June 2011

Birthday Boy

June, what a month.  Our little boy is now TWO!!  How in the world did two years go by so quickly?!?  He got to have 2 birthday parties.  One on his actually birthday with cake and presents from Mom-Mom and Mommy, Daddy and Aiden.  The second party was a zoo party with some friends.  We had a great time at both parties. 

Hanging around at Little Gym

Asa is now talking up a storm and is almost understandable.  Mommy still needs to translate sometimes though.  He's 33.5" tall and weighs 24 pounds.  He's still on the small side but that's OK.  He finished up his Little Gym class this month.  He'll start again in August.  He has so much fun in class.  We've been busy so he hasn't had a chance to miss it yet.

Crazy hair day at school

Aiden finished up his first year of school on June 25th.  He has learned so much this year.  He can write his name pretty well, he knows all his letters and he can count to at least 30.  Sometimes he can go higher with a little help.

Drew continues to train for his triathlons.  He did one in June, he's got 2 in July, 1 in September and the last one in October.  One of his friends is trying to get him to do the half Ironman triathlon for the one in October.  He's not worried about the swim (1.2 miles I think) or the bike (56 miles).  He's really not sure about the 13.1 mile run.  Me, I would be worried about all of it!! 

The project Drew was working on got canceled.  Luckily he had already found a new job and was able to start it about a week early.  So we weren't with out a paycheck.  This new company does web games which is something Drew hasn't worked on before so he's learning a whole new programming language.  He likes the challenge. 

Here a few pictures of the boys helping Daddy wash his car.  They did a pretty good job.  The boys got SOAKED, but they had a great time!!!

I've been keeping busy myself with the boys and finishing up some projects.  I got involved with a "pay it forward" gift exchange this year.  I promised to make a gift for 5 people if they promised to make a gift for 5 more people and so on.  I made a few sets of notecards with bags for some people I'm not too close to and quilts for everyone else on my list.  It was a total of 2 sets of notecards/bags and 4 quilts. (I added an extra person because I didn't want to say no to anyone)  I wanted to get it all by the end of June.  I got it finished the first week of July.  Not too bad I think.  I might try it again next year, but be a little less ambitious with the project choices.

I've also started thinking about Christmas.  I want to make a bunch of presents this year.  I've started looking around for projects already.  I want to start now so I'm not swamped in December trying to get everything done.

Ok, that's all the news from the Powers family for this month.  Until next month!!

Love,
April, Drew, Aiden and Asa