Winter Games

Two weeks ago we held the first annual Robertson / Skidmore Family Olympics during Family Home Evening and it was intense -- when it comes to competitiveness, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, and Tiger Woods ain't got nothing on Anna, Sarah, and Michael! Anna flew into Boston just to defend her arm wrestling championship (and compete in the other events, of course). This year, however, Sarah routed the competition, beating both Anna and Michael in back-to-back matches.

 (Just for the record: Sarah is left-handed, and Michael is NOT)

 In between events (and whenever occasion permitted) Anna helped Sarah and Michael work on their 1000-piece Thomas Kincade puzzle; but she left before it was done! Oh well; Michael gave up on the puzzle a few weeks ago when he discovered that three of the edge pieces were missing from the box. 997-piece puzzles just aren't as much fun I guess.

 This is the crab walk. Need I say more?

 This is the first year push-ups have been on the program, which is probably the reason the crowd was so big for this event -- everybody was eagerly awaiting some sort of disaster, and they weren't disappointed. Michael had a lackluster performance, unable to recover after falling behind early. He wants his fans to know that he was suffering the last stages of pneumonia during the event (and he even thinks he may have had a touch of the gout); he promises he'll do better next year, even if that requires actually going to the gym sometime between now and then; don't think he won't do it, if that's the difference between losing and winning or tying. Sarah took the gold handily (and humbly).

 Michael won the indoor Frisbee toss (the outdoor was cancelled due to adverse weather conditions), beating a depleted field. He was the sole entry for this event.

On Anna's final day in Bean-town, she attended the Boston Temple with her sisters (and Michael; Taylor had to help out at the Cambridge Stake young men's basketball tournament that morning). We were so glad that Anna was able to come visit us. It's a great blessing to receive visits and phone calls and emails and letters from family.