As much as I love my little rugrats, and as patient as I try to be, it is very hard to maintain sanity when there are five people in a 20 x 20 foot room. Anyways, enough about the negativity.
We finally got word that we will be getting the keys to OUR house on Friday. Yeah! I will own my first house in less than a week. We have a few things we want to do with it initially but, overall its ready to move into as is. I cant wait to wake up next to my wife and just my wife. I dont know that I remember what that feels like. There are other things that I dont remeber but we wont get into that. April has been quite a trooper lately. She has to drive 100 miles a day bringing the kids to and from school. And on top of that, Joe Joe has Scarlet fever and strep throat. Can you believe it?! Scarlet fever! Anyways, I am truly proud of her and pray that she keeps fighting the good fight.
Friday....new house....here I come.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
How Do You Measure Success
Alot has happened over the last few months. I quit my job at BAE systems and gained employment for another corporation in Longmont, Colorado. We are currentlty living in a hotel while our house ownership paperwork is finalized. We have been living in this one room hotel for the past two weeks.
Its interesting what type of things occur when you are confined to one room with four other humans, three of which are under the age of eight. AAAGH! To be perfectly honest, I think its harder on my children than it is on me. I can become a little bit irritated rather quickly, and my children get the brunt of it. I know this isnt right, but is the reality of it. So Ive decided, in an effort better control my temper and extend my patience, I would llist some if things in my life that, to me, define success:
1. I have a wife that I absolutely adore. I would have never guessed life could be this good when i was younger. April is truly my reason for becoming the man I am today. If not for her, I wouldnt even be a fraction of "me". She brings me such joy and hapiness. To sum it all up, she puts the passion in my every day.
2. I have three perfectly, disasterously wonderful children who try to make me proud on a daily basis. They do a very good job of it. I am so proud of the people they've become and the children they are becoming. I hope I can give them happy memories of their childhood and raise them in the gospel, all while protecting them from the world.
3. I am a member of the true church of Jesus Christ. The curch has brought me loser to the Lord and helped me to gain a personal testimony of his existance and glory. I am grateful for the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and it's infinite healing power and majesty. I hope to become better each day and grow in the gospel. I wish for the opportuntiy to help others on a daily basis in an effort to spread the gospel thoughout the world.
I have so many things to be grateful for that arent material belongings. i am constanly reminded of the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and hope to remind others of His love for them at every opportunity. I love my family and pray that I may give them teh father they need to become extrememly valuable contributors to society.
Amen.
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2.
Its interesting what type of things occur when you are confined to one room with four other humans, three of which are under the age of eight. AAAGH! To be perfectly honest, I think its harder on my children than it is on me. I can become a little bit irritated rather quickly, and my children get the brunt of it. I know this isnt right, but is the reality of it. So Ive decided, in an effort better control my temper and extend my patience, I would llist some if things in my life that, to me, define success:
1. I have a wife that I absolutely adore. I would have never guessed life could be this good when i was younger. April is truly my reason for becoming the man I am today. If not for her, I wouldnt even be a fraction of "me". She brings me such joy and hapiness. To sum it all up, she puts the passion in my every day.
2. I have three perfectly, disasterously wonderful children who try to make me proud on a daily basis. They do a very good job of it. I am so proud of the people they've become and the children they are becoming. I hope I can give them happy memories of their childhood and raise them in the gospel, all while protecting them from the world.
3. I am a member of the true church of Jesus Christ. The curch has brought me loser to the Lord and helped me to gain a personal testimony of his existance and glory. I am grateful for the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and it's infinite healing power and majesty. I hope to become better each day and grow in the gospel. I wish for the opportuntiy to help others on a daily basis in an effort to spread the gospel thoughout the world.
I have so many things to be grateful for that arent material belongings. i am constanly reminded of the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and hope to remind others of His love for them at every opportunity. I love my family and pray that I may give them teh father they need to become extrememly valuable contributors to society.
Amen.
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