Daddy's home

Worked all day on a training for work that I have to give tomorrow. I'm not sure I'll be ready, but it is to my team, so no biggie.

I didn't see Deni online today, like I usually do. I called her around 5pm and she told me she had not been feeling well all day. She stayed in bed most of the day. When I got home, she was just finishing up some homemade chicken soup. I yelled "daddy's home", like I usually do when I come in the door, however Sydney was in timeout for going to the park by herself and for hitting Deni when she brought her home, so I had to wait for 4 minutes to see Syd. She was so sad, calling my name - "daddy". But you do the crime, you pay the time.

After dinner, I took the kids out to rent a movie. We went to McDonalds, where they have a service called Redbox. You rent a DVD by swiping your credit card. They charge a dollar a night +tax. Not bad for a new release. After renting "Robots" cartoon, we went to Macey's to get an ice cream. Then home to watch Robots.

Ryan and Sydney promised me that if I let them stay up to watch the movie, they would go to bed right after. Both kids went to bed, just as they said they would.

I sew

Last year Deni made a bunch of corn bags. You heat them in the microwave then put them at the foot of your bed, or on your feet while you are watching TV. Now that it is getting cold again, it is time to get them back out. We only had 2, as we had given all of the others away, so Deni got her sewing stuff out to work on it this morning.

First I serged 3 sides of 2 pieces of faberic together, next I sewed some on the bag, added corn, then serged the top close. Throw it in the microwave for 2 minute and your feet are toasty. It was fun to learn the (VERY) basics of serging and sewing.

We also kinda potty trained Sydney all morning. We put her "Dora Panties" on. She was cut running arond in them. We set the alarm and took her to the bathroom every 15 minutes or so. That worked for almost 3 hours, then she had an accident. We aren't pushing her to be potty trained, but thought we would try and see how she reacts to it.

After Sydney's nap, we went into Spanish Fork, to the Library, where they had a city party. We ate dinner there, chili and scones, then went to play games with the kids, but the lines were so long and they had way more people than expected, so they had run out of candy and prizes for the kids. It was kinda raining anyways, so we decided to go home.

Watched the BYU game on TV. BYU barely one. I let Ryan stay up to watch it, but I think he just wanted to stay up, he didn't seem too interested in the game.

My kids

Daddy's Little Angel and Dad's big helper


We got the kids pictures taken recently. They came out really cute. The kids are growing up. They have little personalities, however I think I may have tainted them a little bit with their musical tastes. Both Sydney and Ryan love the song "Juicy" by Better Than Ezra" I need to get it on video of them both dancing and singing to the song. It is pretty funny.

Work has been busy as ever. And is only going to get worse the next few weeks. We not only have layoffs, but we also have a new product shipping, which always means I'm busy filing bugs and duplicating customer issues.

Tonight Deni left at 4pm to go to an Enrichment thing. It's been a while since I've had the 2 kids alone for such a long time. I cooked (don't worry, it was only Spagetti) then the kids played in the backyard while I worked on the flowerbed in the front. I'm moving the "kidney" shaped flowerbed, getting rid of the 2 trees in the flowerbed and hopefully making my yard better looking for next spring. Deni's still gone, she came home about 10:15pm, then wanted to go back out for a Zuka juice with a friend.

Sat GC

Today was General Conference. We watched it at home. After the second session completed, we all headed out to Wal-mart to do some shopping. Being the first of the month, both cars gas lights were on, so we looked up on gasbuddy.com to see the cheapest gas around. It was actually in Springville, so we drove and filled the car and truck up. Both were over $42 each, so I spent about $90 ($2.72 a gallon) bucks to fill up just for gas. Ouch. We then went to walmart. I took the kids over to the toy/garden/animal area while Deni got the things on her list.

I ran into an friend, Chris Snow, from our last ward and talked to him for a few minutes. Then dashed to find Deni and get home before the Priesthood conference started at 6pm. Well, I was a few minutes late. However, I took Ryan with me. He seemed to enjoy it for about 30-45 minutes, then wanted to come home. We stayed but left during the closing song.

Most likely to throw my golf clubs

Worked half a day today, then our team went to the Golf Course in Payson to play 9 holes of golf. This was the first time I had ever played Golf. On the first hole, I swung and missed the ball 2 times before hitting it on my third.

We were in teams of 3 and played some scramble game. Basically, each of you hit the ball, then you take the best ball, then each of you hit again, and continue this till you get the ball in the hole. It was something new and fun, but I'm NOT putting Golf clubs on my Christmas list, if that tells you anything.

I probably had more fun driving the cart around, but it was nice to get out of work. I've decided that I'm better at putting, probably because I've played put-put golf.

After playing 9 holes, they gave out awards. I got the "Most likely to throw my golf clubs" award. I got a little cooler, a 1/2 pound of Hersheys Chocolate and an old golf club that I could throw around all day long. It was fun.

On a sad note, a little baby at CHLA with SCIDS died today. It makes us thankful for Ryan. It also makes us wonder why Ryan came through with flying color and doesn't have any side effects. I know we have been blessed, but what is in Ryan's future that is so important that he is here and healthy. Guess time will tell.

Trip to SLC

Tonight I drove to SLC to the Young Mens Leadership meeting. I'm the secratary in the YM's in our ward. I've heard really good things about these meetings, but haven't ever been able to go.

The meeting was really good. I always feel guilty when I don't want to go, but end up really enjoying the meeting. I took 4 pages of notes, so hope to make some changes for the better.

I missed Alias and Survivor tonight and didn't record them. Thanks to Bit torrent, I'll have them tomorrow morning.

Deni's Birthday

Deni is 28 today.

Tonight we went out for Deni's birthday. I had asked my mom to watch the kids while we ran out to eat, but Deni wanted to take the kids. So we got the kids ready, told them we were going out to eat and got in the car. They weren't excited about going to Red Lobster, so we took them to Carl's Jr and called my mom. She was on her way back from Teresa's, so she just stopped in Spanish Fork and watched the kids.

Red Lobster had all you can eat shrimp. We both ordered that. I ordered the only good shrimp (fried shrimp). At 40 of them.

Don't be late

It's always nice to get an email appointment from you boss about an impromptu meeting in 15 minutes that says, "Don't be late".

In that meeting, I found out that my team and another team are merging together. Good news is I keep the same boss, and I have some expertice that others don't that will now be on my team. Bad news is, it means that I will be more busy than I have. I guess I will have to reserve my judgement to see how things shake out.

Tonight the family went on a bike ride. I'm amazed at how well Ryan can ride his bike after a month. We were riding and I look over and he is riding with one hand. Then he stands up and peddles. At times, he peddles so fast, I have a hard time catching him. He loves "dirt biking". We go to the undeveloped roads next to our house and we ride around. He thinks it is pretty cool. It is fun to see him growing and learning so fast.

Talking in Church

Got/had/ to talk in Church today on faith. There was a youth speaker, and then Deni. At 1:30pm, 30 minutes into a 70 minute meeting, Deni says: "....and finally...." I froze, but she went on for another 7 minutes or so. Then we had the Primary sing a VERY SHORT SONG. I got done about 2pm, closed and sat down. Amazingly enough, we got out 10 minutes early.

I was pretty funny (at least, I thought I was) When I started my talk, I said something like this.

I have to apologize for my wife, although she had an excellent talk, she must not be feeling well, as I know she can talk longer than she did today.

The thing I hate most about speaking in church, everyone feels like they have to come up afterwards and tell you how much they "enjoyed" your talk. Here's my theory. Everyone "enjoyed" it so much, because they were sitting in the congregation, not having to speak.

a date, a date

Today we watched the BYU football game on TV. It was such a close game, but BYU lost. They were so far ahead at one point, it was too bad.

Deni had the kids pictures taken this last week, I'm excited to see how they come out.

Deni's favorite Grandma (did I just say that), Grandma Bowers, showed up in Utah on Friday morning. She just stayed with us for 1 night, but it was fun to have her here.

Deni and I went on a date tonight. This last week was pretty stressful for me at work, as I carried the after hours cell phone. It's always nice to get woken up at midnight for no reason. I hate sleeping with a cell phone, but it helps with a little extra money here and there, so I continue to do it.

Anyway, we got a babysitter for 3 hours (cost $12 bucks) for both kids. We just went and walked around, talked and spent time together. Much needed. It had been a while since we had been out without the kids.