Silas' Birthday

Tami has a new camera and I'm not sure where everything is to download he pictures from Silas' birthday. I will write a little bit about it and then Tami can post the pictures later.

Silas understands the birthday thing to some extent. He knows that you get presents but he doesn't quite understand when or where. He has been asking for a towtruck for about two months. If a store had a tow truck and we left without it, he would get very angry. Tami took him to Costco and they saw a tow truck there. They left without and he told her that she needed to turn around right now and get that truck.

On the day of his birthday, we had fun too. We had all of his presents and we were going to save the tow truck until last. That didn't work very well. He opened the first present (a sticker book) and there was a combination of sad and mad that we had not seen before. He said, "No this is not for my birthday......I get a tow truck for my birthday." He almost started to cry so we pulled out the tow truck package and told him to open it. It was really funny because he was so excited about getting a present that he already expected to get. He still doesn't quite understand everything when it comes to birthdays but don't mess with that kids gifts.

I was in Lake Louise for budget meetings this past week. There were a few of us that wanted to jog the trails around the lake. The first day we took the trail that followed the shore of the lake. People were dressed in snow suits and hats and had all sorts of winter gear on. We were running in shorts and sweatshirts. They all looked at us like we were crazy. The second day, we decided to push ourselves a little bit harder. We were going to jog the trail that went to a lake that was further up in the mountains. There were four of us that day. We started to jog up the trail and it got steep very quickly. We ended up jogging about 50 yards and then walking fast, then we went down to a slow walk until we made it to the half way point and it was starting to get dark. We decided to turn around. Only because it was dark of course and we didn't want to be out there when it got really cold.

I'm going to end the blog on a good note. Elias' football team won a game yesterday. We were all surprised. We knew that if they didn't win this one, we might not win another one all year. The team they played hadn't won a game yet and probably won't if we beat them. Then we found out the worst news of the year. We were expecting next week to be his last game of the season. Then they told us that all teams get to go to the playoffs no matter how bad they are. All of the parents were really hoping that they only took the good teams with winning records. The only good I see in all of this is that maybe we can get some real football weather by then. That will separate the true fans from the want to be fans.