Last 24 hours

• Fri night -attend school poetry and song presentation. Boyz did great!
• Sat morning - Christine drives off to Bakersfield for her cousin's baby shower, I make breakfast for the boyz and clean the kitchen
• Late morning - Jacob and I head out to the garage to work on his Science Project, we are building a trebuchet designed to lauch water balloons over 100 feet
• noon - Make lunch
• 1pm - leave for AWANA - Spark-A-Rama (AWANA Olympics) - the boyz did great and got 2nd place
• 3pm - grocery store
• 3:30PM - hardware store for more wood and bolts for the trebuchet
• 5PM - friend's hose for dinner (thank God for the Riley family!)
• 8:30PM - got kids in bed.

Today was so fast and I am tired! All I have to say is: "My wife is my hero!"

Is the baby coming today?!

Last night my wife and I attended our first LaMaze class. Before we went to bed I inflated the birthing ball. This morning I was greeted with that question from my oldest son as he was holding the birthing ball. He had a huge smile on his face and a look of excitement.

What a fun time!

Pulling out teeth

Jacob is loosing teeth so fast. He lost one top tooth a few days ago and the other top one is ready to go.

In the middle of one of his construction projects he pulled out a tooth while trying to tear a piece of tape by biting it. The funny part is this was a bottom tooth, he still had the loose top tooth. So he was set on getting this pulled and wanted to try the STRING method.

I tied some dental floss to his top tooth and he walked around for a while playing with the string and tugging on it, but it eventually slipped off. Of course he wanted to try it again. This time I decided to do something slightly different.
I tied the string to the top tooth, and then took the other end of the string and tied it to his right arm. I knew he would eventually forget that his right arm was bound to his tooth and he would pull it out himself. It turns out that 2 minutes later he lost his tooth whem I threw a toy to him to catch.

What memories! Now we get to enjoy the 'TH' lisp he will have for the next few weeks.

Taking a day off with your Boyz sure is fun!

After working 11 days in a row, and with a baby sister on the way, I definitely needed to spend some father-son(s) time.

We went fishing on the pier in Pismo (didn't catch anything), ate clam-chowder bowls as Splash Cafe (the Boyz' favorite), and got to have free ice cream at Doc Burnsteins.

This turn into a doubly fun trip because this morning I saw a picture of my oldeset son on my shoulders on the front page the the Santa Maria Times.

What a fun time!

Made it to the top!

What a beautiful view on Bishop's Peak!
Yeah, i'm tired.

13 switchbacks, the 1st and 3rd are the longest. The last 5 are the steepest.

Landing on the Moon - Happy Anniversary!

It's approaching the 40th anniversary for landing on the moon. The whole event is being commemorated at: http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

If you go there, you can hear all the real-time audio that ocurred between CAPCOM and the Command Module. Quite amazing - a chance for me to experience what I missed if I were alive in the 50s.

Did you know they travells over 2,300 MPH?

Excitement for the Gibsons!

So the Gibsons family is bigger, and I know they will have no time to update their family picture, so I attempted to do this for them!

Congratulations, we love you guys!