Cub Scout Night

Kai earned his Bobcat last week at pack night. The really interesting part is to see if I will be able to sew to patch on or I might end up buying one of those plastic things that holds all of the badges.

After the awards, the had an activity outside that all of the kids enjoyed.

End of the school year awards

Taylor got several wards, one of which is for "Outstanding Academic Achievement".

Kalea got an award for citizenship. I'm not sure how you get this unless you never get in trouble at school for behavioral problems or somthing like that. Kalea is the Enforcer when it comes to following the rules.

Kai's award was obviously for Math. Again, I'm not sure what qualifies someone to get these awards, but they all got something.

We finally remembered to bring our stupid camera

We finally remembered to bring out camera to something.

One of the counselors I work with owns about a half dozen horses and invited us to come over so the kids can ride them. She enjoys having people come over and play with them and the kids had a blast riding them. Kalea was a little intimidated, but soon warmed up to them. She said it was the first time she had ever ridden one. However I reminded her of a time we went riding up at Payson Lakes several years ago and even had the pictures to prove it. Keanu didn't seem to be scared but the poor kid had horrible allergies while riding. Both eyes were red and puffy when he finally got off.

At work we had actually done a therapy group out there a couple of months ago with some of our younger aged kids and were surprised at how the kids responded. I had co facilitated a couple of equine therapy groups during an internship and saw it as a valuable tool to use, provided someone had access to them.

Kalea's Field Trip

Kalea took a field trip to "This is the Place" monument up by Hogle Zoo the other day. It was part of the school curriculum about Utah history. I was able to tag along and chaperone. The trip was actually a ton of fun and I learned a lot. While traveling up there some of the kids brought along some cards and asked if I wanted to play. The kids were playing a modified version of poker and some other games. I asked if they wanted to play this really cool game called "21". I was impressed, they caught on quite fast. They caught on so fast that the game grew from 2 kids to 10 kids who wanted to be dealt in. As we got playing I began to feel guilty that maybe I shouldn't be teaching a bunch of kids a game commonly associated with gambling. But I figured that since they brought the cards and asked me if I wanted to play poker, than maybe I was okay. I did get a few side way glances from the other adults, and I was unsure if it was one of disapproval or mild annoyance. Either way I thought the picture was funny when I realized how it looks. Plus the battery ran out on the camera and it was only one of a handful that we were able to take...

It's Official...

We had the baby ultrasound today and we received the official word that it's a Girl! The due date is still sometime around the middle of August.

Long time, no See

It's been a pretty long time since we posted anything in part to how busy we have been lately. I continue to keep an insanely pace at work and Cynthia has also noticed an increase in patients at the hospital as well. I suppose that when there is an increase in the amount of stress in the community, it naturally trickles down into our respective jobs.

We also have not taken as many picures as we have done in the past as well, although there have been updates. We are also awaiting the ultrasound of the baby next week to determine once and for all the sex of the baby even though we both feel confident in it being a girl.

Today we attended the funeral for Cynthia's grandpa and I guess you could say that's the motivation behind the posting. His death has been anticipated for for about the last month and we took the opportunity to spend time with him before he left. The rest of the pictures are a hodge podge of different ones we have take over the last month.

These are of a program Kalea did at school. Her school does a lot of these sort of activites and we have watch all 3 of them do at least one program.

Kalea's piano recital. I was surprised to see another student who was well into his 50's that was participating. He almost made me want to try it again with 'almost' being the key word.

Our new Addition

For Christmas we promised the kids a kitten. In fact, a neighbor had 2 of them she wanted to give away on Christmas Eve. However, for some reason it fell through so we told the kids we would get one from the animal shelter. Well a month later we finally got around to doing it. We actually got 2 of them because they were in the cage together and we didn't want to split them up. Less than a week after bringing them home the other apparently decided that he was happier on his own and took off. He was sort of skitish anyway and we didn't mind it too much when he left. The kids named the kitten after a former neighbor.

While at the animal shelter I found this bull mastif that I fell in love with. It's probably as tall as me on his hind legs and weighs almost as much. I was surprised when Cynthia expressed interest in getting it. I need to get a house and place situated for it in the back yard before we can bring it home.