good dad

craig is the best dad ever.  he is constantly doing things to help our family.  he is so so busy at work right now and yet, since the kids had the day off school, he took the day off and took sam and isaac skiing.  they always come home with the best stories that i know the kids will remember and i know they will remember how much their dad did for them when they were growing up.  today isaac decided to wear a "camelback", a canteen backpack, so he would have water to drink all day.  apparently the tube got stuck on the chairlift and he couldn't get off.  he laughed when he told me that they had to stop the lift and it took "like five minutes" to extract him from the chair.  after skiing, craig took the boys out for dinner in park city, came home, took isaac to baseball practice and then they are going to have isaac's pinewood derby car shaped at someone's shop.  i feel asleep last night early, but i heard that craig was up until after 1:00 a.m. working on the wheels for isaac's car.  this is only one day in his life.  imagine 364 similar days in 2011.

jake declined skiing because of a headache.  my immediate thought was brain tumor, but that's probably overkill.  instead he spent the day studying for the act and reading the ap psych textbook.  he's not taking the class.  he heard that you could study the book and pass the test.

i know evan is hurting today.  another of his best friends is leaving for the mtc in the morning.  i'm sure june 1 seems so far away, but i know if he stays busy at school, it will be here before he knows it.

caroline and i went to gardner village today.  we had a great time together browsing the various shops.  we should do that more often.