It seems like it has been too long since the last time I posted an update on here. Christine's mother suprised us last week by offering to come watch the kids so we could get away for the weekend. It was a nice suprise, since our last attempt at a get away was thwarted by an unfortuante accident (my mom fell down the garage steps and shattered her radius or maybe it was the tibula), and work has been really busy lately. I had to work one weekend to get some compliance testing done at the end of March and we had to cancel our planned trip to Dinosaur National Monument during spring break so that I could conduct emergency strike training (the Union was slow to ratify their agreement). We decided to just stay in Salt Lake, and it has been very relaxing so far. Christine is napping, so I figure I could attempt an update.
Last night was the pinewood derby. Ryan and Colin both really enjoyed designing, painting and building their cars. Ryan's car finished middle of the pack, but he was looking more for a repeat of his "best design" award from last year, so he was pretty happy when his truck won the "coolest design" award this year. Colin went more for a sleek aerodynamic design and came away with 2nd place overall, which he was very happy with. Anyway here are some photos and video from the races:
Ryan's Car Race:
Colin's Car Race:
Ryan and Dad
Colin and Dad
Ryan and Colin had a great birthday. They got electric scooters as their main gift and they sure enjoy them. For their party, they chose to have a "mad" scientest come and demonstrate some cool chemical reactions. Other than the scooters they got quite a haul. Mason was also quite pleased that he recieved a Wii game too - it's his new favorite game.
A few weeks ago we went to Kaysville's newest enterainment place - a giant trampoline park. The favorite activity by far was taking leaps into huge foam pits:
Anyway that's about all I have time for. We continue to enjoy living in Utah, although it has been a lot lonelier since J.D., Marissa, Neil and Kelli moved away. Jackson is still the cutest little thing (IMHO) and continues to grow. He's still meeting with a speech therapist and her official diagnosis is that he is lazy. I guess three caring older brothers will do that to you. Mason keeps us on our toes and definetly has issues with authority. He loves his little life here though and has multiple friends over everyday which is good since he is very poor in the self entertaining arena. Ryan and Colin just completed research assignments at school. Ryan did his on the "Amazing" Narwhal and Colin chose the Tarsier. They both did a really good job of course. We'll have to see if I can get more posted someother time. Hope all is well with you.
-JA
p.s. Oh yes and one more picture of my four wonderful sons eating some frozen yogurt at our favorite place:
