Meet your new PRL TA...

Kyle!!

Kyle found our that he got the Teaching Assistantship at the Product Realization Lab at Stanford. This is the same lab that he spent so much time in this winter making his various inventions. Here he is looking happy and relieved. This TA position means that his tuition at Stanford is covered, which is super duper awesome!!

The Big Project...

Kyle's big project for this quarter is a hand held volleyball pump. It doesn't look like much here because it is just a tube of plastic. But Kyle has been working hard to design and use all these fancy machines (you'll have to ask him what they're all called, though I'm pretty sure he's been throwing around the term 'lathe' quite a bit lately). At this point he has a working prototype and it looks pretty cool! I'll definitely post his final project when its all finished.

Chopping Onions...

... makes Kyle's eyes water. This one was particularly strong so being the engineer he is, he grabbed his snowboarding goggles. Normally I just stick my head in the freezer until I feel like I can chop again. Don't ask where I heard that, but I swear it works!

While Kyle and his mom slaved away in the kitchen my mom and I worked on creating a mess, I mean the guestbook for the wedding. Bella was lending a helping paw here and mom was explaining that kitties don't belong on the table.

Boys and their Toys

On our recent SLO trip, Kyle and Corey got plenty of time to go do boy stuff like surf and ride bikes. Corey took this picture of Kyle going off a jump when they were riding up near Cuesta Ridge. It's hard to see, but he's actually airborne. What he didn't take a picture of is the fact that Kyle ate dirt when he crash landed. He was fine, just a little scratched up. According to Kyle, the most important thing is that the bike is unharmed. Oy!