This is one of those non-technical posts so if you don't want to hear me brag about my children then you can skip this one.

The schools around here have a contest each year called "Reflections" where a theme is chosen and the children can enter in one of several categories to show off their talents. The theme this year was "My favorite place". I had two children who entered the contest. My daughter drew a watercolor picture of our front yard. She chose that as her favorite place because at the time the weather was warm and she could take a blanket out on the lawn and read a book. She earned an honorable mention.

My youngest son wasn't going to enter but after a lot of "encouragement" from his parents he finally relented and decided to go take a few pictures of the Peaks Arena ice skating rink because he thought if he took the pictures he could also ice skate and he loves to skate. You might remember the Peaks Arena as one of the venues of the 2002 Olympics. As it turns out he waited until we didn't have any time to skate but I took him down to the arena and he snapped a few photos. He wasn't all that enthusiastic about it but it did give him some one on one time with me and he also got to use the nice digital camera with a lot less supervision (aka Slow down!, Be careful!, Watch what you are doing) that he normally gets.

We entered this picture in the competition. He won first place at his school and is going on to the district competition.

I am very proud of both of my children for the hard work that they put into doing this.