I had a lot of meetings today. It started at 7:00 am with stake priesthood leadership meeting. From there I went to bishopric, PEC, and ward council. Then of course I had the 3 hour block meetings of Sacrament, Sunday school and priesthood. I planned to go home teaching, but I couldn’t get a hold of my companion. It was a busy but enjoyable day. It was also the 10th anniversary of the world trade center attacks in NYC. Rachel and I watched...

We had a ward harvest party today at 11:00. The kids decorated their bikes for a bike parade. Rachel made a pineapple cream pie and was voted the unanimous winner of the pie tasting contest. Somehow I got wrangled into a pie eating contest. I had to eat a whole coconut cream pie. It was disgusting. I was surprised that I won though. I was more surprised that I didn’t feel too full just after eating it. All in all it was a very fun party...

I left work early today to help out with Nolan’s birthday party. We invited boys from around the neighborhood over for a super hero party. They put on capes & masks in a telephone booth we made out of cardboard. They then lifted a pretend barbell. They the “flew” through the sky on the zip line. I think that was the biggest hit. I bought a new pulley for the zip like that really goes fast. The first time I had Gracie try it...

Cade called me and asked if I would drop everything and come play softball. So I did. They asked me to pitch. I haven’t done that in over 10 years. I was a little nervous. But it helped that I had practiced with Cade that one Saturday and did all the pitching. I was surprised that over the course of two games I only walked one batter. So overall I would call it a success. We lost the first game but won the second.

After dinner we cleaned up the house and then went downstairs to play Xbox Kinect. It was the first time we played it together as a family. I think the kids love it when we play video games with them.