January 28, 2015

Salutations,

Well Maggie gives me crap when my letter does not get out on Sunday or Monday, so I need to do a better job of getting it our a little earlier. This past week, Maggs got the go ahead from the Dr. to start jogging! So, she has been participating in PE which she really enjoys and she was able to go to a conditioning session with her soccer team last week which she was Way excited about.

We have a good dog story from this past week. Sal made a big pan of enchilada's that were quite tasty. Maggs and I had to get to her soccer workout so we told Coop and Al to put the food away which was sitting on the stove. About 45 minutes later I get a call from Coop going something like this, "Uh Dad, I was reading in the front room when I heard Duke making a lot of noise. I thought he was drinking out of his bowl really loud, but he actually got up to the stove and ate the rest of the enchiladas." Seriously! Our dog got up on his hind legs rested his front paws on the front of the stove and helped himself to about a half pan of our left overs! Luckily he did not get to sick. I think that is lucky anyway.

Sal has been subbing quite bit lately and she has been working on Allie's room painting dressers re-doing the drawers all kinds of fun stuff. 

We went to a wedding reception last Friday for some folks in our ward and when we got done it was about 7:30 and we had still not had dinner so we stopped off at Taco Bell for something quick. Coop thought the "Fire" taco sounded good and Maggs got the spicy Tostada. The fire taco ended up being pretty accurate to its name. The funny thing is we did not order drinks and oddly enough we did not have any water in the van, so his mouth was burning for a minute. We all got a kick out of that one.

We did chores and ran some errands on Saturday... nothing real exciting and we had a good Sunday. I have really been enjoying teaching my Sunday School class I have 16-17 year olds and they are really good kids. We have a member of our class that has some disabilities he is a great kid and the other kids in the class take really good care of him. It is fun to see that age of kids treat one of their peers with so much kindness. One of the kids that used to be in my Young Men's group had his mission farewell on Sunday. He did a really good job. It is fun to see these kids grow up.

Life goes by at a very fast clip. We have been enjoying playing Racko almost every night, after dinner.  I may have only won once but it was a very sweet victory as I beat my 9 and 11 year old kids! They actually beat me most of the time. Coop got a game of Monopoly Empire for his birthday; it is the concept of Monopoly, but it lasts 20 minutes or so. Allie affectionately calls herself "Allie Empire" because she seems to win quite often. Nothing real exciting this week. I hope everyone has a great week and hopefully I will get this letter out on Sunday or Monday next week!

Love,

Chris