We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. It was probably a little more lively than ours. But we enjoyed the day, if you know what I mean!!! As you can see Dad spent a little bit of time snowblowing and shovelling the neighborhood. What else is a bishop good for? Thank you so much for your gifts and love. We appreciate all of you and wish you all a Great New Year!!!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Merry Christmas!!!!!
We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. It was probably a little more lively than ours. But we enjoyed the day, if you know what I mean!!! As you can see Dad spent a little bit of time snowblowing and shovelling the neighborhood. What else is a bishop good for? Thank you so much for your gifts and love. We appreciate all of you and wish you all a Great New Year!!!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Just some going-ons…
“On my way up here I kept racking my brain, trying to figure out where I had heard of the Rotary Club. I knew they were a service-oriented organization but I felt like I had a connection to the Club somehow, somewhere – like I had been attended a meeting before.”
“It wasn’t until I walked through the door that it finally hit me. Every so on when I was younger, my dad would take me to a luncheon, very similar to this one. He was a member of the Rotary Club. I don’t remember anything that was said, I don’t remember anyone’s name, but I do remember the tremendous display of hospitality – it’s nice to see things haven’t changed.”
This was my ad hoc opening to a budget presentation I gave the other day to one of the local Rotary Club chapters. Corny, I know, but it went over pretty well. Our director was out for the week and I was asked to step in. It was a rather surreal experience. It just seemed like yesterday that I sat calmly at a table full of grown-ups during a Rotary lunch meeting trying not to draw attention to myself. I’m sure I acted as awkward as any 15 or 16 year-old could. Now? Well, I couldn’t stop thinking that here I was, standing in the front of the room of this Italian restaurant speaking on the intricacies of the City’s budget with leaders in business and other professions – it was kind of cool, strange, and downright weird to think that those experiences happened half my life ago.
Jenn and I walked/ran the City Manager’s annual 5k run on Saturday. Up until Wednesday I didn’t think I would run because my legs were having this pinching feeling in my upper left leg (cue Mom’s groin pull joke). I decided to run anyway that morning and even got a medal for 3rd place in my age group (11th overall) with a time of 21:26. Most importantly I won the Budget Bowl in the office, besting eight other budget runners, coming back in the last mile to pass one of my friends in the last 500 yards. You gotsta do what you gotsta do, especially when bragging rights are at stake. I am now officially taking a break from exercise in general for at least three weeks. I may, however, get on a bike, especially since our budget running group is going to start training to do a triathlon in April – and most of them are avid bike riders – whereas I get tired if there’s not a 40 mile wind at my back. I think I'll have to make a phone call to the padres to seek their expertise on training. Maybe mom can give me some tips with her experience hitting those hills with the beach cruiser.
Lastly, for those Ipod Touch users out there, whatever you do, DO NOT download the free application, Tap Defense. Time will pass without you ever realizing you’ve been playing for the last 7 hours. However, it did come in handy during priesthood – Just kidding (no, but seriously). Also, I (nerd) may or may not have (nerd) looked online (nerd) for strategies to pass (nerd) certain levels.
“It wasn’t until I walked through the door that it finally hit me. Every so on when I was younger, my dad would take me to a luncheon, very similar to this one. He was a member of the Rotary Club. I don’t remember anything that was said, I don’t remember anyone’s name, but I do remember the tremendous display of hospitality – it’s nice to see things haven’t changed.”
This was my ad hoc opening to a budget presentation I gave the other day to one of the local Rotary Club chapters. Corny, I know, but it went over pretty well. Our director was out for the week and I was asked to step in. It was a rather surreal experience. It just seemed like yesterday that I sat calmly at a table full of grown-ups during a Rotary lunch meeting trying not to draw attention to myself. I’m sure I acted as awkward as any 15 or 16 year-old could. Now? Well, I couldn’t stop thinking that here I was, standing in the front of the room of this Italian restaurant speaking on the intricacies of the City’s budget with leaders in business and other professions – it was kind of cool, strange, and downright weird to think that those experiences happened half my life ago.
Jenn and I walked/ran the City Manager’s annual 5k run on Saturday. Up until Wednesday I didn’t think I would run because my legs were having this pinching feeling in my upper left leg (cue Mom’s groin pull joke). I decided to run anyway that morning and even got a medal for 3rd place in my age group (11th overall) with a time of 21:26. Most importantly I won the Budget Bowl in the office, besting eight other budget runners, coming back in the last mile to pass one of my friends in the last 500 yards. You gotsta do what you gotsta do, especially when bragging rights are at stake. I am now officially taking a break from exercise in general for at least three weeks. I may, however, get on a bike, especially since our budget running group is going to start training to do a triathlon in April – and most of them are avid bike riders – whereas I get tired if there’s not a 40 mile wind at my back. I think I'll have to make a phone call to the padres to seek their expertise on training. Maybe mom can give me some tips with her experience hitting those hills with the beach cruiser.
Lastly, for those Ipod Touch users out there, whatever you do, DO NOT download the free application, Tap Defense. Time will pass without you ever realizing you’ve been playing for the last 7 hours. However, it did come in handy during priesthood – Just kidding (no, but seriously). Also, I (nerd) may or may not have (nerd) looked online (nerd) for strategies to pass (nerd) certain levels.
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