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Yuki went to a tech center for a field trip this week and had a blast. It's good for them to see things like this.
Masaru, for youth group, also went to a career's night as well to get information on all sorts of different careers.
It's good for them to be exposed to things.

These guys making funny faces while my friend tries to take a picture hahahaha

I love this picture of Christ. It reminds me that he's always willing to help me, I just need to reach out.
I've done some learning as a mother this week and it's been really good for me.
What I should be doing and not doing.
I appreciate always being willing to change and adapt and try to be better as a mother and a wife and person foremost.
I think the day that you can't accept that maybe you're a part of the problem and make some changes, is a sad day indeed.
I hope to always be open to change but also always be strong so that when things aren't true to can let them go and not have people's negativity have any kind of control over me.
As I get older, it's nice to slowly eliminate those to create negativity and keep close those to boost you up and create a positive environment.

Dru is working hard on the shop. He's almost done. He's just got the top highest parts to go. He'll get some help and do that this weekend. Hopefully it'll go well and he'll get it done this weekend. I've learned not to hope too much though when it comes to things like this and just let it be what it is. Dru works hard and is doing the best he can. Noone wants it done more than him. So it'll be done when it's done. He's not a slacker.

Masaru has started wrestling, but I'm not sure it's going to last. He's furiously trying to lose weight and the practices are daily from 3:30-5:30 all week till February.
We're not ok with that.
He's got so much to do and he's not balancing it well, therefore I think we'll have to be the bad guys and pull the plug on it, which is going to create some tension. It's tough being a parent.
None of the children have any sports right now and it's really nice.
Masaru has drivers ed he has to do as well and get driving lessons in during daylight and wrestling is taking up all of that daylight. Plus he won't be able to snowboard if he's got wrestling and he loves snowboarding with his friends.
The season has just started so now would be the best time to pull him out of it. He just has too much going on.
Plus every.single.one of our friends who wrestled as a highschooler have either bad backs, knees or shoulders. Dru and I worry about it with Masaru.
At least he has a shot on his mtb to NOT be hurt. With wrestling you're fighting another person who is trying to put you in a position to pin you. It's pretty much guaranteed you'll be hurt.
Plus he's been complaining about having a sore lower back already, and sprained is toe. I didn't like the way they handled that either. They put some ice on it then told him to find a boot to wear for a day then come to practice the next day and they'd strap it for practice.
They don't care about his body and Dru and I do. Hopefully he'll understand later on. Tough decisions alright.
That's not ok, that he's already hurting, he's only 14, his body should be just fine. I never got a sore back until my 40's, and that was for a short time. I'm not chronically sore, my body is pretty great and I did a bunch of sports back when I was his age.
So we'll see.
Yuki's been having a little bit of a rough time with some of her friends. I wish she'd just let them go, but that's the way I roll, I burn bridges, I can't expect Yuki to do the same.
She doesn't need these friends but she's willing to work it out with them, which I can respect. I'm not there, I don't know. But all I know is if your friends suck, you should get new friends. So I'm trying to keep out of it and let her figure it out herself.
Oh well.
Takeshi seems to be doing well at school which is wonderful as well as Emiko. I"m glad their teachers are so great, it helps a million different ways.
The weather is still really nice and I'm getting out to ride, which is wonderful.
I'm furiously knitting for winter and Christmas and my hands are sore. I have a mitten, blanket and hat to go then I'm done.
It's a lot, wish me luck.

Piano

Lola has been with us a long time. Since Masaru was 7 years old, and now he's 14. So Lola has been with Masaru half of his life, as his piano teacher. He loves her and it's because of Lola, he will still play the piano. He tried to quit one time. I told him he had to tell Lola he was going to quit and why. He never quit. He couldn't face Lola and I'm pretty sure he'd miss her as well. He's so good at the piano for the little effort he puts in and the songs he plays are awesome. Lola gives him nothing but praise and calmness and that's why she's an important part of our family. 

She adapts well to each child and sees the uniqueness in all of them. They each love her. She gets my kids and teaches according to each of them. She listens, she laughs, she teaches and pushes and praises. She's pretty perfect. She just loves us and we love her. I hope we can have her forever. I know once the kids are grown and gone, they'll continue to make Lola a part of their lives by visiting her and whenever they play the piano.

It's a great talent to have, and even if they sometimes see it as a chore, they won't regret it later on in their adulthood.

Thank goodness they're all pretty good about practice and it's not a fight. That'd make it tough. I think if their teacher wasn't as good as what Lola is, it would make the kids hate it and it would make my job tough. I owe Lola more than the money I give her each month, and I know it.

 Here's Takeshi's latest piece he's learning. He loves it and both him and Yuki played amazing pieces for their talent show at music at school.
I'll have to get video's of Yuki's latest piece and what Masaru is playing as well as Emiko. Let me try to do that today.

 Emiko taking my phone and taking a selfie.
Love this girl.

Australia has fires at the moment that are tearing up the country. It's pretty sad. This photo I saw really spoke to me thought. These firemen and women are amazing people and deserve to be praised. What a tough job. People are amazing and mostly good. Sometimes I think we forget that in all the negativity.
Life is good.

Yuki and Takeshi's Veterans Day musical

Since Yuki and Takeshi are just a year behind each other with school, they sometimes will do things together.
The 5th and 6th graders did a Veterans Day musical for us to come to.
It was awesome.
Yuki invited our mate Joseph Danes who is a marine. And Takeshi invited our neighbour Billy who is also a marine.
Joseph couldn't come but Billy took time off work to come to the afternoon show at 2pm. We were super pumped that he came.

 Both Yuki and Takeshi are a part of the Choir.
Both of them tried out for a solo singing part. Both of them were told that they basically can't sing hahahaha
So both of them were sad. I guess you can't have it all.
But in my kids defence, neither Dru or I have decent voices but others in my family and his family do. So I guess they directly got mine and Dru's skills and not their uncles or aunties or grandparents.

 Is singing something you can work on? Cause my kids don't mind working for things, but I wonder how much is just you got it or you don't with singing you know.
I'm proud of them for trying and still being in the choir.

 The programme was really good and I always just sit there and cry throughout the whole thing.
I really appreciate the people that fight for their country. Some of them chose to and some were forced. It's a horrible thing, but all of them are so proud to serve their country and to die for it. It's amazing to me and extremely humbling.
War isn't nice no matter how you put it and I wish it wasn't a thing.
Yuki told me there was a girl who's 'anti-american' and refused to be a part of the programme.
So she did something else while the programme was going.
I wonder what her story is?
Why does she hate america?
Why doesn't she leave?
Why is a child thinking like this?
Interesting right?

 Yuki and Takeshi were allowed to be dancers. So Yuki was a part of a dance and Takeshi was a part of bringing in the flag and taking it out as he's a scout.

Billy with the kids.
Billy served for years and has been in wars. I listen to him talk a little about things and am baffled. I know he doesn't talk about everything and that it haunts his dreams, yet he'd do it all again and has no regrets. We love him and are glad he's a part of our lives.
It makes it all real when you have veterans there in front of you standing.

I'm glad that the kids do it. It's good for them to give thanks to those that have fought, and for the kids to be made aware and grateful for those who've given their lives as well as part of their lives for them to be safe and free to live their lives how they choose, even this girl to hates this country and them and this programme........even her. I don't understand it and I'm sure they don't, but they still fight for freedoms and that's something to be respected.
Thanks Liberty Elementary

Takeshi's ramen and Yuki's bball dreams

So we brought back ramen from our fav. place we went to in Japan with the famous ramen guy.
I know that's a pretty lame sentence but I'm sure you get what I mean.
We brought it back for Takeshi. We knew he'd appreciate good food.
So one weekend he decided to bust it out and try it.

He thought it was great.
For whatever reason, Dru and I didn't try it and so he's got one more packet to try, so I'll try that one.

He tried his ramen protector as well. But it was a total bust. It wouldn't stay on properly which sucks.
We got a sweet pic of it on his head though, so that's what's really important.
Love Takeshi.

Yuki decided to play bball this season at school. She told me she was going to make the allstars team. She played a great season with her team and then she made the allstars team.
This girl likes to put it out to the universe and then make it happen. It's crazy.
Here she is helping Dru with the shop. She said it was high and a little scary, but she still wanted to help.
Side note: Dru's father came and helped out with the shop as well as Luke (our nephew, Kristin's eldest) and it's going well. Dru's got 80% of the siting on and is going to hire a snorkel, or a cherry picker as we call it in NZ, and finish the top high parts. Should be finished by Thanksgiving.
Way pumped. So over this shop. Looks good but it needs to be done man.
More money and more time than we thought. Oh well, what's done is done.
I'll take pictures when it's done. Super grateful for everyone who helped us out.

Yuki's team did amazing.
They played their hearts out. I had no idea they were so good. I figured they'd just lose, but lose they didn't do, they won and against really good teams.
Yuki did a great job too and was kept on 95% of the games. Luckily her and her team mates were fit and could handle the jandle.
I was really proud of Yuki and her two coaches, Mr Herron and Mr Bacon were good to the girls. Mr Herron knew a lot about bball and kept fighting for the girls when things were going wrong.
They made it to the semi-finals and the team cheated by playing zone when they weren't allowed. Liberty didn't know what to do with that kind of play and Mr Herron kept fighting for the refs to stop it as they'd all been to coaches meetings and were specifically told no zone defence.
Turns out people were super lame and by the time they stopped the team from doing it it was too late.
The coach on the other team even said to Mr Herron "Yeah I would've complained if I was you too"
It's like ahhhhh what? Anyway it was a super tough loss cause I think they could've totally won as they were within 4 points from them at half time.
Yuki took it really hard and cried and was angry.
We had a long talk afterwards about her behaviour and about losing and winning with grace.
Tough life lessons mate I tell ya.
Always and forever it'll suck to play your heart out and lose, especially when you don't think it was fair.
Yuki is all about fairness so it made it even harder for her to swallow the loss.
She calmed down though and listened and saw reason in the end.
She's pretty great.

Mr Herron put Emiko up on the basket. Awesome picture I figured right?
Sweet Emiko comes to so many of the kids sports games and watches. She's pretty chill man and we try to do the best we can with her needs as well. She's a great supporter.
Love her.

Autumn Sole Kids end of the season 5k race

So the kids had their 5k race at the end of this Autumn season.
It was super cold, so we had to dress to make sure we didn't freeze to death.
It was at the BSU football, blue field stadium again this time and we loved it. It's a great race on the greenbelt by the river.
Caleb came and supported Yuki again, which is super nice of him. He's such a great friend to Yuki. I hope it will last when they get older.

Harper came to support Emiko again which was amazing. I love that Harper does this for her. She helped Emiko the best she could, but Emiko wasn't feeling it this race and basically walked the whole race. Oh well, I'm with Emiko though, running isn't my thing and so I get it. I'm always proud of her for participating you know.

Yuki finishing strong. Yuki's goal was to finish in the top 3-5 of the girls. She came into the race with no pressure and I think it made all the difference. She saw the girl infront of her and the coach told her that that girl was in the lead, so Yuki decided to try and catch her and she did. She ended up beating her and coming in first. She couldn't believe it and was so grateful. It was pretty awesome.

Takeshi finishing strong. He put a lot of pressure on himself and felt anxiety about the race. I think that played a major part in his side ache and not feeling good during the race which impeded his time and goals. I feel bad for him because he's such a great runner. The key is figuring out how to relax, which is really tough. Life lessons I guess and tough ones at that.

He ran so well and we're so proud of him. It takes trial and error I guess.

Emiko finishing strong.

These are shots that Caleb took of Yuki coming into the finish line. 

Yuki getting her trophy.

Beautiful shot of her that Caleb took on his nice phone.

I didn't have anything to do with Solekids this season and it was the best decision for me.
I feel bad because I know they needed to help, but after the stress of this year and trying to learn from my mistakes I've realized that I have to put myself first and as hard as that is, I've learned that it's necessary at the  sacrifice of 'feeing bad' or 'what others think'. It's been a learning year for me and it's been interesting to say the least, but freeing.

I'm always glad for this programme and all the hard work that people put into it.
Great season, as always.

Mtb goals

So the weather has been really nice in Boise this Autumn. It's been nice enough to keep riding. My goal this year was the ride 500 miles but I've never made it I don't think, or looked, so I figured, with the weather looking so good I should start making some goals.

I was at around 350 and so had 150 to go, roughly. 

Jobecka calculated that I needed to do around 30 miles a week to have a shot of making it to 500 by a decent time of year.

My goal was 20 miles a week but I only made that a couple of months ago. 

Now, looking back, I should've made this goal a long time ago and I would've be hustling on the tail end you know.

But in true Milz fashion, I like to leave things till the last minute. I guess that's the way I roll.

So I've started riding 30 miles a week.

My butt is a little sore and today I'm up to around 450 miles and I'm planning on riding with friends today.

I need to try and get around 20 more miles this week and then I'll be at 470 with 30 left to shoot for next week.

I totally think I can do it and I'm pretty pumped about it.

I wouldn't ride this much if I didn't have this goal, so it's been so good for me to get out there and be on my bike.

I love being on my bike.

I'm slow, but it's been fun and it's helped me to ride with Takeshi as well. He's loving riding with me and we'll go ride once a week up a trail that's close to our house.

He does great with it.

I mean look at this weather.

I've ridden longer trails because of this as well, which I usually never do. It also made me realize I need a new seat, my one's not cutting it.

This ride I listened to an awesome podcast and just slowly made my way around the trails. It was nice.

Takeshi and I last week.

We underestimated the timing and so came home in the dark. We had Dru worried.

We realized we needed to plan better.

It was a great adventure though and he did so great. He'll be better than me next year for sure.

(Sigh) whatever man, that's what you want right?

Here I am the other day with Teresa and Kim.
I've also ridden with Jobecka as well, of course. She's my number one companion when it comes to riding as well as my buddy Hilary. We've started riding together and I've enjoyed riding with Hilary.
She hurt her back though, so is out. So that's sad.
But I don't mind riding with people or by myself.
I'll make to to 500 and be pumped.
Kim rides like 3000 a year. hahahahaha so my measly 500 is nothing for her BUT to each their own right?
I'm just happy to be out on my bike and so happy the weather is complying with helping me reach my goals.
Whooohoooooo

Halloween 2019

We didn't do pumpkin carvings this year because I couldn't be bothered. Yuki was sad about it, but no one else cared.
It's such a mess and I'm in chill mode man and trying not to get overly stressed this holiday season, that things like carving went to the wayside. Plus I didn't see Dru doing anything about it and no one invited us to do it with them, so it kind've slipped by without being noticed. Like I said, none of the kids brought it up apart from Yuki.
The girls painted pumpkins at school and youth group, so they got to do some fun pumpkin things. They're up on our piano right now. They're pretty good. I should actually take a picture of them. Let me go do that.
Hold up.

The ones above are Yuki's. So good.

Here's Emiko's and my one that we did in her class. Super cute.

I also did nothing about the kids Halloween costumes.
They were totally on their own this year with no help from Mum.
Again, my care factor is zero mate.
My kids are so great though, that they're not demanding or even complained about it once. They're so great. They're easy going and figured stuff out for themselves.
Yuki paid for her t-shirt and asked her PE teacher for his white duct tape to do her outfit. I DID buy her white gloves though. So that was nice of me.
Love my kids and their easy going attitudes towards this.
They love Halloween and I do too sort of, but with Dru being so busy on the shop my single mum'ing is getting down to the bare essentials and my kids are total rockstars about it.
I guess all that hard work on the front end is paying off on the back end. They're so wonderful.

So the kids had their school parade that I attended. Cute.

Yuki's self made outfit. Her and her mate were m&m's. She's missing her white gloves which top off the outfit.

Emiko was a racoon and a cute one at that.


Takeshi put on his PJ's we got him from Japan and called it good. He looks great right?

Then later on that night the kids broke off.
Masaru hung out with his homies. I dropped him off with his friend Sammy who'd invited him to trick or treat with her.
I think they only stopped at like 3 houses but they all hung out and watched a movie together (that I didn't particularly like) then we picked him up around 9:30ish. It was a school night the next night so he needed to get home to get up for seminary the next morning. He wanted to stay later but we negotiated. He's always good about it.

He brought the cooler as his candy collecting bag. Plus he'd brought them drinks. So funny. Look at that sunset though.

Here he is with his mates. His friend Sammy is at the front in the blue and white. Still rocking those sunglasses hahahaha

Yuki went after school to her friends house and went trick or treating with her friends around the neighbourhood. She had a great time and it was hard for me to let her do that. I'm having a harder time letting Yuki go than Masaru. Dru has to put reason into my head when it comes to Yuki. I wasn't going to let her, but Dru talked me into it. So lucky Yuki I guess.

Dru was working on the shop and so I took the younger two children to the 'Woodduck' area first. They have a couple of houses we like to visit first before we go to our mates neighbourhood.
So we went there.
Check this house out.

Amazing right? It's a little scare on the one side and Emiko didn't like that. She's super scared of the dark and so I regretted taking her over the other side of the house. But it's an amazing house and fun to go and visit for sure.
We also stopped off at Natalie's parents place. We love them and they always treat us well and give the kids big candybars.
We then headed over to Natalie's house and their friends were just coming around the corner and so Emiko and Takeshi went with them while I sat by the fire at Nat's house and talked to them.
Eventually Dru came and met us and we hung out for a while then headed home.
All the kids got a reasonable amount of candy this year. Not the crazy amount that they've gotten over the past, which is wonderful.
This Halloween was a reminder that my kids are growing up and I have limited time with them which always makes me sad.
When they move on with their lives I'll be happy and sad. I only have them for such a small amount of time, so I'm glad to get to spend it with them as much as I can.
The kids were all happy with how the night went, which is awesome.
Happy Halloween 2019 aka super chill, loved it.

RWC

So New Zealand was the favourite for the Rugby World Cup this year. They only lost one game and it kicked them out of the running for the win.
The winners actually lost one game as well, to us, but they lost at a time in the RWC that didn't matter to their winning standings. So total bummer right?

 Here's Dru watching the All Blacks lose to England. You can see in his body language that he's not happy. England were just so good on the day it was amazing. They played the game of their lives and it paid off. It took them to the finals.
But then in the finals South Africa won. It was crazy because I would've bet good money on England winning. Not so, Sth Africa were also better on the day. It was amazing.
So the RWC wasn't what we'd hoped it would be.
We were all super bummed at the results. If NZ lost we wanted Wales to win, then if Wales didn't make it we wanted England to win, but then Sth Africa won. So it sucked.
Now Sth Africa has the same amount of wins as us and I don't like that, especially since they poisoned our chances of winning in their last win. Jonah Lomu should've had that win.
So to say I'm a little bitter is totally right.

 This guy said the nicest thing though about the All Blacks, which sums it up nicely I think. There are a lot of changes happening in the All Blacks now. About half the team has retired and the head coach has retired too. So the All Blacks will be a new team. It'll be interesting to see how it all pans out and how they do from here on out.
We enjoyed the RWC this year but would have enjoyed it more had the All Blacks won. Your team losing is super sad right?

 Masaru wanted these glasses as a prize for getting on the podium. So we went halves and they showed up finally. He was so excited. So to show his excitement, he wore them all day. Here he is at breakfast.

 Here he is at lunch.

And here he is at piano practice later on in the day, yup, still wearing those glasses. He just loves them and I couldn't stop laughing about his wearing of them for the entire day. What a little kids. So cute. I'd also like to add he had three wardrobe changes as well hahahaha This guy man, cracks me up all the time.

Also the other day it snowed for a second and stuck!! I wasn't happy with that but then it quickly melted and has been great weather since.
I'm not ready to be locked inside, so for now I'm out on the foothills riding my bike as much as I can until it's cold season.

Yuki's second bday party

Yuki had her second birthday party the weekend before Halloween. Dru and Masaru were gone to a youth overnight camp trip and so no falling of ladders and such.
I was tired but they entertained themselves really well. They all had the best time and I fell asleep on the couch.
She invited a few extras that she'd forgotten last time, which turned out to be great, and they even tried on make-up.
They sang karaoke downstairs for a while as well and some of them have great voices.
The boys left between 10:30 and midnight and the girls stayed up until 4am talking.
So I think it was a success.
Yuki had a great time and that's all that matters. She has good friends. She's really lucky.

Here's some of her artwork that we did in her class. She decided to do a gourd instead of a pumpkin which I think is awesome.
Here's a couple of video's of one of her gifts she got.
How cool is this?

It works out great too. Yuki learned pretty quick and has made some amazing papers. I wonder what she'll us them for?

It's official now, she's 12 and has has two parties and I think that's sufficient.
I'm so glad she's in our family.
Yuki is a blessing and we love her.

Mum and kids

Isn't this cute frog so cute? Emiko's latest artwork we did together.
Love being her art teacher for school.

If you give this guy a chance on the couch, this is what he'll be doing.
He's so busy and it's great, but he sleeps hard. This is why he's in bed by 8pm most nights.
Getting up at 5:30am requires sacrifice on the tail end, so Dru and I are consistent with getting that boy his sleep.
He's just coming into the wrestling season and I'm so scared, but happy that he's active, has goals, and is in a good thing.
He also has homework to do as well as piano and his drivers education studies. He has to figure out time management, which is tough as a 14 year old. I help out where I can, but he's doing a pretty good job considering.
We always have to be communicating.


Another cute art project that I did with Emiko's class. She did great.

Cute article written by Emiko.
So we had parent teacher conferences and the kids did great.
Masaru's teachers like him, they say he's a nice kid. He's getting A's and B's and that's great to me. We only 'talk' if there's C's anywhere on his report card. They talked a little bit about him being able to put in some more effort, so that's great and I agree. Good conference. I make Masaru come with me. He's one of the only ones. I figure if they're gonna tell me something he should be there to hear it and own up to it. It's worked out great.
Yuki's teacher says she's doing great as well. All A's apart from spelling which she's getting a B in. Not a big deal at all. She's working on being a positive influence in the classroom.
Takeshi's teacher informed me he's one of his brightest kids. So that was kind've cool and something I wasn't expecting. He's a behaviour problem, but we're working on that. But schoolwise, he's doing wonderful.
Emiko is progressing in her reading, which is wonderful, and is trying hard. Her teachers loves her and says she's so wonderful in class. Love it.
So great progress made by the kids, so that's wonderful.

Sweet Emiko

I saw this meme and just couldn't stop laughing. This is like my life growing up.

Masaru messing around on his bike. He told me yesterday that he's 9% body fat and 155 pounds, 70kgs. They've made a new rule in wrestling now that they'll weigh the kids at the beginning of the season and if they lose more than 6lbs they're banned from wrestling. I think this is a good thing. In the past I guess the thing for 'making weight' was brutal for some kids and the diet's they'd go on and the things they'd do the make weight was crazy. So I think this is a step in the right direction you know. So Masaru is trying to make it to the 152 pound range so he can fight kids that are 152 pounds. If he fights in next level up he'll be on the smaller side, so it makes sense for him to lose 3 pounds and be bigger in the lower weight range if that makes sense?
Fun times.

When I came home from Japan the only thing that mum wanted to do with me was to make hair clips. So we went to the store, brought some things, I already had a box of two different kinds of clips so we didn't need that, and I had ribbon.
Anway we worked on making these clips for mum. I'm glad we got to do it together.


As far as my memory goes, I can remember mum always putting on talc powder after a shower. I used to do it as well, but probably stopped at some stage when I didn't have any I guess.
I took a picture of this talc on my bathroom floor, which was a gentle reminder that my mother was in town and it's a good thing.

Another fantastic thing that happened the other week was that Masaru was going to the jumps with his mates. Him and his mates have worked hard on making jumps up by their junior highschool. They'll spend lots of time up there messing around and creating and jumping with their bikes. One day Masaru mentioned he was going to go up there and so I suggested he take Takeshi. He said he would. Takeshi couldn't be happier with this news and so I pulled him aside to make sure I told him to behave himself around Masaru's friends. I told him if he wanted to hang out with Masaru he needed to play it cool. And he did. I guess this video is Takeshi playing it cool. Hahahaha I'm glad nothing wrong happened. I guess that's the younger brother's role. Dru knows what that feels like, being the younger brother in some of his older brother hang out sessions.

I'm glad they were able to bike together.

We also introduced the kids to a classic "Over the Top" with Sylvester Stallone. They loved it and then we proceeded to arm wrestle each other for 30 mins. It was hilarious. 

Last time I arm wrestled Masaru I beat him. This time I didn't have such luck and he beat me. That time is over I guess. So then he went up against his father. Dru won, just, but he knows his time is coming hahahahahaha I told Dru he needs to be like my father and never compete against him again so he'll always have that win.

Here's Yuki and Takeshi. Yuki's pretty strong man, so this is no surprise. It'll be a rough day when Takeshi beats Yuki. But until that time, she is the champion.

Since being home from Japan we brought some beautiful origami paper. So Takeshi was the only one who remembered how to make cranes, so re-taught all of us and we've been making cranes out of all the paper. We have cranes everywhere. It's been awesome. Anyone need a crane?