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.

Family Reunion

We had a family reunion on Saturday with my Dad's sisters. The only second/third generationers were my family, my sister Rosann, and my cousin April and her family. So while the older generation talked we decided to go to This is the Place park to see what was there.

The monument.

Tepees

Little train rides.

A bank robbery and gunfight

A petting area.

Pony rides

The Emery County Cabin

And much more.

It was pretty fun, and much better than sitting around!

Race for the Children's justice center

On Saturday we ran the Children's Justice Center 5K and Teddy Bear 1K Run up in Salt Lake. It was pretty fun. When we ran the 5k is was raining just a little bit, but when our 4 year ran the 1k, it was raining pretty hard. He had a lot of fun and wants to do more races!

Here is a stuffed lobster that J got for finishing the race. He ran the whole thing and didn't stop once!!Afterward they had a prize drawing and everyone in my family that ran the 5k won a prize except for me :( Luci got the best prize out of our family. A sweet glass mug shaped as a boot, steak sauce and a $30 gift card to Texas Roadhouse!

Museum of the San Rafael

Here is the best museum in Emery County! The Museum of the San Rafael. The best part about is that it is free, however, J and Z do love the dinosaur bones and animals that are there too!

Before and After

Before:
After a week of a soft cast and 3 weeks of a hard blue cast, J was ready to get it off.

After:
Another x-ray to make sure that everything was ok, which was the worst part and J did not want to do it. We think that he associates the x-ray with pain when it first happened. Then they cut off the cast, pulled out the pins, and put on a blue bandage. He will wear this for a day and then he will just need bandaids where the pins were for a week or so. Then he will be almost good. He will get good movement in a month and then full movement in about 2 months. He's got a pretty good rash where the cast was, but I think he can handle that with some cream and ti will be way better than the cast. In one more month we have to go up to Primary Children's to make sure all is well. We hope that we don't have to do this again.

Sorry I had to go the Children's Doctors and Hospital

is what our oldest son said after having surgery on his elbow. It was dislocated and fractured on Wednesday for no real fault of his own. Many of you have probably heard the story so I won't repeat here. It happened at about 8 in the morning on Wednesday. We went to our little clinic where they x-rayed it, which was not fun. They then sent us up to Castleview Hospital in Price. It was thought that they might be able to set it, but no. We sat there for 2 1/2 hours with nothing. So we told them to let us go and we would be headed up to Primary Children's hospital in Salt Lake, 2 hours away. This is our 4-year old on the way up.
After we got to Primary Children's, we had to get better x-rays and wait for a few more hours while a surgeon was able to do the surgery. We are glad though that we went up there. Luckily, when they got doing the surgery that it was better than it first looked and not as complicated. The nurses and doctor's there were so nice and helpful. So our oldest is now in a soft cast and will get a hard cast next week. He wants blue and can't wait for it and for people to start signing it.

Since we were up there, we decided to go to the Hogle Zoo. It was fun.

Afterward we went home and he slept all the way. It's good to be home after a long day.

Thanks to all that came to see him and help us out, especially Grandma and Grandpa J. who watched out youngest while we were gone.