On the Dean's List

For Kelsey’s birthday I took Samuel and Isaac with me to get some flowers. I let the boys each pick a flower for her. Samuel picked a bright-orange, gerber daisy and Isaac picked a red, long-stemmed rose. Once we got home the boys gave their flowers to Kelsey and she wanted to take some pictures of them with their selections. The pictures were going pretty good until the boys began to use the flowers as swords!

As much as none of us want to admit, the person sitting next to you on a plane does help determine your overall enjoyment of that portion of your trip. And when you’re traveling with kids, that’s multiplied. Case in point, we were traveling back from seeing my family in Mississippi and were on a smaller plane with two seats on each side of the center aisle. I was sitting next to Samuel, and Kelsey was across the aisle sitting next to Isaac. Everything on my side of the plane was going pretty smooth. Samuel and I were playing Angry Birds on the iPad and having a very enjoyable time. Across the aisle, things seemed to be going pretty good too, at least from my perspective. -Until the incident. I’m not sure how it happened; I was probably preoccupied with Angry Birds, but I looked over to see Kelsey not very happy. She then took off her shoe and poured apple juice, from her shoe, back into an empty cup. That’s when I realized Isaac had spilled enough apple juice on Kelsey that it actually pooled into her shoe! Needless to say, be careful who you sit next to on a plane.

 

For the last few days it seemed like the front-end of my truck was starting to feel looser than normal. Thinking it wasn’t a major issue, I figured I would look at it over the weekend. However, my truck didn’t make it to the weekend. Actually it didn’t make it more than a mile from the house when it came to a grinding halt at the gas station. As you can tell from the picture, I wasn’t going any farther. I always said that I would probably end up driving my truck until the tires fell off, and one literally did.

After it broke down I called Kelsey to pick me up. She got the boys loaded into the van and told them about what happened to the truck as they drove to get me. The following conversation ensued.

Isaac: “Daddy broke tire. Daddy crying.”
Samuel: “No Isaac. Daddy’s not crying.”

I guess Isaac figured a broken tire was something worthy of crying over.

We decided to go to Temple Square to see the lights.  The boys seemed to enjoy it.  But by the end, I think cold had gotten the better of all of us.

Miserable attempt at a family picture with me holding the camera.  But everyone was happy for that moment.

Other pictures from the fun.

We got our first big snow storm and it was a chance to take the boys out to play.  Here are some pictures of the boys’ first sledding experience.  They loved it and didn’t want to quit, regardless of how cold it was.

Kelsey and Isaac

 

Samuel preparing to sled

 

Why walk back up the hill when Daddy can pull you back up?

 

Sledding crash

 

Isaac sledding

 

Daddy the snow mule