Clearing out the "best of" off the camera

These pictures came off my camera after sitting there for a couple of months. Consider this the "best of" collection from Easter to today. Enjoy!

Continued...

Day Off today

I took today off so that Heather and I could go out to eat for lunch. We went to a new place called "Charlie Brown's" that just opened up not too far from our place. We were pleasantly surprised at the lunch prices and selection. I had a mouth-watering Hickory burger, and Heather had a French Dip sandwitch, both very good. Aubree ate fries and was also pleased. We rarely get to have lunch together so this was very nice. And don't believe a word Dad says, we do NOT constantly eat out, only on special occasions and and when company is in town.

Happy 35th B-day for Daddy

Lunch at Uno Pizza, for Daddy's Birthday. Aubree playing with the "table toys" available.

Isabelle with her 4 year trophy, it's all over...

Aubree and I working our way through Costco to get Isabelle's flowers for the recital.

On my way to Toronto again

On my way to Toronto, flying out of LaGuardia Airport

Working hard in the office

So i am here in Toronto this weekend working away with a huge team of Canadians and consultants doing simulation tests on our new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system in Canada before we go live in July. I left at 4am to get to the airport and it's close to midnight and I am still here in the office typing in thousands of manual PO's and Kanban tickets for the system (grunt work). I can't wait to do this again tomorrow and Sunday, and Monday.... :(

Working hard in the war room

Pack Night - Pinewood Derby

Tonight was Pack Night and once again, Heather is in charge of this once-a-year event where we have the pinewood derby (this will be our third). We went over to the church on Monday with the Blom family (primary pres and YM pres) to setup the room and put the track together when we discovered that the track, which is normally stored in the upstairs attic, was missing. So I put on my detective hat and started calling everyone I could think of to find out where it went (it was there a few days ago). I called the Bishop, 1st Councilor, Ward Mission Leader, Activities committee, two High Councilman, both English and Spanish speaking missionaries, and two other wards/branches that have access to our building. I then checked the outdoor shed, and the dumpster all with no results. Also missing is all the wood we use every year for our booths for the Christmas party. I suspect we may never know who cleaned up the attic. So Bro. Blom (who is very handy with tools as a profession) committed to make a new track by the next night. Let's just say he had to spend all day building it and we cut it pretty close.

I got the honor of performing the announcing (hey, give me a mic and I'll make John Madden proud!) and I was also responsible for tracking the cars and rounds with a program I found on the web which calculates the lanes and who goes when etc. We got ready to start the racing when the alarm bells started going off in the church and smoke started billowing out of the Kitchen. They decided to heat up those large pretzels for the concessions stand and there was something that burned on the oven heating element causing the smoke. So I got to call the fire dispatch and try and cancel it (the fire engines showed up, but they were updated by dispatch and left). After that, the event went off very well and once again, Heather did an excellent job of organizing and running the event. I keep telling myself that this stuff gets easier once you do it more than once, but I'm just humoring myself to keep sane.... : )

The three winners for the race.

The new track

Cutting Grass on a Friday afternoon

We have officially started half day Friday's at work so I get to go home at 1pm during the summer months and do yard work. The grass is getting really long due to recent rain so I took a snapshot of the backyard. This Saturday was our 12 year Anniversary, so to celebrate we took a drive up to Target and purchased new silverware and a new knife set. It may not sound glamorous or exciting, but It's what we both wanted and we are very happy. Now we just need new dishes (didn't like the selection).