As I removed the buns from the oven this morning, knowing they were for just Mom and I, it was comforting to know that each of you were doing the same thing this morning. A family tradition for conference morning and other special holidays during the year. They remind us of the sweetness of the family. The conference has been absolutely awesome. Both Mom and I hope it has been the same for you.

Here are my results from the speed typing test. This seems to be the best I can do. I'm going to keep trying though until I can beat it. A fun challenge.

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Speed test

Here's where we circled the wagons on the west side of West Mountain.  Well, I guess it wasn't a circle of wagons, we were down to only needing 2 wagons to get us to the picnic site. :-(

Standin' around and sittin' around were in order.  Some bundled up, eh Nana and Addie.  Plenty of sun [we went home with some decent sunburns] and some sniffles.  Regardless, it was a great day for a picnic.  It did warm up later in the afternoon.

The hard boiled eggs were prize worthy.  I particularly like the white colored ones.  Took a fair amount of effort to cover up the colors that the eggs come with naturally on Easter.

We did some shooting of the b-b and the pellet guns at pop cans and left over clay pigeons left behind by other shooters.  We tossed frisbees, threw footballs, built kites and had the egg hunt.

Not nearly enough people present for the festivities, but we did the best we could.  We missed those unable to attend.

Sunny Florida [most of the time]

It was a beautiful day in Florida today. I caught [captured] a picture of both the convention center from my room window and also a picture of the hotel from the convention center. All is well.

The event I'm attending had a conference get together at Universal City. Didn't see Universal Studios Theme Park but heard lots of loud music [too loud for me] and plenty of food. I'm glad to be back at the hotel. It was too much for me.

Sleepover

February 15th was R&J's anniversary, so the kids came to our house for a sleepover.  Lulu the dog took a nap in her doghouse while we fixed Galaxy grilled cheese and light sabres for dinner.  A worked hard cooking up a surprise birthday party.  The food was delicioso.

J&S blended up some delightfully delicious delectable darn good milkshakes.  For dessert we made flying saucers with some strange looking aliens that flew them right into the mouths of J, S, & A.  Nana and Papa had a few mouthfuls too.  We had fun making ducks & dinosaurs out of pipe cleaners - c m bd ii, they were tricky little bounders to glue on.  Jacob used his own creative juices and created a magical necklace.  

We put on our PJ's and then rounded up a bunch of stuff from around the house, put it in a sack then each drawing out a different item we made up a crazy adventure of Jumpin J, Super S and Amazing A.  You should have seen S eyes when he pulled out a bottle of salsa.  It was a wild story.  We all jumped in bed and covered up our head z-z-z-z.  Whipped up some waffles for breakfast.  Nana, Papa and the kids had a great time celebrating R&J's anniversary.

Nana's birthday party in the snow

Since Feb 6 was such an important day we thought we had better celebrate by holding the 2nd Annual Winter Birthday Extravaganza. It was a perfect winter night. No wind (amazing), clear skies with lots of stars, and c-c-cold! The menu for this grand event consisted of hot dogs roasted over the fire, chili, mac and cheese , hot chocolate, smores, and a lovely birthday cake built out of donuts which we are sorry to say we did not get a picture of due to immediate snarffing after the candles were blown out. Activities consisted of making snow angels, sled races, and putting on A's gloves at least 55 times during the evening. We had a great time. Happy birthday Big Nana O , 56 years young!.

Party on...