Brayden Wesley Scott

[Jeremy D. Scott]

Trying this out...

[Gillian Hume]

Awwww, what a sweet photograph :) Thanks for posting!! He is a cute wee thing. They always look so innocent but I bet he'll be a little tinker when he grows up - all boys are :p

[Amanda Marble]

Jeremy,

He is sure cute -- even got me to register on this new board, in order to see his picture. Hope all is well in KC.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

Thanks, Gillian and Amanda. Yes, I suppose all is well in KC. I mean, it's fall. COME ON! You should see the amazing colors of the leaves out here. I mean, there must be hundreds of shades of brown!:D

Okay, I'm trying something (to put a picture in this post
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5009/1268/200/DSC00495.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5009/1268/320/Vermont1.JPG

[Jeremy D. Scott]

Looks like it worked! I always wanted to be able to do that on the Ceiliehifhonfgapionvpaiujnfb software. Now, can I make an image a link?

http://www.ieee-nca.org/images/boston_skyline.jpg

The Greatest City in the World (http://www.boston.com)

[Hans Deventer]

Hey, we drove accross that bridge with Mark! Probably with your father as well, I'm not sure.
But, eh, greatest city in the world? By what standards? :rolleyes:

[Jeff Scott]

By our standards! hehe.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

Okay. I haven't been to many of the greatest cities in the world (London, Paris, etc.). But if I had to choose to go to any city in the world for every vacation of my life, it would be Boston. Of course, I consider it the greatest in good part because I have invested interests there - my family, memories, alma mater, favorite sports teams, etc. So when I say it's the greatest city in the world, I don't necessarily expect others to hold the same view.

I've been to Sydney, but only for a short time period. I'd love to get back there some day and see more of it - I think I'd love it.

[Hans Deventer]

Of course, I consider it the greatest in good part because I have invested interests there - my family, memories, alma mater, favorite sports teams, etc.

Okay. I was kind of joking, but on the other hand, the question is not bad. What makes a city a "great" city? Quality wise, I mean, not like in "large".

I tend to think it has to do with character, atmosphere, facilities, cleanness, safety, history. Now Boston might rank quite high with these!
You wrote "sports teams". That's interesting. Would a city be "great" because it is the home of a "great" sports team?

Hans

[Jeremy D. Scott]

You wrote "sports teams". That's interesting. Would a city be "great" because it is the home of a "great" sports team?

Hans

First, I knew you were joking. Sorry if I sounded defensive. I didn't mean to. And no to the sports question. The whole point is that I enjoy Boston more than any other city. I wouldn't think that others would pick Boston because of its great sports teams (although this happens). It's no secret that Boston has certainly been the best sports city of the last half decade in perhaps the world (certainly the US), but that's not my point. My point is that I grew up watching the sports teams of Boston, so I like them and "consider them the best teams in the world."

[Jeremy D. Scott]

Here's a new one from today. This nine month old loves to bang on the piano.

[Dennis M. Scott]

Let's work this out.

1 Move to Hingham.
2 Let us know when you've scheduled the piano recital.
3 I'll be there.

Why do I think he's playing, "My Lord Knows the Way Through the Wilderness"?

Talent obviously runs several generations deep in this child.

:fav18

[Gina Stevenson]

Brayden ... the next DIno Kartsonakis ... or the next Ovid Young [of Nielsen & Young duo] ... or ... ??

Darling picture, Jeremy! ;)

Here's a new one from today. This nine month old loves to bang on the piano.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

... or the next Ovid Young [of Nielsen & Young duo]

Actually, Brayden is related to Stephen Nielson. Brayden's maternal grandmother is his first cousin. I'm not sure what relationship that makes he and Brayden.

Anyone?

[Gina Stevenson]

cool! Probably be some sort of cousin with a # in front of it [3rd, maybe? now don't ask me about those #'s, and then what we've heard re "once removed," "twice removed," etc ... seems like that would just make the # go higher ... but what do I know when relational notations get that confusing?].

Anyway, I recall Nielson & Young, besides Dino, because Ovid was who I had for some private lessons "eons" ago ... really liked him. First one I had at Olivet didn't seem to do much for me ... Ovid helped me "brush up" and then learn a new thing or two, since he was a bit more advanced than the first prof I was assigned. Enjoyed being under his tutelage.

Actually, Brayden is related to Stephen Nielson. Brayden's maternal grandmother is his first cousin. I'm not sure what relationship that makes he and Brayden.

Anyone?

[Mark Metcalfe]

Hey, we drove accross that bridge with Mark! Probably with your father as well, I'm not sure.
But, eh, greatest city in the world? By what standards? :rolleyes:

Yep. Cities, sports teams, and mothers: those that are mine are always
the greatest.

Hey, Jeremy, I see the a lot of strength in the Scott/Nease gene pool.
Hoowee!

Our leaves are invisible "back home."

Mark

[Marsha Gupton]

That baby is precious!!!

[Betty Bolerjack]

Actually, Brayden is related to Stephen Nielson. Brayden's maternal grandmother is his first cousin. I'm not sure what relationship that makes he and Brayden.

Anyone?

I picked up a genealogy chart at the state fair some years ago. It really helped me to understand the relationships of cousins... first, second, once removed, twice removed, etc. However, a rather glazed look comes over people's faces when I tell them that our adopted daughter is my first cousin, twice removed! (Brayden's relatonship to Stephen Nielson would be the same, BTW.) It got to be rather comical when a social worker (and we had many parade through here!) would ask what our relationship was. I finally gave up and just said she was my cousin. If they wanted more specifics, I said she was my first cousin's granddaughter.

I did a quick search and found a website (http://www.genealogy.com/16_cousn.html) that explains the relationships and has a genealogy chart much like what I picked up at the state fair, though not nearly as extensive.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

I did a quick search and found a website (http://www.genealogy.com/16_cousn.html) that explains the relationships and has a genealogy chart much like what I picked up at the state fair, though not nearly as extensive.

Thanks!

[Gina Stevenson]

... that this gal & I who were trying to figure out what we were are second cousins. ;)

Yeah, my dad & her mom were [her mom died several months ago] first cousins; my favorite grandma was her great aunt. So, we sort of tho't that perhaps a parent's cousin was our second cousin, so then their kids would be third, because it would be one more person down the line.

NOW I see that if you have parents who are first cousins, that then makes you second cousins, period. Interesting chart ... used to hear this one great-great aunt in particular talk about people, and always be using this "once-removed," "twice-removed," etc ... and I just tho't, "Yeah ... whatever," because I had no idea what she was talking about! ;)

Again, thanks for that chart. Sort of clears things up.

I did a quick search and found a website (http://www.genealogy.com/16_cousn.html) that explains the relationships and has a genealogy chart much like what I picked up at the state fair, though not nearly as extensive.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

So Brayden turned two on Wednesday. The family all got together at Chuck E. Cheese's this evening. Here's one picture of Grandma, Grandpa, and all the grandkids. (Brayden's on Grandpa's lap.)

[Dave McClung]

So Brayden turned two on Wednesday. The family all got together at Chuck E. Cheese's this evening. Here's one picture of Grandma, Grandpa, and all the grandkids. (Brayden's on Grandpa's lap.)

What a great picture. Thanks for sharing it. Don't those grandparents look happy? I know the feeling.

[Anita F. Henck]

Cute grandkids ... wonderful grandparents.

Of course, Jeremy and Meghan had to be overachievers and have 3 kids in 2 years! Happy for you ... praying for you.

Can I assume that is Joy & Jeff's daughter on grandpa's knee? How did she get to be so big so soon? :)

[Hans Deventer]

Here's one picture of Grandma, Grandpa, and all the grandkids. (Brayden's on Grandpa's lap.)

Some NazNet pictures I just MUST show Hannie. This is one of them!

[Carsten Schermuly]

Congratulations!

I can feel with you your proudness about Brayden.
"Wesley" - in this case, NOMEN EST OMEN shall become truth.



The Greatest City in the World
Sorry,
so you have not seen Bad Gandersheim, Lower Saxony, Germany, ha ha,
with its sixthousand inhabitants inside and tenthousand in 16 villages around.

Not the biggest, but the greatest.
http://www.bad-gandersheim-online.de/stadtrundgang.cfm

Its eldest building dates around ANNO DOMINI 925.

By the way,
similar looking bridges are found in Hamburg over Elbe River and in Cologne over Rhine River.

And a curiousity
Hamburg as a town with a well known harbor will have 450 street bridges, but Berlin, in the dry sandbox Brandenburg has 980 bridges.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

It's been a while...here are some more pictures.

Brayden is two years old (will be three on March 28th). He's reading. Here are some videos:

This is back in September:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3030445157960485565&hl=en

This is October:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1811448903364571222&hl=en

And this is November (if you only watch one of them, watch this one, it really shows how he processes words):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3994829775409513806&hl=en

The pictures are:
1. His first day of school, he started last week and just goes two days a week
2. Christmas Day - he got an art easel thing
3. On Grammie & Ta's porch in Hebron, MD (Ron & Patty Parker)

[Hans Deventer]

It's been a while...here are some more pictures.

Brayden is two years old (will be three on March 28th). He's reading.

Wow! And he does a very good job too! You must be very proud of him, and I think I know some grandparents who share that pride!

[Mike Schutz]

If I saw a lineup of handsome young men, and was asked to pick out one of them as the child of Scott-Nease and Parker-Nielson families, Brayden would surely be chosen. I can see all of the families of his heritage in his face.

I pray that he also carries forth his spiritual heritage.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

I pray that he also carries forth his spiritual heritage.

Us too. Every day.

[Jim Franklin]

From his baldness on the first picture I would have projected a future General Superintendent ala Diehl but then in the later pictures I have to say there is Porter so there is still a good chance.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

From his baldness on the first picture I would have projected a future General Superintendent ala Diehl but then in the later pictures I have to say there is Porter so there is still a good chance.

The only GS he's related to is Orval Nease. And while Brayden's hair has a reddish tint to it, we think it's probably from his Grandpa "Ta" Ron Parker.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

This is Brayden reading this morning:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8152779369817927143&hl=en

I can't believe how much he's progressed in a couple of months from the last videos.

He is exactly 2 years, 11 months today.