Perfect eyes

I had a eye doctor appointment today. I called ahead because I think I have a mild case of pink eye. They said to just come in. They tested my eyes first, and said that I have 20/15 vision. The pink eye appears to be viral, so not much

No Camping More Sickness

Warren did really good at soccer this week. They played a mock game, and he was right up in there kicking the ball. It was a big difference from last year. The next day though, his eye was really red. It was clear he has pink eye. We kept him

COVID in the house.

Mark missed school Friday and was sick all weekend. Nikki got sick as well. Both of them tested positive on Sunday. Mark stayed at his Dad for the weekend and extended into Monday. I had a headache all day but am still resting negative.

Well my comeback hasn't been great.

I'm going to try to post a lot more, but I'm going to try being less organized. Sometimes I will be a few days ahead or a week or something. We will see how that goes.

Diving board

Warren, Ian, Eleven, and I went to Clearfield pool yesterday. Warren was finally tall enough to go down the slide by himself and his new found love, the diving board. He did really well jumping and decided to try doing some diving and flips. 0:00 /0:23 1× He

RSL soccer game

Big Mark got soccer tickets for an RSL game a few months ago and the game was tonight. Gordon was supposed to go but couldn't make it, so Nikki and I could both go. We rode down with my mom and Mark. The game was a blast, and the stadium

GameNight

Ben and Tiff are in town, though not on the best of circumstances. We took the time to do a game night with them and Ian. We did finger food for dinner, and setup the kids to have a sleep over in Marks room. The food was really good and

Recommitting

I've fallen off the wagon lately in everything: too much drinking, too much food, not enough exercise, and no blogging. So today I am recommitting to everything. We have our cruise out of the way, which was a blast, and now I am logging my calories and going to start

Cruise Trip Day 2

Today was the first day of the actual cruise. Kim and her daughter Makenzie ran to Walmart the first thing to buy new cloths. They were luckily back in plenty of time before we needed to check out. We checked out an jumped into the shuttle to the cruise. The

Cruise Trip Day 1

Today we headed out first thing in the morning for the cruise trip. The flights were pretty easy and painless. We had been expecting have a really short layover in Atlanta, but luckily we ended up with extra time and the gate moved to the same terminal. Once we landed

Crazy Busy

It's been extremely busy lately. Work has been extremely stressful and been pretty much nonstop including a few late nights. We decided against putting in the boat for the Eardley Spit cruise yesterday as it's been too busy to think about. I do have everything ready to go with the

Kids Off Camping

The kids left for camping at Lagoon today. They should have a good time, but it does look like bad weather for tomorrow. They seemed to be having a blast, and there are a ton of other kids to play with. I worked on sanding down the keel today. I

Schools Out for Summer

School for Mark and Warren got out today. Warren was pretty emotional about it. He kept saying how much he would miss everyone. They relaxed almost of the evening, and played some Roblox. I got the missing crib board piece added, but not much else on the boat. I started

Third Pickleball Lesson

Today Nikki subbed at the elementary school. It's the second to last day of school, so it should be pretty easy. I think they are having field day. Warren and Mark are pretty excited to be done for the year. They are camping at Lagoon this weekend to kick things

Warren's Kindergarten Graduation

Today Warren had Kindergarten Graduation. He did so good at his singing and dancing. He had a solo song, and a small line. We are all so proud of how well he has done this year. We went out to eat at Red Robin for dinner to celebrate. The food

Urgent Care

When I woke up my eye was really bothering me. It just felt sore. My nose was running a bit and it felt like my sinuses were a bit stuffy. With all the sanding and drilling this weekend, I decided to head to the urgent care in case something else

More More More Boat Projects.

Today Warren and I ran to the store to grab bolts for the winches and for the crib board rails. Then we went to McDonalds so Warren could play I redrilled the winch holes and Warren helped me get them both mounted. They look really good, and I am happy

More More Boat Projects

Today was a full day of boat projects. I started out by sanding things down a bit and repainting. There was a lot of sports to cover up. Like a lot.... Then I repainted and pulled the tape. It came out pretty decently. I sanded down the overfilled epoxy from

More boat projects

Today we painted. I taped off everything and made sure it was all roughed up with sand paper. Warren helped me paint, he wasn't great at it, but he had fun and it's only the first coat. I let that dry a bit and then sanded down the old winch

Boat Projects

Today Warren and I redrilled the holes for the tiller on the boat. I made sure they lined up right and looked good. I filled in all the cracks I had ground out with a filler compound. It shouldn't expand or contract so it should work good. It has a

2nd Day of Pickleball

This evening Nikki and I had our second day of Pickleball lessons. We learned a lot and both really improved during the lesson. We played on a team for our first game after lessons, and we won that game. The second game we swapped partners around, and I played against

Winches Off

Today after work Warren and I worked on the boat. We pulled off the two winches. I cleaned up the surface as best I could, , and filled the holes with epoxy. The new winches are only 4 holes, I will need to redrill for those. They likely won't line up,

Kindergarten Zoo Fieldtrip

Today we had Warren's Kindergarten field trip to the zoo. I signed up as a chaperone for the trip, and took PTO. Warren had a blast. The best part was the polar bears were super active in the water. One kept swimming a lap and sliding up against the glass

Mothers day

The pork butt took 24 hours to finish. I actually slept later than I wanted too. Through all my alarms. It pulled really easily. It was moist throughout but a little less so on one side. We took it up to my mom's for mothers day. We had a good

Sail Boat Work

I put a 9 pound pork but on the smoker when I woke up in the morning. It should have taken 12 hours, but I am going to bed without it being done. The temp probes on the smokes seem to not be working great. I ordered a wireless one,

Newsies Preview Night

Tonight was the start of the play. They did a full dress rehearsal so that parents could go and take pictures during the show. Nikki decided to hang back, so I went instead with my camera. It was a bit tricky with the lighting setup. I had to take a

Mom's Birthday Dinner

Today after work we headed over to Jeremaih's to celebrate my mom's dinner. It was a really good time. The food was really good. Service was not terrible, but not good either. They didn't raise a stink that we brought in cupcakes so that was good. The kids were not

Mast buttoned up

Today I got the new mast light installed. It should work pretty good. I used melt splices that should be waterproof and added some heat shrink, so I am hopeful everything will stay tight up there. When I launch I need to remember the windex and the antenna. I will

Sailing

Mast Knocking

When my boat was at the marina in the Great Salt Lake, in the beginning, any time I went to my boat, the halyards had been wrapped around the stays. I quickly realized that someone, likely a liveaboard, was wrapping my halyards to stop them from knocking on the mast.

New Fridge Shopping

Our Fridge sucks, and it stopped making ice with any frequency. So today Sarah came over and did an art project with the kids while we went out and looked around. Really there is no good options for us though. We need a smaller fridge that opens against a wall,

Royals Soccer Game

We had a dentist appointment today, the whole family. It went really really badly. They dropped our insurance company. So we paid a huge amount. They didn't do a great job on Nikki, and she had a ton of pain from it. And they asked us to come in sooner

Shark Teeth

Nikki went in today to read Warren's class a book. He chose Grumpy Monkey, which was a good choice. He also did his mystery box where we had written cluse about what was inside and the kids had to guess. We had bagged two shark teeth for each of the