14 April 2019

Hi Everyone,

Monday:  My wonderful troubled right knee is not feeling great today.  I went to see my physical therapist and he worked on me for a bit then taped me up.  I think I pushed it a little too hard keeping up with Joseph and Brad on the ski slopes.  

Joseph had a field trip today at School.  They went to the ropes course at Philip S. Miller Park in Castle Rock.

Lynsey went hiking at South Valley Park with Jennifer Jones.  She's also one of the school nurses at Josephs school.

Joseph has a school assignment to interview a family member about their experiences growing up and he asked Gran and conducted the interview on Monday night.  It was wonderful hearing some stories from when she was a child and teenager.  I also asked her to tell some of her experience from when she traveled to England several years ago and all of the places she's lived in her life.  I did record the conversation and have that saved.

Tuesday:  Meeting day for me.  Most of the day at the office.  I did have a job-site meeting on a new project that was interesting.  The guy we met with from the contractor's office was a young man pretty fresh out of college.  He is from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and unlike many of the young construction professionals, I come across he was very open to advise on better ways to use his tape measure.  It was fun for myself and the project manager from my office who like me is an office guy who spent many years in the field.  

Youth activities tonight for Joseph and me.  Joseph led the teacher's quorum activity in family history with some great preparation help from Lynsey.

Wednesday: Happy Birthday to Heidi!!

Loving the crazy changes we have in weather here.  It was 80 degrees yesterday and we're supposed to get a blizzard today.  

The van is fixed!! New bumper looks good.

Rain and snow mix for most of the day.  Snowed through the evening.  The storm hit much harder to the northeast of Denver. 

Thursday:  Joseph's school stated late today since roads were icy.

I gave blood this morning and then dropped Joseph off at school at 9:15.  I'm closing in on my 3-gallon pin.  

I've been emailing with our Airbnb host in London today and getting some tips on places to go and the best ways to get around town.  I'm thinking about doing a stand-up paddleboard tour of The Regent's Park.   

Friday:  Don't know how these weeks just keep flying by so fast...  Got up early this morning to work and pay bills.  Now it's almost 6 a.m. and time to get ready to go to my office for a budget meeting and training time for some of our other staff.  Then I need to come back home and get Joseph and me ready to go camping tonight with our ward young men.  We're camping down near Deckers and it's supposed to be a little cold still.  We'll see...

Saturday: Camping last night was a fun experience.  It snowed most of the evening, but the ground was so warm it didn't accumulate much.  Just got everything nice and wet.  We're thankful for tarps and that we brought dry firewood.  We broke camp after breakfast and some snowball fights and headed back home since a lot of the boys have other Saturday activities. 

Amy and Lisa Bezzant stayed with Lynsey at our house Friday night and spent a good portion of Saturday with us.  Then Joseph and I finished the evening watching The Avengers.  We're reviewing some of the Marvel movies getting ready for Endgame to come out in theaters in a couple of weeks.  Yes, we already have tickets...  :)

Sunday:  Church this morning was very nice.  One of the highlights for me was the musical number that was performed by 3 of the young women.  They are some of the new Beehives and did a wonderful job bringing the spirit to the meeting.  It's fun for me seeing these new Deacons and Beehives in youth activities since I was also one of their Nursery leaders when they were that age.

I don't think I sent this to everyone before, so this is from last week.  Joseph and Brad are getting quite good on skis.  This is them at the top of lift #9 at Loveland Basin, the continental divide.

Camping at Ouzel Camping Area along the South Platte River.  Joseph's on the far left with his highlighter hoodie showing.

This is us making the jump to light speed in our new Millennium Falcon.... Or it might have been the snow falling Friday night.  Hard to say for sure.

Love you all,

Ben, Lynsey, Joseph