Lance and Kelli stopped by our house today to show off their new baby boy and to say thank you for watching Alyssa while they were in the hospital all day. They also invited us to go out to dinner with them Friday night.
Rachel wasn’t feeling well today so I took her place and walked to the school to pick up Gracie as she came out. It was fun just walking home with her. I can’t believe how big she is getting.
Today was a very interesting day. John (my co-worker) accepted another job offer and gave his two weeks notice. He was the one that talked me down from the ledge when I was looking at other jobs. Apparently it was so he could jump first. In any case. I was supposed to be paid last Friday, but I didn’t get my direct deposit until some time after 5 o’clock today. It was frustrating me so I sent Scott, our company president and owner an email expressing my frustration. I also considered looking around at other jobs again.
For family night, we went to the laundromat to do some big (bed comforter, towels, etc.) laundry. We picked up some pizza beforehand to eat there as well. While I was there I got a call from a recruiter that was responsible for lining up an interview for me with eharbor.com. I thought that interview went really well, but I never heard back from them. Once I was offered to work at home I just stopped looking around. He explained that there had been a mix up where he thought they were going to contact me for another interview, and they thought he was going to contact me. They were still interested in me and hoped that I was still interested and available. I said that I just became interested after today’s events. So it sounds like I may have a job interview to go to some time this week.
Rachel has been stressed out with my current job situation and that phone call brought her peace.
Often when we are driving in the car, we sing primary songs together. We were singing songs on the way home from Alpine tonight. Rachel and I were tired, so we told the kids “one more song” then we were done. After we sang that song, Gracie asked if she and Gehrig could just keep singing. Gracie started to sing “I Am a Child of God”. Gehrig chimed in with here. It was so sweet to hear them sing that song together.
We bout a bunch of flowers and bushes for our yard this morning so we spent the day working in the yard. While I was digging a hold for one of the plants, I ran into a bunch of cement. I got out the pick axe and went to work on it. Gehrig was watching me chip away at it. I kept stopping to rest and I would say, “this is hard work!” Then I hit my leg with the handle of and said “ouch!” Gehrig asked what hurt and I said I hit my leg. Just after that I had a peice of cement chip off and hit me in the same spot on my leg.
Shortly after this, as I was still chipping away at centment, Gehrig was up mimicing everything I was doing with his miniature hoe. I could hear him say over and over, “this is hard work!”, then later I heard him say, “ouch, it hit my leg!”
We had a “party” of sorts with Rachel’s friends. I say Rachel’s friends because they were her friends growing up and in high school. But over the years I have gotten to know them well and they are “our friends.” I’m glad that they keep in touch and its fun now that they are also having kids so our kids get together as well on these friend nights.
We had an elders quorum social tonight. I got off work at 3:00 and went to the bread store and Costco for hamburgers, hot dogs, and ice cream bars. The activity was at 6:00 and no one was there except our presidency and our families. As the night went on, more and more people arrived. It was great to see how many came. I think it went really well and we didn’t have to stress about it much.
I’ve been working on setting up a server for work the past 3 days. It’s been very frustrating to say the least. Today things started coming together as a got help from a few people online. I’m thankful for people who take the time to help others without any expectation of reward.
A few weeks ago Cory (my step-brother) send me an email with a number of links to coupons to print out for $1 off Malt-O-Meal cereal, then mentioned there would be a sale coming up at Albertson’s where the cereal would be $1 per bag. So today I got 16 bags of FREE cereal!
After getting the cereal, I had to finish taking invitations out for the elders quorum social this Thursday. We went out as a family. While going around the Bradleys stopped us and invited us back to see the totem pole he had made. He took our picture in front of it. They then sent us on our way with some zucchini and tomatoes. It was a fun experience and I think it showed the kids what kind of stuff I do when I go out to do stuff like that. Some people invited us in as we talked and the kids just made themselves at home – often to my embarrassment.
Tonight was family night. I tried to tell the kids an Old Testament story, but I’m not sure that went over that well. Oh well, I tried. We watched a movie and had popcorn. Gehrig kept trying to cuddle close and getting my attention to tell me he loved me.
This morning was the first of our weekly Sunday morning presidency meetings. I can to call Bryan and wake him up. We made invitations and printed out a list of elders and prospective elders, then hit the road to deliver them. We tried two houses and then realized it was still 8:45 on a Sunday morning and we may not have that much success going door to door that early. So we stopped early deciding to try again later. Bryan and I had family plans after church so Chris volunteered to take them around.