This morning after Nolan woke up we wrestled around for a bit on our bed. I thought at the time that this was surely a tender mercy. I how long will Nolan, or any of my kids be this young and playful? Not long at all. Just playing and giggling with the kids is a once in an Eternity sort of thing I guess. In a way its kind of sad that as time goes on, we can never go back to this point. So I cherish this small insignificant moments where I can...

I got up at 6:00 this morning and called my friend Keith. We started programming our budget project together. We arranged to program for an hour together ever Tuesday and Thursday at 6 AM. It will be fun to actually work with someone again. I’ve felt like a one man show for quite a while now. It seems everything I’ve been working on in the past year has been by myself.

Gracie gave the lesson for family home evening tonight. She used the photo of God and Jesus Christ appearing to Joseph Smith and told the story. She enjoys giving the lessons which is fun to see.

I went to church in my parents ward today – the ward I was in during high school. I was surprised when I ran into my old friend Brad. We served in leadership positions together in the priests quorum and we good friends in high school. He was always quite a big guy. I say I was surprised because his parents spoke in sacrament today because they are going on another mission. I was looking for him but didn’t see him. I took Nolan into...

We drove out to Roosevelt this morning. The news said it was supposed to rain all day, but when we got there it was warm and sunny. I took the boys for rides on one of the 4 wheelers. At 1:00 we had a Easter egg hunt that was postponed from Easter due to bad weather. Right as we began is when the storm rolled it. It didn’t seem to phase the kids though as they were running around collecting eggs. In the evening we had Lawrence Welk themed...

Nolan hasn’t tried to talk at all, which has been somewhat frustrating. he just grunts and points. The past couple of days though has been fun as we’ve seen him attempt a few words. He’s started to say words like Gracie, hot dog, and a few others. He’s always been good at saying Mama, and Dada. But I think he’s going to start attempting more words soon.

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...