Hi all,
Just a short letter tonight. I just got home from a few days in Boise. I attended the Qualis Patient Safety conference on Thursday and Friday. I spent Wednesday and Thursday nights at Weaver's and Friday and Saturday nights at Hessing's. Had a wonderful visit at both places. Thank you all for your hospitality and love. Stayed up too late talking with daughters and took lots of pictures of grandkids. All in all a great visit!
I got home this afternoon in time for the Stake Self Reliance kick off meeting. Now I'm home and glad to be here.
There were things from the conference that I may share in next weeks letter. Love you all, Mom/Johanna/Nana
p.s. Aimee, how did it go with teaching your first Relief Society lesson at President?
Hi all,
Mom, glad you had a nice trip. I have lots of catching up to do on all our activities, but I wanted to share some stories from a while back while they are fresh in my mind.
Lynsey and I were working on organizing the garage this weekend and I found a box with a few treasures. The first is my brick from Coors Field where the Colorado Rockies play. Picture attached. Sam and I were able to take a tour of the stadium before it was completed. At the end of the tour they had stacks of the extra bricks and we both were allowed to take one home. I'm not sure how many people got them, but it's an interesting keepsake. Sam, do you still have yours? Coors field was completed in 1995 and even though that isn't very long ago it's older than more than half of all the MLB fields. In about 2010 during one of their remodels the large glass wall in right field was replaced with 2 large glass bi-fold doors to give the restaurant inside an open air option. That was done by me when I was working as an installer for PCI.
The other thing I found was an old journal that I unfortunately didn't write anything in. I was quite disappointed in myself for not writing some things down in it, but I found some photo's and a letter inside that I'm glad I've got to bring back memories. The letter is from Mom to me right after Stephen was born. I had just returned to Denver from seeing my first nephew! I was very excited to be an uncle and had driven all night the evening Stephen was born and made it to the hospital in Rexburg early the next morning. I don't think the attached picture was taken at the hospital but I'm sure it was the same trip. The date on the pic is July 23rd 2000. Mom, and Aimee, I hope you don't mind if I attach a pdf of the letter. Some of the letter is about Aimee.
The 3rd picture attached is of Jon Bockman, and our rafting guide. I don't remember her name or the exact date, but I do remember that Jon had a major crush on her. I don't think they ever dated though. I believe this was during the short time after everyone moved back to Idaho and before Sam moved back to Denver. I think that's why Sam wasn't on this trip. We were rafting on the Arkansas River here in Colorado near Buena Vista. That was the second time I'd been rafting there. The first time was with the scouts in Elmwood Lane Ward. Dad and Sam were both on that trip.
Now for current events. Lynsey is very busy studying natural medicine, and Joseph is getting very excited for summer vacation. Joseph has officially retired from soccer, and will be on the swim team this year instead. He's also very excited for our trips this summer. I was planning on doing a bike ride across Utah in June, but I'd rather be able to make all our other plans so that ride will have to wait. I've got to run eat some lunch and then get back to work so that's all for now.
Love you all!
Ben, Lynsey, Joseph
Hey Ben-
Thanks for the email and stories. Not sure I still have my Coors Field brick – if I do, it’s in a box or something somewhere that hasn’t been gone thru in a while. I didn’t realize Coors Field was so old now compared to the other stadiums around the country – it’s pretty crazy how much building has happened in the last 20 years or so. Sure wish I would have been around to go on that rafting trip! Rafting was one of my favorite things to do growing up, but I never got as many opportunities as I would have liked. We all need to organize a rafting trip together – anyone else on this email interested?
We are also very much looking forward to our summer trips as well. Brad arrives in MN on the 25th of this month, and then we will be camping two nights with some other families over Memorial Day weekend at a state park on the St Croix River – should be fun. Then the next weekend we are heading up to the Duluth Air Show, which will include the Blue Angels – that’s always an impressive show! If you haven’t seen them perform yet – its’ highly recommended. From then we will be counting the days until we meet up with Ben, Lynsey, and Joseph in Chicago before we all head to the east coast for some fun in the sun and probably a firework show in New Hampshire and or MA. Then we will be heading to Idaho and Utah the first week of August – looking forward to seeing most of you at that time. I guess we will have to wait until our December trip before we see the Hessing crew, but that’s OK – we will be looking forward to that trip as well.
Hope everyone is healthy and happy!
Have a super day
Sam
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