URSA Conference

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I was at a conference down in Cedar City. This is what I did.



Really I did do a little more than that, but I generally go to the technology sessions because there really are not many for PE. So, I go and have some fun while learning a thing or two.

Jorgensen Family Reunion

The weekend of July 4, the Jorgensen's always have their family reunion. There are plenty of other blogs that have blogged about this so I will let you read them instead of duplicating what has already been said. Many of them can be read by clicking on the links to the right.

J-man's birthday

J-man turned 5 on June 26. Happy birthday bud!

We don't know why, but he wanted a haunted house birthday cake so this is what we came up with.

Colorado

We also made a trip to Colorado for about a week. The main reason was to go for a nephew's baptism. It was also really fun. We did a lot of things. We went to the Denver Zoo, The Denver Museum, rode the Fort Collins municipal trolley, went on bike rides, went up to Estes Park and did several fun things up there. I tried Buffalo for the first and really liked it! I love Colorado and wish I could go more.

Las Vegas

In early June, our family went to Las Vegas for a niece's baby blessing. We went down on a Sunday morning and came back on Wednesday. It was a good time. We stayed at the Grandview, which is a time share. We loved it! Of course we had to have some buffets and visit the strip. Our boys loved the aquarium and M&M world.

End of School

It is finally here, the end of school. Always a great feeling. It's really nice. This is the first summer in a few years where I don't have any classes and neither does Luci. So we will have a crazy summer. Lots of traveling to be done. This coming week we will be going down to Vegas to see my wife's brother's family. Then a week after that, it's off to Colorado to see my brother's family. There there is a break and towards the end of July and the beginning of August we are off to Minnesota for a Jacobson family reunion. After that we will go up to Saskatoon to visit my parents who are up there. It should be fun.

Here are a few pics of what we've done.

This is up at Joe's Valley Reservoir. It's a fun time.

This is the closing program for the ninth graders at San Rafael JH. They always have a little promenade type thing and speaker and stuff. I am always glad to see because it means that the school year is almost over and the ninth graders are moving on.

Long Overdue update

In no particular order, here are some things that have happened the last few months.

Now, this really isn't a specific event, just me playing with my boys, making a Z-sandwich!

In February, Z-man turned 2!!

This past Friday, Luci graduated from Utah State University with her Masters of Psychology, with an emphasis in School Counseling. She decided that she want to go up to Logan to the actual ceremony, which was fine, however the commencement was over 2 hours long and with a 2-year old and 4-year old, it was a long time.

Of course if there were any water features around USU's campus, we had to stop and look at it because that is one of J-man's favorite things.

About two weeks ago a deer hit my car. Did some damage. Luckily the car still drives fine, but the driver's side door doesn't open so I have to get in the passenger side at the moment. Thankfully, it is a bench seat so that makes it easier.

Just another fun picture while we were watching the Colorado Avalanche play. I think I have convert my boys (well at least my oldest) into Avs, Spurs, Dodgers, Broncos, and BYU Cougars fans!!!! He always wants them to win

Bogota, Colombia

This Christmas our family went to visit my sister down in Colombia. It was awesome! It was great to be able to stay with my sister, have Christmas and see around Bogota. I'm glad that we did it. Below is a slide show of some of the things we did. Hope you enjoy because we sure did!!

For a more in depth coverage of what we did, you can visit my sister's blog by clicking here.

Football & Birthday

For my birthday, my wife got me tickets to the BYU-OU game at the new Cowboy Stadium in Dallas. I went with my brother-in-law and had an awesome time. As you walk in, this is what it looks like.

The screens are huge. Even though we were super far away, we could see just fine and then watch the instant replays on the big screens!

The winning BYU play. For those of you who didn't know, BYU beat Oklahome 14-13.

This is me celebrating with the other 15,000 BYU fans. The 60,000 OU fans were quite sad.

This is Cowboy Stadium at night.

This was an awesome experience and it was made even better by BYU winning. Thank you Luci for an awesome birthday present!

I'm Like Short Round

is what our 4 year old said when he needed to fit into a little spot to get something. If you have played Lego Indiana Jones, you will understand why I thought this was funny.