My Goodness, Where have we been?

Geez,  my blogging keep-up has been awful.  I'm sorry Grammies and all.

Let's start over with two weeks ago. We decide to have a fun night on the Saturday by taking the boys to a hibachi Japanese place where they got to watch the chef cook up things right in front of them.  Aidan was really into it and loved watching the chef....Mooks was a little spooked, but did pose for this classic picture with Daddy.

You lookin' an me?!?

The Lions keep chugging along in indoor soccer, we're not the best team in the bunch but Aidan makes sure to tell us each week that it's not about winning or losing, but about having fun!  And that is the truth.

Aid taking a pass from his teammate. (the lighting there is awful, sorry I don't have more pictures).

That's about it for last weekend...pretty boring. Cold weather and not much fun.

Fast forward to this weekend and today most specifically, the weather here was wonderful and we made sure to get outside as soon as the boys got up from nap.  We handed them some apples, strapped them into the "double-double" stroller and headed up to the school playground!

Too cool guys in the sun!

Da Mooks takes the first plunge down the bumpy slide!

Standin' tall, the big guy's ready to play!

Through the snaking tunnel!

We got their hair cut on Saturday, it always makes them look so much older!

Mookie up on top!

The Frost Biker Gang strikes again.

E can really go once he gets those little legs movin'

Finally the big guy takes a break, or something like that...

Well, that's all for tonight.  I have to thank Grammy P for sacrificing and coming over to St. Louis this week while I head to New York and Mommy works her tail off during "Train the Trainer" week.  I cannot thank you enough for doing this....it helps us out so much and you get to see your Grandsons again!!  Only wish you could stay longer and be with them. We'll try to help make that happen...Love ya Grammy.

We've got a big, big thing coming just 6 days from today!  The boys first trip to WDW...we can't wait!

Thanks for reading,
Ty, Emmy, Aidan and Ethan

New Horizons...

It's been some kinda crazy couple of weeks here at the FFA.  Daddy's been travelling quite a bit, although two weeks ago, it was being at the Boeing Leadership Center here in St. Louis.  Last week, it was in Seattle, Washington to support my new job inside the Big B.  This new role, officially known as a Supplier Program Manager in the International Strategic Partnerships Group, will have me be responsible for most of our supplier interactions for foreign military offset for the entire Pacific Northwest and solely for the P-8I Maritime Aircraft for India.  Lot to take in there, first:  Offset.  When a country spends billions of dollars on our aircraft, they often need to please their citizens when that much of their citizens' tax money is coming to the USA.  To do that, they write "offset" clauses into the sale, such that the US (i.e. Me) needs to work with suppliers of the P-8I to encourage that they build some of the airplane parts, or transfer some technical knowledge or somehow give them (the Indians) something intangible that they can use to benefit the general industry in their country.  Sounds fair?  Well, not really.  But this is how the world works in a global economy.  For us to win any competition on the global scale, we need to offer "offset" otherwise, some other country with a competing airplane will...and they will get the sale.  Now, most certainly, we're not giving away our most secret stuff....but ultimately both parties win; we sell airplanes and they get an airplane and some technical knowledge skills.   Now, onto the airplane...you can read all about it here.

So...Mommy had the boys this week and everyone did awesome as expected.  I missed the darn Super Bowl because I was flying and more importantly I missed these fun times below....

After Daddy headed out, it was cookie time and Aidan had to really get into it...hope you like smelly feet with your cookies!  Just kidding!

Mommy sent me this picture and I couldn't believe that both my boys were riding cycles using the pedals!!  Such big guys!

The weather must have been pretty nice, since they were outside with no coats...in February!

Ethan the pedal man!

Mommy had a Super Bowl Cookie Decorating party!  Look how those little decorators go!

Looks like they were little samplers too!

Much of Daddy's week was full of meetings, but I did bring the camera to get a few shots around town.  Here's a few:

Best shot of the week, morning sunrise of Mount Rainier in front of Lake Washington....nice.

Seattle is Airliner-City!  Here's a bunch of 787s (our newest model) and 737s hanging out at Boeing Field in Tukwila, Washington. 

More 787s including serial number 0001 on the left, that's the 1st Boeing 787 produced!

So here's a P-8A (the US Navy's version) can't see much other than it is a 737 with a bunch of antennas and no windows. 

The Museum of Flight is in Seattle and this poor Concorde sits outside in the elements...pretty booty considering there's only like 6 of them in the world left. Oh well. 

Downtown Seattle, Space Needle to the left behind the baseball and football stadiums.

So also during this week, the boys got some fun Valentine's Stuff from their Grammies...thank you Grammy T and P!

That's all for tonight! Have a great night everyone!

Thanks for reading,

Ty, Emmy, Aidan and Ethan

Monster Day!!!

Well, February 4th was a day that Daddy and Aidan had been looking forward to for a long time.  It was truly a "Monster Day"!

First, Aidan's first Indoor Soccer game of his soccer career and his team won!  The Lions were taking on the Jaguars and Aid was quite the impact player, chasing down the ball and really being aggressive (in a nice way of course).  Lot a fun, check the pictures below!

Waiting patiently with his team before getting in!

Here we go!

What?!?

Schmoozing with Coach Zack...he's also the referee.

And now a video of the man in action....he's gotten better at chasing down the ball, but overall, you can tell he's having fun!

OK, last night was Monster Jam.   The yearly celebration of awesome, powerful and loud Monster Trucks!!

This year, we got "pit passes" so we could go down and see the trucks and meet the drivers.  It was pretty busy, but we made the most of it...and got that one picture that made it magical.

Monster Aidan...Monster Jam...on the floor!

In front of the most popular truck of all time, Grave Digger.

 Monster Energy Truck!

Aid and some other boys got down and did some playing on the real Monster Jam dirt!

El Toro Loco....one of our favorites!

A new truck to the circuit...the Ice Cream Man!

Ironman....Really nice looking truck!

Digger...everyone's favorite (although, it really didn't do well last night)

Bounty Hunter, wait to you see what happened to this truck later!!

More Toro Loco!  Look how big that truck is!

Now, fun story here....we've seen Monster Jam on the TV a few times, and every time this driver, Linsey Weenk comes on, Aidan say, "I bet he's a really nice guy".  He's a pretty good driver and has won lots of races and he was at the Dome last night.  Lines were pretty long for autographs, but we were persistent and waited until the very end. After a bit of coaxing, I was able to convince Aid to get a picture with Mr. Weenk. And you know what....he IS a really nice guy.  By far my new favorite driver...I give you, Linsey Weenk....a really nice guy!

I wished him "Good Luck", Aidan thanked him and we shook hands....That guy stood down there for 3 hours and signed autographs and took pictures and right near the end, he still had was tolerant and gave Aid and I a great memory.  Thanks Linsey!

Now onto the racing!!  

Well the Ice Cream Man stunk.  Like two jumps and he was completely disabled.

Ironman was awesome, look at that air!

Bounty Hunter lost his back tire about 10 seconds into the run....then he completed the rest of the 90 second run with THREE WHEELS including some amazing jumps...and he still lost the competition....I call BS.  I mean he raced on THREE WHEELS the whole time!  Come on Judges!

Big Digger air!

Finally the winner of the Freestyle, Tom Meents and Max D!  Watch...it's awesome.

Alright, that's all for today!

Have a Monster Day everyone!
Ty, Emmy, Aidan and Ethan