Harvey’s (my mom’s fiance) passed away recently and tonight a memorial service was held. We took the kids and made visited for a little while. It was sort of like a viewing, but no body. She made the decision to be cremated. That let to some discussion with my mom about why LDS tend to frown on cremation. I think the generally reason why is that we view the body as a temple and prefer not to burn it and grind up the bones. Instead we...

Tonight for family night we talked about the plan of Salvation again. We really wanted to help our kids understand it. We we just went about it a different way. We drew it all out with crayons. As I drew I Rachel and I would explain it and Gehrig and Gracie would also draw it. We then played some games and enjoyed some cookies and milk. It was a good family night.

Today we had stake conference. I really tried not to compare, but I couldn’t help it. I really miss our former stake presidency. I suppose it is most likely because I knew them better, but I always found their talks more engaging, especially President Tindall. I really expect to see him as a generally authority one day. Just thinking about it makes me miss our old ward and stake so I try not too. The talks today were good and uplifting,...

We’ve had a lot of deer encounters lately. Yesterday after getting the mail, as we were driving around the block Rachel pointed out to Gehrig where her primary teacher lived. I stopped and said, “whoa!” There was a deer standing on the porch – it looked as if it had just rang the doorbell and was waiting for someone to answer. I thought it was the funniest thing. Again, today, as I was getting the mail, there were two...

I got the remaining parts I’ve been eagerly awaiting to finish building my media center PC. After work we went to the Home Depot so I could get some cables, wall plates, connectors, etc. After we got home, had some ice-cream and put the kids to bed I went to get getting it all set up. I had to get creative on how to split a cable line to run to the office and the family room and fix the mess that was already there. It turned out pretty...

I went into Salt Lake today. I met with Justin for lunch. I am going to help him build a website for his advertising business. In exchange he will be splitting profits that the site generates with me. I think it is going to be a good opportunity. I also had a meeting at work where we discussed the new site that we are going to lauch soon. It was good to get a lot of the details nailed down and get a clearer path of where I am going with this.