March 18, 2007

With Spring Break this week, the kids had a lot of fun visiting both sets of grandparents. Their activities included drawing pictures, making cookies, shelling pecans, and building things with Legos. Each night I talked to them on the phone, they were all excited to tell me about their activities. In an effort to share their joy with me, they brought home a big bucket of pecans, a nut cracker, and about 3 dozen sugar cookies! Matthew learned that his "chicken grandpa" has a real name - "Grandpa Anderson" - and so does his "duck grandpa", "Grandpa Ankeney". One of these days, we'll have to tell you how those original names evolved.

Dave spent his time in Lubbock doing odd jobs for my Mom and Dad including fixing a porch light and helping Dave's Dad, who came down from Hereford for the day, to convert the guest bath tub to a shower. Dave also enjoyed special time with my Dad at the Lubbock Temple helping a youth group from Austin. One neat thing that was accomplished this week was setting up Dave's Dad's computer to do video conferencing. He bought a camera for the computer and got it setup to use software to talk to his grandkids. While I was here in Fort Worth, I could sit at the computer, see and talk to my kids who were miles away. This is really neat - no long distance phone bill and you can actually see who you're talking too - just think about Matthew just shaking his head in answers to questions from someone over the phone.

We took the kids to the American Airlines Museum yesterday. They enjoyed looking around a seeing all the gadgets and activities they had there. Matthew and Alyson's favorite part of the museum was the wheelchair ramp outside. They were handing out free books with stories for airline employees. Rachel has been reading the book and wants to do a book report for extra credit at school. I thought the museum was pretty cool, but I'll have to go back without kids to really enjoy all the neat stories and history there.

Have a great week!

Love,
David, Kari, and gang