We Made it!!

Well we made it to Rio Rancho, NM in about 12 hour with stops sometimes every 20 minutes. We spent the Fourth of July relaxing, Kids playing in the water and Robert slept most of the day. Drew had bought the biggest box of fireworks so it was about an hour and half of fireworks. Saturday we went to the zoo and I forgot my camera. We are going to see WALL..E tomorrow with the kids and then we may go to the Aquarium. I hopefully will not forget my camera this time. We have a week of activities planned but we will see how things go. We will be heading home on Saturday so that we can have a day to relax before going back to work.

HAPPY 4TH of JULY!!

On the road again, just can't wait to get on the road......... We are leaving today to drive to Albuquerque, New Mexico. 4 kids, (we are taking Becky's oldest son Wyatt home with us. He was spending some time with grandma and grandpa.) 1 dog and 2 tired adults should make a fun trip. We are all excited to be able to get a way and spend time with friends. It is going to be about a 10 hour trip depending on how many stops we have to take for the kids and dog. We will be gone until the 12th. Hopefully we can escape some of the heat. The weather is suppose to be in the triple digits.

I hope all you have a great holiday weekend and keep watching for picture of our vacation as I will post them as soon as I can.

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.