Sunday, May 3, 2009

Soccer, Ballet, Potty, Sitting-up and "Wicked"!

That, in a nutshell, is what we've been up to for the past few weeks. Ben here. I haven't posted in quite some time, but finally had a quiet evening at home... so here you go.
Rachel is doing great in school, but also happy that there's only a month to go till summer break. Heidi and Elena and myself have all gone to school to have lunch with her over the last couple of weeks. It's been fun to see her "in her element". Rachel's also playing soccer with two games a week, although it seems to rain during every game. That's a Utah spring for you, I guess.
Elena has one more ballet practice before the big year end performance. She's very excited for both her performance and the chance to spend a couple days at Grandma's house this week. It'll be her first couple days without any of the rest of us. I'm sure she'll have a blast.
Maybe it's premature, but we're potty-training Creed. He's 2 1/2 and doing quite well with it. We haven't trained a boy before and it's been interesting. Creed's done great though, with two dry days out of the last four... that's definitely progress. Directional flow is an ongoing issue... He keeps us hopping!
Cadence is sitting up on her own now. It's so fun to watch her explore this world. We'll sit her on the floor and watch her play with a couple toys for quite some time. She's a sweet little thing.
Heidi and I joined 5 other members of her family and my mom to see "Wicked" at Capitol Theater in SLC on Friday. It was AMAZING! As mom put it, "Broadway shows are done right." I didn't know much about the story before going, but we all loved it. Entertaining, funny, emotional and, of course, musically fabulous... just a few ways to describe it. Thanks, Sunnie! (Christmas present)
Heidi is doing "boot camp"! No, she didn't join the armed forces. Boot camp is a fitness program designed by the trainer that works at my office. Three times a week, she's up at 5:45 to go exercise for an hour... very inspiring. Keep it up, Heid!
I'm plugging away, enjoying life as much as possible. I even got out golfing a couple times over the last week or so. Work is going well... I maxed out at 36 patients in one day last Monday. Quite a day's work! Bishopric duty is going well. I was bumped up to 1st counselor today after the previous 1st counselor bought a house outside the ward. We average about 8-10 hours of meetings every Sunday. Busy, but lots of blessings that come with it.
Hope all that take the time to read this are doing well. Be happy! As Pres Monson said,"The future is as bright as your faith."

1 comment:

Angie said...

Love the quote ate the end...so true. We love you all and look forward to seeing you Thursday night and again on Saturday, with Elena here in between!