Isaac's Lego Heroes

You will notice Isaac's drawing from his Primary class last week. Of course he was learning what about the wonderful gifts our Savior has given.

He is also very much into engineering Lego designs. Like all young boys, he also has his heros.

Above you will see the stick figure representing Isaac holding hands with two of his heros: lego Joker (Batman) and.....

lego Jesus.

The Aviator

As you can see, Isaac fancies himself as quite the aviator. His dad assembled the plane, but just couldn't get any lift. Isaac went to get the instructions and showed me that I had put the wings on backwards. Thus, my thrust was not.

The bird still had a few issues as Dad flew it into a tree or two. It seemed to want to enter a death spiral towards the starboard. So we looked a little closer and found that one of the stickers was raised and providing wind resistance. Next, we found the rudder to be off. Once we fixed that, we were able to fly 75 feet.

We were not able to figure out how to turn the thing around and bring it back without crashing. Unfortunately, we lost an engine mount during one of the crashes, so we've applied model epoxy to see if we can master the flight next time.

The Best Birthday Present Ever

As y'all know, we had Superbowl 43 in February. I supposed it's great to have a reminder the month before my birthday. This will become increasingly important as we approach Superbowl L

One of Dad's favorite "jokes" is a response to the question, "What do you give the man that has everything?" Answer? "A box to put it in."

Mom and Dad Parr sent me the most thoughtful gift I've received in a long time--a couple of flying machines to assemble with the little nugget: