January 27, 2019

Week Ending 1-27-2019

End of Swim, Five Mile Run, Treasure Hunting, Jazz Game, Sal meets new friends

Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future….

Yes this is how I feel sometimes, time keeps on coming and we just have to do what we can.  As we start the last full week of January are busy schedules.

Maggie started an internship this week at Weber State. she has scrubs with her name on them and she goes up to Weber either 2 or 3 times a week and goes to a college level class.  She really seems to like it and it is fun and crazy to see how quickly she is growing up.

Tuesday I had the privilege of taking my two beautiful girls to a movie called Glass.  We watched the other two shows last week that are connected.  It was kinda scary and Allie was sitting in the middle of both Maggs and I holding our hands.  The show was kinda slow then it picked up.  I told them after as we were driving home we usually don’t do go to late shows on a school night too often but once is a while is okay.  It was fun date with my gals!

Maggs had her last swim meet on Saturday we got there right as her 50 M Free started and then we were able to see her improve her 100 back stroke by 5 seconds.  She was SUPER excited and we were very excited her for.  Great way to end her swimming experience.  After the meet Sal, Coop, Al and I went to the  D&I to treasure hunt.  They found some stuff for Al and her play.   There was some stuff I liked but did not get.  We then ran some errands, shopping at Wal-Mart, then getting some lunch at In and Out and the I went to McDonald's drive through eating an burger from the other joint ordering me a diet coke, classic!

Coop is able to do new things as a priest in church he gets to bless the sacrament today which is pretty cool!

Allie went for a 5 mile jog and Saturday.  Duke and I would stay back and listen to my book then drive up each mile and give her a sip of water and then rinse and repeat.  She did it without complaint and I think she really is liking the fact she is getting stronger each week.  I am SUPER proud of my girl!

After much trial and tribulation we got our dryer to work!!! So, our good friend Glenn Olsen came and identified what the issue was, Sal ordered the part, Sal put in the part, so when I say  “we” I am not overall involved other than being a great cheer leader!

Duke has had some itching issues on his nose for a while, so we spent $50 dollars at the vet and found out he an some type of allergy so we went to the grocery store and spent $3 on Benadryl.  Love our dog! RRRR.

Coop and I went to the Jazz vs. Timber Wolves game on Friday night.  We had a great chat on the way down he told me of his plans on becoming a machinist to work his way through college, I thought that was very insightful and intelligent.  We had a good dinner at Chick-fil-A, then watched the Jazz maul the T wolves for three quarters.  Coop and I were both kinda “lathaagic” during the game.  I had been up since 4 am and I was feeling it.  At the beginning of the 4^th the Jazz were up by 21, with four minutes left Jazz were up by 1, YIKES!  Coop and I got back into and we ended up holding them off.  It was a fun date with my boy!

Maggs had a dance on Saturday. three couples went and they had a good time at Joyce’s house playing games, dinner at the OG,  the dance and then ice cream at Arctic Circle.  She said it was fun and I am glad she has had a great Sr. Year thus far. 

Sal kept her self-entertained at the swim meet by chatting with Maggie's friend's mom for a few minutes then chatting with a new friend she made there at the meet.  This gal is thinking about going back to school and Sal encouraged her to start subbing then go back to school and teach.    Sal enjoyed the conversation and we all just smiled because that is what Sal does --make friends where- ever she goes. 

I finished a book called Educated about a gal who was raised in Idaho by survivalist, anti-government parents.   I liked it. It had some interesting stories but the feel was very odd since she was raised in an abusive environment and she did not realize it was abusive until she got to college.    

Saturday night Sal and  I had fun yet unconventional date, we stated out by going to my work and hanging out on the floor for 15-20 minutes.  We then went to a place called Virg'

s for dinner.  It is a diner and it was really good food and we had a great time just hanging out and chatting.  We then went to Winco and we saw our Bishop and his wife and son as they were leaving, We chatted with them for over 30 minutes. Then we did some grocery shopping as we headed home and watched the last hour of Ant-Man with Al and Coop.

This will be Allie in May with a Whole Marathon medal hanging around her neck!  She's doing awesome in her training.  Proud of her!

January 20, 2019

Week Ending 1-20-2018

20 Year Anniversary and PR’s, dropping quarters in machines

This week I had the privilege of celebrating my twenty years of marriage with my beautiful wife.  We have had three AWESOME kids together and we have had some wonderful adventures.  We are going on a big trip in March but we still went to a movie and dinner to celebrate the actual day.  We ate at Corbins kinda  fancy place in Layton.  We then hung out at the mall for a minute then we went to the dollar store to snag some treats for the movie and Sal bought some large suckers for Allie for her activity days event coming up.  We saw the Upside sitting on the front row, it was pretty cute.

It is weird not having activities on Wednesday.  The kids went to an etiquette dinner and they and they had a good time, they seemed to have fun.  I had a minor melt down not being able to find the remote and feeling the effects of my incredibly horrible undisciplined eating habits of the last 5 weeks.  You think I would be smart enough to figure out how not caring about my body for the month of December always catches up to me.  Hopefully I will figure it out soon!

Maggie had her last home swim meet on Thursday.  I was able to get out of work for a little bit to come watch her.  She had PR’s in both events the 50 with a time of  39.77 and her 100 back she improved almost a second with a swim of 1:45:7.  My mom and dad came and Joyce came.  Maggs got recognized as a Co-Captain and a senior during the break.  She was very happy with the whole meet, it was fun to see her and see how this whole swim experience has been very good for her.  We are proud of our Maggie.

Sal and I had this strong desire to drive down the road and pour countless amounts of quarters into a machine and hope for wonderful results……That is exactly what happened on Saturday morning when we drove to the local laundromat and spent nearly $70 dollars in washing and drying machines where we did about 19 loads of laundry.  When the owner of the laundromat says “wow you guys have a lot of cloths” you know you have lots of cloths!  Our dryer has not worked for a few weeks and if any of you know our relationship you know Sal is the handy women in it.  She is REALLY good at fixing things.  We have not been able to figure ths one out. But we are getting close to get it done.

I rode on the trainer for 90 minutes on Saturday and after three hours in the laundromat and then my time on the bike I was kind tired.  Both Sal and I took the afternoon and rested.  Sal and the girls and I headed to Chick-Fil-A and had a good dinner and then we picked up Split and watched the movie back at the house.

Coop was able to be ordained a Priest on Sunday after church, he will be able to bless the sacrament next going forward he is pretty excited about this.  He was able to be involved with his buddy from the ward getting ordained as well,  We went to the Davidson’s for a FHE with the extended family Maggs taught on the light of the Savior it was very well done.

Have a great week,

Chris

January 13, 2019

Week Ending 1-13-19

Trip to the MW, Blood Draws and 2 Broad and a cousin party

I am responsible for a wellness program we are doing at work that consists of a blood draw initially.   In order ot have a clinic at the building we needed to have 25 folks participate each day.  So we had two in Ogden/Roy on Tuesday and we had two in the MW on Thursday. 

So, Tuesday I work up early and met the lady doing the blood draw at 6:30 we had a few forget and a few complain they did not know.  But all in all in went well.  Ultimately we had 34 folks that went through it in both sites.  Then I headed to the airplane to catch my flight.  I had never left on a work trip before in the evening after I worked most of the day. 

It was a very good trip I would eat dinner and then crash in my motel room on Friday morning I woke up at 4 and could not get back to bed so I watched a Castle and then watched a TLC show about quintuplets.  Yes, burning the morning oil.

Sal and the kids did great while I was gone, the kids are getting ready for their play they are doing in March and Maggie is doing well in school.  She was asked by the SBP to be the representative for the senior class for the girls for academics.  We were proud of her.

I got home on Friday and came to work for a few minutes I saw one of my employees who I had seen on Tuesday afternoon and told her I had seen her more frequently then I had seen my own family.  Since I had not gone home yet.  She said that was weird and I actually agreed.

I made it home and Sal and we went to Dry Bar comedy at Wise Guys comedy club.  It was one of her presents tor Christmas.  It was pretty funny.  There were some funny bits and we had a good time. 

Saturday, Allie went for her run and I took it easy while Sal ran errands with Allie.   We chilled and took it easy.  That night we had the two old broad and  Cousin Christmas Party.  We ate at Bucca de Beppo.  It was family style we had a good salad appetizers and really good fattening food.   My stomach was feeling a little gurgly so I had a sprite  to settle my tummy, all the food I ate probably did not help 😊.  This was the first cousin party without David. He was missed.  It was good to have Michael there.  We actually got a parking ticket that was a mistake since we had already paid, 

We headed up to Primary Children’s Hospital to see little Daisy. She has RSV and is only 9 days old. We saw Kelly and Dave for a few minutes then Sal, Grandma and Kelly went to see Daisy.  Kevin and I watched the end of the Cowboys vs Rams game in the waiting room until it was time to go.  I had fun putting my sticker on Kevin’s back on the way to the parking lot he just could not quite reach it.  It was fun to have Kevin drive. Both Joyce and Sal were giving him crap rather than me for his driving.  Grandma had to get some ice cream on the way home. I did not try to talk her out of it too hard.

We had our 3^rd hour of church in the morning and the discussion went very well.  We had ward Conference on Sunday Bishop spoke about Hope and President Snow, the one from the Humger Games. He made a good point.

We had FHE Deann Noel spoke on the power of music it was a very good lesson.  I cannot believe how fast my kids are growing it is pretty crazy! 

Have a great Week- Chris and Family