to Prom - Click to see pictures

Here are some sweet pictures of Victoria going to Prom with Mom, Dad, and Jannette. She is beautiful, but too young to date yet.

Click to see all the nice pictures:

Victoria Goes to Prom

More Snow - click for album

Here are some more pictures from the big snow we had in January. Who is the good looking "snow bunny"?

More Snow

Finishing the Garage

Here are the pictures we took of the garage. These start about the time that we realize that we are OUT of money. You can see more or less what the finished product looks like.

Finishing the Garage

Bowen Olympics of Knowledge

This is where Bowen got to compete against the champions from all the Nuevo Casas Grandes schools with some spanish standardized test. He got second place. We were really proud of him, considering that spanish is his second language.

Bowen Olympics of Knowledge

Julia and aunt Zuleika

Julia arguing with Aunt Zuleika about being small or big.

Bowen's Drum Solo at the Assembly

This is the last solo performance (I think) of Bowen's. He was invited to play at the assembly at his school. If you are really smart (Vince) you can get all three of these videos and merge them together and get BOWEN'S MATRIX SOLO from every angle.

Peter has tons of homework : Learning

This is one of my favorites. Only one of the character's names has been changed. See if you can guess who???
Click to read.

Peter has tons of homework : Learning