Carson is 7!

Carson and Kory at his party with his new rockets. We are finally going to shot it tommorrow at the park.








Here is Carson with his cake, it's a catepiller with worms and crushed Oreo dirt. He chose to do a spring party with lots of bugs.






Here are all the kids at the party on a little bug hunting expedition.










Carson loves Waffle House so much we are almost regulars. Just kidding. 8 times in 4 years is not nearly enough to be regulars. He does like it a lot though and when Grandma Carol sent money for Carson to choose a restaraunt there was no question where we were going. They even played a special Waffle House version of Happy Birthday for him. How many of you can say that?




Here is Carson and the boys having fun with Carson's new bike. He loves it and has had a lot of fun with it already.

Spring Break

There was a free day at the childrens muesum in Atlanta during the boys' spring break. Unfortunately about 5,000 people came down at the same time. Instead of waiting in a line outside the muesum the boys played in the fountains.
Ty did not want to get in at first.
He eventually changed his mind.
The boys were a little crazy after a week at home, so they decided to play out in the rain and mud. Ty apparently thought the camera was going to steal his soul.
Carson had fun babysitting Trevor and Amanda's little girl Kennedy. She was not used to so many little boys running around.

Easter

Dyeing easter eggs with our star wars kit.With star wars easter eggs, we needed a little light sword action to complete the day.
The boys loved their easter baskets.
We attempted to take pictures after church when the boys' were coming down off a sugar high. This was the best of about 10 trys. You don't want to see the rest.

Mississippi State University

You may have thought piggly wiggly's were only in movies like win a date with Tad Hamilton. You were wrong.
This is the Veternary Science building, one of the largest buildings on campus. It is next to about 250 acres of farmland and pastures they use to study cows, horses, plants, trees etc.
The other side of this road is the main campus and stadium. I didn't want to drop the camera trying to get a picture of the campus while going 50 mph down this road, so you get to see these trees.
This is the back of the church in West Point.
Here is the front. The chapel doubles as the gym and at least 15 people of the 100 or so people there on sunday came up to me and introduced themselves. I think there are at least 7 or 8 professors at the college in the ward as well as a bunch of young married students.
This is one building on campus. Most buildings look very similar and they are all made with the red bricks.
These are some of the faculty houses that we could rent for around $600 a month, for up to three years if we moved here.

This is Bob, posting from Starkville Mississippi, after a full day of presentations, interviews and meals with the information systems department here. Everything went very well and I expect to here back from them next week. I think I have a very good chance at getting an offer and have had a very nice experiance with the department, at the local ward and in the town. The Sainsbury's could be going to delaware! I mean Mississippi! (Try and spell that fast)

Disney World Last day

We ate breakfast with Lilo and Stitch at the polynesian resort that last day of our trip. We were already tired from 4 days in the parks and the night before we spent about 4 hours waiting for Carson to pick a souvenir. He couldn't decide between a hat, a towel, little action figures, mickey in jedi clothes, some monkeys on a rope, a pirates of the caribean blanket and just about anything else in the store. He went with the Pirates blanket and if you ever see it please compliment him on it, he is still trying to decide if he made the right decision. Anyway, after the long day we were laying down and thinking about the drive home when grandpa Bob reminded us it was daylight savings time and we were losing an hour. We did not make our 7:30 am reservation the next morning.



Bob had been worried about the prevelence of creepy people in the character costumes at disney, but out of all of them on stitch seemed a little bit off. He freaked out Tyler and took grandma Marlies' glasses, but the other boys loved it.

By the end of our trip we had learned a few things

- 50 cents ponchos are worth much more in a thunderstorm

- Double check your diaper bag for diaper before entering a park

- Carson and Easton will ride on any roller coaster they can get on

- Robby will not ride on anything but the jungle rapids ride

- Early march is a good time to go to Disney, not many spring break kids from colleges and the weather was pretty nice

- Tornado warnings are good for keeping the crowds out of Disney parks, just don't listen to the news and you don't need to worry about all day

- Check to make sure there are no cheerleading competitions and change plans if the bus you are on suddenly fills up with a squad from minnesota. 1 squad is cute = 500 squads can kill you

- Bring extra clothes for after the river ride, the disney people are really strict about public indecency for some reason

- Grandpa Bob and Grandma Marlies made all the difference in the world, ask them early and they might be able to go with you too

- Fast passes and baby swaps are great, we never waited more than 20 minutes

Disney World 3rd day - Disney Hollywood Studios

The boys loved star tours and all the star wars stuff around it. They even got to watch a Jedi training class and learned some new moves.

There was a fun animation tour that Robby really wanted to see. At the end, they taught you how to draw a Disney character, which Carson and Robby loved.

We ended our day with the Fantasmic show. It had been a long day, especially since there was about 25,000 cheerleaders in the park for a competition. There were little 5 year olds and high school teams and rude coaches and way to much cheering/screaming. We did get to ride on an Aerosmith rollercoaster that Carson and all the adults loved, and everybody liked the stunt show. Easton watched all the car chases, explosions, fake guns, jet skis and a man on fire, then asked us if he could do it. He thought is was a ride and that everybody got a turn.

Disney World 2nd day - Animal Kingdom

Boys and grandpa watching the monkeys.

We got to eat breakfast with Mickey in the Tusker House. It was so yummy!

The boys playing the drums.

It was a hot and humid day so we got milk shakes to cool off.






This is one of the few family pictures we took, we are really hoping Grandma got a better one of us.


Bob and baby Bowen on the Safari ride. Bowen was such a good sport the whole vacation. So was Bob.