Living the Dream

Corbin is border line obsessed with video games, and we have flat out told him that he can't play video games his whole life and that he is going to have to learn how to work when he gets older.

Then his Aunt Celeste married Bryan, one of the Uncles that Corbin sees a lot and enjoys hanging out with, who just so happens to have gotten together with a group of guys that started their own company and designed their own video game.  So Corbin threw Bryan's job back at us and we have since had to change our rhetoric.  According to Corbin, apparently you can just do video games your entire life :)

So now we instead have to point out how hard Bryan works and how smart you have to be in order to create something like that.  No Corbin, he doesn't just play games all day, he creates them and it takes a ton of hard work and dedication and a little bit of luck.  He has watched Uncle Bryan work on the game for a couple of years now and sees how long it takes and how labor intensive it is and now they are finally at a point where they are throwing themselves out there to see if all their hard work will pay off.

For the next 30 days they have put their demo up on kickstarter to try and raise money to finish all the finer elements of the game and create a finished product.  Feel free to check them out and next time you see him, encourage Corbin to stay in school :)

Click on the little "K" if you would like to help back them.

Baptism

Corbin's cousin, Colton, was baptized on Saturday and we were able to attend the baptism.  After the baptism they passed out some blank paper and asked everyone to write down their thoughts and feelings for Colton while he was getting cleaned up and changed.  Corbin ended up sitting father down the bench between his aunt and uncle and so I wasn't able to help him write his letter. (I did inform him that it was a reverent, serious activity and that he needed to not just draw superhero pictures, which is what I find on the back on nearly every assignment he brings home from school these days.)  But those are the only instructions he got and this is what he came up with:

I accidently cut off the cute picture of Colton getting baptized that he drew at the bottom, but here's a translation of his 6-year-old spelling skills:

Colton, You are making me want to get baptized so much! You are so lucky that you get to be baptized. I want you to feel just like Jesus and special like him. When I get baptized I want to feel the same way. I am proud you made that decision. I want you to stay pure, like salt, and not get pepper in. Choose the right decision. -Corbin Miller 

I "borrowed" it really quickly as he was turning it in and took a picture, because it melted my heart and I wanted to remember it.  Proud mom moment, that kid is amazing, and light years ahead of where I was at his age.  Being around him everyday I don't always take the time to stop and ponder how truly amazing he is and then in moments like this I get a glimpse of his little spirit and I realize just how superior he is to me and how he is the one teaching me in this life.  That kid is gonna do great things in this life!