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The Bird that got away!

I am a villain and a very bad man! My oldest, Scott, was so excited to have found a female canary for only $25 dollars on-line the other day. He had called the guy and arranged for me to stop by and buy the bird. I thought I was all prepared by taking an older, [...]

Athlete of the year: Scott

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 [...]

Proud Mom!

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 [...]

Great Children!

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 [...]

Precious Moments

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 [...]

Arduino Fun – Science Experiment #1

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 [...]

GeoCaching Milestone

Today, Scott and myself went GeoCaching around the east side of Utah lake. We were in search of “travel bugs” and “GeoCoins” but came up empty handed! We raced to the last cache in the hopes of finding something grand, but couldn’t even find the cache! But the good news is that Scott was able [...]

Indiana Jones and the Lost Brother!

Granpa Marc wrote about a recent adventure over the Memorial weekend. http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/268273/ Indiana Jones had some help from his Granpa to find Toby, who was the lost brother

Scott’s Las Vegas Meet

i Finally got around to editing Scott’s video of the Blackjack Gymnastics Invitational from earlier this year. Scott took 3rd place on vault and his team took 3rd place overall.

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