Lawn Darts

Well, for as busy of a week as this was I have surprisingly few pictures...  Last Sunday we took advantage of a nice day to head outside and play lawn darts, Brooke included!  Unfortunately wearing a baby does take it's toll on lawn dart playing and we lost bitterly.  Next time Monica has to wear the baby!

Just look at that easy going, non-weighed down strut!

Also, we are good enough that spectators started to watch.  The kids who live next door came out and climbed up on the fence to see what we were doing, and this squirrel was watching us from the top of our tree!

Maybe next round we"ll charge admission.  Speaking of charging admission, that reminds me of a completely unrelated story.  I remember going down to visit Matt Donahue in St. George for a couple days.  While I was down there we played a lot of basketball, and we decided what if we sold tickets to our game?  Matt was the Jazz (all of them) and I was the Bulls and we were playing for the NBA title.  Who knew the title game would be out on driveway?  The NBA has come a long way in the last 20ish years.  Anyway, we made tickets for the game and actually sold them to his family.  The tickets were 10 or 15 cents each, and we may not have even set up the chairs outside!  Unlike real history the Jazz managed to win the championship.  And also unlike real history, the trophy was a drawing on paper!

With that side note concluded we can continue on with this week.  Work went well enough.  I burned 2 of my finalized FPGA designs and they went back to manufacturing to be soldered down to the boards.  In a few weeks the board will come back and then I'll have to test them all and make sure they work.

Friday night Katie and David came over and we had dinner and played games, well, just game.  We played Ticket to Ride which I wouldn't consider a long game, but apparently took the whole night.  The best part of it all was that I WON!  That totally makes up for my disgraceful performance in the NBA finals so long ago.

While they were here they mentioned that they took in the car for the Takata airbag recall.  The dealership said they would have their car for about 2 months because there are so many cars that need to be fixed, and gave them money for a rental car in the mean time.  This story inspired the only other picture I took this week, a picture of our new(er) car's VIN number.  Don't worry, our car is safe and has no open recalls on it.

Saturday was quite a rush.  We spent the morning running and baking and trying to keep Brooke happy all while trying to get ready to head up to Tyson and Tina's house.  While we were at their house we got to hear a recital, play games with the kids, move furniture, have dinner and cake, and even do a short interview!  What a night.  It was a lot of fun and it had been far too long since we'd gotten together.

This morning has been full of making rolls for dinner tonight and trying to keep Brooke asleep during nap time!

That's about all the news for the week.  Hopefully I'll do a little better at getting pictures this next week!