Everybody Loves Hunter!

Volleyball Date Night
This week for our date night we went to the Volleyball game of a friends daughter. She is a great player and will be entering high school next year. The whole thing has way too much drama and emotion for me, but the overall volleyball is very good. There is little net play, they are all kind of short still. When I play I like the net stuff. Not great at spiking, but blocking is very natural for me. I enjoy that the most, but rarely do I see one at this level of play. Conversely to me Linda loves and appreciates a good back line player. Something about a diving moving rabbit like play really gets her excited. It is great to watch but even more fun when you can root for a friend.

Home Depot Kids Workshop
As some of you may know the first Satuday of every month is the Home Depot Kid's Workshop. They have different projects that are fairly simple for the kids to put together and gives the big kids a chance to browse (I call it one of Daddy's toy stores) for necessitiies. This time they were building a Home Depot race car. Hunter was not interested due to a headache and the girls were looking for something a little more "girly", so Nathan and I went and did it. Took 15 minutes to get there, 5 minutes to find it in the store and 3 minutes to put it together (one more minute to put the stickers on). He loves it and we had a great time walking around once completed. I was able to find a few things that I had to have.

Pinewood Derby Preparations
Hunter's last Cub Scout pinewood derby is this month and he has been designing his car. We tried to borrow some equipment to work on it this weekend, but when I called to get the saw on Saturday I was told that my help was needed to help a Sister pack up a trailer and get some extra things to storage. Her husband has been deployed and is not returning for a few months and she decided that she and her 16 year old son needed to be closer to family. Unfortunately, I was not able to work on the cars that day.

For those paying attention, I said cars. As a big kid I suggested that our Ward Activity, sponsored by the High Priests, should be an adult pinewood derby. We are going to utilize the track the same night as the Cub scouts. Our pinewood derby is a little more creative. We have two divisions. The traditional rules division, which adheres to the 5 ounce rule, and the modified division, where there is only one rule. That rule follows the church guidelines that states that there are to be no open flames in the building. Last time we did this we had two very creative cars. One was a pinewood derby car cut in half with two long dowels connecting the two pieces making a dragster funny car. The way it was positioned on the track gave it an easy 2 foot head start. This year the car's nose must start behind the start line. The other creative car had a CO2 canister that was punctured giving it some air pressure.

We will keep you posted on the outcome towards the end of the month.


Basketball
We won our quarter final game and move on to the next round. I only scored a few times and devoted myself to defense more than offense. I had given blood earlier in the day and the technician accidentally hit a nerve, I can't feel much of my left arm and when I do it just hurts. Hoping it improves by Wednesday.


Scouts and Activity Days
This was a typical of week for the kids in terms of Scouts and activity days. Hunter and AnnaLynn had a great time with their groups while Nathan and Taylor got to stay home and play with Dad.

Hunter In Charge
I mentioned briefly that I had to run and help a Sister move, but while I was gone AnnaLynn had a viola lesson, which left Hunter in charge of the younger two while Linda and AnnaLynn were gone. He did fine for the half hour they were gone. Then Linda came home and had to take an elderly lady to the funeral of her friend. Which left Hunter in charge for a another 45 minutes until I returned. Then when Linda got back to the home of Sister Koernig, who is 85, they realized they were locked out but had an old key to an old lock which would not budge. They called me to see if I could get it, which left Hunter in charge again. Luckily, I was able to open the lock without any trouble or delay and relieve Hunter once again. He does do very well and it is nice that we don't have any babies or else there is no way could we pull those moves off.

Fieldtrip to Aquarena Springs
Hunter had his final elementary school field trip this week. The 5th grade teachers looked a little farther abroad than they have in the past and decided to take the kids to an aquarium that also boasted a glass bottom boat tour of the springs that form the beginning of the San Marcos river. Linda got to chaperone and said it was worth the hour plus drive to get there and Hunter has said it was the best field trip ever. The kids got to see species of fish that have survived from dinosaur times as well as moss covered turtles and bubbles underwater where the springs came to the surface forming the river. In addition to it just being cool, the kids actually managed to learn a thing or two.

Sunday Performance
This week AnnaLynn and Taylor were asked to sing "I Love to See the Temple" with two other girls at the end of the Relief Society lesson. Normally this would not raise a big flag as something that was out of the ordinary, but we have a very large relief society. The girls did their performance to about 80 sisters in the ward. They did very well and unlike if I were to sing brought tears of joy to the eyes of the listeners as opposed to tears of torture.

Stay Tuned...
In upcoming articles we will have
March Madness Selection picks
Hockey Night
Date Night
Temple Night
PGA volunteer and tournament
Talent Shows
Choir Performances
Pinewood Derby Results
and much much more.