Pine Wood Derby

The Young Men in our ward wanted to have a pine wood derby without all of the rules and regulations. They invited any men in the ward that would like to compete to come also. So of course George jumped right in. To begin with they built the mouse trap car, for Tayler. It is pretty cool, they had fun building it. Then George decided to do one, so he took the motor off of his old remote control car and rigged it up to work with a pinewood derby wood block. I didn't get to see the fun, but I know that the Young Men were really noisy that night :) George's car was such a hit that he ran his over and over and then once going up the track backwards. Tayler's car goes by winding up a string on the axel and then the snap from the mouse trap propels it down the track. He did really well also, he did wind it too tight a couple of times and bent the snappy thing, George said in all Tayler was in third place.

Memories

Looking at all my kids pictures lately has brought back a lot of memories from my childhood.

I remember waking up in the morning, all warm and comfortable. I liked to stay in bed and just listen, and the sound I remember most was the sound of my Mom whistling in the kitchen, sometimes it would be both my Mom and Dad.

What is your favorite childhood sound?

Seventeen

Today is Hope's Birthday, SEVENTEEN!!! Yikes! Hope we love you and hope you have a great day!!


For Hope's Birthday this year we went to the coast with some of her friends, they all had a blast. We spent the night, spent the day shopping and eating things that we shouldn't. It was great.

AHHHH Mommyhood

This has been a fun experience, or funny for me to watch. Jackie has had to get up at night with her baby and everything. In the video she found out the baby needed it's diaper changed after she tried the bottle first.

I got home from work and she had spent 20 minutes trying to get the baby to burp, she missed out on popcorn and other goodies because she had to get the baby to burp. Maybe that is why I was skinny when my children were little :)

She has to keep a schedule of everything too. So she has had a busy weekend. The funniest part so far was when we were at church everyone did a double take when she walked in with a baby in a car seat :) The baby made it to the closing song in sacrament meeting then he started crying, Jackie was kind of funny and I was just trying to get her to take the diaper bag and go out but she was just trying to get him to be quiet in the chapel, so it was kind of funny and we started laughing and then we notice our chorister (a YW in our ward) was trying really hard not to laugh. Too funny.

It will be so long to Cade at school on Monday. I really won't miss the little crying baby and I know Jackie won't for sure.

Jackie's Baby

Just so you know, Jackie is writing this post. :)

So one of my classes in school is intro. to child care. While taking the class, you are required to take home a computerized baby to take care of. You could either choose to do it during the weekdays, or weekends (which is what i chose). So i will have the baby until Monday, then i will turn it back in.

Before i signed up for this date to take the baby, i didn't know that track would start up this week. So i ended up taking the baby to track for 2 and 1/2 hours. It cried 3 times and I had to stop what I was doing to go and take care of it. Luckily my friend couldn't do track that day so she would sit by it and tell me if it was crying. I kept hoping that it would cry while we were doing the hard stuff, but it only cried while we were stetching (Darn it :) ).

Below is a picture of the wrist band that i have to wear so that the baby know that it is me taking care of it and nobody else. If anyone tries to take care of it, it will continue to cry. It's water proof and i am not alowed to take it off.

So this is what i am going to be doing over the weekend. Taking care of a robot baby!!! Yay!! lol


I forgot to tell you, it is a he, and his name is Cade. I didn't name him, the teacher did.

Gorgeous Day!

Yesterday and today have been the prettiest days so far this year! The sun finally came out and even some flowers were blooming. It feels so warm outside! I just love it. The last picture is a birds nest that looked kind of cool, so Jackie took a picture of it.

Visiting Teaching

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