Since moving and paying about $400 more per month for our mortgage, things have gotten a bit tight lately. I’ve made a couple of changes that should save us about $30 per month. I switched from Vonage to Ooma. I was paying about $32 per month for Vonage which gave me unlimited calling. When I had two lines, one for business, I was paying over $60 per month. I paid $250 for the Ooma hardware and I paid $100 for a years worth of Ooma Premier...

Today was a beautiful day. So, I was quite surprised that we couldn’t get enough people to play Ultimate Frisbee, which we generally do on Monday. I still wanted to get some exercise, so I drove just north of our house and found a trail head and started hiking. I decided I would hike as far as I could to see how far I could get. I wanted to see either some kind of sign describing how far I had gone, or just something cool. I probably hiked...

Today I was Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover Live Event in Salt Lake City. I got free platinum tickets again for promoting it and helping sell 75 tickets to the event. Rachel didn’t want to go again this year so I invited Bryan – my friend and neighbor from our previous ward. We had a great time. We got there around 11:00 and had lunch. During lunch Dave came around and shook hands. I asked him why he chose to only certify...

I’m grateful to have a temple close by. I can still remember going through the open house of the Mt. Timpanogos temple before leaving on my mission. It was going to be our new temple for Roosevelt, which is a good 3 hour drive, but then they announced the Vernal temple. I don’t think the thought ever crossed my mind then that I would live just 10 minutes away from it and be able to go each week.

We had our next door neighbor come and baby sit tonight after the kids’ tball game. We went out to dinner at The Olive Garden. It was nice to have date night. It had been a while since we’ve gone to dinner by ourselves. It was so quiet on the way home driving in the car without kids! I love our kids, but sometimes it’s nice to have some alone time together.

A while back I set a goal to read at least one conference talk each week. I’m maintained that goal since setting it. Last week I read President Monson’s priesthood session talk where he encouraged priesthood holders to: Study Diligently Pray Fervently Live Righteously I wrote this down on a post it note wish is sitting on my desk. It’s been a good reminder. That combined with my goal to track my time better has let me to make...