March 30- April 5
Guten Tag,
I came across an article on a paper written by an entrepreneur and a life coach talking about 8 spiritual principles for people to be successful. I found it interesting that his first one was giving gratitude. I know I struggle with this at times. But it was a good reminder, that in order to be successful in all aspects of life, giving gratitude is a key principle.
This week went as fast as usual. It started with the kids and Sal having Spring break. Monday night Maggs went up to Heber for her soccer game. We appreciate her coaches for taking such good care of her. She actually went to the doctor this week for her 6 month after-surgery check up to get the go-ahead to play. He was still a bit concerned about her knee not being completely straight. He did say yes she could play, but keep working on it. He even suggested having Allie sit on it to stretch it out. We need to be smart to ensure she is ready. She has to pass a few small tests first, but she is getting close and she is way excited!
So back to Monday, Sal, Al, Coop, Duke, and I went to a park and we played baseball for about an hour. It was blast! We stopped at 7-11 for Slurpee after and Sal saw two sister missionaries come in as we were leaving. Sal went back in and bought them each Slurpee for their FHE treat and she was even working on the clerk to be an investigator! I think the sisters appreciated it. We rented Annie and watched it as a family. It definitely was not a Hard Knock Life on Monday! :)
Tuesday, our nephew, Caden Collier, returned home from his mission in Mexico. He seemed to have enjoyed his time serving the Lord. He had a little bit of a cold, but I think he is happy to be home. Sal sent all of our nephews serving missions a small amount of money for Christmas. Caden got his the day he left and he was able to use this on his journey home.
Baseball has been pretty time consuming. Coop had a hitting clinic where he got some good stuff to work on. Then on Thursday, we got a taste of what comp baseball will be like. First of a all, his team is playing a year up, so we are playing older kids and then to compound it most of our kids have not played comp ball. Our first game we lost 21-0. Ouch! Coop had a good at bat the only time he got up. He swung at one pitch then the rest he took and walked. He then was told to stole second base by his coach and the catcher threw the ball to the shortstop and Coop was out by about 10 feet. Coop saw that he was going to be out, so he headed back to first then he was in a pickle. It was pretty cute and it was a good learning for him. He made two good plays at second to get the out. This may be a long spring to get broken into baseball.
Since it was spring break I decided to take a half day and we headed down to Thanksgiving Point which is about an hour away our good friends The Tesch's came with us. The kids had fun at the interactive museum and we had a fun walking through the tulip gardens. There was man made water falls that were very cool. We headed back home to help with a work Easter Egg Hunt we had fun with the trivia questions we warmed up the crowd with before there was the Easter Egg Hunt. I think folks enjoyed it.
Then about 8 Sal suggested we go on a date, I am always up for a date with my lady, so we went to Cinderella we went to the first theater and it was sold out then we went to the next theater we were being smart cookies and bought them online and there was only two seats left. When we got there we found out that we were the only two seats that had purchased tickets. We thought that was pretty funny there ended up being a few more folks that showed up. It ended up being a good movie and it was fun to hang out with Sal.
On Saturday we watched conference in the morning and I had a good little helper in Allie helping me put both of my letters together. I was going to go on my ride early but I did not get up so I missed the after noon session of conference as I went on a bike ride. My riding buddies were unavailable so I went on my own. I used my new computer I got from my nephew Nate it worked out really nice, the only thing I don't like to see how slow I am going! :)
I went to Priesthood session with Lance, my dad and Robby. It was fun and a very good session. We then went to Javiers for dinner it was basically empty when we got there and when we left there were several other men in ties that must had the same idea that we did! Dad gets free nachos dolce so we took advantage of that and we then we watched the Kentucky Wisconsin game ending we then headed home and I was able to color eggs with my family. Good times!
We had a good Easter today we hung out as a family this morning and we watched conference then we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Hislop's. It was fun to be with the family. I older I get I realize how these small memories end up being very important for the kids and us as we get older.
We then went over to Grandma and Grandpa Davidson's and had a good meal and at both meals there were very good blessings on the food by my brother Lance and my nephew Brandon.
We are almost of week into April, I hope everyone is have a great spring. Have a great week.
Chris
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