Cricket goes for a walk

Macgyver lives on...

So every time we go to a garage sale, or one of Haven's friends house and he sees one of those Little Tikes cars, he MUST ride on it. He loves them. We were going to pick up one, but we really don't have a lot of room in our house with all the billion other toys, cars, etc.. so we never really thought it would be a good idea. Yesterday I got to work and the place where i always park is a consignment shop, and every now and then they throw out stuff. We got this kid booster seat there a while back that was the exact replica of the other kid booster seat, so that was cool. But this time BOOM the car was sitting there. Well of course I couldn't pass that one up. FREE is the new awesome in the Cardine home. Look at some of the things jen has scored in the last couple months
. So i brought the car home and while i was cleaning it, I noticed that there was no steering wheel. At first I was just going to leave it like that but the first thing Haven said was of course, "Where da deering wheel". And Maiya sat there trying to grab the invisible wheel. So there kicked in my Macgyver sense. I found and old PS1 controller in my basement, cut up an old curtain rod, and found some electrical tape. I screwed the rod into the controller, cut up some plastic pens to keep the steering mechanism (yes i said mechanism) from being too loose in the hole. and then i put it all together, with some more pens fastened internally so the kids couldn't pull it out. /flex

Not only did the kids love it, they absolutely loved it! Haven proceeded to make us laugh with is impressions. Imagine the famous line "Feeling Lucky Punk" by Dirty Harry being said by a 2 year old, and replace it with "Wanna DRIVE?!?!??!". I was rolling. Anyway, it was a fun night in the the Cardine Household.

It's been a while...

So as you can tell from my lack of posting in the last... month, i've been pretty busy. Work has been tremendously busy. In sept & oct we were working on completing a huge project for Church & Dwight, which still isn't complete. It should probably be up in Q1 of next year once it passed their legal review in the next couple months. The Cardine family went on a needed 2 week vacation to visit my parents down in sunny Florida. It was mostly a chill vacation, so we didn't do the disney thing this time. Plus we weren't sure the kids would appreciate it as much at this age. We'll most likely do it next year when we go down.

This past monday was my first day back at work and it was fairly quiet since i left. No fires came up, which was amazing to hear. We have an awesome opportunity to do a sizable job with a very high profile client, so this week I started learning some new technology we will be using on it. So this week I made a pizza ordering app in Silverlight which we will use internally to handle our monthly pizza party. It was pretty fun to do. I'll put up some screenies next week.

The fam is good. Maiya has been amazing us with the amount of words and things she's been saying and understanding. She walks around the house and sings the first line of the Barney song which cracks us up. Haven has hit the phase of needing to do everything himself, and if you even think about doing something that he thinks he can do, there is a meltdown. Jen and I are still trying to figure out how to deal with that. Today Jen is having another yard sale at Danna and Mannys house. Hopefully it is a little more successful than last time. I think with the money from the last one we were able to buy pizza for dinner. Here's hoping for chinese tonight! =)

Anyway... thats about it. I'm hoping to keep this a little more updated, as i know you all are dying to hear from me! =P

So last night 2 people told me it was too cold to play golf... i called them weenies! What do you think knowing that if you agree I will be calling YOU a weenie too!