Today I got a lot of kudos and praise for the work I did the past few days to get the event registration completed. It is not fully complete, but it showed well. I will spend the next couple of days polishing it and hopefully release it Friday.
I took a much need day off today. I was supposed to have last Friday off, but I had to stay and work to get a project done. Even yesterday after working on it all day I still didn’t have it completed. It was a co-worker that dropped the ball and didn’t get his assignment done, then went out of town. He was supposed to be back today so I figured he could finish it up. Rachel and I went on a date during lunch while Gracie & Gehrig were in school. We took Nolan with us. He behaved very well. It was a fun and relaxing afternoon.
Rachel drove to Salt Lake with the kids and we met at Costco and drove downtown together. We at dinner at Crown Burger just before the crowds came. We then went to the church history museum. The boys were very wild as I expected they would be, but it was different and fun. We then bought some groceries at Costco before coming home.
Tonight we had a baptism preview fireside with Gracie. I can’t believe she is turning 8 years old this year! She is pretty excited to get baptized. It was nice to be there and just focus on here.
Today we had a birthday party for my dad since they were out. Melanie and Kellie did most of the work organizing it. We had it at Kelli & Lance’s church, which seems to be the most central location for everyone now.
It was a lot of fun. After eating we played a game that involved all the family including kids called “Do you love your neighbor?”
Lance used duct tape to create a four square court for us. We played until we barely had anything left, as we usually do. It was a lot of fun and wore us all out.
My parents drove out to Salt Lake today to see a production of Fiddler on the Roof at Hale Center Theater. Hale Center Theater just happens to be about 2 minutes away from my work, so I invited them to come check out company. It was fun. Mike helped me give them a tour of the place. They were pretty impressed. I think my dad was interested in signing up to become a distributor.
I’m not getting enough sleep lately. It seems the problem is that we love watching the Olympics too much! It is fun to see the various sports and hear the stories of the athletes.
Tonight for family night we had a scavenger hunt for the kids. They really enjoyed it. The clues were very easy but they got so excited every time they found the next one. They worked very well together also. The last clue led them to a cake that said, “A baby is on the way!”. The funny part is, that is the one clue they couldn’t figure out. We had to explain it to them. Even then they didn’t seam all that excited. They were more excited about the scavenger hunt itself. Gehrig said it was going to be a girl, which surprised us because he has been talking about wanting another brother for a while now.
We went to church in Taylorsville today to listen to Tyler Ray speak. Tyler was my home teaching companion before he left on his mission. He went to Johannesburg South Africa. It was really fun to visit with our old friends from the 10th ward. After church we went to the Petty’s house for a little while.
As we were leaving church, once we got in the car I asked Gehrig, “Did you see your girlfriend?” (He always says Alyssa Petty is his girlfriend). He said, “Yes.” I asked, “Did you talk to her?”.
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’m scared of my girlfriend.”
I thought that was hilarious. I later told him, that will never change.
It was an interesting day. Last night was doing a lot research on the home and I heard back from our Mortgage guy. It seems the magic number was $56,000. If we could get that much out of the sale of our home then we could likely make it work, but that is if we could find a renter for the mother-in-law apartment in the basement. We talked to Emily and determined that in order to get that much money after agent fees and such we would need to sell the house for $298,000. It might be difficult in this economy, but after Rachel went an looked at the house this afternoon she really wanted to try. After work I came home and looked at the house as well. I really like it to. So tomorrow we are putting our house on the market. I figure that if we can’t sell our house within 30 days, this deal may pass. That is OK with me too. We figure this is a unique opportunity and figured we would go for it. If somewhere were to have told me two days ago that by Friday our home would be listed on the MLS I would have said you’re crazy!
