Matthew's Graduation

Yes we are very proud parents! Matthew graduated today from Utah State University. He majored in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in aerospace.

Matthew seems to have a certain criteria in his friend selection. Just about all of his friends names are Aaron. We finally were able to meet two of them this year. (Pictured above with Matthew is one of them.)

The three of them took a class building a rocket. He and his class mates took their rocket to Huntsville Alabama for a contest sponsered by NASA. Their rocket so far has won Best Overall Design with an emphasis on the safety. Matthew just happened to be in charge of the safety portion of the rocket.

The rocket above is the first rocket that Matthew actually built himself. This rocket was used for Matthew's qualifaction. He had to take a test and shoot off this rocket so that he could be the safety officer.

This is the rocket that they flew in Hunstville. Pictured is Aaron, Matthew and Dan.

This is what was left of the first rocket they were hoping to use in the competition. As you can see, there wasn't much left of their 7 1/2 foot rocket. They had to rebuild.

Below is the actual graduation. The two guys that received their diploma before Matthew are the two Aarons. Yep I'm not surprised they were together.

Bunny rolls

Last week Tania came home with roll in the shape of a bunny. So now she would like to make some for Easter. I am hearing all of this through my husband so I hope that I relate this story accurately. Anyway, Tania told my husband they needed to go to Costco so they could get some of this dough that they used to make these bunnies. David had just made some Rhodes rolls that morning, so he said that we all ready had the dough. It would be the same stuff that he had used to make his rolls. Tania was pretty adamant that she needed to go to Costco to get this dough, David's dough was not the right stuff. Somewhere in all this David convince Tania to call a friend and ask her what dough she should buy at Costco. David overheard the phone conversation. Her friend Katie told her to buy this dough spelled "r" "h" "o" "b" "e" "s". David then said "Well Tania, that's what we have is Rhodes dough." Tania was still convinced that we had the wrong dough. So David pulled the package out of the freezer and said "Tania, what is the name of this dough. Look at how it is spelled. Do you think maybe it is the same dough?" Thus with Tania looking at the package and comparing the spelling she realized we have the right dough. David said she did her really cute "hehe" laugh. He got quite a chuckle.

So I guess we will have bunny rolls for Easter now. At least someone in my family is trying to make Sunday a little bit special. I am generally not very good about doing anything for Easter. I am so busy with work every year at this time that I just don't have time to plan anything.

Our nephew just got home from his mission.

Our nephew just got home from his mission. Yep he went to
Ukraine. So tonight we went down to Spanish Fork (David's parents house) to see
him. It's a little ironic that we drove so far to see him when he lives in
walking distance of our home.

The kids had a great time talking to him. Before we could all get into the
house the three of them were talking Ukrainian/Russian. It was really cute.
David and I plied him with questions about anything from food, to housing, to
baboushkas, to language, to statues. As the subject would change away from
Ukrainian things, our nephew and our two kids would go into the kitchen and
talk Ukrainian. They would come back into the living room and talk for a little
while and then go back into the kitchen and talk Ukrainian.

After a while we asked our nephew if all of our questions were bothering him.
His answer - "no you have asked the most meaningful questions anyone has asked
me so far. Everyone else just asks how was the mission?"