It's April and Snowing in MN

So far this year the best part of my rotation in CA is this pic taken today by my sister-n-law.

vs today in CA

Yeah, I really don't miss that crap. I'm really not a snow lover as you have probably guessed.

Goodbye Grand Prix

The Grand Prix has been frequently beeping to inform me that the car needed an oil change. I wanted to keep the car until my rotation was over but the beeping got to annoying, and I might feel a little guilt if the car lost some life from not changing the oil for an extra 2 months. So I went in to trade it hoping to get another GXP but the Avis computers were down so they were doing everything with paper. At this point I didn't want to deal with it so I told them I'd take a Grand Prix or a Chevy Impala. So now I'm driving an Impala with a 6 cylinder. The car is so slow it sucks. I feel like I'm pulling a 2 ton trailer behind it, and to think I used to think it was fast compared to my Mazda 6. It's going to be real painful driving that when I get back.

The Send Off

Jens mom and Tina went back to MN yesterday. Since she's been here Hayley has refused to nap and she's been waking up early everyday. One of the mornings I went to get her and she flipped out cuz she wanted grandma to get her. You could tell Hayley was so alert to grandma's visit and she didn't want to waste a minute sleeping. Funny stuff. Anyway, on our way home from the airport Hayley zonked out. We got home about an hour later and she didn't wake up for another 2 hours. She was pretty much out for 3 hours. Hopefully she gets back to her normal sleep schedule.

Weekend Recap - Jens Mom and Tina Visit CA

Jens mom and Tina came for a visit while Tina is on Spring Break. Everyone has their fingers crossed that the babies will make an early appearance. So far it hasn't happened. Jen is going in for a stress test tomorrow and the last time the nurse said that if the swelling didn't go down in her feet they might have to do something about it... we'll see what happens since the swelling has gotten worse!! (She's got some big feet and it doesn't look at all comfortable)

We did the usual when we get visitors and a few extras - San Fran, Golden Gate, Zoo, Big Basin, and Gilroy Gardens. The drive to Big Basin was the most brutal drive, we had about 20 miles of hair pin turns on pretty much one lane road. On the way back we saw a biker down around one of the turns. We sat there for about 5 minutes wondering what to do as there was already a crowd around him and there was no cell phone coverage there. Finally the guy got up with some help and they moved his bike out of the way so we could around. I felt bad for the guy since he just biffed a sweet looken Harley. At least he seemed ok. We saw a cop a few miles up and told him about it so hopefully all is good. Some advice if you come across and accident in a remote area, try and write down the exact location. I felt like a moron trying to explain to the cop where it was cuz I really had no clue how far I had driven.

Anyway, here's the video of the week. I'm shooting for a minute or less a week. I left sound out, I'm not really sure if playing music with it is better or worse since my taste in music is terrible.

Weekend Recap

At one time I was going to start a video podcast of mountain biking around here but I didn't want to buy the helmet cam and supporting equipment. I'm thinking instead I'll start a video podcast of the kids growing up so they have something to look back on later in life. I plan on adding a feed to it at some point in time but for now I'll just make the videos. I'll be playing with different formats for these video's in the future and experiment with music as well. This first video has some pretty long scenes that will probably make it boring. This podcast has music because there's hardly any dialog. So here's the first in hopefully a long running series of video podcasts.

Weekend Recap - Twins update

The twins are 5lbs apiece which is above average for one baby at 33 weeks. Jen wouldn't mind if the twins were born today. She asked about being induced around 36 weeks and CA law forbids it before 38 weeks without an Amnio. So she's gotta live with a sore back and all for another 6 weeks or so.

We didn't do much else over the weekend. We enjoyed the great sunny weather as usual. We bought some kites and went to a park with Hayley but it happened to be the one day of the year the wind wasn't blowing.

Happy B-Day Ginger

err - Sorry I'm a day late.

Hope you have fun in FL.

Weekend Recap

Not much happened this weekend other then enjoying 65 degree sunny weather. We decided to buy a new camera that takes better video then our Kodak. We use our camera for 30 second videos quite often so our new camera is much better at taking video. We also wanted a thinner camera as our Kodak is huge. We ended up getting a Canon SD750.