spring means time to ride

so jenny asked me to help out last weekend at their new place up north. so long ride + canyon+good weather = bike ride. so we took a ride up there and had a lot of fun. we also we over the border into Idaho.

it was tons of fun thanks jen for the chance to help out it made for a good weekend.

a little of everything these last few days.

i am sorry that i have not written in a long time. i have no excesses only laziness. it feels like i have done a little of everything this last few weeks. last weekend was general conference. a lot of great talks. i always feel good about the words we get from the first presidency and the 12. we did our usual over niter at my mom and dad's house. we ate pizza and junk. watched movies and had fun with those that were there. on Sunday after the first session we went to Natalie's uncle tom's house and they did crafts while i watched the second session and visited. so good restful weekend until about ten o clock Sunday night when i get a SOS call from by brother in law Jeff. "help me i am stuck in the mud to the frame in my truck and cannot get out." he said. so i call my brother Aaron and we get some gear together and go out to try and get him unstuck. he was stuck in the mud about 100 yards of shore in the great salt lake. "what the hell were you doing Jeff" i said. anyway we got to pulling on his truck and no luck our truck just does not have the power we need. so we call a tow truck. while we are waiting i figure we should just keep trying. so i have the idea to go start to dig out the tires and lucky for us Aaron had some four by fours in the truck so we stick this wood under the tires we pull on the truck with Aaron's truck and tell Megan who is driving Jeff's truck to give it some gas. we get it out. lucky for us. so we called off the tow truck. then on the way home we start to hear a noise coming from Aaron's truck and we start to think the night will never end. we get home OK but i am going to have to help Aaron now figure out his own truck. we i then get to bed around 2 in the morning.

with the economy slow it has keep the commissions down. we are OK and making it by but it has really opened Natalie's and my eyes to just how poor we are at managing our money. we have decided we really need to put in a good effort to get out of debt. i mean we would be so much better off if we had no debt. also Natalie may need to do surgery for her condition an if that is so then i really need to make a move on our money problems. what to do though there is so many opinions out there. i feel like we really don't just blow money but it seems to always be in short supply right now. we just need to make cutbacks in our life just like they do in business. it will be hard on the kids but i think they get it.

Natalie Reimann

So last Saturday Natalie and I went with my mom and dad to the temple. we use to go every third Saturday as a family. though life throws curve balls sometimes and one thing led to another and the family has not been keeping up on the tradition. We are starting over though and we are off to a good start. Anyway while we were doing a session i looked over at Natalie and she was crying at the end. she told me she felt very close to the person she was going through for. While in the celestial room i started pondering over the last year. i have not been the best at building the spiritual foundation my family needs. not that we were being wicked but just not growing well. we had a great moment with Kirsten's baptism but thinking about it, Natalie is the one who has really turned up the heat getting us ready for Kirsten's baptism. she has us doing family home evening, reading scriptures and saying family prayers. she does this with a bad condition causing pain in her body all the time. so Natalie i just want to let you know how much i love you and how grateful i am the lord has blessed me with such a great companion. you make this family great. our girls are prof of all the hard work you put in. thanks thanks thanks.

Kirsten's baptism

Kirsten had her baptism last Saturday the 7Th. we started the day slow. we just rested got the house clean and i spent some time with Kirsten reading some scripture. of coarse there is always something out there to try and stop all good spiritual experiences. right before we left to go to the baptism whitnee started throwing up. we got it all out of whitnee and gave her a blessing and headed over to the church. the service was great and very spiritual the tears started on the opening hymn. we got Kirsten baptized on the first dip and everyone did great on there parts of the program. i think Kirsten really got a good taste of the spirit. after the service we went over to sizzler for dinner. all the family came and we ate and ate. after dinner we went home and of coarse whitnee threw up all her dinner. the good thing is her blessing worked she was fine through the whole baptism. yesterday Kirsten got to stand in front of the congregation and be recognized. the rest of the Sunday we got to spent with my parents and we got some good rest in.

Keeping the cool

It is the day before Kirsten's baptism. i am trying hard to keep myself in a good state i need to keep the swears down and listen to good music. i am at work and i tried the classical thing once and almost dropped a truck on my head. also mechanic and truck drives. how does one keep the swears down in that kind of environment. then tonight we are going to have a bunch of girls over for a sleepover. good news i did take some aggression out on my xbox last night so i am doing good. so breath in and breath out. i am so happy that Kirsten is growing up to be such a good person. i am proud of her. keep making the good choices Kirsten and you will do well in life.

just a few more days

so last night i took Kirsten to a fireside type thing for her primary class and the kids going to be baptized this year. can you believe we have had her for eight years. i am feeling the sense of pride a father has when his children do good. she is so excited about getting baptized. she talks about how she needs to help more around the house and not telling lies. we have been been getting ready for it and i am exited

family trip to the coast

i have a good friend Jeff, who lives in Washington. we have always said we wanted to come up and see him there. gas prices got so low we could not say no. so we took some time to go. we decided to go over new years due to i had some time off and the girls were out of school. we left on Tuesday night after work. we stopped in at Boise id. that first night. to rewind a little it seemed like everything was trying to keep us from going. Natalie was not feeling well. i threw up the night before and on the road that night bean threw up twice. any way we got to Boise and stayed at a super 8. Kirsten was so excited about staying in a motel she said the shower was nice and wanted to take another. we left after waking up the next morning which was the 31st. we drove from Boise to Seattle. it was a nice but long drive. we did run into snow for the last 100 miles. that slowed us down a bit. once in Seattle we were looking for Jeff's house and we took a wrong turn. i had to flip a u turn and we pulled onto another street checking the GPS. we some dude come pulling up yelling he told me to learn how to drive with a few colorful four letter words. i just blew it off but i should have got out of the car and asked him to come out and show me what i did wrong. any way we got to Jeff's and we had a new years eve party with some of there Friends. we played wii bowling and listened to music had food and some had some drink. we ended the party with some fire works. the next day we got up an took the kids bowling and we went to visit there cabala's. then on the 2ND we took the kids to the ocean and we put in Jeff's crabbing gear. we also went to a candy shop in the small town we were in. we did not catch any crab but it was fun go. then on Saturday our last day there Natalie was not feeling as well as she wanted so we spent the morning resting. we then packed up the kids and went to down town Seattle and had dinner on the bay. we then rode the ferry across the bay. it was the biggest boat i have ever been on. it was a lot of fun. oh ya and Jeff took me to see his work and a few other sites that mourning. then Sunday we made the long drive home. 12 hours in the car. hell on earth. the trip was fun and i hope we can go again soon.