Straight-A Students

Time to toot two of my horns. They're named Rachel & Danny.

Jean and I went in for their parent-teacher conferences this morning. They're both doing well - straight A's this past trimester. They're awesome students and even better kids! They make parenting look easy . . . most of the time.

They've really been enjoying this school year - art, music, PE, etc. Danny and Rachel usually finish first or second (out of 2-3 classes) in their monthly mile-long runs for PE. Danny has been running his at a 10-minute mile pace. I told him that most adults can't run that fast. Won't be long before they surpass their parents.

Triathlon #2

So, I guess I'm addicted.

I completed my second triathlon in St. George, UT last weekend. I did much better this time around; nearly an hour faster than the last one I did in mid-October. This tri (look at me talking the lingo) consisted of a 400m swim (thankfully it was indoors - it was ~40 degrees outside at start time), 10 mile bike ride and a 5-k run.

I completed the event in 1:16:05 (10:03 swim, 35:15 bike & 27:12 run) - a minute off of my goal, but still fast enough to finish in the 73rd percentile (41/153). I'm just shooting to do better each time. There are some impressive times put up by people that are older than me - gives me something to stay in shape for.

Rachel Answers a Question

Rachel's first grade teacher asked her to write about being a super hero. Here's what Rachel had to say:


"My name would be Super Heart. My power would be to turn things invisible." That's for those of you who don't speak 'Rachel'.

Updates

Seth is crawling and pulling himself up to things. He's so proud of himself. He's such a great baby. The other day he knocked over the DVD stand and had a great time.
Bob took Aaron to the Nellis Air show. Aaron has never liked loud noises, so he fell asleep during the Thunderbirds show. But he had a great time and he gave Bob a thumbs up in every picture.
The boys all went to see a BYU Men's Volleyball game at a tournament here in Las Vegas. So now our front room is home to a new sport. Aaron and Danny spend hours a day with a beach ball practicing their volleyball skills.

Rachel often makes comments about boys and wonders who she will marry. (Already?!?) The other day a boy in her class gave her a gift and she said he was looking at her all day. She was pretty flattered and said to me, "I think he has a curse on me".

The kids all love to ride bikes. We go out just about every day. Here's the biggest kid having a great time:

Halloween

The kids had a great time trick-or-treating this year. They came home with buckets full of candy. (Aaron got happier after we put the camera away.)

Interviews

Here's a snapshot of our family right now. We all answered the same questions.

Rachel
Favorite Color: Pink
Favorite food: shrimp
Favorite activity: swimming
Favorite possession: Easy Bake
Favorite subject in school: art
Friends: Jaclyn, Savannah, Kami
What she wants to be when grows up: horse rider
If she had a million dollars:
She would buy a humongous freezer and make lots of huge ice. Then if she had any money left she would buy a horse.

Aaron
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite food: pizza
Favorite activity: playing with legos
Favorite possession: cars race track
Favorite subject in school: cutting (he's really good)
Friends: Collin, Nathan, Cannon
What he wants to be when grows up: zoo keeper
If he had a million dollars:
He would buy a cool monster truck. It would be giant super duper sized. Bigger than our house.

Danny
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite food: pizza and Norwegian pancakes
Favorite activity: riding bikes
Favorite possession: bike
Favorite subject in school: recess
Friends: CJ, Isaac, Kyson, Ethan, Russell
What he wants to be when grows up: football player
If he had a million dollars:
He'd buy a giant life-sized robot

Seth
Favorite Color: Blue (this was determined by putting many colored balls in front of him and he chose blue)
Favorite food: cheerios
Favorite activity: crawling
Favorite toy: paper (also could be considered favorite food)
Friends: Danny, Rachel, Aaron

Bob
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite food: pizza
Favorite activity: traveling
Favorite possession: collection of maps
If he had a million dollars:
He would buy a Cougar-blue truck to drive to his lifetime season tickets to BYU basketball and football games. He'd also have unlimited churros and sprites at those games.

Jean
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite food: pizza
Favorite activity: going to the gym, playing with fam
Favorite possession: Super-sized washer and dryer, cordless vacuum
If she had a million dollars:
She would buy a machine that would clean the house and pick up all kid/toy clutter automatically.