Parentheticals

On Monday, Alison got a new bike. It is a Madsen bucket bike, and can hold all of the kids as well as groceries. We hope that Alison will be up to taking trips in it to the library soon, so that they can go to the library every day and Alison will keep in excellent physical condition. If it is too hard, we are going to get her an electric assist to help her on the hilly parts. The bike rides pretty well, and is obviously very well built. On Tuesday they rode the bike to Macey's, which went pretty well, and it was also Sara's date night. For her date we watched Joseph and the amazing technicolor dream coat. Wednesday Alison's parent's moved to California. Now that we have no more parents in Utah, it is much more likely that we are going to move. We do not, however, have any immediate plans to move. On Thursday Alison and the kids went to the pool. The girls all loved the water and swam for a while. Sara got too cold and got out after a while (I used to do that a ...

Tuesday we celebrated Alison's birthday. We had a great party with Sushi for dinner (we went to the sushi place at fort union near the thai food place (Itto Sushi, the one that has really good nigiri)). We opened Alison's presents (the kids helped open them), and did the "Heavy Hangover game", and also the balloon game. For those not initiated in the "Heavy Hangover" game, don't feel left out. I had never heard of it until I married Alison. It involved chanting a poem and bonking the gift recipient on the head with your present. A scouring of the internet only came up with the following scholarly quote: I believe the custom died out in affluent countries when the size and weight of gifts increased and the custom was found to cause unacceptable collateral damage to the upcoming generation of gift recipients. It did, however, have a Darwinian purpose in prehistoric times, when clubs and similar weapons were handed out as gifts and the thin skulls of th...

I have been working on the viking game some more. It is coming along, but it still isn't working very well. I tried it out at work on Thursday, and people said that they liked it, but they were just being nice. I think that it is getting better, however it could be moving along more quickly. This week it rained a lot. We love the rain, because with great rain comes great gardens. Also, we just love the rain in general, since we came from a beautiful place known as north of the Garden of Eden before we entered this lone and dreary wilderness that we call Utah. For Rea's date this week, Mike and the kids watched an episode of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" in which Spike got greedy and turned into a wicked huge dragon until he learned to be generous again. It was apparently a big deal to Timmy. His favorite character is Spike, and after it was over he spent about half an hour grabbing Alison with wide eyes and repeating to her over and over, "Pike! Ra-ra...