Go Broncos

It is SO FUN to live in a city with a professional team that is well known and good!  As a child I had a good run with the Jazz from like 95 -97 with Stockton and Malone - but they could never deliver!  Now my kids are enjoying, to the fullest extent, the joy of winning national championships.  They love the Broncos and truly enjoy watching all the games and following their stats.  It is really fun.  We were so excited for them to go to the the Super Bowl.  Go Broncos!

Pine Wood Derby

Brock participated in his first Pine Wood Derby.  Of course it was a Bronco car.  They made it the shape of an airplane wing.  Jason swore it was the way his brother Matt always built his car and he always won.  Brock and Jason had a fun time building it and painting it and Brock was VERY proud of his car.  Unfortunately right before the race we had some wood chip off under one wheel that made the car wobble.  So we didn't win - but Brock didn't care - he raced great and was thrilled to have built it.

The next month we had the Rain Gutter Regatta.  Our Cub Scout Master is kind of really into us building stuff every month.  Needless to say, Brock and Jason have been spending a lot of time together.

The great Lego sort of 2016

January is always a hard month for me (January - March if we are really being honest).  They are also hard for the kids (probably just because I am in a bad mood).  Well  - we needed an activity  AND both Noah and Megan had been asking to rebuild past Lego creations that had gotten broken and the pieces were "lost" in the giant Lego tub.  So one day we decided to start sorting.  I knew that if everything got sorted we could easily rebuild all their old stuff.  Well, we sorted and sorted and sorted.  About 12 hours later (over the space of 3 days) we sorted all of our Legos into about 100 different categories.  It was intense - but actually really fun and very rewarding.  We were able then to pull out all of their old instructions and rebuild things.  It was also very rewarding to find out that we haven't really lost much.  When something calls for 26 very specific kind of pieces and I think "no way we have those still - I have seen them laying all over the house for the past year" and then we end up with exactly 26 - it made me feel like maybe we aren't as chaotic as it seems.  We kept things sorted for a few weeks - but eventually (for space reasons) we had to consolidate.  We condensed it down to about 10 different categories.

They still have their things built and it provided (and still provides) hours and hours of fun.  My kids love to build with Legos and also play with what they built - I love it.  (except Brock - he says, "I am not that in to Legos).