Robby Turns Four

Robby had a great dinosaur party for his birthday this year. 

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Fall Album

Here is a little photo album on what we've been up to this fall. We had an awesome Halloween and have just been enjoying this lovely fall weather while it lasts.

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UEA in St. George

We had a good time in St. George last week. Here are some pictures of a hike we took near Snow Canyon.

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Here's a nice little slice of life.

Summer Catch Up

I haven't found the time for posting lately, here is another catch up. 

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Spring Catch Up

Here is a photo album of what we've been up to the past couple of weeks. We are sure enjoying the weather lately, lots of playing outside and yard work going on. I'll probably be posting a few videos in the near future.

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Spring Break Video

SpringBreak14 from Robby Sproul on Vimeo.

Finally got around to making a video for this trip.

Rexburg

Here are a couple pics from our latest trip up to Rexburg last weekend.

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Eggstravaganza/Baby Animal Days

 The Willow Park Zoo had a Eggstravaganza where they placed a whole bunch of plastic eggs filled with treats out on the grass and let the kids make a mad dash to collect as many as they could. After the eggs we met the Easter Bunny and had a good time visiting with the animals.

Baby Animal Days at the American West Heritage Center

Robby got his arm pulled out of the socket playing with a friend so no muttin bustin this year. A little nurse maid elbow won't slow this kid down much. His arm is fine, just a little sore. He'll have a splint for two weeks as a precaution.

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith

We had such a great time at Jenny and Randy's wedding, it was such a beautiful ceremony. I got to meet Randy's family and even some of Karli's family that I have not met before. We are so happy for them and so glad that we could be a part of it. Lil Robby did a great job of carrying this cute little "Here Comes the Bride" sign right before Jenny came down the isle, it was priceless. 

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Spring Break Trip

Since Jenny and Randy's wedding was so close to spring break we decided to take a bunch of time off and make a vacation out of it. First, we went down and stayed in St. George a couple days before heading down to the wedding in Phoenix. We went to Snow Canyon, the dinosaur tracks at Warner Valley and spent the rest of the time just relaxing or preparing for the next part of the trip down to Phoenix. The day after the wedding we went to a spring training game and saw the Red's beat the Mariner's. It was nice to be out in the hot sun, almost too hot. On our way back from Phoenix to St. George we decided to take the scenic route and swung by the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. It was a first for both Karli and lil Robby. It was kind of cold but not the slightest bit crowded which was really nice. Lil Robby's first reaction to walking up to the edge "Wow, that is really cool". I was one proud daddy. I didn't think a 3 year would appreciate something like that and the guy next to us was surprised by his reaction too. Back in St. George we hung out around town and played in the fountains at Town Square. Of course this was followed by onion rings and a malt at Frostop. The next day we went out to Gunlock Reservoir and just about filled it up by throwing a massive amount of rocks in it. We went out to Quail Creek the next day but it was cold and windy so we went over and hung out at the Hurricane Park. It was an awesome trip and we were sad to see it end. It was hard to come back to Logan and get snowed on soon after we got back. I was really getting used to being in shorts and flip flops.
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Marcus Thor Woods

 Marcus Thor Woods was born January 29th. He was 8 lbs 8 oz and 20" long.

We had a fun night hanging out while the Wood's got the night off for a bit.

Idaho Road Trip

 USU's school of business has been broadcasting their MBA program for the past couple years. BYU Idaho approached us last fall about broadcasting up to their campus since they didn't have the resources to start their own program. I've been traveling up to Rexburg here and there over the past couple months to get this thing up and going. This weekend the instructor was originating from Rexburg for the first time and I had to travel up there to make sure things ran smoothly. The classes are Friday nights and Saturday mornings so we got to take a little road trip for Valentine's Day. This would have been a really boring trip but having my family with me made it very enjoyable. This weekend was nice because they only held class on Friday night. We had fun swimming in the pool, checking out what Rexburg had to offer (not much) and just hanging out with each other in the hotel room.

On our way home today he stopped at Lava Hot Springs and soaked in the hot pots. Robby is getting more comfortable with being in water more and more each time. 

The weather was unusually warm so we walked around town, browsed in a couple shops and got some ice cream cones and candy. It felt like spring outside and there was actually a flood warning in the area with all the rain and snow melt run off.

If you know Lava there are some train tracks right across the street from where we took the picture above. A train came right before we took the picture and Robby was waving and yelling, it was so cool when we saw the little engineer's window slide open and stick his hand out and wave back. Robby thought that was pretty awesome. Such a fun weekend and it ain't over yet. My parents are coming up for lunch on Monday so we are looking forward to being lazy tomorrow and spending time with them then. Monday night we are watching Matt and Emily's kids so they can have a night out. That should be fun and I'll have lots of pictures to introduce you all to their new baby boy Marcus, or Thor as he is most commonly called.

Work Videos

Lil Robby usually steals the show on this blog but here are a few videos of some cool stuff I've been doing at work. These videos were produced by a furniture company we collaborated with in the design of one of our latest distance education classrooms. A couple weeks ago I presented at my first professional conference (ACUTA) down in Phoenix on this kind of stuff. My presentation topic was on Breaking Down Barriers Using Video Conferencing, it was a pretty neat experience. 

Union Station

Lil Robby and I have had a great weekend while Karli is down in Phoenix for Jenny's bridal shower. On Friday we went sledding in all the new snow but after one ride down the hill he was done and just wanted to play on the playground equipment. I really didn't mind, I probably would have called it quits after carrying him up the hill a few times. After Robby ate a really good diner we went to the Bluebird for a banana split, it's my favorite place to go get ice cream because of the old soda fountain shop feel it has to it. After that we went to the Fun Park and had all sorts of fun. Saturday we woke up and went down to Union Station in Ogden.

 This a pretty popular spot for family pictures, groups were constantly showing up even in the rain.

 Robby had a good time operating whatever this little thing is. He also enjoyed playing with the gravel surrounding the exhibits in this room. All this neat stuff and he immediately goes right for the rocks.

 Checking out the golden spike. I thought this was the actual one but after looking online now I guess several were made and I don't know the significance of this particular one. I found it hard to read all the exhibits like I normally would, this little three year old is not very good at staying put in one spot for very long.

Cut out of a real engine cab, Robby had fun driving the train. (I think I had more fun driving it than he did)

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Memorial Day Weekend 2011 Video

Mem2011VidRedo from Robby Sproul on Vimeo.

This was one the first videos I posted to the blog. It was originally posted in such low quality that I thought I should fix it up a little.

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Planetarium

 We had a great time at the Clark Planetarium today.

Mars is actually quite pleasant this time of year.

Christmas

Christmas was a lot of fun this year. Robby's at an age where he gets it so that made it more special. We spent Christmas Eve visiting my family in Farmington and then Karli's in Salt Lake. After we left Jim and Cindy's we went downtown to walk around and look at the Christmas lights before we headed home.  Christmas was at our house and Karli's family came over for dinner. It was really nice to have  Jenny and Randy up to visiting from Phoenix. Can't wait to go down there in two months for their wedding.

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Robby's 3rd Birthday!

I'm a little late in posting this but Lil Robby turned 3 about a month ago. Here are some pictures from his birthday party.

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