Thanks for 29+ wonderful years. We love you, your family
Lisa's blessing
Lisa's 1st Christmas
Lisa's 1st day in Primary
At the Weber cabin
Lisa, Katie, Laura, Cora Heda, Charlene Joyanna, and Milo Jerry
Freshmen Lisa & Monica
Sistas in NYC
Lisa & Mike's wedding party
Polynesian Cultural Center
Grenada with baby Isaac
Lisa & baby Lucas
Family with baby Ariel
We arrived home from our nearly month long trip just in time to celebrate Isaac's 8th birthday and have a very special baptismal service for him. When he was asked why today is such a special day, he answered, "Because I get to have my dad baptize me." When we pointed out it was also his birthday, he said, "Oh, yeah. That too." Great priorities! Happy birthday, Isaac.
Tuatara can go 6 months without eating, breathe once an hour and live to be 100-300 years old. They are living prehistoric fossils.
The Kiwi is found only in New Zealand and shares its name with the people and the fruit.
As a result of Lucas' head injury on his bike his face has been swelling up. This is Lucas yesterday after church. His forehead and bridge of his nose are swollen. This makes it hard for his eyes to open all this way. In person his profile looks much more flat than normal. Today he is developing two black eyes. Feel lucky he is doing so well though.
No, this is not another photo from Tuesday. This was taken today.
And this time it is Lucas, who was speeding down the hill on his bike without wearing his helmet. His sister stepped onto the sidewalk in front of him, he swerved to miss her, went flying over his handlebars and hit his head on the driveway.
Fortunately, Mike was on call (as usual) so the hospital paged him and he came to the ER to tend to Lucas' wound. It was not a clean laceration. It was torn into a Y shape and full of gravel so it required a lot of clean up work. Here Mike is irrigating it with a syringe full of water.
After getting stitched up, Lucas had a CAT scan. Lucas called it a COW scout.
Lucas is happy he is now doing better and that he was so brave.
Isaac went over to the neighbor's to watch as the movers loaded their things into a moving van. Somehow, Isaac tripped and hit his head on the moving truck, requiring stitches. And guess who was on call at the hospital?
Mike is always at work when a crisis strikes. Good thing, huh?
Mike was actually in surgery in the OR when his wife called with the urgent message that she was bringing Isaac over to the ER. The head surgeon excused Mike from surgery to go to the ER and take care of Isaac's injury. How cool is that?! We were totally surprised to see him.
After Mike stitched up Isaac's head, Isaac chose to stick around and watch his dad work for a while. 
I was lucky enough to find a babysitter for Lucas and Ariel so I could chaperon Isaac's field trip. We went to the school forest, a 300 acre property the school district owns. The field trip just happened to fall on the most beautiful day we have had this year.
For Christmas, Mike got Survivor Man DVDs which have been a big hit with Isaac. Isaac is fascinated with this guy who tries to survive out in the wilderness for 7 days. Isaac has learned the top priorities for survival are shelter, food and water. During Isaac's "free time" on the field trip, he and a few girls in our group worked on building this shelter. I was laughing to myself as I watched Isaac work with these girls. His priorities were making a shelter that would provide protection and warmth. The girls wanted to make sure it had windows and shelves to hold things.
Ariel insisted on wearing Isaac's sunglasses. It was a little silly looking so early in the morning.
After the grocery egg hunt we did another with some friends at the elementary school.
Ariel unfortunately has no fear of playground equipment and will try anything.
Ariel's tantrum. She was opening and eating candy as we were trying to hide them.
