I hope you enjoy!
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Well, nothing like a health challenge to motivate me to
write in my journal again.
Jessica is part of this group that does challenges to help
them lose/maintain weight and she just recently asked Heidi and I to do it with
her. And it’s not your normal “weight-loss challenge” either. They have certain
tasks that you need to perform in order to get points, and the individual and
team that have the most points at the end of the challenge wins money! It’s
actually pretty exciting! Heidi and I committed to do it with Jessica. I’m
actually pretty excited. If I haven’t mentioned it already, I love to do things
for money; money is a big motivator for me for some reason.
Then on Saturday, Heidi and I went over to Ryan and Sonia’s
for dinner, told them about the challenge, and I think they want to do it with
us as well! They don’t seem as enthused about it as we were, but I think
they’ll do it with us. If not, oh well.
Speaking of Ryan and Sonia, they have become some of our
best friends within the last year or two. We of course have Dallin and Erika,
Hailey and Kyler, and others that we consider our good friends. But, Ryan and
Sonia are the only ones we’ve really done things with more than just once every
six months. I think it all started when Ryan was planning on coming to Chicago
with me. Ever since the trip we’ve stayed in pretty close contact with one
another. About a year ago, we were working out together almost every day. Then
our schedules changed and we haven’t really worked out together since. However,
within the past two weeks after today (I’m writing at 2:18 am on Tuesday March
17, 2015) we will have been over to their home three times. That’s a record for
us! lol. They’re good to us and we appreciate them being so close friends of
ours a lot. I would say as of right now, Ryan would be considered my best
friend just because we’ve done more together than those others that I would normally say are my best friends. I think you
can understand what I’m trying to say, so I won’t explain myself further. (Y'all know who you are!!!)
As far as adventures go, Heidi and I haven’t really been out
on any adventures lately. It’s definitely an adventure trying to raise an
8-month-old infant, THAT’S for sure! But we love it! I wouldn’t give anything
in the world for my boy…or my wife for that matter.
Russell actually started crawling a couple weeks ago! It was
so exciting! Man, I’ve seen a lot of videos about parents getting excited as
their baby(ies) crawl, but it’s nothing like experiencing it with your own! I’m
such a proud father of the best little boy on earth! Except he’s getting into
everything now and has a little attitude to him sometimes!
For example, he loves electrical cords. Phone cords, cords
to the television, cords to the phone (we don’t really have a telephone cord,
there’s just one from when a phone used to exist in our apartment), anything.
If it’s a cord, he’s all about it! So, of course our natural instinct is to
hide or make it impossible for him to access any cords in the house. However,
sometimes he gets ahold of one somehow. If you can imagine---in our
home/apartment, you have to walk through part of the dining room/kitchen and
into a hallway to get to the bedrooms. Well, as you enter the hallway, there is
the cord for what used to be a home telephone in the apartment. It comes down
the wall and then goes under a metal threshold that connects the linoleum
dining room floor to the carpeted hallway. Anyways, Russell somehow ALWAYS sees
the cord and goes straight for it! When he starts to crawl toward the cord, we
start to raise our voices and say, “Russell! Don’t you go over there and mess
with that cord!” Needless to say he doesn’t even acknowledge the fact that we
are calling to him. Once he gets there, he turns around and looks at us while
ever so slowly his hand goes up to find the cord. What a punk!!! Well, if you
ask me anyways! ;)
Like I said though, I love him to death. I would do anything
for my boy; and for any future children we may have of course.
Well, I think that will be all I include in this journal
entry for now. I’m getting tired and I can’t really fall asleep here at work
(lol).
OH! I’ve been working at this place called the Behavioral
Health Crisis Center now for a couple months. I can’t really say that I really
like it, but it’s a job that I am grateful to have. I got it through a
connection from the in-laws’ ward that we used to attend when we lived with
them. Again, I am very grateful to have it, but I wouldn’t want to do this for
a living. It’s a good thing I’m graduating in a month!
I guess that’s some exciting news as well, yeah?! Yes, I
graduate in April. April 10th to be exact. I’m very excited! I can’t
wait to be done with my undergraduate degree. It’s been a long time coming. It
feels like I’ve been in this part of my life for a very, very long time! It’s
time to be done. However, it won’t be for very long! I plan on going on to get
my Masters Degree in Social Work at Arizona State University. Well, that’s the
plan anyways. I hope I can get into ASU. That’s where Heidi and I would like to
live next and settle down for a few years at least. We won’t stay there
forever, but we would just like to establish our family somewhere, raise them
on our own, then return to somewhere close to family. You can never get too
much family right?!
Well…let’s just leave that conversation for another time. J
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