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Monthly Archives: January 2011

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Construction Project Continues

Construction still continues!  We have been without a washer and dryer for about 4 days now and Angela is getting tired of it being in the hall.  The good thing is that it blocks the running track that the boys use to chase each other around in circles and that has been a blessing on the side.  It’s been a little quieter!  🙂

Today I finished prepping the floor and getting it ready to tile.  Angela and I went out and bought the tile, new baseboard, and paint for the room.  I painted most of the day, and it looks really good!  It’s a bright yellow, (a little brighter than it looked in the store) but we like it.

Our friend is coming to do the underlay on Monday, the tile on Tuesday, and the grout and cleanup on Wednesday morning.  We are really excited!  On Thursday, we’ll be able to move everything back in, put in all the baseboards, paint them, and then work on cabinets!  Yea!

By |2011-02-24T06:01:54-07:00January 29th, 2011|Home Life|0 Comments
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Kirstyn “Hang-Out” Party for Birthday

Happy 12th Birthday, Kirstyn!  It’s hard to believe that our little baby girl is already 12!  Time is flying by so fast!  With Kirstyn turning 12 on the 26th, we had a small family party for her which she loved!  She also, being the socialite that she is, wanted a little party to hang out with a couple of her friends.   That event happened tonight…

Instead of a cake, they made a giant cookie and decorated it.  They hung out, played Wii and other games, and watched a movie.

She had a great time and wore herself right out!  Did she go right to bed after her friends left?  Of course not!  🙂  She wanted to stay up even later!  🙂

By |2011-02-24T05:57:19-07:00January 28th, 2011|Home Life|0 Comments
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Happy Birthday Kirstyn!

Happy Birthday Kirstyn!  Wow, it is amazing how old our kids are getting!  Kirstyn went to her first Young Women activity yesterday and everyone sang to her!  It was really cute!  On Monday night, we celebrated with a birthday dinner at Sweet Tomatoes!  We ran into a friend of Sarah’s that works there.  HE gave us GREAT service!  🙂   It was very sweet, we thought.  Brittany and Kirstyn kept teasing her about it.  Every time he would come by, he would look Sarah and smile.  When we finished, it turns out I had no cash for a tip, so I ran to the bank while the rest of the family finished up eating.  🙂

By |2011-03-01T09:58:35-07:00January 26th, 2011|Church, Home Life|0 Comments
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Construction Project!

Today, I started a LONG overdue construction project…  We are remodeling our laundry room!  I pulled the washer and dryer out in the hall (we will be without them for a few days so I told the kids to be sparing on throwing the clothes down if they are clean) and also pulled everything off the walls.  I then ripped up the vinyl tile pieces on the floor and ripped up the sub-floor.  After ripping up the sub-floor, I had to pull out probably 2000 staples out the floor.  I don’t think I ever want to see another staple again!  😐

We are going to have a friend of ours who is a contractor come in and lay new porcelain tile (no more of this junk vinyl tile for us)!  🙂  We are going to paint the walls and trim, and I am designing a new laundry room with new cabinets and lockers for each of the kids to put their coats, shoes, etc. in.  We hope it turns out great!  We have a LOT of work to do, and my knees are aching right now!

By |2011-02-24T05:51:55-07:00January 25th, 2011|Home Life|0 Comments
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Youth Theme Fireside

Today was a pretty cool day in our home.  After church members of the Young Women’s Presidency came over to visit Kirstyn to welcome her into the YW Program!  🙂  It’s really hard to believe that she will be 12 this week and now we’ll have to be more careful of our Tuesday plans because we will no longer have a babysitter at home!  Yikes!

Speaking of babysitters, we had to get one tonight for the first time in years because we had the Youth Theme Fireside tonight… All three of the girls went and participated in the program.  Brittany and Kirstyn sange with all of our ward’s youth, and Sarah was one of the stars of the program!  She was involved as a member of the youth committee that planned the evening and she wrote a bunch of the program.  She also was one of the leading “actors” in the performance that they put on.  She did a wonderful job and was very outgoing!  Way to go girls!

By |2011-02-24T05:46:45-07:00January 23rd, 2011|Church|0 Comments
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Senior Leadership Team Retreat

Over the past 2 days, I had an IT Senior Leadership Team retreat that I was invited to at the Wyndham Hotel in Lisle.  As the chair of the IT Leadership Committee, I have been able to work closely with the committee to help draft the Grant Thornton IT strategy for the next 3-5 years.  We had a great discussion re-visiting the strategy, now that we have a full year of it under our belts.  We had some great discussion and some fun.Yesterday, as a service project, we went to Feed My Starving Children as a group.  We worked hard along side others and packed 92 boxes, which represents 19,872 meals that will feed 55 kids for a year.  It always feels so good to go there and to help.  Every time I go, I have a lot of fun and it is always for a good cause.  ).

After we finished up at Feed My Starving Children, we had dinner at Luigi’s house, a great Italian restaurant nearby.  We ate until we were stuffed!  What great food!

Today we finished up our discussions and I got home a little early, much to the surprise of the family!  🙂  When I got home, Angela and I went down to see Sarah at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.

We took the camera and embarrassed her!  🙂  It doesn’t take much at all to make Brittany mortified of us, but we have to work pretty hard to get Sarah to be embarrassed of of us.  I think we did it!  🙂

Keep up the GREAT work Sarah!

By |2011-02-17T07:11:30-07:00January 21st, 2011|Work-Related|0 Comments
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Date Night and Open House

Tonight we had a date night at the Chicago Temple with the Thompson’s and had a wonderful time.  We always like going with others up to the temple.  We have great conversations while driving up and back and it’s nice to be in the temple with friends.

After we got back from the temple, we drove over to the house of a family in the ward (Bitton’s) for a wedding open house they were holding for their son.  The crazy thing about this is that I had him in my Freshman seminary class all those years ago.  It seems weird that my little 14-year-old friends are now all getting married!  😐  We ate a TON of great food!  It was amazing at how large the spread of food was.  We were really full when we left, but that didn’t stop us from going out to Biaggi’s restaurant nearby for a great bowl of sherbet ice cream!  🙂  Now, we’re really full!

By |2011-02-16T10:49:09-07:00January 15th, 2011|Church, Home Life|0 Comments
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End of Semester!

Whew!  What a long awaited time!  The semester finally came to an end.  All of us were extremely worried after every quiz was taken, every test completed, and every assignment turned in for the past 2 weeks.  Sarah and Brittany were teetering on the edge of grade levels in many of their classes, and fortunately, most tipped on the side of the higher grade.  Great job girls!

By |2011-02-16T10:41:00-07:00January 13th, 2011|School|0 Comments
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Mystery Reader!

Today, Angela surprised Zachary at  school!  She signed up to be the “Mystery Reader” today for Zachary’s class.  She submitted questions for the teacher to read to the class so the kids could guess who was coming in.  They really liked that and when it came to the point that she had 5 kids, Zach knew it was him!  He has more siblings than any other student in his class (and probably in the entire 1st grade)!  🙂

Angela chose the book “A Bad Case of Stripes” to read to the class and the class really liked it!

Most of the kids had seen the book and many had read it before and loved it when Angela read to them.  Zach sat on her lap and helped and that made him feel REALLY important!

By |2011-02-16T10:37:32-07:00January 7th, 2011|School|0 Comments
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