Annual Rivalry Game

Courgars' win 26-23 over the Running Utes.

Very nice! Ute quarterback Wynn will have me rushing to buy a red jersey if BYU cannot find a good replacement for Max Hall.

Utah vs TCU

What a fun game to watch. Especially if you're not a super duper Ute fan.

When TCU thumped on BYU a few weeks ago I heard overzealous Ute fans trash BYU big time. Any TCU possession and any mistakes by BYU was immediately followed with lots of cheer. Yet tonight, while enjoying dinner with my wife at Legends (downtown Salt Lake), there wasn't a whole lot of celebration going on. All the bragging was put to a halt in just few short minutes of the start of the ball game.

Supporting my Cougars, I ensured my loyalty by wearing my birthday present given to me by Amanda--a BYU hoody. As I entered and passed through Legends towards the back room, I couldn't help but notice the silence in the room as I walked passed the sea of red jerseys everywhere. Then, someone from a far yelled out "BYU Suck". I turned, smiled widely and said, "Go TCU." Just after halftime the bar began to look desolate. Bah ha ha ha...!

I certainly like any Utah team who wins but, when Ute fans bash BYU for no apparent reason other than pure hatred, I can't help but laugh out loud. Especially when these fans rationalize and blame everything and everyone else for their loss.

Kudos to the 4th ranked TCU football team. They played like champions.

November 12, 2009

Just a quick update on life.

Becca is working long and hard hours between teaching preschool, raising the kiddies and going to school herself. The light at the end of the tunnel doesn't come around until mid December sometime.

Amanda, Aysia and Aidan are enjoying school thus far. Becca and I have been impressed to see the progression they're making and enjoy seeing much of the creative artwork they bring home to share with us. Aysia and Aidan are still trying to learn the concept of doing homework before playing. Makes me wonder how far in life I could have gone had I done the same thing back in day.

Little Alec is the energizer battery! He enjoys participating in preschool on Tuesday's and Thursday's then off and plays at Taunie's Monday, Wednesday and Friday's. He is defiant to do and see things his way. He can be quite the menace from time to time. We love our kids so very much.

A new addition to our family is little Peanut. She's approximately a twelve week old teacup schnauzer with liver party colors. Max is no longer alone and soon to be madly in love--he just doesn't know it yet. Lets hope he gets lucky this time and finally earn his keep. He has only survived this long because he continues to fertilize our backyard trees.

Me? Nah...nothing interesting there. Work, eat and sleep is the name of the game.

Happy soon to be Thanksgiving Holiday to all.

ALEC
Baby Alec Comes home from the hospital 06-08-06

Alec has always loved bath time
Little Al's 2nd birthday.

Playing at Chuck E Cheese on Adison's birthday

Alec Bowling at Amanda's birthday

Alec with Aunt Jan's phone. DON'T try to take it away. He gave Poppi what for for taking it.

Feeding the Chickens at Farmer's Bob's

Smashing Box Elder Bugs with a baby hammer.

Alec in Grandpa's boat 08-08

AYSIAPutting together a puzzle and playing with
playdough at Grandma's house

Kids dancing at Grandma Boam's dance

Easter egg hunt at Gramee's

Easter 2009

Aysia at Grandma's - Lauren curled her hair for her.
Aysia playing soccer
Aysia sitting in the firetruck in Ryan Park WY
Fishing in Ryan Park WY
Aysia tubing at East Canyon Reservoir

Aysia fishing at East Canyon Reservoir

Amanda Elizabeth Sinclair

AMANDA

Amanda Watching Aysia's soccer game

Amanda helping out at the preschool Easter Egg Hunt

Easter at Grandma Williams' house

Amanda opening birthday presents

Amanda and dad at her dance recital

Amanda and Aidan Swimming at East Canyon Reservoir

Amanda Driving the Grandpa's boat
Amanda and Alec fishing

Aidan William Sinclair

AIDAN

Aidan watching Aysia's soccer game

Aidan's preschool graduation

Aidan on Easter Egg Hunt
Aidan at park
Aidan caught a fish in WY with the help of Uncle Ron
Hiking in WY

Aidan and Aysia trying on the firefighter's gear in WY
Aunt Elizabeth is a volunteer firefighter.
Aidan playing T-ball
Aidan tubing with dad at East Canyon Reservoir
Aidan and Alec East Canyon Reservoir

Fast and Testimony

Yeah...it's already the 2nd day of March and before you know it Christmas will be here once again. Life living seems to gain momentum each day. Nostalgic childhood memories, the days seemed to last forever by comparison.

Yesterday Becca stood up and bore her testimony in Sacrament meeting. She shared a story her father told her the day before about a Pioneer ancestor who had lived a life full of difficult challenges. Becca specifically mentioned how thankful she was for the blessings she enjoys each day--our children, our family. Instead of worrying about the her own challenges in life that may not surmount to those challenges of her ancestor, she's "...counting her blessings..." for things worthwhile.

After Becca returned from the stand, Aysia built up the courage to bare her testimony for the very first time. So danty and nearly all grown up at age seven, Aysia confidently stood at the pulpit and told the crowd she knew the Church was true and that she loved her Mom and Dad. Wow...I'm still smiling. It's occasions like these that reinforces the importance of the gospel in each of our lives--totally priceless!

Draper Temple Open House

This past weekend I, Bill, have reached a milestone birthday and have officially began counting down on what birthdays I may have remaining (just kidding). My good friends Bruce T., Jay L., and John P., took me out for night of BBQ bliss to a place called Pat's, in your face, BBQ located in South Salt Lake City. There are some pretty good eats there!

Another highlight of mine this past weekend of celebration was the opportunity to take the family to the new Draper (UT) Temple Open-house. I recommend all who can visit this building to do so from now until March 14th. The craftsmanship and design of the inside and outside are astonishing--very Celestial. We very much enjoyed our visit. The children really liked the cookie snacks available at the end of our visit too. Mmmm...cookies!

New Year - starts with a BANG!

So I'm wondering if Alec is a cat. He must have nine lives...and I'm not sure how many he's used up already!

On January 4th, he undoubtedly retired one.

Sunday evening Billy went with Aysia to see Grandma Boam and take her some rice pudding. I was in the hall looking in the closet for some medication when I heard both my boys scream. Adian only once, but Alec kept screaming. It's one of those that you know something is really wrong. A terrified and pained scream. I ran to the family room, and Alec was already running to me still terrified and crying. He jumped into my arms and was shaking all over. I asked him what happened. He showed me his hand, the palm was completely black, but wouldn't say anything. He was crying and even though I was holding him he acted like he couldn't get close enough, like he wanted to climb inside me. But, I couldn't get a thing out of him. Aidan finally pointed behind the couch and said he was back there. When I looked behind the couch I almost had a heart attack myself. Which in turn set Alec into histerics again. What I saw was a key hanging out of the electrical socket, and all around it the wall was black. My devil child tried to electricute himself.

I quickly took him into the kitchen to clean his hand off and run it under cold water; so I could see how bad it was. His ring and pinky fingers had big blisters on them. And one blister one his palm just under his ring finger. I made a bucket of ice water and made him soak it while I called Billy.

Alec's bandaged hand

Billy had said just days before when we both kept telling him to stop playing with the plug to the space heater, that "...he's going to end up learning his lesson the hard way". Which at the time gave me a terrible feeling of forboding.

What's left of the keys - notice I can no
longer drive the jeep with this one!

The key ring that the keys had been on was melted through. He was lucky to have only used one hand to insert the keys one at a time. What we have put together with my dad's help is that he put in the first key (all metal) and the second key followed (which had a rubber cover on the top). When he put the second key in, it arched and fried his hand; giving him a good a zing I'm sure. He let go and only the fingers that were not holding the rubber part of the key ended up blistered, but the whole thing was black!

If he had put both keys in at the same time, one in each hand, the current would have travelled up his arm, through his chest and down the other arm. Most likely this would have stopped his heart. I would have found him 5-10 minutes later when I went looking for him. Because he's never quiet for long, unless he's getting into trouble.

He likes playing with my keys. I have the keyless entry on mine. He likes to set off the alarm. Now... I keep my keys up on a cupboard above the stove. So luckily the stove wasn't in use, and hadn't been for a few hours. Because he climbed up to get them first. And instead of setting off the car, he decided to hide behind the couch and stick them into those curious holes in the wall!

Aysia and Aidan showing off Aysia's snow flake.

Remember Billy had a cold over New Years? Well, I felt like I was coming down with a cold Wednesday evening. I figured it was my turn for Billy's stupid cold. But on Thursday I had a parent of one of my students call to say her daughter had strep. She had been to class on Wednesday, but was sick on Thursday. Well, my symptoms got worse, and Billy insisted on testing me for strep. So he went into work Friday afternoon to put in some over time on a special project and tested my specimen. It came back with a faint positve. When he got home I went to Instacare and it was confired. I have strep. The symptoms at this point were getting a lot worse. I could hardly swallow for the pain. I now have antibiotics and am a bit better. I hope the whole pre-k doesn't end up coming down with it; also Taunie's family. I spent a few minutes there on Friday after pre-k when I went down to pick-up Alec. I would hate to be the cause of an outbreak! Well, it started with my student, but I ignored my symtoms thinking they was something less.

Amanda came over yesterday to open her Christmas presents.
We haven't seen her since just after Thanksgiving.

All the kids

Amanda and her pile of presents

Aidan opening his gift from Amanda

Angel and Aidan during pre-k snack time.

This week we learned about the five sense. On Friday we talked about the sense of touch. Here Aidan, Brynlee and Chloe are finishing the pudding they were finger painting with. Notice Aidan is using both hands and is the messiest!

Next we explored our sense of touch with Gooey Gak.
Aidan, Brynlee and Chloe

(Jonah), Angel and her cousin Kaitlyn are having fun with it too.

Paige brought some pretty smelling lotion for show and tell on Thursday. Here she is letting Eleanor smell it. I'm not sure why but it looks more like Ellie's about to taste it instead of smell it.

Well, that's it for now. I hope you are all well. We are praying for Christy and Michael's family. And we are getting very anxious for Gramee and Poppi to come home!