Well the FJ has turned into quite the ordeal. I retrieved it from Hibernation and am hoping now that it is Spring, it will get worked on. I ripped it away from Robs and Dad and I loaded up the ole trailer and hauled all the parts down to Ben Hanks Racing in Sandy. They have a sweet shop and I am really excited about the work they do. They say about 6 weeks so we shall see. The Axles and some other parts may have it postponed a bit, but I am hoping that it goes much more quickly. They did find a home for it in the shop, so it is looking better as far as progressing. Hopefully I will be able to show some progress in a few weeks. I guess it gives me time to work on Allisa's Kitchen. That should be a lot of fun to see it come together. Hopefully updates will be forthcoming. I bought those tires BFG Mud Terrain KM2's (note the similarity to BFG Krawlers) 37x12.5 R17 I am getting Walker Evans Bead Locks and I just ordered a new T-case 4.3:1 so it should be a great crawler. I am planning on using some sort of 9" rearend with a True Hi9 gears and Dana 60 Knuckles. Should be really sweet.......
We recently have purchased a "Help our Family Stay TOGETHER" Toy. At least that is the line that we got at the boat shop. I purchased a Tangerine and White 2008 Tige RZ2. Check out the link http://www.tige.com/models_rz2.php and you can take a look at that line. It is a 22' Wakeboarding boat. I really want to spend most of the sunny summer weekends Wakesurfing behind it. I am very excited about it and think that we will never have a fight or any confulgration in the Hardy Home again because of its presence. This must be after it is parked in the drive, cuz we haven't picked it up yet and we did have a little tiff over some spilled chips. I know that the zionistic life is on its way, we are waiting patiently for the weather to warm slightly and no soccer games to interfere with our soon to be boating life.
So I often have a wild hair and try to take some cute photos of the girls. It tends to be a bit frustrating and often leads to about 300-400 shots with maybe 1 or 2 that turn out ok. I recently purchased some new studio flashes and decided to try them out a bit. Note that they were not really prepped for such photos (ie, Hailey is just in a diaper and a bit of straggly hair on all 4). We did it anyway and it was a bit difficult. Jadynn almost cried and the rest just looked at her wondering, but I have decided that this is a great representation of each of their personalities and age. I love this last photo. Haileys eyes just really give her personality away. She is stubborn, not as much as Maddie, but she really has a talent with goofy looks and sneers. She is a real cutey. Jadynn is our Manic/Depressant child and this group of photos was taken in approximately a 2 minute interval and you can see the changes from almost tears to a large grin (by the way, they are not in the correct order so just believe me). Dansie is the stalwart 1st child that of whom, perfection is expected and upon whom the higher standards are placed so her siblings will see her as a wonderful example. Maddie is just there, making sure that you can see her, but not concerned with all the glamour that her older siblings desire. I couldn't get them to smile very well, so I, with all my Hardy gene's "Let's make a game out of it techniques" decided to ask for a mad, sad, goofy, suprised and whatever else I could think of to stop Jadynn from crying and get them all to give me the perfect natural smile and not some forced head tilted "Look Dad, I'm a princess" Smile. You can plainly see, this did not work and oh well, I have enjoyed looking at the pics. They make me smile. There they all are, just like I know them.
