Pinewood Derby time at Scouts! 

This year we made a Minecraft themed car, Herobrine.  We always make really cool cars, but unfortunately they are not fast.  The 2 previous years his car has been middle-range fast.  But this boxey, Minecraft car was downright slow.  I think it took last in every heat.  I was incredibly proud of Kason for his good sportsmanship when he continued to lose round after round.  He was still happy and smiling, giving high-5's to the other boys, and cheering the others on.

 

Park with Teina

Tige's sister Teina was babysitting the kids and walked them down to the park.  I think this might have been Zach's first outing to the park where he got in the swings.  I'm so glad Teina thought to grab my camera and snap some pictures. 

Basketball

Kason had a great basketball season even though his poor team didn't win any games.  He played hard and scored at least half of the points his team got in each game.  His good friends Kaleb & Taye were on his team, and they were coach by Taye's dad Brian. 

Cabin Weekend

We finally got to go to the cabin!  We only went once in all of 2012, so we were excited to get away finally.  On the way up, Tige & Kason stopped to night ski at Brian Head while the rest of us headed up with my parents.  It was Kason's first time skiing.  The snow was crappy--all iced over and hard.  They went down the slope 5 or 6 times until they felt like they had sufficiently injured their bodies on the hard snow, and then called it a night.  Kason had trouble snow plowing to a stop, so he usually stopped at the bottom with some sort of magnificent crash.  The ski lift operator started calling him "Tokoyo drift."

 

Here are some additional pictures from the weekend.  There was hardly any snow up there, which is really odd for February.  So everything was terribly muddy and gross.  We took everything in by 4-wheeler since we couldn't snowmobile with no snow and the road was too muddy to drive on.  Then we just stayed in and played, watched movies, and hung out.  David & Cristal's family where there too along with G&G Taylor.  It's always a fun & relaxing getaway.

Ethan & Taylor. 

The kids and grandpa all trying to teach Zach to crawl.  He was up on all fours, but wasn't moving yet other than a little rocking.  It's funny because within a week of this picture, he was OFF and crawling!

 

 Ipad party!

 

Owie and snuggle

The days of Zach giving us snuggles are getting more and more rare.  He's wiggly and on-the-go.  So I was glad I captured this picture of Zach giving snuggles to daddy.

On the evening of the Superbowl which we watched with the Fords, the kids were upstairs goofing off and is wasn't long because this little sweetheart came down crying with a bump on his head.  One of my friends told me a few years ago, then if you rub real butter on an injury like this, it won't bruise.  It's the craziest thing!  We've tried it at least half a dozen times, and I promise you it works.  It's bizzare.  But just the next morning after this owie, Taylor's head looked fine and only had a slight yellowish bruise that you could hardly see.