February 22, 2015

Konbanwa,

Another week in the record books! This week the highlights are
plentiful.  Sal and the kids had a good Presidents Day on Monday.  They went to
Fat Cats and played there for a minute and got a pizza.  Then Allie got her hair
cut, it looks super cute!   Maggs got home Monday night about 6 she seemed to
have a good time and she had fun telling us about some of the things she did on
her trip.  We missed her a bunch, but it was fun to see she could stay four
nights away from home and survive!  

Tuesday we had a movie night for work. We had a great turnout for the movie, Big Hero 6, 

and we gave out a ton of raffles.  The employees seemed to like it and it was fun to see that many people take part of the activity.  Sal and the kids came and they seemed to have a
great time.

We came home that night and Coop had to finish preparing his
Living History Report and Albert Einstein.  He finished the report the night
before, but he was presenting on Wednesday.  It was very interesting to see how
much he struggled the first few times he did his presentation. He looked at his
cards and would not do his accent, then Sal would help him and I would help him,
then he got more confidence.  He did his presentation about 4 times on Tuesday
and another 3 times Wednesday Morning.  I was able to get out of a meeting a few
minutes early so I could go to school and hear his presentation.  He hit a
homerun!!  He looked a lot like Albert (Thanks to Sal) and he did his
presentation very very good.  I may be bragging, but the main reason was how much
better he got from late Tuesday to Wednesday.  When he was humble and teachable
is when he was able to really gain momentum and get better.  There may be a
lesson in there I can learn from!

I was able to go ice skating with Al on
Friday, it was a blast!  She and I skated the entire time, towards the last 30
minutes she was pulling me around the rink!  I really liked that, she was way
cute and I had a good time hanging out with my baby girl!

Work has been very
busy, it will continue to be so for a while, which is good.  Just need to stay
on top of all of the stuff going on.

Friday night Al had a party at Drew's house for Drew's 10th birthday and Maggs went to 

Grandma Joyce's for a sleep over.  Coop, Sal, and I went on a date; we hit a pizza buffet, like I really need that!  It was fun hanging out with them, then we headed home and then went   and picked up Al.

Saturday, Coop had his game early; they won again and he played good,
he seems to like it, they have won four in a row, at one point they were up by
15, he looked up at me said "Dad, we're up by 15" in the middle of the game with
a big smile!  I told him to be quiet, the other team actually went on a little
run and got it down to six.  Once a gain my good lesson to learn, this one Dad
needs to teach son the lesson :)

Saturday was a kinda a lazy day got some
things done, I worked out really well during the week and it was cold Saturday
so I took Saturday off.  I got a new biking Jersey for a race I am doing next
month, I have to say I am not a biker but I look real GOOD in the gear! :) 
Kidding.

Al has been playing with a Friend from school the last few
Saturday's so that has been good, and Miles hung out with us all day Saturday,
we always love having Miles over he is a good boy.  Sal and I had the Adult
session of Stake Conference on Saturday.  There was a bishop who gave a good
analogy about a bike crash he had about being prepared and how things can change
in a minute and how the Savior has felt all the pain and affirmities we  will
feel.  It was really good.  The rest of it was good and Sal and a friend of ours
Kim went to Arctic Circle for a little treat.  Then Sunday we had Stake
Conference in the morning.  It has been a lazy day today.  Last week of February
is upon us.  I just finished the book David vs Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, it
was a very interesting read.    I hope everyone has a great week come up, before
you know it Spring will be upon us.

Thanks-Chris