Spring Break

This week was spring break. Although you would never know it from the weather. It was wet and cold. Tuesday my sister Amber, and her kids Colby and Tyson, My mom, and me and my boys decide to go on an adventure. First we went to the Living Planet Aquarium where the boys got to look at lots of different fish. Here is Kage and Colby trying to touch the stingray's.

David and Grammy letting the shrimp crawl on their fingers.

Kage in front of the alligators and turtles in the South American exhibit.

After we went and checked into a hotel and the kids swam and we just relaxed and had a good time. The next day we went to Discovery Gateway. The kids played for a long time.

We stopped and had lunch then went back and played some more.

It was a fun filled couple of days. Saturday was another rocket shoot. Here's a picture of the rockets lined up on the launch pad.

Here is the Kage's rocket. It flew a long way!

Just to end off here is a picture of our Weeping cherry tree. I love when it blooms in the springs.

We have some birds that have made a nest in the honeysuckle. I think you can see the nest in there.

Now that the weather is great for a few days we have to go back to school.

Easter

Here is a little run down of our Easter weekend activities.
Friday night we colored Easter eggs.

On Saturday we went with Mom, Dad, Cameron, Kathryn, Amber, Gregg, and their boys Colby and Tyson down to "Little Moab."

We rode the four wheelers for a little ways. The weather was a little wet but it quit raining for most of the time we were actually out. We found a spot to roll eggs

It turned into an egg throwing event after we rolled them down the hill. Kelly enjoyed getting David with egg.

We also had an Easter egg hunt in the sage brush.

We watched a few jeeps try to climb some of the hills around.
On Sunday the boy's got their baskets.

Then that evening we went over to Mom and Dad's for dinner and another Easter egg hunt.

April Fool

Yesterday was April Fool's Day. I decided to do a fun dinner for my kids.


I let them choose which they wanted first, dinner or dessert. Of course they chose dessert. So I gave them "cupcakes" At first they thought it was playdoh on top it was really mashed potatoes. The cake part was meatloaf. Then dinner was fish sticks and peas. The fish sticks were cookies with peanut butter and cornflakes, the peas were air heads.
The food still tasted good even though it looked a little odd. I even got a few laughs at school today when I took the leftovers for lunch. (Thanks to Family Fun for the fun idea.)

The Last Few Weeks

Time seems to fly by these day's. We haven't done anything really exciting lately but have stayed very busy. We have done the normal day to day school, homework, church. We had the opportunity to go to the Draper Temple Open house a couple of weeks ago. Even though it was late at night it was neat to see. We have spent time with friends playing games and eating lots of good food. Yesterday was another rocket shoot. We spent all day out in the west desert watching rockets go up. Kelly certified his level 2 which was his goal.

David had a couple of good flights on his rocket. (The black, polka dot one in the middle)

Cameron and Kathryn spent most of the day with us. They helped chase the rockets in the jeep. Our friends the Love's came and watched for a little while as well. Here is a video of Kelly's rocket going up. (Sorry you have to watch it sideways, I didn't know I couldn't rotate the video).

Kelly with his rocket, after he certified and before it crashed. (Sorry once again I can't figure out how to rotate it, I thought it was rotated before I put it in but it didn't work, oh well)

More Polar Plunge Pictures

Here are better pictures of the polar plunge from my Father-in-law.

They Jumped!

Well today was the day, Kage and Kelly participated in the first annual Saratoga Springs Polar Plunge for the Special Olympics. This year they held it at the Saratoga Springs Marina. The ice they cut out so they could jump in was about 12 - 14 inches thick. The outside temps weren't so bad. Unfortuanetly I really suck taking pictures. Here is Kage before he jumped in!

Here Kage and Kelly are talking to a reporter.


They finally got to dry off.

Here is an extremly shaky video that you can kind of see them jumping.
My Brother Cameron and his Fiance Kathryn were very spontaneous and decided to jump in, even though they had no change of clothes.

We spent the morning out shooting rockets. (I forgot my camera for that part) Kelly was trying to certify to a level II which means he can shoot, bigger engines that go faster and higher. The rocket went up great but the parachute got tangled and didn't open so the rocket crashed. It will fly again someday but it needs a little repair work. Hopefully he will be able to try again in March. My Dad flew his rocket a couple of times and my brother flew his a few times too. All in all it was still a fun morning. My father-in-law took lots of pictures at the rocket shoot and the polar plunge so if we ever get pictures I will post them sometime. A big thanks to all of those who donated money to Kelly and Kage for the Polar plunge!

Plunging Saturday!

Saturday is the big Polar Plunge. We would still love it if anyone could donate to Kelly and Kage! The link is on the top right corner of our blog! They are only part way to their goal. If anyone would like to come and watch them plunge they will be going in around 1:00 pm down at the Saratoga Springs Marina. Anyone is welcome to come watch.