My amazing 3D artist!

So, have I mentioned how incredibly proud I am of my amazing hubby? He has worked so hard this semester compiling one of his best animations yet! He began putting this together as an idea for his capstone project which he is no longer using. However, he happened upon this idea while thinking about his childhood. He had a dear friend who struggled with cancer for many years. Throughout all of his trials, he remained incredibly positive, accomplishing many things that are still helping other children. Shortly after he was diagnosed, he became very sore and weak, requiring crutches and a wheelchair. Ryan so vividly remembers the time they spent at a local golf course and the fun times they had. Keeping this in mind...watch Ryan's demo and listen to the words in the song. It is amazing the emotion you can feel while you watch this beautiful animation. Way to go honey!!!!

http://inspiralmedia.com/clips/golf.html

Cat Numero 5'o!

Helmont helped us rescue our feral friend #5 recently. "Squeaky" or "Princess Sophia" or "Harvey" is doing well. She loves Tiger and is finally warming up to people ... finally. She's a Tortise Shell Calico - very energetic (most especially at 3am!).

Lexi in JibJab!

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Wish We Were Still Here

We had an absolutely amazing time on vacation this year. Was it the octupus, the crabs, the sea turtles, the diving, the amazing food, or the best virgin pina coladas ever? No....it was 9 whole days kid-free!! It was our first vacation together without Lexi and we had a marvelous time. However by the end of the week we were beginning to miss her terribly. It is probably a good thing she didn't come with us though; we probably wouldn't have come home! There isn't a lot of pictures, but we spent so much time under the water. Next time, we need an underwater camera!

This is the view from our room...can't you just see yourself sitting on the beach drinking a virgin pina colada?

Sunset on the beaches of Grand Cayman. You can't see in the picture but it is raining out on the horizon.

Ry-love getting ready for a dive.

Are we loving the pink yet? (My fins and mask are pink too!)

And we're off!!

The Boys

David, Ryan, Chris, and Steve

Our last night in Cayman. (You can't see it in the picture, but we are really crying;)

Can't wait until next year!!!

After finding claw marks on the counches, Stumpy climbing up the curtains, Stumpy climbing up Ryan's back, and Stumpy clawing Tiger in the face we decided it was necessary to declaw her. Is this not the most pitiful thing ever? She has gotten royal treatment the past couple of days and is loving every second of it. Lexi and I of course loved the hot pink bandages she had.

Happy Easter!

I was truly impressed by Lexi this weekend. With all the fuss we make about candy and the Easter Bunny this time of year, I am happy to say that the Easter Bunny was not even mentioned in our home until Saturday afternoon when I finally brought it up to Lexi. She has been going on about how Easter is about Jesus. I noticed today at church that many of the preschool age children were talking about Easter being about Jesus not the Easter Bunny. I am very impressed with our little guys at church. They are completely innocent and pure in heart. No one on this earth reminds me more of the Savior than these little ones. Their example and influence are inspiring.

The Toothfairy to Visit Tonight!

After long weeks of wiggling and wiggling, the unthinkable happened today. Lexi, while playing with the broomstick, lost her first tooth. After the initial shock that it was finally out, the next thing she said of course was..."Will the tooth fairy come tonight?"

Electronic Nightmares

Have I ever told anyone how electronically cursed I am? So cursed that I went looking for a guy that could supply me with all my electronic needs. Well, apparently I am rubbing off. February has been the month of sorrow for electronics in our home.

It all began when I gave my sister and brother-in-law one of the computers we weren't using because Ry got a new computer for Christmas. Woohoo we did something nice and got rid of one of the extra pieces of machinery that I have no idea how to use. Shortly after that both of Ryan's external hard drives failed. This is where he stores his life accomplishments. All of his projects for school, work, his demo, his script that he has been working on, all of my pictures. Now you have to understand that we backed everything up on both hard drives that way if one failed we would have it on another. Who could have known that they would both fail at the same time on the same day?

By that night we have found a program that can repair the hard drives. By the next morning the scans were only half way done and eventually failed. So, Ryan being the ever so hopeful continues to look for something that will fix them. He finds a program that will allow him to recover the files and then put them onto a computer. So, we begin this process. The next morning one of the hard drives has completed the scan. However, the second hard drive was unable to scan because the computer that I am now using since we gave my sis the other computer overheated!! (no worries ash) So we begin the process again and by that night with only 5 minutes to go it overheats again!! Needless to say we were able to recover both hard drives and Ryan recovered everything he needed. Both are working again.

My computer however...we now know that one of the fans is not working, the keyboard only works if you take out the battery and the screen will not hold itself up anymore.

Next in our list is our wonderful cars. 5 days before taking our car in for routine maintenance our car fails to start and I have to leave the Children's museum to go help Ryan jump the CAR. (hehe) We eventually start it and take it in for maintenance. After being there for 1 day they call to let us know that there is approximately $10,000 worth of work that needs to be done on the car. YIKES! We very politely said we only need the car to run and that lowered the bill about $8,500. So we get the car back and it begins to smell terribly. I call and they say just to bring it in the next morning. I go to have dinner with Ryan and he asked me to pop the hood. Apparently smoke was billowing out of the hood. We take it back up there and they missed a substantial oil leak that was leaking on to the engine and burning. This turned into a $1800 deal and in the process they broke something while fixing the broken something. Obviously they did not make us pay for that. We picked upthe car today and there is no smells or smokes that shouldn't be there. Is the month over yet?

The Wing family is proud to present...

Presenting the new addition to the Wing family...

Jezebel Stumpy-butt Wing (Squirt)

Jezzie joined our family almost two weeks ago. She is absolutely adorable and as sweet as can be. Her youthful personality is rubbing off on the other animals. Lexi is having a hard time understanding why she can't pick her up and drag her around the house. She is fitting right in with our little family.

Made in the USA

Just when you thought you couldn't find anything made in the USA...

You find this...

I am glad to know that as difficult as it is to find things made in the United States we can still find Chineese food. Leave it to the Chineese.