Made it back home allbeit a little late

The remainer of the weekend was fairly unaventful, but that's fine with me. I took the kids with me to look at cargo trailers for the upcommng MTB season, however, they were all closed. They must be controlled by the same rules as those for car dealerships. We had some time so we stopped at Erik's bike shop for a little while and then made a pit stop at Burger King for a few treats and time to play time.

I got the van packed up and kids ready so we could leave right after dinner. The ride home was fairly calm except for Wyatt and Devon who really wound up for some reason. They didn't last long and were fast asleep after about 45 minutes. By the time we got home all the kids were drooped over in there seats. It would have been nice to get home a little earlier so we would have some time to put things away and relax a little before trying to go to sleep.

Matt

I love unsecure wireless connections!

It gives me a chance to keep up on the various forums and make changes/additions to my blog site while at my wifes parents (they have dial-up). I got a chance to see Ester for the very first time this evening, she is a beautiful little girl. Not yet 10:00 PM and mom and baby have gone up to bed, boy do I remember those days. There were at least a couple years of my life (over the 4 kids) that I simply do not remember due to lack of sleep. Your body/mind has a way of blocking out those tramatic times in your life. Levi Jamie's little one is no longer so little nearly 17# and not yet 5 months old. I think it is remarkable how much a baby can schrunch up there face, without even thinking about it.

The ladies are starting to hang twirly things up in the living room. I think this is my cue to go find something else to do. As always there will be pleanty of food around and I will do my best to not get carried away with the eating.

I have an early morning bike ride tomorrow morning, we will see how that goes. Later in the day during the shower the plan is to take the kids out for lunch and then a movie. That should be really fun.

Baby Shower this Weekend

This weekend we are traveling to Andrea's parents for a baby shower for her two sisters. She is in charge of games and refreshments (Andrea correct me if I am wrong). I am going to go homer early today after my 1:00 PM meeting to help pack up the car and go to Devon's school conference. With any luck Adam will stop by early to pick up the twins and we can get on the road before it get too late.

Blog Updates!

I am in the process of performing a great deal of updates to our blog. I have revamped the structure and created a new "Main" page; Although it is hard to believe, but our family does have other things going on besides mountain biking. I also helped Jordan start a blog page for herself. She did not have much to write about, but that will come as she becomes more comfortable typing on a computer.

I started uploading images into various galleries and they are linked on the main page at the right. It took a little while to find a freeware program for performing a batch size reduction on the images; reducing them from approx 4 MB to 100 KB. Soon to come are the images from our recent trip to Arizona. We took pictures of the Grand Canyon, Sedona, Tucson, Phoenix, and various national monuments.

I am also in the process of populating and linking a couple of calendars to our site so I have a way to check and update our schedules

Resuming the weekly Thursday Lunch

Because of the past trip and subsequent snow days, the past three Thursdays have not worked to go out for lunch. I find that I eagerly look forward to the nice relatively quiet lunch dates with my wonderful wife and "wildman" Wyatt. We haven't yet decided where we will be going but it is between the following two.

Taco John's is a little closer and more convient for me to get to and from work, but Wyatt likes to play and it gives Andrea and I a chance to relax and talk for awhile while he plays; it's a toss-up either way.

Just called Andrea, Mc Donald's it is. Although, I will be a little late due to a communication meeting at work and Andrea needs to leave in time for a dentists appointment at 1:00 (yuck!).

We will get this populated soon!