08/15/22 Happy Monday!

Andy interviewing the Senator

 Sorry for the late write...last week was a whirlwind!

Monday Dad headed back to work full force. He had his normal day and then media day in the afternoon. We went to dinner with B&L, GPA and us...E&D were up in SLC. It was a nice ending to a good day. 

Tuesday dad interviewed Spencer Cox, the Governor of Utah in the evening on a statewide broadcast for an hour. I was his call screener and patched the questions in to him. He of course did a great job and didn't even seem nervous but THAT'S A BIG DEAL!  

Friday was the first football game of the year so a full morning and then 5- 10 p.m. for the game. 

But he did really well. He rested in between and has been doing his 1 hour of therapy on his legs every day (he has a $10K machine that squeezes his legs and helps his lymphedema). 

KDXU studio - interviewing Senator Cox

We've also been working on healing his feet and they are almost all better. He will take his last antibiotics today and see his Dr. this afternoon who I believe will tell him he's good now. He even swam on Saturday for the first time in quite a while. 

My week was similarly crazy. Monday my boss had me busy doing projects and such. We had someone coming in from Oregon and I had to arrange his week -- travel - airline, rental car, hotel, meals, itinerary etc. Monday evening about 5:30 boss texted me and asked me to have lunch ready for 10 at 11:15 on Tuesday morning. I was already doing breakfast for 10 at 9 a.m. Tuesday (a different 10 people) so...yeah...Tuesday was busy!  

Beautiful Sunrise

My week continued being super packed and busy which made the work week go really quick. I love that!

Wednesday we used the leftovers from lunch and had a ladies luncheon potluck (they were having one anyway but I had a TON to contribute.) There was still leftovers so GPA came to dinner Wednesday night and had rice and beans etc.  And there were STILL leftovers...so I sent them down to Fink's house. No more of that!!! haha. 

I was supposed to go to a pool party Wednesday night starting at 8:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. -- stake YW/YM party -- thank goodness for lightning!  Cancelled!  I don't know what they were thinking having a party the night before school starts...and so late.  But didn't work out anyway. And I was glad. 

Friday evening Linda and 6 of her grandkids came to swim. We had a lot of fun. That was the very first time she's been in our pool. Crazy!  

Saturday was super quiet. Did some housework and we went grocery shopping but otherwise just let dad rest. Played some games. 

Facetime DJ

Sunday same. Went to church and made fancy dinner but not a lot else. 

From sacrament meeting...Landon Humprhies spoke -- he's a nice kid. He is in ROTC and he said his Sgt. says do you want to get to the end of life and "wish you had...XXXX" OR get to the end of life and say, "WoW!!! I can't believe I did XXXX!"

So I think the lesson is to be brave and try hard things and just seize life! 

Also, remember you can only entertain one thought at a time. So be grateful and dwell on the good things and try not to waste too much space in your mind on the frustrating things. It's a constant battle in life but it's definitely more fun to be happy than frustrated! 

Facetime Ellie

I remember when you kids were driving me crazy and I wanted to get upset I'd look over at dad and smile and quietly say, don't you wish we would have had more kids!!  

So whenever you are doing a rule you aren't too thrilled with, look over at your companion and smile and say, don't you wish we had more rules?!    And laugh and move on. It gets better! haha. Have fun with your frustrations. 

I'm proud of you! Keep up the good works! Look forward to talking to you later!