Another hotel room...

I find myself sitting in another hotel room with a few hours to spare, so I figured I would update my blog.  Here is a view of downtown Austin from my room

So much has happened this spring that I have not written about.  Logan turned 2 in March.  My baby is officially not a baby.  He loved having us sing happy birthday to him, and enjoyed his cake very much.  We had a low key party at home. 

Jack had his first pinewood derby!  He took 3rd place in the ward and got to go to the district race.  He ended up taking 8th overall, and he and Tyler had a blast!  Jack named his car blue lightening.  It sits on a trophy stand in his bedroom where he admires it regularly. 

Jack and Sam are both playing soccer.  I have some pictures on my other camera.  The weather has been miserable.  Sam has struggled with the cold.  The 4 year olds do not practice.  They show up every Saturday.  They spend the first 20 minutes practicing with their coach.  They run a lap and do jumping jacks.  Then they practice dribbling the ball and kicking it into the goal.  Then the two teams play a game.  Sam likes to run the opposite way of the ball.  When people laugh, he keeps on running and showing off.  He will not get in and kick the ball.  He eventually gives up and comes to sit on my lap.  Sometimes he cries.  Last week was his final game (halleluja!).  It was a beautiful warm day.  He played the whole game without any tears.  His team did really well, and he even kicked the ball once or twice.  He still mainly stayed out of the way of everyone else.  He just ran behind everyone and grinned the whole time.  After the game was over he told me how much he loved soccer and asked if he could play it at home.  We also just registered Sam for kindergarten.  When we arrived, they took him away for screening.  He was not having that, but luckily I knew the screener from church and told him it was ok to go talk to my friend.  He was able to answer all of the questions and write his name, so they said he was good to go.  He barely makes the cut off date.  We went through all of the steps to get him registered.  His favorite part was buying a school shirt.  He put it right on.  Then on the way out he told me, "I do not want to go to that school.  And if you don't come with me, I am never going."  GREAT.  He hasn't really talked about it since and I am not going to bring it up for a while.

Jack turned 9 on mother's day.  We had a fun day.  We went to Red Lobster on Saturday for a combined celebration.  We taught Logan how to say, "Happy Birthday". He was really cute saying, Happy Birthday Gack.  He also would say Happy Mother's Day.  He often calls me Daddy-Mommy.  It was pretty funny when he would say, "Happy Mother's Day Daddy Mommy."  He is also really really good at saying, Stop it Sammy!  Or Sammy, no hit!  Or Sammy Mean!  He loves to be outside and running around.  It is a good thing the weather is finally warming up, because all three of my boys have cabin fever!  Jack was also the mayor in a cute school play (Suessical the Musical - Horton Hears a Who scene).  He has his first piano recital this weekend.  We are very excited for that too.

Tyler is all moved into his new office.  It is really nice, and he is really happy with the way it turned out.  We are both staying busy with work, church, and chasing after the kids.  That was a great distraction, now I must get dressed up and ready to go to a banquet and award ceremony.  I would much rather crawl into bed and watch a good movie on Netflix!