Will went for his first swim today. He seemed to like it while he was in the hot tub but he did not enjoy it when it was time to get out. The other picture is from a few weeks ago when Spencer went in the pool for the first time. He was not very excited and was looking exceedingly pale.

This is the back of Spencer's head. Saturday night as we were getting ready for bed a very hyper Spencer was showing of some "cool moves" when he fell and put the back of his head into the coffee table. There was lots of blood and screaming. Luckily Joe Hamilton who is in our ward is a Physicians Assistant and lives just down the street from us. He came right over and took a look at it and said we could take him in and they would staple it, but if it were his kid he would just leave it since it is in his hair and will not be seen unless he goes bald anytime soon.

Here is everyone before church. Props to Grandma for Aubrey's dress!

Most people wouldn't consider 60 degrees to be an ideal water temperature for swimming but don't tell that to the Polar Bear!

Spencer actually chose to read this book on his own. It is one of his favorite books and we hope if he reads it enough maybe some of it will sink in.

Happy Easters!

GPS Navigation at it's best!

Last Saturday some friends and I went four wheeling up in the mountains when we came upon this scene at about 6000 feet elevation in the middle of absolutely nowhere. This begs the question: How do brand new 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix sedans come to rest on the tops of mountains miles away from the nearest paved road? Perhaps a great flood deposited here a la the ark and Mount Ararat. Maybe it was a giant tornado, is that a foot sticking out from under the car?

In reality this is a perfect example of why when querying your GPS navigation system for directions you may want to ask for the "best route" as opposed to the "shortest route". One of the guys I was riding with happens to work for the tow truck company that is supposed to recover this vehicle as soon as the weather permits and told us the story behind it.

Back in mid December a couple of guys who work for Chevron were visiting from out of the country and rented this car at Meadows Field in Bakersfield. On the weekend they decided to make a trip to our local ski area, Alta Sierra, and asked the cars navigation system for the shortest route to get there. Rather then send then on the well maintained, paved roads which are available to travel to Alta Sierra, the GPS calculated a shorter route which involved traveling through a warren of dirt trails which I'm surprised it even knew about since I wouldn't really classify them as roads. Anyway these guys set off, following the instructions of the GPS, trusting that is somehow had more sense than they did. Most of us would have turned around when the pavement ended and the road became a rutted, rock-strewn trail. We certainly would have headed back when the dirt turned to mud and then snow, but not these guys. Maybe where they came from all the the roads are crappy and they didn't really see a problem. Anyway they eventually reached a point where they could no longer move forward or backward and ended up having to abandon the car and walk 12 miles back to a paved road for help. That night it snowed allot and it has snowed allot since making it impossible to retrieve the car for these past few months. Needless to say this has turned out to be a very expensive car rental and a reminder that technology doesn't always trump common sense.