I took my laptop to church this morning to take notes in bishopric meeting and ward counsel. It was actually very helpful. I can type faster than I can write and it was easier to edit and organize my notes. It will also be easier to store and archive the minutes. Bishop was home quarantined today because his boy has the swine flu. I was email to email the minutes to him right after church. Leslie & her kids came over for dinner tonight. The...

This afternoon we decided to go hiking. We stopped by Ken’s house and invited him to go. We drove up to where I normally would go during lunches. I was kind of worried because it is a pretty steep hike for kids. Once we got there we quickly changed our minds. There were horse trailers EVERYWHERE. I have never seen it so crowded. We ended up driving up American Fork Canyon. We drove to Silver Lake and started from there. It was a much...

I took the day off work today. The kids had the day off for UEA weekend. It was Gracie’s birthday. We went down to Orem and ate dinner at a new place called Pirate’s Island. It’s a pirate themed restaurant with an arcade. Ken came down with us (Laura is in Boston right now). Leslie also came with her kids (Cade is hunting). The food wasn’t that great, but I didn’t expect it to be. It is generally an afterthought in...

This morning as I drove to work I was in awe at the beauty of the area I love it. It seemed most of Utah valley was covered in a blanket of fog. It was sunrise and I was just above it to see all of it. I drove home as the sun was setting. The sun was shining off of the Alpine mountains which are now turning orange due to the fall season. I love the beauty of this...

I went to the temple this morning and did some initiatories. I relized I haven’t been in the temple since I started working at SendOutCards. It’s been about 2 months now. I really missed it. It felt great being in there. I watched a video that played between conference sessions about the symbols on the temple. One that stood out was the circle inside the square. I noticed it every around the temple this morning. It was quite...

I got home late tonight because Mike got pulled into doing a live video for work. When I got home Rachel was reading a story to the kids and then it was time for bed. Before they went to bed though Gehrig told me all about his first day playing flag football and Gracie told me about the ballerinas that came to her school to perform. She said there were two boys and two girls. When Gehrig heard there was boy ballerinas he thought that was just...