Park

Man! What a handsome guy! Well, we haven't said much in Park's way for a while, so I thought it was time. He turned six months old on Sunday and we had his six month appt yesterday. He was 14 lbs 2 oz and 25 inches long. In the 5th and 10th percentiles, respectively. With his head still in the 75th percentile. All is well, though. The dr. said that it's just fine that his head is that much bigger than the rest of him. This kid is all over the place now. He rolls wherever he wants and he has started scooting by planting his head on the floor and pushing himself around with his legs. He hasn't broken any teeth yet, but he is trying desperately. They are bulging and he knaws on and drools on anything within grasp. Well, that's all for now. I should be hearing back in the next couple of weeks if I got into the Bachelor of General Studies program. We'll let y'all know.

Well, I'm really excited about this...I just put in an application for the BYU Bachelor of General Studies Program. Being accepted shouldn't be a problem. The only stipulations are that I have already taken at least 30 credit hours on campus and that my GPA was better than a 2.0. Since I have almost 60 hours and my GPA was about 3.5, I'm not worried about getting accepted. I'm going to get my degree! Well, eventually anyway. It's an online independent study program and I plan on taking just a class or two at a time, but they give me eight years to finish my degree. I have about 60 credits left and I figure I can get it done if I take at least 9 credits a year, that's one class about every four months. I had been toying with the idea of at least just taking some online courses just to keep feeling intillectual some of the time, and then when I checked it out online I decided, why not just finish my degree while I'm at it? Anyway, that's the exciting news for this week.

Summer?

The few days have been in the 80s, which is unusual for this early in May...so we've been taking advantage of the warm weather and we've been swimming in the back yard.
Scott and I were able to get the garden going this last weekend. The soil out here is pretty poor, so we'll see how things really grow. We've got peas, potatos (my first try with these, we'll see if they grow), tomatos, cantelope and cucumbers. Wish us luck!

Help Iraqis

I know not too many people visit our website, but for those of you who do, I want you to check out a new link that I have put up here. My friend Liz has a brother who has been in Iraq for several years and this is a program he has gotten going there. It's pretty neat. I hope it's okay with you, Liz, that I've posted it.

HALLELUJAH!

Well, this post is for those of you who don't know yet. Scott has gotten a promotion at work. He is the new F & I forms manager. He actually got the offer the day before we left for LA and he is now on his third day working/training in his new position. This is a big relief for us, as he now will only be traveling two to three days a month! YAY! He had been traveling as many as two weeks out of the month and we can totally handle the few days that it will be. Hallelujah!

More LA pics

Well, here are a bunch more pictures. These first few were at the Santa Monica Pier. Annicka loved the rides! Which really surprised us, but we were happy about it.
This was part of the Star Wars exhibit at the science center.
Here is Mommy playing a virtual game at the Science Center.

And we of course had to hit the beach! We stayed for all of 10 minutes, which was long enough to get some pictures...it was about 60 degrees when we got there and the wind was blowing so hard that it felt like it was 40.

What a silly girl!

Trip to LA

We went to the science museum on the USC campus on Thursday. It was totally cool and hands on for the kids. Here Annie is playing a computer game.
We went to the LA zoo on Tuesday and there were tons of kids and this peacock was on the attack.
Today it was raining very hard and so we went to an indoor playground and the kids had a blast.

The first day we were here we were all chatting in the the livingroom and Annicka and Owen had gotten out some things to make sandwhiches...unbeknownst to us. After a few minutes of silence we went to check things out and they were having a good old time.

On Sunday we had one of Scott's old mission friend and his family over to Doug and Emily's for dinner. They had a little Girl six months older than annie and a boy one month older than park. It was so fun.
Here are the kids at the Zoo.

Well, we should have posted sooner than this...but, as you can see, we have just been having too much fun.