Happy B-day, Juje! Can't believe it's been 28 years since you broke my heart! Just kidding with you, Sis. I love you tons and I'm proud of you. Hope your day was a great one.
The Rose world continues to turn here in O-town. I was in Chicago last week for work and the weather was perfect. I took a run along the Des Plaines River on a forested path and talk about beautiful! I saw 5 whitetail deer, including a doe and her fawn. Also, the cicadas were out and just finishing their once-every-17-year party. Man, are they ugly! But it's amazing to see thousands and thousands of them all over the ground, trees, etc. Quite a phenomenon.
I met with the members of my management team for the 1/2 of the call center I run out of our home office and all seems to be going well. I am glad that over the last 6-8 months we've been able to build our strength and weed out some of the performance issues. After a couple of days up there, I was glad to get back to Sara and the kids. Luckily, I have not traveled as much this month.
On Saturday, I completed my longest run yet - 8 miles. I had a pretty good average pace and felt much better after that one than the 7 miler last Saturday. Probably a combination of improving conditioning and running a little bit earlier in the morning. By the time I get to 7/24, my Saturday long run will be around 10 miles. Kind of weird to think about running that far, but even a few months ago I would have never thought I could run 8. Pretty cool. Let's hope the Utah altitude doesn't kill me.
We also took the kids to Wet 'N Wild, an area water park, and I think we mistakenly took a detour and traveled to Puerto Rico. I have nothing against Puerto Ricans, it's just that I'd rather not be in the same square mile with the entire island's population. It was wall to wall people at the park due to some special event that was going on, but even so, the kids had a blast and it was pretty fun for Sara and me, too. Luke and Emma spent the day riding around on tubes, swimming around, sliding down the kiddie slides, scaring us to death because they think they are so independent and can just wander anywhere they want to. Man, kids are so fast. I'd turn around for a second and one of them would be gone to the neighboring pool. Yes, there were lots of stern talkings-to and explanations of how sad Mommy and Daddy would be if we lost them. At the end of the day, Luke finally got up the nerve to take a ride on the zip line and that kid was fearless! He got on that thing and zipped down the rope and then dropped a few feet down into the pool. I couldn't believe it. I kept thinking all day long how grown up he seemed. Changing before our eyes.
We had an awesome dinner at Texas de Brazil, which is a Brazilian Churrascaria (steakhouse). I rolled out of there a very happy man. We'll have to take you all there when you come and visit us. Bring your carnivorous appetites!
We have our first Young Single Adult activity coming up this Friday. In our ward alone, we have around 50 YSAs on our roster, with most less active, so we have called a rep in our ward and he and I have been working on getting our committee going. We are having a game night at our home and some ice cream. So far, we have around 10 coming. I'm hoping we'll have at least a couple less actives join us.
Well, that's it for now. Hope you enjoyed it. Be sure to check out the video at the bottom of the blog. If you've seen Casino Royale, you'll remember one of the opening scenes with the crazy free running chase. Well, this video is equally amazing. Happy watching!
matt
AND NOW FOR Sara's 2 cents:
Not much to report here...we are just doing all kinds of summer things: park, splash pad, swimming pools, movies, etc. It is so hot that if we go outside it has to be to water. Then the movie theater has free movies in the summer for kids and so that is a good indoor activity! A couple of updates and funny things kids have done:
On Father's Day the kids and I rushed home from church to wrap Matt's Father's Day gifts. Usually Matt doesn't get home for quite a while after us due to meetings, but Sunday he didn't have any meetings. We heard the garage opening right when we were wrapping a carry-on suitcase that we had bought him. Emma ran to greet him and the kids were screaming "Don't Look!!!!" Matt is so clever and says to Emma "Don't look at what?" to which she replies "Don't look at your new suitcase!" And I thought I was being so clever surprising him! Matt knew what he was doing. Emma felt so bad after she realized and ran up to her room and sat on her bed and cried! :) Kind of funny!
Gavin is growing up over night. I think I reported last letter that he got a tooth. Well now he has 2!!!! And he is rolling like a champ! Today the kids and I got out his little jumping seat that you put in the doorway and I thought Luke was going to wet his pants he was laughing so hard at little Gavin jumping around. Gavin was liking it until he got into a spin and couldn't stop himself :) Then we also put him in one of the standing play centers today for the first time! My little baby is growing so fast! Because he is teething he wants to chew on EVERYTHING! Mostly my cheek! He will just lunge forward at me with his mouth wide open and start biting my jaw bone or sucking my cheek. I like to think he is kissing me, but really I think it makes his teeth feel better!
Luke is soooooooo into Pokemon right now. It reminds me of Danny and Devin when they were young and they would talk about it and I would have no idea what they were talking about. I still don't know what Luke is talking about. Matt and I decided that he and Luke have very addictive behaviors and when they start a hobby or get an interest in something, that's all they can think about! First thing in the morning Luke comes into my room talking about some crazy Pokemon character.
That's it for now!
They went to a birthday party :)
0 comments:
Post a Comment