4 YEAR'S HAVE FLOWN BY...

I can't hardly believe it has been 4 years since we welcomed Megan and Nikolai to our family. It seems like just yesterday we were bringing them home and getting settled into a new routine with 2 little babies. They have brought such joy to our lives and as they have gotten older pure entertainment.

We spent the day celebrating by taking them to The Pizza Factory for lunch and then we went to Fat Catz for some bowling. we got theough one game and decide that was enough so we will be going back this summer for round 2. The kids always have fun when they get to go bowling and it is so much fun to watch how excited they get when they knock the pins down.

Megan keeps telling us she is going to be a doctor when she grows up so we got her a doctor kit, to get her started down the path of her dreams. Nikolai has started bringing bugs to me so we got him a bug catcher box so hopefully the bugs make it in the box and not in my house.

Dad is out of town this weekend (camping in Colorado) so we will do the cake and ice-cream thing with every one when he is back. Megan keeps saying she want a Cinderella Cake and Nikolai wants a Darth Vader Cake..So hopefully I can full fill the additional wishes.

Summer has started and Austin has just finished his first week at Fun Fit and Sun program at the Rec center. He goes everyday from 8am to 12pm and then Robert picks him up and the twins to come home and take a nap. they do various activities and Crafts and Friday is swim day. He seem to be enjoying it. He goes again next week and the on July 3rd we head to New Mexico for 10 days. We are all excited to be able to get away and to go play with our friends.

At the beginning of June I took over the Supervisor position for the department I left bag in March of 2007. It has been extremely challenging, I went from being a supervisor of 2 to of supervisor of 8. How do you keep track of everyone? It has been good to go back to some that I have enjoyed doing. I have someone calling me at least everyday saying how glad they are to have back on the team, now they have a issue that they need my help with. (They are all just buttering me up so that I will help them.)

Memorial Day!

Our first camping trip of the season was cancelled Memorial day weekend. In February we had reserved a spot up Big Cottonwood Canyon at the Spruces with friends (Randal and his Family and Gina and June) so that we could spend Memorial day weekend camping. However due to the hard winter that we had the entire campground was still under 3 to 4 feet of snow plus it had snowed the week prior, so camping was not going to happen. The kids were bummed they were really looking forward to going camping. At the last minute we decided to drive to Logan and stay the night in a hotel and let the kids do some swimming (a mini vacation). On Sunday our friends (Randall and Stephanie Brady) and us headed to Logan. The kids were all excited and couldn't wait to get there. We reserved rooms at the Super 8 just at the edge of town. Once we got there all they want to do was go swimming. So before we went to dinner we head off to the pool. The twins were not sure what to think, this was the first time they had ever been in a pool. Nik quickly adjusted and had fun learning how to swim with daddy. Megan just wanted mommy but she didn't to learn to much as she had a death hold on my neck 80% of the time. Austin had fun splashing around and playing with our friends kids (Destiny and Ethan). We let the kids swim for an hour and decide it was time for dinner. After Dinner all they want to do was go back to the hotel and go swimming again. Here are some picture of the swimming.

Megan has her Death grip on.

Let's go Nik...Chicken fight with Randall and Destini in the deep end


On our way home Monday we decided to stop at Hill Air Force Air Museum. The kids had a lot of fun looking at all the air planes. This was the first time that I had been at the museum. It was cool to walk around and see all the planes and realize how far the technology has come over the years.

PINEWOOD DERBY!

Austin participated in his first Pinewood Derby Tuesday night. He did really well and place 6Th over all out of 17 boys.



This is a video of Austin's 1 race of the night. Austin's car is the first car you see. He came in second on this race with 2.833 seconds.

Here is the final scores listed. Austin is listed as car number 8- 2.833, 2.801,2.899 and 2.817 with and average of 2.82. As you notice car 9 was a friend of Austin and his average was 2.69 for the 4 races.

Austin and his dad had alot of fun building the car together. I never knew how much work the boys put in to the cars. The shaping, sanding and painting and making sure the weight is under 5 ounce. Who knew it took so much work.

Accidents Happen!

Yesterday afternoon Nikolai had his first accident that required a trip to Insta Care (we suspect he will be there often). He was standing by the door that leads to the garage and Robert opened the door just right and split his forehead open. He cried for a few minutes while we were trying to clean up the blood and assess if he needed to go to the doctor's for some stitches. He did! So we took him up to Insta Care (our pediatrician office told us to take him to PMC but we felt that he didn't need to go there since the bleeding had already stopped). He was so brave and good to let the nurse look at the cut and then put some numbing gel on the surface just in case he was going to get stitches it would have made the process alot easier. When the they called his name 20 minutes later to go back and have his vital checked he was awesome, he knew how the finger monitor worked (because of dad's portable one) he stood on the scale (34 lbs) and they took his temperature. And then the nurse had to clean the area with a syringe of water so that we make sure it was good and clean to prevent an infection. The doctor looked at it and said we could use the Durabond glue so we would not have to have the stitches..Yippee! He laid so still and let the doctor glue the edge together and off we went. He then spent the rest of the afternoon running an playing and squirting everyone with the syringe that they gave.

Megan is at it Again.....

So a couple of weeks ago I get a call from the daycare. The director is calling shortly after I get to work she leaves a message on my voice mail assuring that the kid are fine but to call them. So I call the day care. The director tells me that there has been an incident with Megan and scissors. Megan has had her haircut by another child in her class. I am laughing at this point because leave it to our kids to cause issues. I asked where the hair has been cut and she said in the back. I was like that is good at least it is not her bangs. When I go home that night and looked at her hair there is a chunk of hair missing in the back. But since I am late coming home (I had an Access Class) I came home and she has taken a Red Crayola Marker and colored her lips, finger nail and toenails. She just want to be a pretty little girl. I asked her what happened to her hair and she said "Aubrey Cut it!". Why did Aubrey cut it? "Because I asked her too." replied Megan.

I could cover the cut job by pulling her hair in a pony tail, but those of us the know Megan knows she does not leave pony tails in for too long so we had to have her hair cut. I now is cut to just above her shoulders and has some layers it the back to cover so the the unevenness that is still visible.