Today was mother’s day. I was able to call Connie and my Mom and wish them happy mother’s day. I’ve always said that I’m fortunate to have two mothers. We went to Rachel’s parents’ house for dinner. Chris and Emily were there so Gracie got to play with Brielle. That wore them out so they fell asleep pretty fast when we got home and Rachel and I were able to watch a movie together.

Today was a good productive day. I got up a little early and got some work done on my budgeting site. We cleaned and organized the garage. I fixed a broken sprinkler head. We trimmed 4 pine trees with Ken’s chain saw to make it easier to mow. We bout some planter boxes and planted some vegetables for a sort of mini garden. I’m pretty tired. I wanted to get a lot done though because next week I’m be spending most of the day at...

Tonight after putting the kids to bed I wanted to watch a movie, but it was about 9:30 before the kids actually fell asleep, so we played Mario Kart instead. It was fun spending some alone time playing games together.

I had to help out at Harvey’s store today. I set up a new router a few weeks ago and Harvey’s laptop was so old that the only way he could access it was to leave the wireless security off. Well, I guess someone hacked them over the weekend so they’ve spent the week trying to get back online. They had a few guys come fix their network and printer and asked if I could come make it secure. So I went in today and secured their...

I got more sleep that I’m used to last night because all the kids stayed in bed. That made it easier to get up at 4:00 AM. This morning I made it to the temple a bit earlier than I normally do so I decided to do 10 names instead of my usual 5. I’m glad I did. It always nice to be in the temple.