I took the day off today for Gracie’s birthday. We took the kids to Boondocks. We had lunch and let them play around for a few hours in an indoor playground area and an arcade. They had a lot of fun. Gracie continually reminded us that it was her birthday. I believe she had a good one.

Rachel’s visiting teachers came yesterday. One of them is the wife of a stake high counselor and former bishop of our ward. She teaches gospel doctrine sunday school class as well. She mentioned to Rachel that it is just too bad we are moving. Her husband is supposed to recommend a name for high counsel and she thinks I would do great because I make good comments in sunday school and I give interesting talks in church. I don’t know...

I overheard in our last welfare meeting that some of the young men and young men leaders were playing volleyball on Tuesday nights. I saw one of the teachers in church on Sunday and asked why I wasn’t invited. He said if I was any good to show up on Tuesday night at 8:00, so I did. There weren’t many people there, but it was a lot of fun to play volleyball again. I haven’t played since we lived in our last ward. I especially...

I had a hard time waking up this morning. I was very congested with a runny nose and red eyes. I’m sure as most people would do, as I said my morning prayers I prayed that I would get feeling better. I guess I didn’t think much about it, but as I look back over the day, I probably cleared up by 9:00 AM. I even played ultimate frisbee (in some very cold weather). I haven’t had a runny nose for the rest of the day. That is an...

Tonight as I was pondering where I have seen the hand of the Lord in our family today, I started singing the song “Count Your Many Blessings” in my head. So I decided to count my blessing. I got to number 1 and thought of what I would write about: I have a warm house. It has just started to get cold enough outside that this morning we finally turned on our heater for the first time. It was a simple as flipping a switch and soon our...

Nolan was up on and off again all night. I think he’s teething. We just found a bottom molar last night. I still got up around 4:30. I took him downstairs with my. I did a short exercise video, then came in the office, read a section of D&C, then decided that with Nolan I wasn’t going to be able to do any work, so I watched the video President’s Uchtdorf’s talk in General Relief Society meeting. It was an awesome talk...