Gracie and Gehrig had their first T-ball game today. I am the assistant coach, but the head coach is in China this week so I had to take control. It was a lot of fun and I think the kids had a good time. Tball is all about teaching the kids the game. Gracie is one of the oldest and the tallest player. I think she is going to be our "star". Gehrig was done after two innings. He didn’t even want to bat his last time up. It was fun...

Today after work I went out to turn on and try out the sprinkler system. Nolan went outside with me. Its nice to have the back yard fenced in and not have to worry about him. He played so well out there the whole time. He loves to be outside.

Yesterday when I went home teaching at the Hauser’s house, they invited us over for a barbeque tonight. So that’s how we spent the evening. I home teach the Hausers, President Hauser home teaches the Crooks, and Brother Crook home teaches us. So it makes for a nice circle of friends. I had a great time and I know the kids had a lot of fun. In other news, our fence was completed today. It looks great. Now we can let Nolan out in the...

Bishop Payne invited me to bishopric meeting this morning to present some ideas I had about starting a website to post emergency preparedness related items and also talk about possibly using the chapel to host Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. They approved the website so I can get started on that. They are still hesitant about doing FPU, which I don’t blame them because it does cost money and seems a bit out of place in our...

Today was a productive (but long) day. Last night Gehrig and Gracie slept on the floor in Gracie’s room in their sleeping bags. Nolan would not go to sleep. He kept screaming. Finally Rachel laid down with him in Gehrig’s bed. We ended up putting him in Gehrig’s bed because he would screen every time we put him in his crib. In the morning, after being up for a while, he want and got back into bed. Gehrig tried to laid down next...

Tonight was ward temple night. We didn’t really go at the same time as the ward. We went right after I got off work. Rachel’s parents watched out kids for us. It was very nice. It has been a while since we have done an endowment session. I generally do initiatories in the mornings and in our old ward we were doing sealing once a month. Our bishop has set a goal for the ward to go on the third Thursday of every month. I think that is...