We had the chance to attend a banquet a few weeks ago held at All American Gymnastics, which Scott and Toby attend. Part of the evening was an award presentation to gymnasts who had impressed the coaches. Both Kristy and I were amazed to discover that Scott was awarded with the ‘Beau Bailey Award’, named [...]
My two boys, Scott and Toby had their first meet of the season on Saturday. Scott is currently competing Level 6 and Toby is competing Level 5. It is Scott’s second season as a L6 and Toby’s first season as a L5. They both looked absolutely awesome. Polished and perfect as they could be. Scott [...]
Yesterday was crazy and I had a lot to do. The kids were locked into what I had to do and not able to do much of what they wanted. We created this little giving tree for our family. It consists of a cut out tree and slips of rolled paper with things we can [...]
So it is Christmas, yet again, and what better way to greet this season than to listen to the radio station that plays the same old Christmas songs over and over again! I decided to start listening to them early to help me ‘get in the mood’ of this special time of year. Prior years [...]
Cute thing Fiona said tonight at dinner! “I don’t want to get you and dad a present for Christmas Mom!” I responded in a sad joking tone — “Why not!” She said: “Because it is too hard to know what to get you guys!” Laughing I told her we would help her choose something for [...]
Ian was coming home from his last business trip of the year Sunday night. The kids and I decided it would be fun to go up to the airport to greet him. I guess I forgot you can’t go to the gates anymore to meet them, you have to wait by the luggage pick up–not [...]
I was lucky enough today to have one of those spiritual teaching moments with my boys, Scott & Toby. They had just asked their dad today a question about some extended family members they were concerned about. Scott wanted to know if they would get to be in the celestial kingdom or not? Well, on [...]
It is always fun to watch your children learn and explore things. Especially these little ones that think they are really great at new things. My littlest girl Fiona was not able to come with us to the family get together today for Erica’s blessing due to her sickness. She instead stayed behind with her [...]
Driving home with all the kids in the car, I didn’t fully come to a stop at a stop sign and caught sight of a police car in wait. WalMart was the next turn in, which I quickly took. Looking back I saw the police car was moving to intercept, so I pulled into an [...]
The Arduino Duemilanove board is such a fun little thing to play with. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Both Scott and Toby helped out in creating a visual and audible light detector. We used: 8 Light Emitting Diodes 9 resistors 1 photo resistor 1 piezo speaker [...]
